099 Wireless Access Points
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- čas přidán 26. 06. 2024
- Episode 2 of the 099 Networking series goes over the basics of the Wireless Access Point (not going to write the acronym since Cardi B has that covered).
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Intro and Outro Music: "Earth Bound" by Slynk
Other Music: "Lively" & "FollowHer" by Zeeky Beats
Edited by Autumn - Věda a technologie
More of this please, I love the humor.
I love watching this stoned out of my mind
the intro is gold lol
Recently studying for network+ and my notes indicate a LOL in the WAP section. Glad I’m not the only one 😂
Jeez, these get better and better every time! decent scripting, silly but great jokes, and the team really mugging it up and leaning in to it! Pretty awesome!
You really brought the bucket and mop! Absolute gold.
I love these 099 videos.
I love how in the beginning when Krista said WAP, I was saying it repeatedly...and found Ryan doing the same thing!🤣😂🤣😂
I need and demand more "Shopping with Wendell" segments
Love this new series. I’m not a networking guy, but y’all have made me want to better understand it. Thank you
Fantastic series, I can’t wait for the next lesson. My parent’s place needs a mesh solution so this is super helpful.
Also, I love your dry humour, doesn’t detract from the educational content and keeps me engaged the whole video. I really hope this series does well for the channel!
You forgot to mention slipping the WAP on top of a ceiling tile and not marking it so the next tech has to move their 10 foot ladder all over the building looking for it.
I already knows this stuff, but you really makes it enjoyable to learn it again.
Keep up the fantastic work!
Great series to refresh your knowledge on forgotten standards or features! Love the humour, can't wait for the next one 😊
If they're close to a Microcenter, they may want to consider that instead of Best Buy.
With this being an 099 video, we decided that best buy would be more widely accessible than Microcenter ~ Editor Autumn
@@Level1Techs I figured that, but Best Buy is notorious for giving erroneous information to further pad their sales. It has been part of their sales techniques since the 90s.
As a former BB emp this checks out... so much fluff
Good job guys! Loving this series.
The team designing their personal dream bunkers/caves would be incredible. Free interior design software is available wouldn't even be expensive video.
It's been 3 years and Ryan still making the same WAP joke lmao
good job guys! keep them coming my IT trainees love your videos to learn with.
"You want to avoid chinese equipment"
"TP-Link is pretty honest"
TP-Link is a chinese brand though...
He was talking about the blackmailed companies.
I like to watch my level one news every tuesdasy.
I really need to fully overhaul my network but I prefer doing it step by step once i have the whole knowledge of all your videos, keep them coming! And thanks A LOT for this great educational content
Great piece, I would suggest maybe mentioning reusing older hardware with openwrt or dd-wrt firmware. In most cases open firmware has better security options and improved security flexibility, it also removes proprietary loopholes and gives a lot of features for automation/tinkerers.
[edit] P.S. Just as an idea for future, because Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. You can Reuse a lot of older hardware to be OpenWRT router with DoH, PiHole/Adguard. Also a few options for meshes, vpn, tunneling and WPA3 makes it great option for any enthusiast. Or a separate access point for sus cloud devices at home, you don't even need 5G for that just select some 2.4G, add few firewall rules on parent router add SQM to limit speeds and your are fine.
Great start to the series. Thanks for putting these videos out!
098 level tip: elevate your wifi router even if it's crappy. Literally lift it up. The difference might be surprising if you are lucky.
There's a certain height past which coverage worsens. It also depends on antennae used in the ap
@@BoraHorzaGobuchul yeah ofc, do not put on top of the chimney. Just elevate from the ground.
I got my bucket and my mop for this Wise Apt Program.
Love the effort at entertaining guys, keep it up, you are quite the creative bunch!
Love this new series
since Tplink does not support ethernet backhaul in consumer products we used basic tplink wifi6 mesh extender ($30). We aint buying uber expensive Omada ($300+) for this purpose.
Keep it coming guys.❤
This video's fun. More of this please!
These are real cute vids, big love.
Keep it up!
I very much enjoy the content.
L1T some nice recommendations Thanks
this video was sick clearly fun has had in production of it
Guys yess. YEEEESSSS. This is awesome. I want this whole series in my soul. Just moved into my own place and want to trash isp garbage and have a proper network.
One time I had to fix a job done by someone who couldn't read instructions and installed an outdoor Wireless Access Point upside down, with the cable entering through the top side (along with more and more water each time it rained). This is the only time I needed a bucket and a mop when dealing with wireless equipment; 0/10 do not recommend.
Just drowning in all these Wasps and WAFs everywhere trying to get that strong signal
Kurt Cobain pictured on a page titled "Classic Rock" hurt me a bit.
