This video showed up on my feed and it was like a blast from the past. Just a little over 20 years ago I worked for a small startup company that provided wireless internet in upstate NY. At first, we were using BreezeCom panel antennas, and then we switched to using a parabolic grid antenna. We provided a whopping 3 mbps. In those days, everyone was on dial-up or DSL. The equipment was similar to the technology I field tested when I was serving in the Army Signal Corp in the 80s. As soon as I saw the picture of the distance and the RJ45 connector, I knew right away how the problem could be solved. Awesome video.
Just wanna say I love the kind of variety LTT has started to throw in on the channel in the last couple years. I love the straight up PC tech stuff, but seeing you branch out into crazy stuff like weird networking projects and home renovations is awesome.
Isn't that a cabin, not a permanent residence? - Anyways, people want different things out of their cabins, vacation homes etc. My family has owned 2 different cabins. The one we have now is 40 min drive from home, has running water, regular sewage hookup, grid electricity, and a 100 meter walk from end of road (not lake-/seaside). 4G reception is spotty but there. And to be honest - it gets _a heck_ of a lot more use than the former cabin. Probably spend 15+ weekends a year at the cabin now, compared to 2-4 before (depending on whether it was completely buried under snow in winter, or if access could be dug in a few hours). Maintenance is way better and repairs taken care of quickly, with this ease of access. So yes, it's more like a vacation home in amendities, even though it's smack in the middle of hiking, fishing, hunting woodland country. But we get _so_ much more enjoyment out of it, because it's so much more accessible in every way. Even granny with her walker can enjoy this one. Although there's nostalgia thinking of the old family cabin, reality is that the rough accessibility meant she hadn't been able to physically get there in 15+ years. Here, she rarely even needs a hand now that we've firmed up the 100 meter path through the woods from the road to the cabin.
As someone who has watched the evolution of these long-range wireless solutions, that is just impressive. The fact that they were being bottlenecked because of the 1Gbs switch is hilarious.
@vbddfy euuyt it probably doesn't react well to weather, rain will likely block it, remember a thin bit of paper blocks it, so rain/fog should be just as effective at blocking it. Strong wing is actually liable to knock the dish out of alignment, a little bit of wobble and it goes down, and that wooden building is liable to wobble quite alot in strong wind (greater than 17mph, 15 knots, so not uncommon especially near large bodies of water). Also as this goes over a lake (public land), you could just have an AH neighbour park their sailboat in the way and it would be legal.
@@cgi2002 I had a Bell "technician" install my dish on a rickety old fence at waist height. Just looking at it would knock it out of alignment. God forbit there was a light breeze or a bug landed on it. I just waited for him to finish. Showed him to the door, smiled and waved... then promptly went out and re-installed it properly with some lag bolts to my deck. Bell sent me a survey for the install... with a field with open text for comment. I called to complain, with photos. They actually refunded my install fee.
@@Sidowse the end near the dock seemed to be fairly low down, only about 10-15ft up, which is within the height range of most masts on smaller sailboats. The other end is admittedly well clear, it looked to be nearer 30-50ft up. Tbh tho unless the boat is parked right in the correct spot, it won't affect it really. Theres a greater chance of a bird knocking it out flying through the beam (or more probably landing on the dish) Mostly tho I suspect inclement weather may be more of an issue.
I'd love to see a follow-up, especially for like - how it holds up in weather (Cascadia certainly known for rain...) - how often it needs to be readjusted (I would worry about little bits of entropy causing it to be just off enough to break the connection)
As a cell tower technician I'm happy to see you guys went this route! Every single dish on a tower basically does the same thing. If you want to install a cell signal booster look into buying a yogi to slap on thier chimeney and then a booster somewhere in the house.
I'm curious about how you felt for your fellow brothers and sisters in the industry that had to watch their 5G tower work go up in smoke because of a bunch of internet Luddites that believe everything they read.
Don't wanna kill the joke but I saw the responses on here. I work for an ISP. We can reboot the modem ourselves, no problem, as long as it's connected to a functioning coax.
I get if you are already using Ubiquiti products but if you are just trying to cheaply get a remote building up EnGenius makes a Wireless bridge and the Pair costs about $200. My boss has connected up a ski resort with these for years. Stuck a bunch of antennas on the top of a mountain and could hit one from anywhere on the property. I have used them on a Golf Resort to get up remote or temporary structures. Like I said if you are already using Ubiquiti makes sense to stick with the product line but we have never had issues with these cheaper options.
im still out here getting 5mbps and i cant do much about it. I live in the middle of nowhere but i did order starlink and got a conformation letter for later this year!!!
@@williameldridge9382 well, i usually have 2-3 unmanaged, crappy GbE Switches between devices, cause the cabeling in the house is crap. Some days, I fluctuate betweed 40mbit and 960mbits. Usually, it stays between 800 and 900, so its usable, just annoyinh
@@IrishSpyHD60 I used to ride them all the way up and rock back and forth on them 30' in the air to show people that they don't just arbitrarily fall over. You gotta really want it or be hauling some really heavy stuff up with you.
Well the data transfer speeds they describe are what their wireless connection is theoreticaly cabale of. Whether or not they pay an isp to actually supply the fast of a connection is questionable.
@@confusedduck8695questionable? 1gbps? They’re definitely going to be paying for that lmao, not that much money especially not for them. Did you see the cabin lol
Good luck when it rains, I have these deployed on a network within 5km of each other and the link is super solid till you get a decent amount of rain fall. Then the connection craters to nothing. Would recommend you go 5ghz AFXHD with 23db dishes instead for your link, that will keep a solid connection regardless of weather conditions.
@@jttech44 Yup, or do auto failover. I believe ubnt added failover in a recent (beta)firmware update for the af60. (basically downs the ethernet link if signal is lost so STP or whatever you use can kick in and up a secondary path)
Absolutely this. in a project like this I'd always go for a lower frequency (and lower speeds) to get higher reliability. Sure it's great to say your link can do gigabit bi-directionally, but being able to connect to the internet year-round is a bigger selling point.
@@superknoppix And the edgerouter can support all of the above really. You do lose a little speed because it's effectively having to route packets, that edgerouter has good offloading, so you're talking maybe 10% tops.
Once I spent few days on various scissor lifts and made sure they cannot be accidentally tipped over when maxed out, I actually started genuinely enjoying the swaying. But at the same time I remember that my first time I was so sure that if I even barely lean against solid wall (i.e. when drilling into a concrete wall and leaning against the drill), it will tip immediately. 😂
I did this about 7 years ago at my grandmom's cabin with a point-to-point wireless bridge using ubiquiti's nanostation m2. The thing has a max range of 5 miles and each unit only cost 50 bucks at the time. Their stuff is really awesome.
Or wait for dusk and use a laser (works even even in broad daylight with a powerful model from Wicked Laser or equivalent. Another tip: instead of affixing the dish on an outside wall or pillar, try to find a place under an awning or on a covered balcony: easier, much more comfortable for setting and orienting and more importantly, protected from wind and rain, as far as you keep the line(us) of sight...
