To be clear, the speed of your wired ethernet connection is going to be equal to the speed of the slowest router in the chain. Sending data from a 1 GB switch to a 2.5 GB switch is going to limit speed of your connection to 1 GB. You can't just slap a 2.5 or 10 GB switch in a bedroom and expect to get increased speeds if you have it also increase the speed of whatever those switches are connecting to. You also need to ensure that devices you're plugging into the switches can handle the faster speeds
the traffic would be between 2 devices on the same LAN, say a PC he's editing with and the NAS. As long as the NIC on the PC and NAS support 10gb and the switch ports theyre connected to support it, you have a 10gb connection.
@@salt473 That's correct. All the touch points along the route need to be at the maximum speed. The connection will be at the speed of the lowest node/connection along the Way. You and I are in agreement
Another mistake I see is people placing another switch after a node. It's sometimes necessary, but they don't realize that then the 1GB signal is being split across the 5-8 ports. You're not getting 1GB into each switch port if you're using more than 1.
@@ChrisSmithMusickinda? I mean, with WiFi and CDMA it is definitely like that, and if all clients want to utilise all bandwidth it is like that wired as well. But most switches are smart enough that just plugging in a device does not limit the bandwidth. In other words, a switch will not split 1 Gbps in 8 just because the all 8 ports are plugged in, and limit each client to 1/8. It'll throttle the clients' bandwidth only if need be.
I'm very happily surprised that you started with outlining your goals. Very few people do this, and most youtubers don't talk about it in this manner. Starting with goals makes it easier to identify requirements you need to consider to realize those goals.
Only recommendation I'm going to drop is moving your UPS to the bottom of your rack. Having the heaviest component on the bottom of the rack greatly increases stability. Obviously an overkill setup for most people, but awesome none-the-less!
Just starting out here. Anyone who can point me to where I will find videos on how a set up like this can work for the purpose of emulating an enterprise cloud environment, practiceling network configuration, and cyber security practice. I would like to get used devices fo4 my homelab, but first, I need to know how it works so that I can set it up myself. Thanks
yes, but what does he mean "you order internet and the internet guy comes over"? Why does someone come over? Isn't internet activated remote where he lives?
@@__Mr.White__ The ISP might send over a technician to install your router if you don't know how to do it. Probably upsell you on cable packages and stuff while they are there lol
If you are going to work with someone to install wires, don't contact an electrician. They specialize in normal power wires, which have different rules and ways to install them. While they *can* run network wires, chances are they will kink things because they don't understand how important maintaining proper bend radius and such is. Network wires are way more sensitive than power wires, especially at 10gb and beyond. Instead, contact a low voltage wiring company, where all they do is install network cables, install security cameras, etc. They will do it much more correctly, and likely be a little cheaper. Also, don't let them install Cat5e, that standard is far too old. Insist on Cat6A which now days should only be an extra $10 per drop location.
As a low voltage contractor myself I would like to chime in and argue Cat6A is overkill in residential for "most" customers. Without having a discussion with the client I typically opt or Cat6 cable with a CMR fire rating and a solid copper core... Might shoot myself in the foot for this one because everyone else says stay away from copper cladding aluminum (CCA) cables but IMO it's the lowest cost wired option and still more stable then wireless so I'll give the client what they want albeit with a disclaimer.
@@nicholasbackwell1869 Depends on the country. In Italy everyone in a large-ish city generally has relatively easy access to 2.5 Gbps speeds to the internet if they have a fiber optic connection. Sometimes even 10Gbps. Even small villages tend to be wired up to 1Gbps. At those speed you should have the fastest wiring you can get. Actually, you are held back by networking gear, generally
7:24 Dave Plummer had a good one. A VLAN is like this "You have one massive pipe. Within that pipe you have several other pipes, all different colours. The massive pipe is the main LAN where all the data flows including the internet. You then tell that massive pipe what colour cable to send all the other data down. If you want IOT stuff on the red pipe, VLAN the red pipe, want all internal traffic to only be on blue, VLAN the blue pipe.".
This is funny because i literally just bought a whole ubiquiti system 2 days ago waiting for it come in because i had the “Google WiFi Pro 6E” and after 4 months of having that system the WiFi just became complete shit, devices started dropping and would have to reset the WiFi multiple times a week. Can’t wait for Ubiquiti to come in especially after this video! Want full control of my network and Google couldn’t do it.
@@JimmyTriesWorld i love tinkering with stuff like this! also have a plex server and you’ve helped with my nas storage as well in your previous videos. love your content keep up the good work!👍🏾
@@marcusjucoI’d just temper your expectations a little. Unifi is a little notorious for giving bad performance (particularly if you don’t know how to set it up). Even I swapped back from ubiquiti to my ISP provided router as the ubiquiti was simply slower. Not like I don’t now what I’m doing either, my job is setting up 50-100 AP Meraki business sites. Ubiquiti is really one of those bell curve brands you love it when you know a little and hate them once you know a lot.
How did it go? I'd hate for this to be one of those situations where: 1) You've asked for help but used the term WiFi and internet interchangeably so got the wrong advice. ISP / ISP router fault. Or 2) Site survey wasn't performed and it's due to channel saturation. Hope all good with ubiquiti swap, but I see those a lot
@@incandescentwithrage It’s going amazing! I love the flexibility and all of the little settings that you can do with it especially with the guest Wi-Fi. I can literally charge people if I want to or add a cool one time password for them, see exactly everything thats going in and out of my routers, also add Custom website for the WiFi login. Definitely had to deal with the Wi-Fi and the channel situation in my neighborhood, but with the Ubiquity set up, it has literally been amazing. I can literally switch to whatever channel I want get exact bandwidth. For example, I can limit the amount of bandwidth that guest Internet can have. A lot more settings than what I could’ve done with my Google Wi-Fi 6E, I’m happy I made the switch and also have the ability to expand more access points in the future is amazing. I love the whole modular set up. And still alot more to expolre it’s alot of fun.
Being able to have “control” and being able to regulate/control your network/devices is a more than a great skill nowadays especially when you’re able to automate and/or manage your Life using Networking.
My question is why does everything HAVE to be wireless? I say use wired connections wherever possible. Wired connections are the way to go, for several reasons: speed, reliability, security, privacy, ...
I agree, but sometimes it isn't feasible to wire up everything. Some people don't want to crawl around their attics to run cable to every single room and deal with drilling holes and installing network jacks. And paying a contractor to wire up your home can be pretty pricey.
Network Engineer here! I specialize in this very topic! If anyone has any questions around the technical aspects to this let me know! Happy to answer questions around Subnetting, VLANS, routing etc! Things can get complicated quickly always document things and label both ends of your network cables!
Hey, thanks for opening for questions. Im drowning in information (about 3 months of data/information acquisition). As a pro, would you say ubiquity or pfsense/opnsense type of firewall is better for homelab and learning networking? I am updating/upgrading my lab and adding virtualization to it and I’m just getting into the networking side and wanting to set up vlans from my server as well as iot. Right now I have them on a separate port on my nic and separate interface on my opnsense. But other than a different subnet I see no other security features without going vlan (without adding rules). I am deciding on buying a 3 layer switch, but concerned about accessing my server from home if it’s on separate vlan controlled by switch. I don’t care to open my server to internet (other than tunnels, or tailscale, or RP) do you have any advice?