Didn't expect it to be this entertaining 😛
Nice one people, funny and informative - just right! Definitely a video to show colleagues/customers 👍
Thank you
Just one thing to note, if you start off with WiFi6 at 4:45, then please keep it consistent throughout the series, talking about 802.11ac at 8:22 is just confusing. I'd love to send this series to my tech illiterate circle, I don't have the willpower to transfer my CCNAs to them.
Instead of saying this has 802.11ac, you can just say that it's not WiFi6, so automatically disqualified from discussion :D
My new answer to, “what should I get?”, is just to forward your video link. (After it’s public).Thank you
Love this series, keep up the great work. One small feedback though, rather than suggesting newcomer to outright avoid chinese devices, you can provide them the context for that (e.g., politics, proven backdoor, etc.), and let them keep that in mind for further consideration. I don't think level 099 should be fed with an opinionated statement.
also even if it's 100% proven to be literal spyware some of us literally want the absolute cheapest thing that works well
Great Edits B team!! (edit) also Ryan with a mop. true janitor status!!
I'd like to add; the Walls and Floors having no issues with signals might only be an American/Wooden House thing.
Over here in Europe that can be different, I know that (For example) some houses build between 2004 - 2012 are pretty much faraday cages, the floors and walls will not allow any(or most) signal through, you'd need an WAP on every floor!
Awesome video guys 👍😂
I have really liked mesh wifi that also has powerline backhaul, i get incredible speed to my shop thats ~300 feet from my house, i'd eventually like to run fiber out to my shop and shed, but for now its good, well until i re-build my shed to be an on-site off-building backup+ low risk place to put large LiFePO4 batteries for whole property battery backup
I think this was a really great video. Sorta like WiFi for mere mortals. One thing that I thought would have improved the conversation is more in depth discussion of interference. Y'all did a great job, and so my point is it could only get better. For example showing a heat map of nearby access points, and more discussion of channel overlap and channel with, and frequency ranges. Maybe put out another video, wifi for immortals.
You keep saying 2022 in this. Why do you make us wait so long?? This series is great!
Series wasn't done! Lol
takes me back to the days of the ap and power booster stack ..
I already started building and setting up the forbidden router. I have the setup for removing my all in one router just missing the final piece which will be of course the last video. Can't wait!
Thanks for the video.
Using R7000 nighthawk with fresh tomato, wifi is only for phones and tablets, all PC's are wired with multiple switches.
Did have pfsense but it was way over complicated for what we needed.
I put a mesh AP network with EoP backhaul and it works great. Perfect for split level homes. It hands off seamlessly from one AP to another.
PoE? - just joking, I know what you meant. A seamless mesh network is my goal. So sick of the poor handoff with my janked together ASUS AP’s.
Ethernet over Powerline
@@Nickscrazylips ohhh I feel like such an idiot for “correcting” you - sorry! 😂
"You guys got phones right?" I just flashed back to the diablo immortal announcement red shirt guy.
TP-Link Deco units (at least some of them) can be connected via Ethernet. It's "smart" enough to detect that and then use that instead of wifi to connect with the main unit. In my house I have one of them connected via Ethernet and another one wirelessy. Just note that Ethernet cable must go directly from unit to unit, it can't mix together with your other Ethernet devices.
This is cool
is this what they do to celebrities who die? Love you Wendell. Please more Lv099!!
3:15
Honestly, "One Super Access point" is fair, but having two ruckus brand WAPs is honestly almost overkill, I definetly reccomend that brand if you just want as much wifi range as legally possible.
Lmfao. The mop and bucket for that WAP.
I had great succes by connecting mesh devices in my household through powerline network adapters. That way they are connected through wired connections instead of wireless ones.
Most will be better off using the coax to Ethernet adapters, MoCA. Especially if the halo use is wired for it already. At that point it’s most likely abandoned so nothing else will be on it. Both solutions have their limitations but are usually Bette than punching holes in walls to run network cable.
Wap Dap dabaduu 🎉
The jokes are hilarious....🤣
Is there a passively cooled, managed switch with at least 8 x 2.5 GbE and at least 2 x SFP+ uplink ports?
Love the skits
could you'll do a vid on how to build a diy custom wireless access point to replace a brand name
ap an or a older wifi router used as a ap
more on messing please
So should I bother doing any of this stuff if I have like bottom of the barrel internet? Like 5mb down .75mb up on a good day. Would a new router and modem help there?
Yay! 🥰
I bought a mesh AX setup with 3 WAPs. 1100 ft*2 It handes our laptops and phones fine. It is terrible at handling all the smarthome devices. I can attest that wireless backhaul can suck. I could not run network cable easily in my home. I tried network over power and found it to be unreliable so I switched to network over cable MOCA. That works great. I will still need to add more WAPs for the 2.4GHz devices.