Never did I think I would watch Linus do my literal job for a video. I use cambium equipment, but it's the exact same way to install. Kinda cool to see all this used and shown to a lot of people on this channel.
Lmaooo big facts ain't no scissor lift stable especially when you're 30+ feet in the air not 10 lmao. The gas powered one was pretty cool though don't see too many of those these days mostly just electric
@@MoistFalafel yeah i hate when i rent a lift for 30ft and they bring me this tiny electric trash one… but u get a big gas one, with proper wheels and stands, it’s is sturdy af. I’ve been working in -25C (-13F) without issues last winter
@@MoistFalafel yeah i hate when i rent a lift for 30ft and they bring me a tiny electric trash one… but u get a big gas one, with proper wheels and stands, it’s is sturdy af. I’ve been working in -25C (-13F) without issues last winter…. But my co-workers are the crazy ones, they at times work on a 100ft scissor lift which was partly mounted to the building lol
That isn't even the problem. They are both standing at the water line trying to spot each other over 5 km of open water. The Earth's curvature is 1.96 meters over that distance, so he was trying to spot Linus through water.
The problem is that a bit of rain will block with signal and you're in the PNW. And rain is exactly the time you want to be inside browsing the internet.
Awesome. I install these systems every day here in Spain, 3,5,22 and 60Ghz. you went for the most fiddly and sensitive system possible, and the most expensive. Your results are amazing. We are happy with 300mbits each way but have distances of 15-25km. You got VERY lucky.
If there's problems the business likely paid for it and he gets to go out there again and make more money off the fixes...Remember he's a business in creation...not your limited pocketbook
I think this kinds of system very much depending on the mercy of weather. Here in where I live there are typhoon in summer, monsoon in the fall and gusty wind in winter. Only in spring the system is not hammered by the wind. I shall go for the satellite internet.
@@catchnkill The wireless links are a bit better than the satellite dishes. In such scenario you can actually have the wireless dish on a place, where rain would not pour on it. Satellite dishes thou are usually on the roof and you don't need a typhoon for it to lose signal. Also regular satellite internet has HUGE response time, it's 750ms each direction, making it 1.5s for the signal to go up and down. This combined with a site's delay makes it a gigantic pain in the a$$... It's not unusual to wait 4-5 seconds per page. Many customers with holiday homes switched immediately to a wireless bridge when there was an option, because it was impossible to work (stock market as example). 1ms vs 1500ms+.... Also the satellite links that I had available were 23 mbps, where with the wireless bridge you can send a gigabit of it's available on the other end. Starlink satellite internet should have only 30ms delay because of the lower orbit, but it's still under 50 mbit. Basically if there's an option to send a vdsl or cable through a wireless bridge it will always be a better option than a satellite internet.
@@benbaselet2026 oh for sure. But instead of saying first born child, he said son, which make me wonder if he had an older sister (that probably picked on him growing up 🤣)
I relate to this video more than i would like. Im the IT guy in my family because i got a degree in computer programming. so when my parents wanted internet in an area with nothing for miles, I had to get a little creative. Well it does work but the local ISP is not happy with me at all.
When does LTT become Linus Renovation Tips?? I'm no complaining, I like this kind of videos. Also I preferred this over the videos of GPUs that I can't afford. Nice Video.
I used to work for a wireless ISP, the most impressive shot that I made was a house in the woods surrounded by huge trees over 10 miles from the tower with hills and a dense forest in between. I could not see the tower, I expected it to be a no-go, but I set up the test dish by eying it from a gps map and got a rock solid 100mbps connection, basically as good as it was possible to get with our equipment. Although wireless tech can be really impressive sometimes, there are also plenty of times when it would take me hours to dial in a connection. Sometimes just moving 3 feet down the roof to a basically identical position would make all of the difference. One time I tried to do an install at a house about a mile from the tower with clear line of site, I could see most of the tower, but no connection, it would barely even detect the tower at all. I never understood what was wrong there, usually if you can see the tower it is a guaranteed connection. Wireless can just be crazy sometimes.
Linus' parents got so tired of all the technology he constantly bables about they decided to go off the grid, but even there HE CAN ALWAYS REACH THEM. THERE IS NO RUNNING!!! THERE IS NO HIDING!!!
Linus should add a mirror to his "satellite internet installation kit", so he can shine it to people on the other side to get his location more accurately.
its ironic as hell something so fundamentaly low tech, couldve solved half their problem. "where's linus" *shine a mirror* where should i point this. see above for solution.
I agree. This is the type of thing that I could see running well till Winter or bad weather hits, and that's specifically when you want internet service. I mean just look at how lightweight it is. That's a positive in terms of aiming and mounting, but negative in regards to how well it will stand up to rain, snow, and wind. I bet that's the real reason for the holes in the dish. Wind resistance.
I set 2 of these P2P bridges up at my boss's country club across a golf course to 2 different buildings a couple years ago. So far they've been pretty stable. Only time we lost connection was during heavy snow, but the country club was closed then anyway. They really are painless to install!
"When your parents want internet in their cabin but don't want to pay for it so Linux uses it for an episode so he can write it off as expenses on his taxes" - What's wrong with this episode name? :)
So the one question I had throughout this video: how did you get permission to install a dish on the mainland? Did your parents have to buy/rent a separate piece of land/building there?
Might be more reliable as weather would have to be pretty bad to block it, whereas StarLink might be more susceptible to bad weather. Also this should give a higher bandwidth with lower latency.
Parents: "We got a lake cabin off the grid, but we don't have internet and the nearest provider point is across an entire lake" Linus: "Hey Ferb, I know what we're gonna do today!"
@@taliesinriver I'm sure Linus thought about this, he's conscious about privacy (see issues when his last home location was known, weirdo fans etc). Gambier is remote enough you aren't going to have weirdo fans going there haha.
I installed a Ubiquiti AirMax PowerBeam, after seeing it on Holy $h!t, between my office and my house (to save $60/mo) and it is amazing. Well, that’s until the sending dish doesn’t get knocked over in a storm on my flat roofed office. Easily fixable, though. Would recommend.
I mean it wouldn't be difficult to craft a support system to lock it in place so it can't move or will move millimeters so you can adjust it back extra fast
Ubiquity has a 915 MHz line that can penetrate the weather that he can use as a backup. But it's almost an order of magnitude slower because of the lower frequency.
With 6 km of distance, is possible that the curvature of the earth itself was hiding Linus from Jake. Someone in youtube made an experiment about that in lake minnewanka.
That's one thing. But the problem might be earths curvature. 5-6km is a hight drop of 1.96-2.83meter. Linus is definitly not that tall. He's maybe 1.70m. So if it was possible to see him, it was maybe only his hand raised in the air.
@@ARVash Yes but Jake wasn't at the water level either, but at least a few meters above it. You can basically split that 2-3 meters to both sides, so if Jake is just 2 meters up, then only a max of 1 meter of Linus is obstructed. So ~ 40 cm of him would be still visible.
@@EvanOfTheDarkness do you know how tall a meter is? He wasn't trying to look at Linus from the lift. He was sitting on a log which is on the ground. A meter is ~3.28 feet he was about a meter and change off the ground.