@DeadlyDragon_ I currently rock a homelab with Palo Alto and Juniper, and am studying for my JNCIA. Any suggestions for when I officially jump up to network admin? I’m nervous about how deep I’ll be once I step into it
Hi, thank you for being open to questions for networking. So I work at small business and I’m a very amateur when it comes to computer and networking. The Manager and me are the “IT” guys and haven’t had must success. Ok the problem, we have the server, and 4 other computer on the same network, we use a program related to our business, problem is only one person can be on an account at a time(not a security thing) like a bottleneck thing, it you ask for info from server at the same time or need to open an account while someone is working on an open account, program freezes till the other computer is off any account. Internet can be throttle from time to time too. Also have 3 printer connected on a 12-16 port 1gig switch (I’m guessing is the problem?) anyways we generally get 300Mbps internet, but not on every computer. I really don’t know what I’m doing. I don’t even know if I gave you enough info but I really could use some help.
@@chrismacy1968 this sounds more like an application issue then a network issue. Your switch wont be the problem here you’ll need to troubleshoot the application itself.
@@Andrew-oj3pvas a CCNP studying for his CCIE and working as a delivery engineer for a Cisco VAR, i can tell you all these marketing terms the vendors use will make networking sound complicated. As you start learning more and more its gonna sound more complicated until the light bulb goes off and you realize Networking is a combination of 5 or 6 major concepts. and learning these concepts makes understanding any new tech a lot easier.
WAY more than I need in our house. I hard wired my wife's office and my man cave in the back of the house. My wife uses the wifi from the cable modem but since it's too far from the man cave I set up my own wifi system in the back with a TP-Link kit. This setup allows us to have a wired connection for our desktops and wireless for our laptops.
One of the best high level videos I’ve seen on the topic. There is always more to learn, but this video serves as a great introduction to several aspects of networking. Well done.
Dang dude. Great set up, but I feel like I’m looking for a Honda Accord and I accidentally walked into a Bugatti dealership. 😂. I know you gave a disclaimer, but still very jealous.
Fun fact about switches, stability is not the main concern with water falling. It’s more so if a switch fails (or gets updated) it does not take your whole network down. Another, less ‘best practice’ solution is to make a ring and use STP to prevent clashing. If one link goes down the other immediately kicks in. Welcome to the rabbit hole :)
I suppose a ring would be alright for a home network since you don't have the redundancy at the distribution layer. With STP though, it still does take time to converge.
I am new to Cybersecurity/IT industry, still in college in fact, and this video has made SOHO setup more understandable for me compared to other videos that get very wordy without breaking it down barney style. I have a 3 node mesh system myself and currently reconfiguring my whole network thanks to this video. I would like a better explaination on choosing the right switch, or if one is actually needed for SOHO if most of the network is wifi based for 90% of the IoT devices since each node has two ethernet ports each. Maybe I'm overthinking the switches?
You would need a switch if you plan on connecting many wired devices to your network. If pretty much everything on your network is wireless, you don't really need a switch. You can think of a network switch as a power strip. A power strip allows you to connect multiple electrical devices with one power wall outlet. A network switch isn't much different in that regard. Most typical home routers have 4 ethernet ports. If you have more than 4 wired devices, you would place a switch between the router and those wired devices. The switch connects to the router with a standard ethernet cable and your wired devices conncet to the switch, which in turn connects them to the router.
I thought you did a great job at transitioning from simple to more technical concepts in an efficient and clear manner… nice work, very informative, I took a few things of note away 👍
I really enjoyed this video and watched it all the way to the end. the video started great in terms of generalizing who might need to know this information (ex. gamers etc etc) as we move along it gets very complex and yes the video is long as it is but more importantly I feel like people need to know as I learnt the hard way is that 1gb, 2.5gb, 5gb and 10gb don't auto negotiate very well depending on hardware limitations (and that what we will all be facing). one thing that I think i would have love to hear about is your trial and tribulations around setting up a network before getting prosumer/enterprise level equipment. because as a 'newbie' 90 percent if not most of the world will not be able to get the access to afford being given ubiquiti hardware to learn how to home network or homelab thier home. please don't get me wrong, as far as explaining what's capable it's a great video. just out of reach for me and I guess anyone else like me. if we knew more about where you came from and what you learnt about the hard ware before getting all the 'expensive' stuff might be eaiser for us to look forward ahead and anticipate what to do next and learn from your mistakes. at least for me that would resonate more for me. I am not a content creator looking for free stuff I am just a regular guy, just like you, where you once were wishing to be where you are now. ☺️ cheers mate!
Props for being the guy who actually just does the thing and learns versus asking someone to do it without putting in any effort (family who know your IT just don’t even try)
i work in tech sales and had no idea how to describe ubiquity products to customers who always inquired about them. Their products seem very need-to-know cool kids club-esque and this video was so helpful in helping me better understand how their eco-system works. Thank you!
Get rid of the crappy AT&T gateway! The WAS-110 SFP+ ONT and some quick programing will let you get rid of it! I did it and it’s Glorious! Now fiber is directly plugged into my UniFi DreamWall.
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This is ... weird video to watch as someone who basically knows a lot about the matter. But for someone who is newbie, this tells a lot honestly.
Last week I tried to drill a hole through a wall to connect 2 rooms with a ethernet cable to get a stable connection for my Ubiquiti Mesh access point. My house is made of bricks so I knew I needed a heavy drill. But I never thought that the wall was 2 feet thick. Two feet for a wall inside a house! Sometimes there is an advantage living in American style wooden houses. It's much more difficult to install network equipment over here in Europe and you need much more wifi stuff because I won't cross more than one wall inside a house and sometimes not even that. I have 7 (!) Unifi wifi access points in my house.
One thing to note about powerline: Your electrical lines are not made to transfer data. It works, and 1-2 installations of it should not be super bad, but especially with iffy electrical lines its not recommended. And any fuse is just a dead end.
Some routers even have moca built in, in which case you'd only need 1 moca adapter at the other end. Very useful for needing ethernet for a computer on the opposite side of an apartment as the router. In these routers they actually back feed into the coax line connected to them so you don't even need a second coax port behind the router. Faster than powerline adapters as well, depending on how good your power and coax lines are I guess.
Where i live we mostly just get a fiber converter or an ethernet port to connect either an ISP provided router or your own equipment When i moved in to my current place there was an ethernet jack to plug in whatever router i wanted. I had one configured already with my ip subnet and wifi ssid and password so basically plug and play. Nothing to configure. But i have since switched from Apple to Google to Unifi for networking. I work professionally with Unifi stuff among other things so i liked their setup. Most things are wirelessly connected here but I have some stuff on cable like my gaming console and Apple TV and a couple of access points on PoE ethernet. But we usually haven’t seen any modems for about 10-15 years here in sweden 🇸🇪
Last apartment we rented was relatively new so the builder had run ethernet from the living room and bedrooms to a panel in one of the secondary bedrooms. Great, except they cheapened out on it. Not only were the ethernet wires in the panel not terminated, but when I terminated them myself I discovered that a couple of the hookups in the other rooms were improperly or badly terminated so the wires weren't in the correct pattern or they weren't properly seated in the terminal.
Even if you rent a place (and plan to stay for some time, like 10 years or more) you can talk to your landlord (if he's a person or a company that responds lol) All you really need is a hole big enough to fit 2 patch cables, and a double patch socket on each end. These are available to be flush in the wall or small boxes on the wall.