My last point of issue is the mesh devices may have limitations on your ability to set them up manually. TP-Link X20 3 pack the software tries to be too helpful and doesn't have normal features. You can't choose the channels for each WAP even if you are using wired backhaul. It only has the option for automatic and all of them only choose the same channel. That's an issue for me because the conjestion at the opposite ends of the house are on different channels. There is no optimum that can be shared between the WAPs. 30+ 2.4GHz devices are not stable.
I hope this has been thought of already but the shopping section on Best Buy screeen cap mentions pickup at a particular store. I don't know your state but hopefully that Best Buy doesn't tell anyone much or it's obfuscated already. In Wisconsin where I live there aren't that many but most of the Minneapolis/St Paul suburbs a couple hours from me has their own Best Buys.
Most people know they live in Kentucky. I didn’t mention which city even though they mention it all the time.
I feel like these planning considerations are the universe trying to rub my nose in a lesson... for two people, 2br appt... 950 device wireless capacity, centralised mgt and multi-gig through wall wired backhaul.
So I have a 1gb/s switch with a docsis 3.0 modem and a wap54g. I have a $200 budget. Should I just give up and go back to libraries and typewriters?
You guys have legs? I thought you just had heads and torsos 😂
now that motherboards are more regularly coming with 2.5gbps ethernet, where do you find the same rated 2.5gbps switches at? or am I missing something??
p.s. I know Patrick over at Serve The Home covers some of this, but it's still disappointing..
If you build a home out of those metal shipping containers because you can't afford a normal house, you are going to need to install those access points and cell repeaters.
Regarding IoT devices, I have Siri HomePod (yes, shame on me. I am to stupid for homemade IoT and keep it up to date) and some apple homekit stuff.
What goes into the separate wifi? Homepod + kit? only the homekit stuff? isn't the phone IoT?
What restrictions should the IoT wifi have?
I don't have a coverage problem, but I am looking for a firewall integrated solution of sorts... any recommendations?
Part of a security/privacy overhaul, I just setup opnSense at home and will do it for my mom's in the next few weeks, and in the process of configuring/understanding how to use it. If I understood things properly though, opnSense and pfSense are not good solutions for wireless because of their FreeBSD base...
I've been using, for around 5 years now, a portable router/access point from GL-iNet for the job, so I was just thinking of getting the latest model and running with it. The only problem I've been having recently is the number of concurrent devices accessing Wi-fi all at once.
All preparation for a future project to use my older Synology NAS plus a TrueNas Scale I'm also learning how to deal to migrate to self-host homelab server style applications and backup.
There is no news on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday... There are links with friends on those days.
Look, I said in the first video, we shot these a while ago lol ~Editor Autumn
Keep doing those funny scenes WAPers
I was considering a WAP but instead I used an old router. I connected ethernet cable from my main router and run the old router in AP/Bridged mode or something. Works just fine. I used to get 1 mbit/s in my room, now it's 100 mbit/s. Which is the max that old router can give. Needed it for my phone and laptop. The way I like to think of wireless routers is, if you are within 2-3 metres or 9 feet, it's great. More than that, it falls off fast. My room is like 5 metres away and 2-3 walls, I was getting 1% speed. So I used to run updates to my Linux laptop in the kitchen because that is very close to the router. Also, annoying to have to do that.
Until I watched this video, I never knew I needed 5 WAP bars inside my furnace. Damn it.
Ok the fact that Wendell was browsing "Classic Rock" and it was Nirvana kinda pisses me off... Soooo old lol
How many of these WAPs do I need to get good wireless coverage in my 12m apartment?
So you're saying that a 10 year old Linksys router over powerline to where my desk is isn't good enough?
I usually dont really buy cheap chinese stuff, but those cheap chinese stuff are actually good and can be flashed with openwrt, ax3600 from xiaomi or redmii are openwrt compatible. flash it with openwrt and along with other packages that enables wifi roaming and whoala cheap mesh wifi. the only downside with this option is theres no poe but you can just buy those gigabit poe splitter for 15bucks from tplink, and managing wifi is a chore.
That’s well above the skill level of the people that this series is targeting. It’s also best to try and avoid China as much as you can. Why send money to an adversarial county.
wow, you can really tell this is some older footage, wendell has done so much work getting fit the last few months.
Also @10:08 he said "it's 2022" which threw me for a loop for a moment
This type of jump/fast cut videos feel weird I can't focus T-T
The terrible acting is just great 👌
Bravo! Bravo! 👏
UK here I always find it frustrating the very different experience with Wi-Fi in the UK from the US
a lot of videos are from the US experience which looks like a way better time
I'm guessing it's got to do with
1. density of people
2. having old brick houses so Wi-Fi can't penetrate that good
3 . because we have ring circuits in the UK and 220V maybe??
landings and hallways are normally the best point to put them it's easier for the Wi-Fi to go through the wooden doors
1. I assume you mean density of population (I know some people are thick) 🤣 - Not sure how this applies? US houses tend to be bigger, so need more coverage.