There's an audible alignment tool in the dashboard, that you can use to align the antennas, without having to look at the screen... Just a tip, if you ever find yourself in this position.
I've used a similar method when I installed satellite TV at my place many years ago. As long as you can hear the tv through the open window while aligning the dish, you can tell how you're doing. Later on I installed satellite professionally, and having an actual meter at the dish was so much nicer! (that and a smartphone app that allowed you to "see" the satellites in the sky)
@@stephenphelan626 A flashlight would do fuck all during the daylight. If you had to you could aim it at night and use that method, but seems they sorted it out.
@@the_gask6070 That will help, but I wager you'll find that actually finding that pin on the map with your eyes is harder than you are imagining. See the maps we look at on GPS apps are not to scale. If they were it would take you forever to scroll around the thing. It's a compromise worth having for ease of use and being able to quickly move around the map. You could try and use a landmark nearby to orient yourself but it didn't seem like Linus' side of the water had too many landmarks.
don't know about water or sewage but power is pretty simple. Solar and wind should easily be able to handle powering a single house assuming it's usually sunny and at least semi windy
Radio waves can have some strange behavior over long stretches of water. I would also recommend a 5GHz failover do to the 60GHz will drop the connection in rain.
All sounds pretty overkill to me for an offgrid cabin. We used to deploy 24ghz airfibers in NM for gigabit links. Even during monsoon season at 5-7 miles we never had full drops. Signal would lower sometimes but they were always fine in terms of transfer speeds. I'm super confused why they went with a 60ghz link for an offgrid cabin, especially in an area with lots of weather, I'm guessing it was free from Ubuiqti. I guess radio frequency laws might be different in Canada as well.
for wires outside, I truly hope you guys included some of the Ubiqiti's surge protectors(x2)? They're required to protect your inhouse gear from lightning. *fuses = surge protectors
@@Powah563 if you foot the bill for the rest of the network gear… sure 👍🏼 those fuses cost basically next to nothing, just a little extra work and terminating cables
You mean the Ubiquiti Ethernet surge protectors. Honestly they are no more use than just having shielded Ethernet with a proper ground. That said your equipment will still fry, best protection if you think your equipment is in a vulnerable location is an lightning rod installation. You will find in most places there are far better targets for lightning than the dish.
@@backupplan6058 surge protectors, thank you… forgot the word. However in some cases they’re still relevant for insurrection or even prevention of further damage. It’s good practice. And not that big of an investment.
@@ari-mcbrown seen them used on an deployment by another company and the whole network got fried despite having two installed at both ends of the line. Granted we got paid to replace it but they are nothing but something to help ease the mind of the clients while actually doing nothing. You want to protect your thousands spent on network equipment with something inexpensive or something that actually works.
At my work, when we are trying to line up microwave dishes, we use a mirror (if the sun is out) to be able to find each other. You would be surprised at how good it works.
Also at the heights they're standing and the distance between them it's quite likely that the water is in their way. The horizon is around 5km away when looking from about 1,7m (rather average height). At these distances you want to be a couple of meters up, not standing at the shore when spotting.
Gambier Island? I would never have guessed to hear of that island in a video like this! My aunt used to have a house there until her husband died, then she moved back to Switzerland.
Imagine someone didnt know the existence of the dish and that person innocently drop their boat's (with sails) anchor right at the focused wave... while Linus enjoying 4K netflix movie
I have used this tech since ‘94. Wind is your enemy. Just bumping the dish you were losing signal. Because it is a permanent solution you should build a box around it leaving just the horn dish side open. The wind breaks will keep the signal from being disrupted.
I'd be interested in seeing how you got the marina to agree to let you install the dish, and get the isp to give you internet. You probably should consider a LTE backup on the island, just in case something happens to the dish.
@@hansdietrich83 *IF* a business agreed to this in America, they'd want you to use a licensed, bonded, and insured company to make sure that they aren't left with a damaged building, they'd want some sort of contract in place covering exactly what you can & can't do, and probably compensation for the use of their property. Maybe this is just the cultural and legal differences between the countries. Or maybe Linus went through similar steps and just didn't show them, and can shed some light on the process.
@@dyzosim says that he comes in contact with "personal massager"s if that is the first thing that comes into his mind. I don't have one so the first thing that came into my mind is shower head.
17:14 Pro Radio Tip: Talking into your radio sidways actually lowers its broadcast distance, it makes the waves shoot horizontally instead of vertically
Your tapcons stripped out because you didn't hold the drill straight when you were drilling into the wall. It is very common. Also do not over tighten tapcons. A gentle tap with an impact driver is plenty.
Who uses "WAP" for AP's? Professionally never used the term WAP for a AP or just calling it simply an Access Point, WAP is Wireless Application Protocol, basically what you used to surf the web on the GSM network on older phones.
luckily his parents aren't avid gamers. it will only be a very short drop if a boat or bird passes by or something so it should be fine for your 'average Joe'. especially combined with the high speed to quickly catch up on buffering streaming media again.
It would have to be one hell of a big boat to cross the line between those dishes. Over 6 km at an up angle and it starts at at least 3 meters above the water line, ending at a good 10 meters at least. If a cruise ship or tanker goes by sure, but all the little fishing vessels I see in that marina aren't ever going to block it. A mast here or there might break the plane for like a split second and they won't even notice.
It has to be very heavy fog and/or rain for it to be affected I think. Longer wavelengths aren't affected in the same way as visible light, so even though you can't see the other side with your eyes the radio waves still sees "fine" but water and radio waves never mix well so I don't know. It'll be interesting to get a follow-up
I'm more curious about any amounts of wind and vibration from the rain considering they kept mentioning how tight the adjustments have to be at that distance...
We use multiple of them at my work, the fog has never been an issue even when it gets super bad. We have had multiple get struck by lightening though! The method they used to mount them isn't the best. Within an hour of messing with them, we can normally get the connection to be 95% or higher.
@@patricklines8872 my uncle has like 15 of those to give internet to a small town from a city, like 60km, over 10gb internet, wind does nothing, but rain, that kills the internet so bad xD.
@@gaboxd1221 that's because water is reflective. Even tree leaves could affect it not because they block the signal but because they get reflected from the water inside the leaves haha.
for the first minute linus holding the airfiber box with one hand AND his past history of dropping stuff AND also being on a moving boat gave me anxiety it was just going to go flying out of his hand
For people who don’t know. These are a 60ghz link not 2.4 or 5 ghz. It’s a laser based system that is usually rated for around 2-5 mile clear shots. They can catch interference from rain. No the wind doesn’t mess with it if it is installed correctly. I’ve installed atleast 40-50 of these for the wireless internet company my family owns. It’s great for backhaul shots between smaller towers or for a customer that is further than it’s worth running cable or for someone who may not be down the fiber lines. Other than the rain the lake can possibly mess with it in this case as well if it gets rough enough. But that’s for anyone who was more interested in what these things are about.