Next step is to get and program a router that actually routes to more than just the load-balance/failover mode of a dual-WAN box like a Unifi Dream Machine, using routing rules to prefer or dedicate a specific uplink like a VPN endpoint for certain traffic. I've begun down the Mikrotik route after having graduated from doing a full Unifi install at my parents' place.
I haven't made it through the video yet, but after dealing with a Ubiquiti setup with two AC Pros and an EdgeRouter X, I moved to their AmpliFi Alien Router & MeshPoint with an Ethernet backhaul and have had zero issues. It's pricy but it's been rock solid for almost two years now. I'm using a Netgear CM1000, as well as three Synology NAS on an Eaton 5S 1500VA UPS. Okay, now I'll watch the video. lol
Here in Finland, luckily in this apartment i dont need any "modems". I have straight ethernet port to my ISP (1Gig link) in my electric panel (WAN) So i just put my own router inside the electric panel, short cable between my router WAN to the panels WAN (ISP). Then i use other short cables to connect my 4 free routers ethernet ports to my free ethernet ports found in the same electric panel that leads to the actual ethernet outlets in every room.That router also broadcast Wifi. Neat and tidy. Did this all by my self and no, did not take hours LOL PS. sure , there has to be some kind of "modem/switch ..or in my case its fiber somewhere in the building, but thats all bridged backend stuff, so basically transparent for the end user. 🤓
If anyone actually sees this comment, don’t forget everything in the middle needs to support the data transfer or else the limit will be lower. So if you’re connecting a wireless access point to your router, chances are your router doesn’t support PoE, which is what you need for the WAP to have power. So, that’s what an active PoE injector is for, which as I stated should also support your fast data transfer (ex. 500mb, 1gb, etc). If the PoE injector only supports 150mb (which I found a lot do), then everything connected past that point is now bottlenecked to the 150mbps. I hope this helps
Our house was built in 1880s. My internet, my router sits behind my TV, it has one Ethernet port, that plugs into a 16 port switch. from there I ran two cable into hole in the wall and could get the wire down in the basement. From there one went to this, my Computer room and the other went to the bedroom. The rest of the port on this big switch, go devices that need internet connected to the TV. In the bedroom and my computer, that cable ends in 4 port switch, to device in each room that need internet.. things plugged in the computer room that need internet are my desktop computer, a Brother Laser printer, the NVR from my security camera system, which in itself has a POE switch attached to,,because my NVR has 8 cable ports, and I have 10 cameras, it was needed and now I can 2 more cameras, and do have 2 more here to add
Vlan tags are used to designate which devices are allowed to talk to each other over ethernet protocol on layer 2 (Where switches generally live) of the OSI model. That doesn't mean they can't talk to each other over IP protocol at layer 3 (Where routers generally live). Vlans are both for security and to separate networks from the hardware, virtualizing them and allowing you more flexibility on how you set up your switches. It could sort of be compared to a train station, however once you start getting into routing you might be confused as to why devices can communicate with eachother even though they are on different vlans. Vlans are layer 2 only, and only control traffic on layer 2 protocols.
Once you replace all the consumer grade networking gear, and go with enterprise grade firewall, switches and access points, you’ll never go back. I have 0 issues. It just works.
My phone company supplies a modem that has a standard 4-port LAN switch built in. We’re on their baseline tier, 100Mbps which can deliver 120Mbps. We websurf and use regular TV streaming in 2 rooms, so 100Mbps is plenty. I’d like to fill in some weak WiFi spots in the house. Ironically, the static devices that could use Ethernet (computers, streaming TV boxes) work fine off WiFi. It’s only roving laptops and phones that have issues sometimes. I haven’t mentioned the router yet. The phone company supplies that too, also with a 4-port LAN (and is the WiFi source). It’s centrally located on the main floor. Wifi in the basement is OK and WiFi on the 2nd floor is OK but it does get weaker at all house corners. For each tier there is “no extra charge” (no rental) for this WiFi router. But I don’t have to use it … I’ve connected a computer directly into the modem and it works just fine. What I do not have access to are the other 3 ports on the modem, non-functional.
Abstract everything. Create link groups between switches, even if you only use 1 cable. Use a VLAN trunk, even if you only have 1 VLAN. Use SDWAN, even if you only have 1 WAN link, and so on
Can confirm that making loops in a network results in freakouts. My network was down for a few days and I couldn't work out why. I'd accidentally plugged a cable back in the same switch.
I would love to see a video of how you setup your VLANs. Do you use firewall security between the VLANs (more specifically IoT VLAN)? I have a Unifi setup in my house. I tried getting the firewall setup so the IoT VLAN could only reach out to the internet but the other VLANs could initiate a connection to the IoT VLAN for better security. Can't trust the vulnerabilities some of my IoT devices could have. The problem is now my smart devices don't communicate properly with my AppleTV or homebridge (on main VLAN). If you or anyone else has some tips, I would really appreciate it.
16:50 Then you need to flag its a sponsored video. Even if they give you NO money, you've used them for the video so its classed as payment in kind so video needs to be flagged as sponsored.
Home assistant on a NUK with cheap 250gb Samsung SSD or similar, router UDM PRO/minimum 16p PoE+ switch/ap HD-Nano as many you need/cameras as many you need and all from Ubiquity, two Synology 224+, one for backup and for media and you already finished more than half of your HA. later edit: i do agree with chaining swithes. a good practice would be to use the core/distribution/access scheme even if you are home and got only a few of them. plan everthing on paper before and then do it
Why 2 switches? Do you have dozens of 10G devices at home? And the PSU goes on the bottom of the rack, that shit leaks. The rails are really clean. You can make circles in network, usually for alternative routes, but don't do that in unmanaged switches. Okay toooo much ubiquiti, this is not for home.. more like small offices. It's so expensive.
MoCA is awesome, at least in my case where I have nothing else (cable/ satellite) using that line. I don't know how much drop off there may be when shared but it carries my full gig internet up and down. I had tried powerline first and it was maybe 10% of the speed to my router reaching the client.
16:26 The UDM Pro SE is not a switch, it's an appliance and not rly good yet tbh, they miss propper Firewalling and Site2Site VPNs (Especially the Wireguard stuff) But Ubiquity is definitively one of the more consumer friendly alternatives. I personally use the Network Appliance only and let the Routing be done by an OpenWRT instance.
This is almost identical to my use case and my setup. I have my UDM Pro and 24 Port PoE (standard) switch with 3x U6-LR’s in boxes right now while my home remodel is finishing, and I run my Cat6 drops next weekend…oh, and I just bought the Anker Solix C1000 power bank (although I nearly bought the AC70) as my UPS. This was so much fun experiencing my future set up through someone else’s eyes!
No, it doesn't work like that. We use wired connectivity because most people have the router several rooms away from the pc (so there's a lot of interferences, signal losses and most of all LATENCY). Besides wired is a lot easier to connect
Agree totally to limit wifi radiation except for portable convenience, like phone to printer, or saving data connection time using Watsapp ! Also it seems? Using lan where your fixed units are has an average of ten times faster speed with cables over 5a quality!
Exactly what I’m looking into - the requirements and the conditions are similar - new house Ethernet etc - but yet to be convinced to plonk the cash at ubiquity - only if they sent gear to others😂
I would say for camping go with an open or semi open fire, since it has much much better flavour, and maybe use a sous vide to precook the steak for instance and have it rested in a cooler. This way you minimise power usage and make delicious food! (The reason behind the sous vide is that with an open flame a lot of experience is required, but with the sous vide trick you only need to put nice seer to the steak!