2. The US tends to have more timber construction than the UK (UK has lots of old stone Victorian houses)
3. No, don't think this is a factor at all.
I put both my access points in the loft (attic), because the floors cause less interference that the walls, and the shape of the WiFi signal lends it's self to good downward penetration through to almost three stories - I get a full bars in most places in the house.
I also use good UniFi WAPs.
Ubiquiti is pretty good now days and getting better. I'd recommend that ecosystem for those looking to get started. Their U6 Enterprise is the best WAP i've ever used.
never got a hype around it. Every youtuber is raving about udm and no one could explain WHY
Do they still require their app to set up their gear?
I burnt my money on those AP's and never could set them up, maybe I was scammed idk
Ubiquity is fine, tried their u6-lr (which is not really that much lr but very good). Loved the eap670 better though
I just don't see why you would bother when there are better options that don't need their app and/or cost less. Do they offer anything useful?
I gave up trying to understand why the internet to my home network randomly slows to a crawl and entirely dies sometimes, setting up auto reboot on my end does seem to mitigate how often it happens though.
Australia's NBN is a travesty and there is little point investing in a good home network here unless you were lucky enough to get fiber to the premises but the majority got fiber to the node and from the node to the home is served by ~30 year old DSL/CableTV wiring.
This is great! How about Mesh over distance? Country boy here.
Do-able... what sort of distance, do you have line of sight?
@@MichaelSmith-fg8xh Need to go 500", but have lots of trees. One building to another. I'd bury a cable, but then there are rocks. Lots of those too.
@@bartcalder2791 This is 300' but might be interesting food for thought... czcams.com/video/LKCYFicd2NI/video.html
If what your saying is that from 2019 your equipment is basically obsolete in 4 years or so, how often does one have to update to keep it relevant?
Can't speak for anyone but myself, however I don't have the financial resources to keep updating to keep up with the Joneses, don't think most average people do, install it once with what you can do & watch, but don't blink as technology passes you by.
Currently am the only one that uses a internet & wifi connection, most everything is hard wired with cat 6 & only a phone & laptop uses wifi, the laptop is a company issue which sees very little use.
Most people never buy a WAP. They either use the WAP built into their ISP's cable modem or they buy a crappy "router." Ugh.
I just recently got a 1gig/1gig fiber line and was super psyched to get 6ghz. So I got a fancy 6ghz NIC and a brand new $300 Asus WiFi 6ghz router. Annnnd... Microsoft said no, you're still using windows 10, no WiFi 6ghz for you.
So I turned off automatic driver update, downgraded my Intel NIC driver to one before Microsoft interfered and killed 6ghz network support. But it was super unstable and I would bluescreen a lot. So I finally bit the bullet and "upgraded" to windows 11.
I got 6ghz working, but it's not super great :/ Oh well.
But I did have an extra old Asus 68u laying around now, so I set it up as a mesh network and have one running upstairs. Which was great right up until Asus killed Asus routers globally. I got it working again though. Good stuff.
If you have an "Old" Router that can do say 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz (802.11ac), Can you just get a somewhat "Newer" router that does (802.11ax) and create a wireless bridge or extend the Wireless access by using either one as an access point? I am aware that companies now are selling multiple access point routers but trying to keep on a tight budget and the older system is working fine, electronically speaking and it's not damaged in anyway also considering that the security of the AC router is (not the best ) But ok enough.
If your routers routes well enough for the number of devices you have and you're on a tight budget, you might be better off keeping your old router and buy a wap to improve the wireless side of things
If it’s not garage tier and from a reputable brand they may allow the old router to be used in mesh mode. ASUS is one company that offers this w/ most of their hardware.
Divide area by 3 if living in a place with actual walls
If ac/ax is 'too technical' then I feed duped.
I refuse to give up on my WRT54GL.
in the multi-family / apartment example, i thought problems would arise from running a second router underneath the provided LAN cable and subsequent network
You don't want to have two routers in the chain for no reason... but your reasons could be (a) segregating the network so your neighbours can't see your stuff (assuming the worst case that your building didn't segregate the network per dwelling) (b) running local services and being able to manage your LAN... DNS, DHCP, AdBlocking etc
@@MichaelSmith-fg8xh the 'for no reason' language leads me to think there are performance and or functionality impacts that i should worry about. If i live in a basement suite and am offered an ethernet cable off of their router, i just want to do what's best. Thanks for your reply.
@@Ben79k sorry for the weasel language on my part. For a full explanation search "double NAT". There's a possible routing performance loss. You need to select a different IPv4 range than your apartment network. IPv6 might not work properly. You lose the ability to forward ports (upnp) and setup DMZ but you probably shouldn't be doing that. Full network VPN might be out... but if all you're doing is standard web, you might not notice.
Hello, Krista!