I was semi expecting Linus to just roll an entire spool and a half of cables across, but this feels more like a Linus Tech Tips video
the thumbnail also made me expect seeing that
I was half expecting him to drop the box with the airfiber in it into the water while he was on the boat
@@Yuna-zn6sq oh my god what is this they dont even have a dns
its more a linus move to just a run a cable to see if it worked
that will happen when even a light fog blocks the signal.
I legit was expecting linus to run a 6km ethernet cable underwater.
I thought the same thing.
I wished 😪 😕
If only…. If only.
yeah, but it will be ilegal in most countries without a pile of paperwork with the goverment
Go away it will just be temporarily..
Always great seeing houses in the middle of the forest have faster internet connection than me in the middle of a major city.
Yeah... I live in a Major german City, and yes. i feel that.
We don't know how fast the internet will be.
So maybe it will be slower than yours.
To be fair, that’s just LAN speed. Who knows what kind of ISP they can get there.
@@computerhac It's Canada... And Linus where speaking of. So faster than urban german area is almost quaranteed.
Oder so.
@@harelforge7775 USA here, live in a major suburb near a big city and I'm paying $100 for 60mb/s
This video showed up on my feed and it was like a blast from the past. Just a little over 20 years ago I worked for a small startup company that provided wireless internet in upstate NY. At first, we were using BreezeCom panel antennas, and then we switched to using a parabolic grid antenna. We provided a whopping 3 mbps. In those days, everyone was on dial-up or DSL. The equipment was similar to the technology I field tested when I was serving in the Army Signal Corp in the 80s. As soon as I saw the picture of the distance and the RJ45 connector, I knew right away how the problem could be solved. Awesome video.
Just wanna say I love the kind of variety LTT has started to throw in on the channel in the last couple years. I love the straight up PC tech stuff, but seeing you branch out into crazy stuff like weird networking projects and home renovations is awesome.
I completely agree. These types of videos are my absolute favorites. This and the weird custom stuff he does with Alex.
Yea new gadgets and stuffs that we never heard of probably
That episode they tried to heat sink an entire room.
Recent years? One of the OG Linus Home Videos was the water cooled room. There was probably 100 videos out of that damn water cooling loop.
totally agree
Linus’ parents: so we are gonna move off the grid so we can be secluded and serene.
Linus: cool story boomers, let’s hook up the WiFi
lol
Yeah what he said lol
Lollllll I do have to say they probably let him but on the off chance that that actually happens is rlly funny
😂
Isn't that a cabin, not a permanent residence? - Anyways, people want different things out of their cabins, vacation homes etc. My family has owned 2 different cabins. The one we have now is 40 min drive from home, has running water, regular sewage hookup, grid electricity, and a 100 meter walk from end of road (not lake-/seaside). 4G reception is spotty but there. And to be honest - it gets _a heck_ of a lot more use than the former cabin. Probably spend 15+ weekends a year at the cabin now, compared to 2-4 before (depending on whether it was completely buried under snow in winter, or if access could be dug in a few hours). Maintenance is way better and repairs taken care of quickly, with this ease of access.
So yes, it's more like a vacation home in amendities, even though it's smack in the middle of hiking, fishing, hunting woodland country. But we get _so_ much more enjoyment out of it, because it's so much more accessible in every way. Even granny with her walker can enjoy this one. Although there's nostalgia thinking of the old family cabin, reality is that the rough accessibility meant she hadn't been able to physically get there in 15+ years. Here, she rarely even needs a hand now that we've firmed up the 100 meter path through the woods from the road to the cabin.
His parents in 2060: we flew 80million kms to mars to run away from him
Linus' video in 2060: WE MADE INTERNET CONNECTION TO MARS TO MY PARENTS HOUSE
Linus: We just launched the ubiquity planet orbiter 2000 to relay the signal
Ubiquity 2060: promises 10 ms ping to Mars.
@@mwmbiermans subspace connection!
No one knows but Linus becomes the real Iron Man
@@mwmbiermans Einstein: "Wait, that's illegal!"
Gotta love upgrading your parents' tech!
Shut
@@gupadre8255bro he has like 500000x ur subscribers
not when they could have done it cheaper and faster, but their son wants to make some money from it so he can also buy a mansion
cheaper and faster, but also worse speeds
@@zeroxception
and less upkeep@@zafrylaiman8695
As someone who has watched the evolution of these long-range wireless solutions, that is just impressive. The fact that they were being bottlenecked because of the 1Gbs switch is hilarious.
@vbddfy euuyt it probably doesn't react well to weather, rain will likely block it, remember a thin bit of paper blocks it, so rain/fog should be just as effective at blocking it. Strong wing is actually liable to knock the dish out of alignment, a little bit of wobble and it goes down, and that wooden building is liable to wobble quite alot in strong wind (greater than 17mph, 15 knots, so not uncommon especially near large bodies of water).
Also as this goes over a lake (public land), you could just have an AH neighbour park their sailboat in the way and it would be legal.
@@cgi2002 I had a Bell "technician" install my dish on a rickety old fence at waist height. Just looking at it would knock it out of alignment. God forbit there was a light breeze or a bug landed on it. I just waited for him to finish. Showed him to the door, smiled and waved... then promptly went out and re-installed it properly with some lag bolts to my deck.
Bell sent me a survey for the install... with a field with open text for comment. I called to complain, with photos. They actually refunded my install fee.
@vbddfy euuyt one version has 5 GHz failover, which is pretty nice.
@@Sidowse the end near the dock seemed to be fairly low down, only about 10-15ft up, which is within the height range of most masts on smaller sailboats. The other end is admittedly well clear, it looked to be nearer 30-50ft up. Tbh tho unless the boat is parked right in the correct spot, it won't affect it really. Theres a greater chance of a bird knocking it out flying through the beam (or more probably landing on the dish)
Mostly tho I suspect inclement weather may be more of an issue.
I've helped setup a 60Ghz PTP and used lasers to align them. Amazing performance... I really like Ubiquiti products.
Linus' Parents: **makes a house thats off the grid**
Linus: "...and I took that personally."
lmaooo
Literally
😂
goated comment of the day.
@@Yuna-zn6sq I'm a stupid bot and dont click on the link my creator has no intelligence and was born as an accident
I love how that guy knows his boss so well that he set up the segue to the sponsor so quick
Love Jake
jake yeah
@@Yuna-zn6sq be gone bot
I guess at this point we all know that Linus' last words on his deathbed would be a Squarespace ad.
honestly the best segue i've seen in awhile, and he's had some great ones
I'd love to see a follow-up, especially for like
- how it holds up in weather (Cascadia certainly known for rain...)
- how often it needs to be readjusted (I would worry about little bits of entropy causing it to be just off enough to break the connection)
As a cell tower technician I'm happy to see you guys went this route! Every single dish on a tower basically does the same thing. If you want to install a cell signal booster look into buying a yogi to slap on thier chimeney and then a booster somewhere in the house.
I want this to be top comment
Is wholesome
I think you made a BOO BOO regarding YOGI... it is actually a Yagi.