9:20 I agree that in this modern world , internet is everything , builders need to STOP thinking the old way where they think people need phone jacks in the kitchen and bedroom..They need start putting CAT6 in bedrooms, living spaces and even garages, there needs to be a change on how low voltage lines are wired like placing everything in a central location
I'm having a house built at the moment. It was so frustrating to have to ask them to remove all of the stuff on the standard plan such as phone wires etc and just put Cat6. They looked at me like I'm an alien for wanting it.
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Great video! In the process of building and have Cat6 and Coax all terminated to the network closet. Curious, for the Ubiquity access points, do they all act under the same wifi name? For example, if I am in the front of the house under AP1 and then move toward the back to AP2 are there 2 separate "wifi" names or can they all act as 1 unified network? Would like to chat some more on this to see if my thoughts are correct with my network setup before it is too late to make changes.
I literally have that same tplink switch and a netgear unmanaged 5 port switch which are connected through my tplink 3 ap mesh network and thats about it. Add like 3 100 foot and 1 50 foot ethernet cable because my house has zero wiring for that. Gigabit ethernet and Wifi 6 that work for my needs
If you're connecting those devices using an access point, its wireless. That access point broadcasts SSIDs (like the names of wireless networks you'd see on your phone). plugging it into the switch just connects it to the network for management or power if its a power over ethernet AP, as well as allows for communication to a Wireless Lan Controller if the AP is a LWAP (Lightweight Access Point)
That battery back thing is NOT cheap.... 1500 bucks! Wow holy moly lol just letting anyone else know. I think I'll stick to a cheaper one around maybe 100-200 bucks lol awesome video tho bro lol
I design and install networks for a living and when your creating a newbie perspective video content probably best not to use big networking words and terms. Especially when the video called for explanations for people who don't know all these big network words and terms. I did not see any info on cost, please add! Most people would never spend that amount of money on a network for your average home networking needs. Then you should of explained that this level of network in the video is normally installed by a networking professional. Good score though, you got a bunch of nice gear for free!
How are the ranges of these newer Unifi AP's? I had an AC-Pro, and in a 50x25' house I was getting at best 400mbps in the same room, maybe 550- 600mbps if I was right next to it and the only device connected under perfect atmospheric and neighborhood wifi conditions, so I was going to add another for better coverage. I ended up replacing it with the TP-Link Omada 670 which has more range and higher bandwidth all over.... 500mbps vs 60mbps (five hundred vs sixty) in the far end of my house that I thought I needed another AC-Pro in, and regularly get 700-950mbps in the same room so most of the time i'm at wirespeed unless I get a 2.5Gb POE switch for the Omada 670. It woks so much better than the AC-Pro, that I'm just going to give my mom the second 670 that I thought I needed because its not even worth handing down my AC-Pro.
Do NOT use power line Ethernet, your speeds will be ungodly slow, some power line wifi boosters/extenders would be good but have had poor results with ones I’ve bought in the past, invest the extra dollar for orbi hubs or any sort of mesh wifi system
I don't know if I would discourage people from using Powerline adapter. They have good uses especially if you can't drag Ethernet cable for direct connection or AP. I successfully used them multiple times and reach near 300 Mbps which is full bandwith for me. But this highly relies on your electric installation. So I would encourage potential buyers to make sure they can try it out and return adapter if network speed is not sufficient.
Hi, I am one of those people who built a house last year....and when asked if I wanted ethernet drops, I said no....I'm a dumb dumb. Don't be me. I really didn't think ethernet drops would do me any good for the extra $$$ they were gonna charge to install it
What wall box do you have at 10:03 ? I’m currently building a new house and want to consolidate all the Ethernet cables into one panel inside the wall like how you have it in the video
My biggest problem now is we lose Internet a lot randomly. And when that happens I can't access my NAS or Plex. So I don't like that. But I don't know if I have the brain power (or patience) to create some sort of "Internal" network system? (Not sure I'm using the correct terminology for that. Is there a way to solve this?
Hi ! quick questions : are your AP connected to a switch or directly from the router ? and do you need a UniFi gateway to manage the AP or they simply plug & play ? THanks !
I believe you'll need the UniFi Controller software to manage the APs. You can install the software on your PC or dedicate a server for the controller software. I think you can also use your phone with the UniFi app to setup the APs.
Expected a bit more down to earthness for "A Newbie". I mean maybe it is a nice setup, but only some people like to spend that much, nor need that much. I mean you straight up went from "The ISPs router alone is not enough" to "i have more 10GbE Ports than i know what to do with". If anyone has a nice setup, that is relativly cheap, and provides Wifi that is reliable, gets good coverage in a house made of bricks and real walls, and has good roaming, so that phone calls don't drop, hit me up
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In my life, I've felt more peer pressure to start my own home network/server than to do drugs.
Its certainly a healthier alternative 😉😉
@@JJFlores197 definitely not, drugs are cheaper
@@greasycheese8095 I call BS. You keep buying drugs. You only buy the hardware once or at most a bit over a few year period.
@@timradde4328 you have no idea how much a server setup costs and it shows
Transferrable skills of home networking are much better than those for trying drugs.
To be clear, the speed of your wired ethernet connection is going to be equal to the speed of the slowest router in the chain. Sending data from a 1 GB switch to a 2.5 GB switch is going to limit speed of your connection to 1 GB. You can't just slap a 2.5 or 10 GB switch in a bedroom and expect to get increased speeds if you have it also increase the speed of whatever those switches are connecting to. You also need to ensure that devices you're plugging into the switches can handle the faster speeds
u dont have to go thru router in lan at all ;)
the traffic would be between 2 devices on the same LAN, say a PC he's editing with and the NAS. As long as the NIC on the PC and NAS support 10gb and the switch ports theyre connected to support it, you have a 10gb connection.
@@salt473 That's correct. All the touch points along the route need to be at the maximum speed. The connection will be at the speed of the lowest node/connection along the Way. You and I are in agreement
Another mistake I see is people placing another switch after a node. It's sometimes necessary, but they don't realize that then the 1GB signal is being split across the 5-8 ports. You're not getting 1GB into each switch port if you're using more than 1.
@@ChrisSmithMusickinda? I mean, with WiFi and CDMA it is definitely like that, and if all clients want to utilise all bandwidth it is like that wired as well. But most switches are smart enough that just plugging in a device does not limit the bandwidth. In other words, a switch will not split 1 Gbps in 8 just because the all 8 ports are plugged in, and limit each client to 1/8. It'll throttle the clients' bandwidth only if need be.
I'm very happily surprised that you started with outlining your goals. Very few people do this, and most youtubers don't talk about it in this manner.
Starting with goals makes it easier to identify requirements you need to consider to realize those goals.
Only recommendation I'm going to drop is moving your UPS to the bottom of your rack. Having the heaviest component on the bottom of the rack greatly increases stability. Obviously an overkill setup for most people, but awesome none-the-less!
Yep, UPS always should be down low in the rack.
Just starting out here. Anyone who can point me to where I will find videos on how a set up like this can work for the purpose of emulating an enterprise cloud environment, practiceling network configuration, and cyber security practice. I would like to get used devices fo4 my homelab, but first, I need to know how it works so that I can set it up myself. Thanks
What about heating issues between devices?
Jimmy's next video. Welcome to my 42u rack with my 10,000 dollar whole home network.
yes, but what does he mean "you order internet and the internet guy comes over"? Why does someone come over? Isn't internet activated remote where he lives?
@@__Mr.White__
Varies by location, and/or maybe previous ISP providers did something
@@__Mr.White__ The ISP might send over a technician to install your router if you don't know how to do it. Probably upsell you on cable packages and stuff while they are there lol
"Next" video?
That's this one, just fewer U's.
Have you seen the prices on Ubiquiti's gear? That "Enterprise" 10Gb switch is likely $10k by itself.
@@LethargicSquirrel 🤣
If you are going to work with someone to install wires, don't contact an electrician. They specialize in normal power wires, which have different rules and ways to install them. While they *can* run network wires, chances are they will kink things because they don't understand how important maintaining proper bend radius and such is. Network wires are way more sensitive than power wires, especially at 10gb and beyond. Instead, contact a low voltage wiring company, where all they do is install network cables, install security cameras, etc. They will do it much more correctly, and likely be a little cheaper.
Also, don't let them install Cat5e, that standard is far too old. Insist on Cat6A which now days should only be an extra $10 per drop location.
As a low voltage contractor myself I would like to chime in and argue Cat6A is overkill in residential for "most" customers.
Without having a discussion with the client I typically opt or Cat6 cable with a CMR fire rating and a solid copper core...
Might shoot myself in the foot for this one because everyone else says stay away from copper cladding aluminum (CCA) cables but IMO it's the lowest cost wired option and still more stable then wireless so I'll give the client what they want albeit with a disclaimer.
cat5e can handle 10gb upto 40m
@@ch3vr0n123 I think you meant Cat6.
Cat5e maxs out at 2.5g/100m
@@nicholasbackwell1869 no, cat5e can handle 10g easy
@@nicholasbackwell1869 Depends on the country. In Italy everyone in a large-ish city generally has relatively easy access to 2.5 Gbps speeds to the internet if they have a fiber optic connection. Sometimes even 10Gbps. Even small villages tend to be wired up to 1Gbps. At those speed you should have the fastest wiring you can get. Actually, you are held back by networking gear, generally
7:24 Dave Plummer had a good one. A VLAN is like this "You have one massive pipe. Within that pipe you have several other pipes, all different colours. The massive pipe is the main LAN where all the data flows including the internet. You then tell that massive pipe what colour cable to send all the other data down. If you want IOT stuff on the red pipe, VLAN the red pipe, want all internal traffic to only be on blue, VLAN the blue pipe.".
This is funny because i literally just bought a whole ubiquiti system 2 days ago waiting for it come in because i had the “Google WiFi Pro 6E” and after 4 months of having that system the WiFi just became complete shit, devices started dropping and would have to reset the WiFi multiple times a week. Can’t wait for Ubiquiti to come in especially after this video! Want full control of my network and Google couldn’t do it.
There's a learning curve to all this Ubiquiti stuff, but if you enjoy tinkering, you'll be spending hours in the settings!
@@JimmyTriesWorld i love tinkering with stuff like this! also have a plex server and you’ve helped with my nas storage as well in your previous videos. love your content keep up the good work!👍🏾
@@marcusjucoI’d just temper your expectations a little. Unifi is a little notorious for giving bad performance (particularly if you don’t know how to set it up). Even I swapped back from ubiquiti to my ISP provided router as the ubiquiti was simply slower. Not like I don’t now what I’m doing either, my job is setting up 50-100 AP Meraki business sites.
Ubiquiti is really one of those bell curve brands you love it when you know a little and hate them once you know a lot.
How did it go?
I'd hate for this to be one of those situations where:
1) You've asked for help but used the term WiFi and internet interchangeably so got the wrong advice. ISP / ISP router fault.
Or
2) Site survey wasn't performed and it's due to channel saturation.
Hope all good with ubiquiti swap, but I see those a lot
@@incandescentwithrage It’s going amazing! I love the flexibility and all of the little settings that you can do with it especially with the guest Wi-Fi. I can literally charge people if I want to or add a cool one time password for them, see exactly everything thats going in and out of my routers, also add Custom website for the WiFi login. Definitely had to deal with the Wi-Fi and the channel situation in my neighborhood, but with the Ubiquity set up, it has literally been amazing. I can literally switch to whatever channel I want get exact bandwidth. For example, I can limit the amount of bandwidth that guest Internet can have. A lot more settings than what I could’ve done with my Google Wi-Fi 6E, I’m happy I made the switch and also have the ability to expand more access points in the future is amazing. I love the whole modular set up. And still alot more to expolre it’s alot of fun.
Being able to have “control” and being able to regulate/control your network/devices is a more than a great skill nowadays especially when you’re able to automate and/or manage your Life using Networking.
My question is why does everything HAVE to be wireless? I say use wired connections wherever possible. Wired connections are the way to go, for several reasons: speed, reliability, security, privacy, ...
I agree, but sometimes it isn't feasible to wire up everything. Some people don't want to crawl around their attics to run cable to every single room and deal with drilling holes and installing network jacks. And paying a contractor to wire up your home can be pretty pricey.
Network Engineer here!
I specialize in this very topic! If anyone has any questions around the technical aspects to this let me know! Happy to answer questions around Subnetting, VLANS, routing etc!
Things can get complicated quickly always document things and label both ends of your network cables!
Hey, thanks for opening for questions. Im drowning in information (about 3 months of data/information acquisition). As a pro, would you say ubiquity or pfsense/opnsense type of firewall is better for homelab and learning networking? I am updating/upgrading my lab and adding virtualization to it and I’m just getting into the networking side and wanting to set up vlans from my server as well as iot. Right now I have them on a separate port on my nic and separate interface on my opnsense. But other than a different subnet I see no other security features without going vlan (without adding rules). I am deciding on buying a 3 layer switch, but concerned about accessing my server from home if it’s on separate vlan controlled by switch. I don’t care to open my server to internet (other than tunnels, or tailscale, or RP) do you have any advice?
@DeadlyDragon_ I currently rock a homelab with Palo Alto and Juniper, and am studying for my JNCIA. Any suggestions for when I officially jump up to network admin? I’m nervous about how deep I’ll be once I step into it
Hi, thank you for being open to questions for networking. So I work at small business and I’m a very amateur when it comes to computer and networking. The Manager and me are the “IT” guys and haven’t had must success. Ok the problem, we have the server, and 4 other computer on the same network, we use a program related to our business, problem is only one person can be on an account at a time(not a security thing) like a bottleneck thing, it you ask for info from server at the same time or need to open an account while someone is working on an open account, program freezes till the other computer is off any account. Internet can be throttle from time to time too. Also have 3 printer connected on a 12-16 port 1gig switch (I’m guessing is the problem?) anyways we generally get 300Mbps internet, but not on every computer. I really don’t know what I’m doing. I don’t even know if I gave you enough info but I really could use some help.
@@chrismacy1968 this sounds more like an application issue then a network issue. Your switch wont be the problem here you’ll need to troubleshoot the application itself.
@@Andrew-oj3pvas a CCNP studying for his CCIE and working as a delivery engineer for a Cisco VAR, i can tell you all these marketing terms the vendors use will make networking sound complicated. As you start learning more and more its gonna sound more complicated until the light bulb goes off and you realize Networking is a combination of 5 or 6 major concepts. and learning these concepts makes understanding any new tech a lot easier.
WAY more than I need in our house. I hard wired my wife's office and my man cave in the back of the house. My wife uses the wifi from the cable modem but since it's too far from the man cave I set up my own wifi system in the back with a TP-Link kit. This setup allows us to have a wired connection for our desktops and wireless for our laptops.