I'm curious about how you felt for your fellow brothers and sisters in the industry that had to watch their 5G tower work go up in smoke because of a bunch of internet Luddites that believe everything they read.
They definitely could of gone with 4g or 5g cisco boosters as well. But it's not as fun and it's far more expensive internet and less responsive.
Isn't it going to be a big problem if either building flexes slightly over time? Especially with a wooden deck in wet climate.
ISP: "Can you restart the modem please"
Linus' Parents: "Sure thing, just give us 20 minutes to boat over to it"
Its posible reboot some through the IP menus ( wasnt sure what too call it)
There has to be a way todo that remotely. With a smart Powerbar or something like that.
@@anouk8231 the gateway interface thing?
Don't wanna kill the joke but I saw the responses on here. I work for an ISP. We can reboot the modem ourselves, no problem, as long as it's connected to a functioning coax.
@@m33r61 yep
I will never NOT love these types of videos where Linus takes adventures outside the office. Keep up the great work, Linus!
"never *but* love" is easier to understand without the double negation
@@LazieKat That's what she said.
I call them “Linus on the loose” videos and they’re the best!
I get if you are already using Ubiquiti products but if you are just trying to cheaply get a remote building up EnGenius makes a Wireless bridge and the Pair costs about $200. My boss has connected up a ski resort with these for years. Stuck a bunch of antennas on the top of a mountain and could hit one from anywhere on the property. I have used them on a Golf Resort to get up remote or temporary structures. Like I said if you are already using Ubiquiti makes sense to stick with the product line but we have never had issues with these cheaper options.
Linus’s parents: wants to be off the grid
Linus: lol nah
Where is StarLInk when you need it to go really off grid?
Linus like: You can't have a son who's job it is to literally build computers, internet solutions, electricals, and just be off the grid
@@BBBrasil This is better than starlink could ever be
@@Max24871 Apart from relying on a traditional ISP... Though we'll have to see how Starlink plays that game. Connection wise, yes.
@@BBBrasil starlink uses much more power than this (about 100w) which can be a problem off grid.
Jake: "it's fluctuating a little"
I would be happy, if my LAN was that stable...
That’s what she said
Wh....what kind of equipment are you using??? Like a $40 switch would have steadier speeds. I hope you're being facetious...
im still out here getting 5mbps and i cant do much about it. I live in the middle of nowhere but i did order starlink and got a conformation letter for later this year!!!
@@williameldridge9382 well, i usually have 2-3 unmanaged, crappy GbE Switches between devices, cause the cabeling in the house is crap. Some days, I fluctuate betweed 40mbit and 960mbits. Usually, it stays between 800 and 900, so its usable, just annoyinh
@ChefJeffy internal speeds matter more to me, as I have ally Data on a NAS
"Bent, shakes, wiggles." You literally described EVERY scissor lift more than 5 minutes old.
Hahaha yeah those fuckin things are finicky. Know of too many people critically injured by them falling over.
@@IrishSpyHD60 I used to ride them all the way up and rock back and forth on them 30' in the air to show people that they don't just arbitrarily fall over. You gotta really want it or be hauling some really heavy stuff up with you.
Hey as long as i fall on company property on company time that’s fine by me!
@@historyZZ yeah all is good up until you get paralyzed from the neck down then it wont be pretty good.
@@jamescawl6904 I’ve been around I know when to jump
Casually getting better speeds then I do at my house
Square up or Pay up!
Well the data transfer speeds they describe are what their wireless connection is theoreticaly cabale of. Whether or not they pay an isp to actually supply the fast of a connection is questionable.
@@confusedduck8695questionable? 1gbps? They’re definitely going to be paying for that lmao, not that much money especially not for them. Did you see the cabin lol
Boat: *goes by on lake*
Linus' Parents: "Dammit linus! Our Internet is down"
I would argue that fresnel would help in this case, but at these frequencies, the connection probably will go down for sure...
What about storms
@@francismendes Yeah Im surprised he didn't go for 5Ghz 5XHD or something for weather fade and obstacles etc
Actually, it's not a lake. That's the Pacific Ocean!
@@andrewclarke598 wait you know where his parents live? 😳
Really liking the cinematics Linus!
same!
here before people give you hate for having a check mark
Why are you thanking Linus? Thank the camera men...
@Emma Burrows 12k isnt doing anything. Resolution really doesn’t matter, especially if you’re not watching it at that resolution.
Yes
Good luck when it rains, I have these deployed on a network within 5km of each other and the link is super solid till you get a decent amount of rain fall. Then the connection craters to nothing. Would recommend you go 5ghz AFXHD with 23db dishes instead for your link, that will keep a solid connection regardless of weather conditions.
I was going to write nearly this exact comment.
I mean, I'd bet ubiquiti gave them the gear for free, so, might as well do both and load balance between them.
@@jttech44 Yup, or do auto failover. I believe ubnt added failover in a recent (beta)firmware update for the af60. (basically downs the ethernet link if signal is lost so STP or whatever you use can kick in and up a secondary path)
Absolutely this. in a project like this I'd always go for a lower frequency (and lower speeds) to get higher reliability. Sure it's great to say your link can do gigabit bi-directionally, but being able to connect to the internet year-round is a bigger selling point.
@@superknoppix And the edgerouter can support all of the above really. You do lose a little speed because it's effectively having to route packets, that edgerouter has good offloading, so you're talking maybe 10% tops.
Once I spent few days on various scissor lifts and made sure they cannot be accidentally tipped over when maxed out, I actually started genuinely enjoying the swaying. But at the same time I remember that my first time I was so sure that if I even barely lean against solid wall (i.e. when drilling into a concrete wall and leaning against the drill), it will tip immediately. 😂
this was one of the most entertaining episodes ive seen in awhile. The Jake and Linus chemistry is on point, good banter.
@@walterhartwellwhite2162 Nobody asked for your worthless input.
The moments where he just gives him the finger across a freaking lake. I was dying XD
Parents: lets have a cabin in the woods to have vacations at that are free from internet
Linus: hold my beer
Parents: lets have a cabin in the woods to have vacations at that are free from internet..
Linus: Hold my sandals and socks.
15:16 Linus just showed us how far that drop is, his laptop placement gives me anxiety.
I was thinking the same thing
Yep, was thinking that too.
Would be kind of linus if he bumped it and it fell tho .. Nobody would be that surprised
it would probably survive the fall since it doesnt land ond concrete
@@TCLG6x6 dirt isnt exactly soft
I did this about 7 years ago at my grandmom's cabin with a point-to-point wireless bridge using ubiquiti's nanostation m2. The thing has a max range of 5 miles and each unit only cost 50 bucks at the time. Their stuff is really awesome.
Pro tip...when you're trying to find a spot over a long distance like that, use a mirror. You'd be amazed how far away you can see that flash.
Also over 6 km he probably couldn't see Linus because he was behind the curve of the earth
@@HopefullyAnAircraft I'm waiting for Flat-earthers to jump on this video like vultures on a horse carcass.