One of the best high level videos I’ve seen on the topic. There is always more to learn, but this video serves as a great introduction to several aspects of networking. Well done.
I think you messed up on what you need for step 1.
What you need for step 1 is money. Lots and lots of money.
Thank you for the video, for those that don't want to go the Ubiquiti route look into MikroTik routers and APs (DIY ers).
Or Openwrt on rather cheaper devices.
Thankful to the Reddit community! Was able to understand the idea of using moCA adapters to convert COAX to Ethernet and install them myself.
Dang dude. Great set up, but I feel like I’m looking for a Honda Accord and I accidentally walked into a Bugatti dealership. 😂. I know you gave a disclaimer, but still very jealous.
yes agree, i thought it was gonna be a budget friendly setup XD .. this looks too enterprise level...
This was a great video - so many people assume knowledge - and I didn't realize till now that I had no idea what a "switch" was.
Thanks for the brake down. All the videos I watched just left me confused. I needed someone who can just explain things simply. Great job.
Welcome to the Ubiquiti club. Everyone has a friend that introduces them to this rabbit hole. Bless you! 😅
Some friends be dragging me into too many tech rabbit holes!
Fun fact about switches, stability is not the main concern with water falling. It’s more so if a switch fails (or gets updated) it does not take your whole network down.
Another, less ‘best practice’ solution is to make a ring and use STP to prevent clashing. If one link goes down the other immediately kicks in.
Welcome to the rabbit hole :)
I suppose a ring would be alright for a home network since you don't have the redundancy at the distribution layer. With STP though, it still does take time to converge.
@@salt473 yeah, I mean I don’t recommend it. From what I’ve seen on UniFi, the switch over is pretty quick (
I am new to Cybersecurity/IT industry, still in college in fact, and this video has made SOHO setup more understandable for me compared to other videos that get very wordy without breaking it down barney style. I have a 3 node mesh system myself and currently reconfiguring my whole network thanks to this video. I would like a better explaination on choosing the right switch, or if one is actually needed for SOHO if most of the network is wifi based for 90% of the IoT devices since each node has two ethernet ports each. Maybe I'm overthinking the switches?
You would need a switch if you plan on connecting many wired devices to your network. If pretty much everything on your network is wireless, you don't really need a switch. You can think of a network switch as a power strip. A power strip allows you to connect multiple electrical devices with one power wall outlet. A network switch isn't much different in that regard. Most typical home routers have 4 ethernet ports. If you have more than 4 wired devices, you would place a switch between the router and those wired devices. The switch connects to the router with a standard ethernet cable and your wired devices conncet to the switch, which in turn connects them to the router.
I thought you did a great job at transitioning from simple to more technical concepts in an efficient and clear manner… nice work, very informative, I took a few things of note away 👍
I really enjoyed this video and watched it all the way to the end. the video started great in terms of generalizing who might need to know this information (ex. gamers etc etc) as we move along it gets very complex and yes the video is long as it is but more importantly I feel like people need to know as I learnt the hard way is that 1gb, 2.5gb, 5gb and 10gb don't auto negotiate very well depending on hardware limitations (and that what we will all be facing). one thing that I think i would have love to hear about is your trial and tribulations around setting up a network before getting prosumer/enterprise level equipment. because as a 'newbie' 90 percent if not most of the world will not be able to get the access to afford being given ubiquiti hardware to learn how to home network or homelab thier home. please don't get me wrong, as far as explaining what's capable it's a great video. just out of reach for me and I guess anyone else like me. if we knew more about where you came from and what you learnt about the hard ware before getting all the 'expensive' stuff might be eaiser for us to look forward ahead and anticipate what to do next and learn from your mistakes. at least for me that would resonate more for me. I am not a content creator looking for free stuff I am just a regular guy, just like you, where you once were wishing to be where you are now. ☺️ cheers mate!
Thanks for posting this. A great starting point for those of us just learning this stuff.
Props for being the guy who actually just does the thing and learns versus asking someone to do it without putting in any effort (family who know your IT just don’t even try)
Bro just want to say you explained everything so well, you’ve made me understand so much better. Thanks 🙏 bless you
Bro you are in deep… looks like you’re capable of running an SME
i work in tech sales and had no idea how to describe ubiquity products to customers who always inquired about them. Their products seem very need-to-know cool kids club-esque and this video was so helpful in helping me better understand how their eco-system works. Thank you!
Get rid of the crappy AT&T gateway! The WAS-110 SFP+ ONT and some quick programing will let you get rid of it! I did it and it’s Glorious! Now fiber is directly plugged into my UniFi DreamWall.
This is ... weird video to watch as someone who basically knows a lot about the matter.
But for someone who is newbie, this tells a lot honestly.
Last week I tried to drill a hole through a wall to connect 2 rooms with a ethernet cable to get a stable connection for my Ubiquiti Mesh access point. My house is made of bricks so I knew I needed a heavy drill. But I never thought that the wall was 2 feet thick. Two feet for a wall inside a house! Sometimes there is an advantage living in American style wooden houses. It's much more difficult to install network equipment over here in Europe and you need much more wifi stuff because I won't cross more than one wall inside a house and sometimes not even that. I have 7 (!) Unifi wifi access points in my house.
why not run the cable through door frame?
One thing to note about powerline: Your electrical lines are not made to transfer data. It works, and 1-2 installations of it should not be super bad, but especially with iffy electrical lines its not recommended.
And any fuse is just a dead end.
Some routers even have moca built in, in which case you'd only need 1 moca adapter at the other end. Very useful for needing ethernet for a computer on the opposite side of an apartment as the router. In these routers they actually back feed into the coax line connected to them so you don't even need a second coax port behind the router. Faster than powerline adapters as well, depending on how good your power and coax lines are I guess.
Where i live we mostly just get a fiber converter or an ethernet port to connect either an ISP provided router or your own equipment When i moved in to my current place there was an ethernet jack to plug in whatever router i wanted. I had one configured already with my ip subnet and wifi ssid and password so basically plug and play. Nothing to configure. But i have since switched from Apple to Google to Unifi for networking. I work professionally with Unifi stuff among other things so i liked their setup. Most things are wirelessly connected here but I have some stuff on cable like my gaming console and Apple TV and a couple of access points on PoE ethernet. But we usually haven’t seen any modems for about 10-15 years here in sweden 🇸🇪
Last apartment we rented was relatively new so the builder had run ethernet from the living room and bedrooms to a panel in one of the secondary bedrooms. Great, except they cheapened out on it. Not only were the ethernet wires in the panel not terminated, but when I terminated them myself I discovered that a couple of the hookups in the other rooms were improperly or badly terminated so the wires weren't in the correct pattern or they weren't properly seated in the terminal.
thank you for the video!
in this age and time, where internet is king. You sir are truly doing god's work.
Even if you rent a place (and plan to stay for some time, like 10 years or more) you can talk to your landlord (if he's a person or a company that responds lol)
All you really need is a hole big enough to fit 2 patch cables, and a double patch socket on each end. These are available to be flush in the wall or small boxes on the wall.
Next step is to get and program a router that actually routes to more than just the load-balance/failover mode of a dual-WAN box like a Unifi Dream Machine, using routing rules to prefer or dedicate a specific uplink like a VPN endpoint for certain traffic. I've begun down the Mikrotik route after having graduated from doing a full Unifi install at my parents' place.