Or wait for dusk and use a laser (works even even in broad daylight with a powerful model from Wicked Laser or equivalent. Another tip: instead of affixing the dish on an outside wall or pillar, try to find a place under an awning or on a covered balcony: easier, much more comfortable for setting and orienting and more importantly, protected from wind and rain, as far as you keep the line(us) of sight...
modern techies don't know the art of old technology LOL still, Linus gets my respects
on sea level for a 1.7m person the curve is about 5.5km, so probably no
Never did I think I would watch Linus do my literal job for a video. I use cambium equipment, but it's the exact same way to install. Kinda cool to see all this used and shown to a lot of people on this channel.
I love these type of videos
If this is your job I’m quite jealous ngl seems fun and I could watch this everyday maybe start a channel lol
Yeah that was pretty fun to watch, I work mostly with Ubiquiti but I've used Cambium too, great stuff.
There's such a difference when you can tell everyone is legit excited about what they're doing
10:17 linus on autotune
Jake: "the sketchiest scissor life ever..."
Proceeds to detail the condition of every scissor lift I've used on a job site.
Lmaooo big facts ain't no scissor lift stable especially when you're 30+ feet in the air not 10 lmao. The gas powered one was pretty cool though don't see too many of those these days mostly just electric
@@MoistFalafel we have half diesel and have electric ones most of the time its running on the electric but every so often the engine kicks in.
I’m all about that scissor life
@@MoistFalafel yeah i hate when i rent a lift for 30ft and they bring me this tiny electric trash one… but u get a big gas one, with proper wheels and stands, it’s is sturdy af. I’ve been working in -25C (-13F) without issues last winter
@@MoistFalafel yeah i hate when i rent a lift for 30ft and they bring me a tiny electric trash one… but u get a big gas one, with proper wheels and stands, it’s is sturdy af. I’ve been working in -25C (-13F) without issues last winter…. But my co-workers are the crazy ones, they at times work on a 100ft scissor lift which was partly mounted to the building lol
Im so proud of the 4th chapter being called "Linus of Sight" whoever took the chance to make that joke, pats for you
“We need to identify each other over long distances.”
“ I know, let’s wear black!”
That isn't even the problem. They are both standing at the water line trying to spot each other over 5 km of open water. The Earth's curvature is 1.96 meters over that distance, so he was trying to spot Linus through water.
@@Phage0070 following this reply to see if any flat earther idiots have something to say lol.
@@Morphl1 I never actually see flat earthers, just people talking about flat earthers that they are somehow common.
@@fordgtguy they are way more common than you think (particularly online)
@@nero3901 More likely trolls playing others.
The problem is that a bit of rain will block with signal and you're in the PNW. And rain is exactly the time you want to be inside browsing the internet.
Awesome. I install these systems every day here in Spain, 3,5,22 and 60Ghz. you went for the most fiddly and sensitive system possible, and the most expensive. Your results are amazing. We are happy with 300mbits each way but have distances of 15-25km. You got VERY lucky.
There is always interference.
In a different enviroment, you sure got a better connection.
If there's problems the business likely paid for it and he gets to go out there again and make more money off the fixes...Remember he's a business in creation...not your limited pocketbook
I think this kinds of system very much depending on the mercy of weather. Here in where I live there are typhoon in summer, monsoon in the fall and gusty wind in winter. Only in spring the system is not hammered by the wind. I shall go for the satellite internet.
@@catchnkill Satellite is also very dependent on weather, ask anyone who has used it.
@@catchnkill The wireless links are a bit better than the satellite dishes. In such scenario you can actually have the wireless dish on a place, where rain would not pour on it. Satellite dishes thou are usually on the roof and you don't need a typhoon for it to lose signal. Also regular satellite internet has HUGE response time, it's 750ms each direction, making it 1.5s for the signal to go up and down. This combined with a site's delay makes it a gigantic pain in the a$$... It's not unusual to wait 4-5 seconds per page. Many customers with holiday homes switched immediately to a wireless bridge when there was an option, because it was impossible to work (stock market as example). 1ms vs 1500ms+.... Also the satellite links that I had available were 23 mbps, where with the wireless bridge you can send a gigabit of it's available on the other end. Starlink satellite internet should have only 30ms delay because of the lower orbit, but it's still under 50 mbit. Basically if there's an option to send a vdsl or cable through a wireless bridge it will always be a better option than a satellite internet.
Linus' parents: "Thank god our cabin is off the grid. Means we can get away from everyone"
Linus: *happens*
Linus' parents:
*Starts digging bunker holes and ordering concrete and lead foil.*
"Now THIS is where no one will bother us."
@@rockytom5889 Linus, 20 years later "Hey they invented quantum tunneling"!
"....first born son." It has never occurred to me Linus might have siblings until this line.
He'd still be the first born even if he didn't
@@benbaselet2026 oh for sure. But instead of saying first born child, he said son, which make me wonder if he had an older sister (that probably picked on him growing up 🤣)
@@ctskifreaks He's mentioned before that he has a sister
@@inalone I believe you - I must have missed that somewhere.
plot twist. It's maddison.
I relate to this video more than i would like. Im the IT guy in my family because i got a degree in computer programming. so when my parents wanted internet in an area with nothing for miles, I had to get a little creative. Well it does work but the local ISP is not happy with me at all.
When does LTT become Linus Renovation Tips?? I'm no complaining, I like this kind of videos. Also I preferred this over the videos of GPUs that I can't afford. Nice Video.
So many bots below this comment lol
Cause you can't afford a gpu but you can afford a rather large custom built off grid cabin located right on the water?
I used to work for a wireless ISP, the most impressive shot that I made was a house in the woods surrounded by huge trees over 10 miles from the tower with hills and a dense forest in between. I could not see the tower, I expected it to be a no-go, but I set up the test dish by eying it from a gps map and got a rock solid 100mbps connection, basically as good as it was possible to get with our equipment.
Although wireless tech can be really impressive sometimes, there are also plenty of times when it would take me hours to dial in a connection. Sometimes just moving 3 feet down the roof to a basically identical position would make all of the difference. One time I tried to do an install at a house about a mile from the tower with clear line of site, I could see most of the tower, but no connection, it would barely even detect the tower at all. I never understood what was wrong there, usually if you can see the tower it is a guaranteed connection. Wireless can just be crazy sometimes.
Linus' parents got so tired of all the technology he constantly bables about they decided to go off the grid, but even there HE CAN ALWAYS REACH THEM. THERE IS NO RUNNING!!! THERE IS NO HIDING!!!
Yeah but they can unplug it....
@@ausguy4385 He's got satellites circling around.
They could move into dense rainforest, and end up with a Starlink dish.
@@ConalRF but if they use starlink linus cant make this 18 minute video lol
In this video, Linus drops not a ram stick, not a video card, not even a fully built system. He drops an entire island's internet connection.
Linus should add a mirror to his "satellite internet installation kit", so he can shine it to people on the other side to get his location more accurately.
That or one of those powerful laser pointers you can see
@@ATOMIC_V155 I mean obviously wear ppe but I guess not every bystander that may be in the area would have that possibility.
I'm getting flashbacks to that time in the park and when linus was on a tall apartment building.
its ironic as hell something so fundamentaly low tech, couldve solved half their problem. "where's linus" *shine a mirror* where should i point this. see above for solution.
Yeah that's what I was thinking.
New title: "Setting up Wifi accross a lake WITH THE BOYS" bc that's what this video is lol. Sick vibes
No replies lol
Would it be possible to get a revisit to this in the future for examining the stability during Fog/Rain/Snow?
I agree. This is the type of thing that I could see running well till Winter or bad weather hits, and that's specifically when you want internet service. I mean just look at how lightweight it is. That's a positive in terms of aiming and mounting, but negative in regards to how well it will stand up to rain, snow, and wind. I bet that's the real reason for the holes in the dish. Wind resistance.
@@ViciousTuna2012 with the dbm it has... it will NOT drop lol. 60- is super powerful . I install something like this and it works at -105
@@qwertqwertman me too man but we have a 5ghz, I wonder how this will work in a storm on 60ghz
I set 2 of these P2P bridges up at my boss's country club across a golf course to 2 different buildings a couple years ago. So far they've been pretty stable. Only time we lost connection was during heavy snow, but the country club was closed then anyway. They really are painless to install!
What internet provider though??
"When your parents want internet in their cabin but don't want to pay for it so Linux uses it for an episode so he can write it off as expenses on his taxes" - What's wrong with this episode name? :)
So the one question I had throughout this video: how did you get permission to install a dish on the mainland? Did your parents have to buy/rent a separate piece of land/building there?
This is what I was wondering the entire time. Also what happens when a bird starts making a nest in the mainland dish haha
I'm guessing his parents rent slip space at the marina and they made a deal with the owner
@@LiveFreeOrDieDH Either that or they just straight up own the marina
@@sgbench I can believe it
@@mCanoodles411 Considering how much the signal was fluctuating, a bird sitting on top of the dish would be bad enough!
Seems like a good candidate for starlink, but it wouldn't be anywhere near as fun as this video is!
Came here to write the same thing
probably have to wait till they get the laser links set up first.
But gigabit
Might be more reliable as weather would have to be pretty bad to block it, whereas StarLink might be more susceptible to bad weather.
Also this should give a higher bandwidth with lower latency.
3:00 if they had a samsung s20 ultra he could zoom 100x
Parents: "Let's go off-grid"
Linus: "YOU'LL ALWAYS BE ATTACHED TO ME"
Let's face it, no one can really have a good vacation cabin that lacks internet.
Parents: "We got a lake cabin off the grid, but we don't have internet and the nearest provider point is across an entire lake"
Linus: "Hey Ferb, I know what we're gonna do today!"
this "off the grid" house gets better internet than the entirety of australia, i am in pain
I don't often comment on videos, but have to say everytime Linus and Jake are in a video together you know it's going to be good.
One of the smoothest segues to a sponsor I've ever seen at the end of a video.
His parents are so off the grid that everyone on youtube knows where they live now.
Haha true 😂
where is it, Gambier Island I assume?
@@hobmarg yes, and now that we know what their house looks like it would be pretty easy to find exactly where 😆
@@taliesinriver I'm sure Linus thought about this, he's conscious about privacy (see issues when his last home location was known, weirdo fans etc). Gambier is remote enough you aren't going to have weirdo fans going there haha.
@@taliesinriver You also know what area of the island they have to live on, as they look out to a specific marina.
Their internet over 5km is better than mine over wire
I installed a Ubiquiti AirMax PowerBeam, after seeing it on Holy $h!t, between my office and my house (to save $60/mo) and it is amazing. Well, that’s until the sending dish doesn’t get knocked over in a storm on my flat roofed office. Easily fixable, though. Would recommend.
I actually wanted to try it after hearing you guys, how about strong wind or bad weather in general?
I mean it wouldn't be difficult to craft a support system to lock it in place so it can't move or will move millimeters so you can adjust it back extra fast
Interested to see what kinda speed there will be when there's fog, mist, rain, heavy rain, snow, blizzard.
Ubiquity has a 915 MHz line that can penetrate the weather that he can use as a backup. But it's almost an order of magnitude slower because of the lower frequency.
@@petevenuti7355 Fortunately even a magnitude slower than 1Gbps is still a really solid connection
I've tested it in like similier cerqomnastens, the performance will drop by 2% durning any bad weather
oh damn that would be an awesome scientifical update everyone would appreciate
@@laso8608 i agree, im such a helpful person, tho i messed spelling that damn hard word
I would love an LTT spinoff channel dedicated to this kind of install stuff. The videos at Linus' home are some of my favorites!
With 6 km of distance, is possible that the curvature of the earth itself was hiding Linus from Jake. Someone in youtube made an experiment about that in lake minnewanka.
i fucking love when linus does outdoors stuff like this
yeah me too, only too see the Canandian nature.
I'm loving these home renovation tech videos. Not even just because of a lack of PC parts, just because they're good for mixing things up.
Linus at 5km wearing a black shirt in a dark background: "Can you see me???"
At least a yellow shirt... :)
That's one thing. But the problem might be earths curvature. 5-6km is a hight drop of 1.96-2.83meter. Linus is definitly not that tall. He's maybe 1.70m. So if it was possible to see him, it was maybe only his hand raised in the air.
@@paulschnipper6115 well did you take elevation into account ?
@@adamatch9624 he was on the ground next to a lake, the surface of a lake does not have elevation changes
@@ARVash Yes but Jake wasn't at the water level either, but at least a few meters above it. You can basically split that 2-3 meters to both sides, so if Jake is just 2 meters up, then only a max of 1 meter of Linus is obstructed. So ~ 40 cm of him would be still visible.
@@EvanOfTheDarkness do you know how tall a meter is? He wasn't trying to look at Linus from the lift. He was sitting on a log which is on the ground. A meter is ~3.28 feet he was about a meter and change off the ground.
Highly recommend Starlink if this isnt an option for most people. We live in the middle of nowhere in Australia and getting fast, reliable internet.
There's an audible alignment tool in the dashboard, that you can use to align the antennas, without having to look at the screen... Just a tip, if you ever find yourself in this position.
I've used a similar method when I installed satellite TV at my place many years ago. As long as you can hear the tv through the open window while aligning the dish, you can tell how you're doing.
Later on I installed satellite professionally, and having an actual meter at the dish was so much nicer! (that and a smartphone app that allowed you to "see" the satellites in the sky)
Was waiting to see if they were going to use it
Yeah i used it on My Satellite dish.
@@Green__one same here.
"I'm waving my arms around like a madman"
But not mad enough to wear a bright-colored shirt instead of black-against-dark.
Or shine a flashlight.
or share the location over any messaging app.
@@the_gask6070 ...which he did at the start if you'd listened! "I sent you a pin!" but his mate promptly spotted the timber supports.
@@stephenphelan626 A flashlight would do fuck all during the daylight. If you had to you could aim it at night and use that method, but seems they sorted it out.