I never heard of this til now. Thanks. I se there's a 2.4Ghz only router for about $120. Looks like it's worth researching
I didn't understand your comment. Can you explain
Entire video is an ad but i don't mind at all. Excellent delivery and explanations!
I haven't made it through the video yet, but after dealing with a Ubiquiti setup with two AC Pros and an EdgeRouter X, I moved to their AmpliFi Alien Router & MeshPoint with an Ethernet backhaul and have had zero issues. It's pricy but it's been rock solid for almost two years now. I'm using a Netgear CM1000, as well as three Synology NAS on an Eaton 5S 1500VA UPS. Okay, now I'll watch the video. lol
Here in Finland, luckily in this apartment i dont need any "modems". I have straight ethernet port to my ISP (1Gig link) in my electric panel (WAN) So i just put my own router inside the electric panel, short cable between my router WAN to the panels WAN (ISP). Then i use other short cables to connect my 4 free routers ethernet ports to my free ethernet ports found in the same electric panel that leads to the actual ethernet outlets in every room.That router also broadcast Wifi. Neat and tidy. Did this all by my self and no, did not take hours LOL PS. sure , there has to be some kind of "modem/switch ..or in my case its fiber somewhere in the building, but thats all bridged backend stuff, so basically transparent for the end user. 🤓
If anyone actually sees this comment, don’t forget everything in the middle needs to support the data transfer or else the limit will be lower. So if you’re connecting a wireless access point to your router, chances are your router doesn’t support PoE, which is what you need for the WAP to have power. So, that’s what an active PoE injector is for, which as I stated should also support your fast data transfer (ex. 500mb, 1gb, etc). If the PoE injector only supports 150mb (which I found a lot do), then everything connected past that point is now bottlenecked to the 150mbps. I hope this helps
Our house was built in 1880s. My internet, my router sits behind my TV, it has one Ethernet port, that plugs into a 16 port switch. from there I ran two cable into hole in the wall and could get the wire down in the basement. From there one went to this, my Computer room and the other went to the bedroom. The rest of the port on this big switch, go devices that need internet connected to the TV. In the bedroom and my computer, that cable ends in 4 port switch, to device in each room that need internet.. things plugged in the computer room that need internet are my desktop computer, a Brother Laser printer, the NVR from my security camera system, which in itself has a POE switch attached to,,because my NVR has 8 cable ports, and I have 10 cameras, it was needed and now I can 2 more cameras, and do have 2 more here to add
Vlan tags are used to designate which devices are allowed to talk to each other over ethernet protocol on layer 2 (Where switches generally live) of the OSI model. That doesn't mean they can't talk to each other over IP protocol at layer 3 (Where routers generally live). Vlans are both for security and to separate networks from the hardware, virtualizing them and allowing you more flexibility on how you set up your switches. It could sort of be compared to a train station, however once you start getting into routing you might be confused as to why devices can communicate with eachother even though they are on different vlans. Vlans are layer 2 only, and only control traffic on layer 2 protocols.
Once you replace all the consumer grade networking gear, and go with enterprise grade firewall, switches and access points, you’ll never go back. I have 0 issues. It just works.
ah yes because dealing with licensing issues sounds fun, lol. I say this as someone who works for a Cisco Gold partner, lol.
@@bassman87 you pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too ~ Denzel Washington.
@@stevevlahos1bro has too much money to waste. So what's your stack
My phone company supplies a modem that has a standard 4-port LAN switch built in. We’re on their baseline tier, 100Mbps which can deliver 120Mbps. We websurf and use regular TV streaming in 2 rooms, so 100Mbps is plenty.
I’d like to fill in some weak WiFi spots in the house. Ironically, the static devices that could use Ethernet (computers, streaming TV boxes) work fine off WiFi. It’s only roving laptops and phones that have issues sometimes.
I haven’t mentioned the router yet. The phone company supplies that too, also with a 4-port LAN (and is the WiFi source). It’s centrally located on the main floor. Wifi in the basement is OK and WiFi on the 2nd floor is OK but it does get weaker at all house corners.
For each tier there is “no extra charge” (no rental) for this WiFi router. But I don’t have to use it … I’ve connected a computer directly into the modem and it works just fine. What I do not have access to are the other 3 ports on the modem, non-functional.
If you have fiber, you can get a SFP+ Modem/Mediaconverter that directly plugs in your Dream Maschine.
Abstract everything. Create link groups between switches, even if you only use 1 cable. Use a VLAN trunk, even if you only have 1 VLAN. Use SDWAN, even if you only have 1 WAN link, and so on
Great video! I have been searching for months and finally found the right video to help me get started
If your switch doesn't have PoE you can always add a PoE injector instead of replacing the whole switch.
That's a cleannnnn home rack man, well done.
Liked the analogy with the trainstation, nice.
Can confirm that making loops in a network results in freakouts.
My network was down for a few days and I couldn't work out why.
I'd accidentally plugged a cable back in the same switch.
No Loop back prevention?
Dude if you like Ubiquiti you're gonna LOVE MikroTik.
I would love to see a video of how you setup your VLANs. Do you use firewall security between the VLANs (more specifically IoT VLAN)? I have a Unifi setup in my house. I tried getting the firewall setup so the IoT VLAN could only reach out to the internet but the other VLANs could initiate a connection to the IoT VLAN for better security. Can't trust the vulnerabilities some of my IoT devices could have. The problem is now my smart devices don't communicate properly with my AppleTV or homebridge (on main VLAN). If you or anyone else has some tips, I would really appreciate it.
16:50 Then you need to flag its a sponsored video. Even if they give you NO money, you've used them for the video so its classed as payment in kind so video needs to be flagged as sponsored.
Wonderful..!!! Thank you.!! Now we need a video step-by-step, 101, basic, fromscratch video...
You're better off using your XG switch as your main switch so you can use the second SFP+ on your UDM SE for 10G WAN (internet)
Home assistant on a NUK with cheap 250gb Samsung SSD or similar, router UDM PRO/minimum 16p PoE+ switch/ap HD-Nano as many you need/cameras as many you need and all from Ubiquity, two Synology 224+, one for backup and for media and you already finished more than half of your HA.
later edit: i do agree with chaining swithes. a good practice would be to use the core/distribution/access scheme even if you are home and got only a few of them. plan everthing on paper before and then do it
Why 2 switches? Do you have dozens of 10G devices at home? And the PSU goes on the bottom of the rack, that shit leaks. The rails are really clean. You can make circles in network, usually for alternative routes, but don't do that in unmanaged switches. Okay toooo much ubiquiti, this is not for home.. more like small offices. It's so expensive.
MoCA is awesome, at least in my case where I have nothing else (cable/ satellite) using that line. I don't know how much drop off there may be when shared but it carries my full gig internet up and down.
I had tried powerline first and it was maybe 10% of the speed to my router reaching the client.
16:26 The UDM Pro SE is not a switch, it's an appliance and not rly good yet tbh, they miss propper Firewalling and Site2Site VPNs (Especially the Wireguard stuff)
But Ubiquity is definitively one of the more consumer friendly alternatives. I personally use the Network Appliance only and let the Routing be done by an OpenWRT instance.
This is almost identical to my use case and my setup. I have my UDM Pro and 24 Port PoE (standard) switch with 3x U6-LR’s in boxes right now while my home remodel is finishing, and I run my Cat6 drops next weekend…oh, and I just bought the Anker Solix C1000 power bank (although I nearly bought the AC70) as my UPS. This was so much fun experiencing my future set up through someone else’s eyes!
i plugged my fiber connection directly to Dream Machine no additional Modem needed. Not sure if it will work with ATa.T because i am in Austria.
Pretty impressive setup!
No, it doesn't work like that. We use wired connectivity because most people have the router several rooms away from the pc (so there's a lot of interferences, signal losses and most of all LATENCY). Besides wired is a lot easier to connect
Agree totally to limit wifi radiation except for portable convenience, like phone to printer, or saving data connection time using Watsapp ! Also it seems? Using lan where your fixed units are has an average of ten times faster speed with cables over 5a quality!
Why are you concerned over wifi radiation?
7:15 hey, spanish trains!!
Exactly what I’m looking into - the requirements and the conditions are similar - new house Ethernet etc - but yet to be convinced to plonk the cash at ubiquity - only if they sent gear to others😂
Ubiquiti rocks 🎉
I would say for camping go with an open or semi open fire, since it has much much better flavour, and maybe use a sous vide to precook the steak for instance and have it rested in a cooler. This way you minimise power usage and make delicious food! (The reason behind the sous vide is that with an open flame a lot of experience is required, but with the sous vide trick you only need to put nice seer to the steak!
Very basic, but a good video for the average consumer.
9:20 I agree that in this modern world , internet is everything , builders need to STOP thinking the old way where they think people need phone jacks in the kitchen and bedroom..They need start putting CAT6 in bedrooms, living spaces and even garages, there needs to be a change on how low voltage lines are wired like placing everything in a central location
I'm having a house built at the moment.
It was so frustrating to have to ask them to remove all of the stuff on the standard plan such as phone wires etc and just put Cat6.
They looked at me like I'm an alien for wanting it.
Another option is running cables on the roof and using covign to cover it
Such a great video. Thanks 🙏 heaps for all the info.
"Hey guys I was thinking of buying a car 🚗 and Lamborghini sent me a free 2024 Lamborghini Huracán 🏎️. Yeah, you can do this for cheaper but let's look at my Lambo."
Except Ubiquiti isn't high end
Very well explained video ... well done !
Great video! In the process of building and have Cat6 and Coax all terminated to the network closet. Curious, for the Ubiquity access points, do they all act under the same wifi name? For example, if I am in the front of the house under AP1 and then move toward the back to AP2 are there 2 separate "wifi" names or can they all act as 1 unified network? Would like to chat some more on this to see if my thoughts are correct with my network setup before it is too late to make changes.
I literally have that same tplink switch and a netgear unmanaged 5 port switch which are connected through my tplink 3 ap mesh network and thats about it. Add like 3 100 foot and 1 50 foot ethernet cable because my house has zero wiring for that. Gigabit ethernet and Wifi 6 that work for my needs
What is s each device doing for you
Another option for wired devices I'm looking into is a satellite (wireless access point? ) with an ethernet port to plug a switch in to.
If you're connecting those devices using an access point, its wireless. That access point broadcasts SSIDs (like the names of wireless networks you'd see on your phone). plugging it into the switch just connects it to the network for management or power if its a power over ethernet AP, as well as allows for communication to a Wireless Lan Controller if the AP is a LWAP (Lightweight Access Point)
great video dude. Well done
What about the power consumption required for this setup ? Any hint you could share ?
That battery back thing is NOT cheap.... 1500 bucks! Wow holy moly lol just letting anyone else know. I think I'll stick to a cheaper one around maybe 100-200 bucks lol awesome video tho bro lol
I wish you'd have covered the Flex Switches more. Are the access points or switches?
I design and install networks for a living and when your creating a newbie perspective video content probably best not to use big networking words and terms. Especially when the video called for explanations for people who don't know all these big network words and terms. I did not see any info on cost, please add! Most people would never spend that amount of money on a network for your average home networking needs. Then you should of explained that this level of network in the video is normally installed by a networking professional. Good score though, you got a bunch of nice gear for free!
How are the ranges of these newer Unifi AP's? I had an AC-Pro, and in a 50x25' house I was getting at best 400mbps in the same room, maybe 550- 600mbps if I was right next to it and the only device connected under perfect atmospheric and neighborhood wifi conditions, so I was going to add another for better coverage. I ended up replacing it with the TP-Link Omada 670 which has more range and higher bandwidth all over.... 500mbps vs 60mbps (five hundred vs sixty) in the far end of my house that I thought I needed another AC-Pro in, and regularly get 700-950mbps in the same room so most of the time i'm at wirespeed unless I get a 2.5Gb POE switch for the Omada 670.
It woks so much better than the AC-Pro, that I'm just going to give my mom the second 670 that I thought I needed because its not even worth handing down my AC-Pro.
Do NOT use power line Ethernet, your speeds will be ungodly slow, some power line wifi boosters/extenders would be good but have had poor results with ones I’ve bought in the past, invest the extra dollar for orbi hubs or any sort of mesh wifi system
I don't know if I would discourage people from using Powerline adapter. They have good uses especially if you can't drag Ethernet cable for direct connection or AP. I successfully used them multiple times and reach near 300 Mbps which is full bandwith for me. But this highly relies on your electric installation. So I would encourage potential buyers to make sure they can try it out and return adapter if network speed is not sufficient.
What's a mesh wifi system
I have 1G att fiber, what kind of setup/hardware would you recommend for just gaming/media ?
Might have to do something similar now
Hi, I am one of those people who built a house last year....and when asked if I wanted ethernet drops, I said no....I'm a dumb dumb. Don't be me. I really didn't think ethernet drops would do me any good for the extra $$$ they were gonna charge to install it
What wall box do you have at 10:03 ? I’m currently building a new house and want to consolidate all the Ethernet cables into one panel inside the wall like how you have it in the video
Switches don't route though. They just use MAC to port translation so that each port is its own segment
My biggest problem now is we lose Internet a lot randomly. And when that happens I can't access my NAS or Plex. So I don't like that. But I don't know if I have the brain power (or patience) to create some sort of "Internal" network system? (Not sure I'm using the correct terminology for that. Is there a way to solve this?
Hi ! quick questions : are your AP connected to a switch or directly from the router ? and do you need a UniFi gateway to manage the AP or they simply plug & play ? THanks !
I believe you'll need the UniFi Controller software to manage the APs. You can install the software on your PC or dedicate a server for the controller software. I think you can also use your phone with the UniFi app to setup the APs.
Get the aggregation switch. It costs nothing. Eliminates that 10Gb daisy chain.
If my Dad will ever let me, I will replace my Netgear Router with an old pc running OPNSense!
What you would do with open sense ?
If your PC can you can create VMs running different OPNSense instances so you can play with it
this setup looks pro as lol, i needa more newbie setup without costing a fortune ;(
Ok, I was watching very interestingly, and ended at 17:00 (quite a record btw). 800 bucks for a switch?
Thanks for everything else, be well.
Yep. These aren't for typical home networks.
Expected a bit more down to earthness for "A Newbie". I mean maybe it is a nice setup, but only some people like to spend that much, nor need that much.
I mean you straight up went from "The ISPs router alone is not enough" to "i have more 10GbE Ports than i know what to do with".
If anyone has a nice setup, that is relativly cheap, and provides Wifi that is reliable, gets good coverage in a house made of bricks and real walls, and has good roaming, so that phone calls don't drop, hit me up
Cat 5e also works at shorter distances, but since cat6 is almost the same price, why risk it?