@@the_gask6070 That will help, but I wager you'll find that actually finding that pin on the map with your eyes is harder than you are imagining. See the maps we look at on GPS apps are not to scale. If they were it would take you forever to scroll around the thing. It's a compromise worth having for ease of use and being able to quickly move around the map. You could try and use a landmark nearby to orient yourself but it didn't seem like Linus' side of the water had too many landmarks.
That's impressive. Actually I would also be interested in how Linus' parents figured out power, sewage and water in the middle of nowhere.
don't know about water or sewage but power is pretty simple. Solar and wind should easily be able to handle powering a single house assuming it's usually sunny and at least semi windy
@@HearMeLearn bc isnt always sunny
Looks like and outhouse.
Well house electric pump for water septic tank for sewage
@@juicygibbles76 wonder were all that poop destination is going to?.😁😁😁😁😁😁
It’s almost crazy how Linus makes almost all of his videos completely timeless
Radio waves can have some strange behavior over long stretches of water. I would also recommend a 5GHz failover do to the 60GHz will drop the connection in rain.
Yeah or when you have fog I guess..
the device already did that out of the box
All sounds pretty overkill to me for an offgrid cabin. We used to deploy 24ghz airfibers in NM for gigabit links. Even during monsoon season at 5-7 miles we never had full drops. Signal would lower sometimes but they were always fine in terms of transfer speeds. I'm super confused why they went with a 60ghz link for an offgrid cabin, especially in an area with lots of weather, I'm guessing it was free from Ubuiqti. I guess radio frequency laws might be different in Canada as well.
@@Serial32 60 ghz was probably just a band that is free for consumer use in Canada
I imagine buffeting from strong winds would play havoc with the dish alignments too.
for wires outside, I truly hope you guys included some of the Ubiqiti's surge protectors(x2)? They're required to protect your inhouse gear from lightning.
*fuses = surge protectors
safety last!!
@@Powah563 if you foot the bill for the rest of the network gear… sure 👍🏼 those fuses cost basically next to nothing, just a little extra work and terminating cables
You mean the Ubiquiti Ethernet surge protectors. Honestly they are no more use than just having shielded Ethernet with a proper ground. That said your equipment will still fry, best protection if you think your equipment is in a vulnerable location is an lightning rod installation. You will find in most places there are far better targets for lightning than the dish.
@@backupplan6058 surge protectors, thank you… forgot the word. However in some cases they’re still relevant for insurrection or even prevention of further damage. It’s good practice. And not that big of an investment.
@@ari-mcbrown seen them used on an deployment by another company and the whole network got fried despite having two installed at both ends of the line. Granted we got paid to replace it but they are nothing but something to help ease the mind of the clients while actually doing nothing. You want to protect your thousands spent on network equipment with something inexpensive or something that actually works.
At my work, when we are trying to line up microwave dishes, we use a mirror (if the sun is out) to be able to find each other. You would be surprised at how good it works.
They did that years ago, in a video similar to this one.
Sick that the marina was just cool with you doing this
*slaps Starlink satelite on the roof in 15 seconds montage and rolls credits*
Lmaooooo fr
Why didn't he go that route? lol
It would never work with all the trees around the house. Zero chance.
8:26 - I've had so much trouble with Tapcons pulling out in anything other than brick; I always go for concrete anchors now.
Raspberry pi powered concrete anchor maybe? :)
And g-d forbid you have any dust in the hole leftover from drilling for the tapcons.
Tapcon screws suck. A lot of other structural engineers I work with share the same opinion. Simpson's Titan screws tend to work a lot better.
The plug method would of been my first choice. Never seems to fail.
That's not concrete
It's cement mortar blocks
Don't call it concrete
Linus: "how can you not see me?"
also Linus: wears clothing that doesn't stand out whatsoever
Also at the heights they're standing and the distance between them it's quite likely that the water is in their way. The horizon is around 5km away when looking from about 1,7m (rather average height). At these distances you want to be a couple of meters up, not standing at the shore when spotting.
@@Pretagonist Assuming the Earth is round of course...
@@Pretagonist
Don't forget that he's also short!
Yeah, where's the LTT Store Hi-Vis? 😂
Im guessing satellite internet isnt available there
Gambier Island? I would never have guessed to hear of that island in a video like this! My aunt used to have a house there until her husband died, then she moved back to Switzerland.
Who else thought he was going to use like a 6km long Ethernet cable
Me
Yah same I was like wtf how will Linus get a 6km long.
@@JonathanRootD Fiber is a thing.
@@3vIl3aGl3 So is smoke signals but he said "Ethernet cable"
@@Ghost-hs6qq they just made a video on how to diy ur cables
Next Episode: “Someone Stole My Parent’s Internet”
Imagine someone didnt know the existence of the dish and that person innocently drop their boat's (with sails) anchor right at the focused wave... while Linus enjoying 4K netflix movie
wouldn't do anything, movies buffer in advance.
@@manbearhorse we live in 2021, nothing buffers in full length anymore
I have used this tech since ‘94. Wind is your enemy. Just bumping the dish you were losing signal. Because it is a permanent solution you should build a box around it leaving just the horn dish side open. The wind breaks will keep the signal from being disrupted.
I'd be interested in seeing how you got the marina to agree to let you install the dish, and get the isp to give you internet.
You probably should consider a LTE backup on the island, just in case something happens to the dish.
Money
You don’t know how to request internet service from an isp?
Step 1: "Hi, would it be possible to install a dish at your marina and request a internet connection in my name on your property?"
Step 2: "yes"
That's what I want to know too lol, hey can I install a satellite dish on the side of your building then connect internet to your phone line?
@@hansdietrich83 *IF* a business agreed to this in America, they'd want you to use a licensed, bonded, and insured company to make sure that they aren't left with a damaged building, they'd want some sort of contract in place covering exactly what you can & can't do, and probably compensation for the use of their property.
Maybe this is just the cultural and legal differences between the countries. Or maybe Linus went through similar steps and just didn't show them, and can shed some light on the process.
This would’ve been the perfect video for LTT to try HDR.
Agreed. My goodness BC is such a beautiful part of Canada. Jealous here in Southern California
They didn't record this in HDR?
They record videos in RAW/Prores and grade it for SDR. Your experience is already HDR- in a way
nobody has HDR because implementation has been shit
@@FSXgta What does that mean?
the fact that linus said that was a "personal massager" before shower head says a lot about him
It says absolutely nothing about him
Nice
Is there really a difference?
@@dyzosim well maybe he has to give his wife back massages a lot
@@dyzosim says that he comes in contact with "personal massager"s if that is the first thing that comes into his mind. I don't have one so the first thing that came into my mind is shower head.
17:14 Pro Radio Tip: Talking into your radio sidways actually lowers its broadcast distance, it makes the waves shoot horizontally instead of vertically
When Linus is finally right and hasn’t dropped anything
These are troubling times
He dropped his walkie
12:02 jake has him covered
Linus taking his phone out without looking while standing on a cliff edge over the water sure is tempting fate.
he has plenty of spares at the office, so he probably isn't as concerned as us normies would be.
why not use GPS to mount it???????
weirdo people!
@@lucasrem How does GPS help a falling phone?
Your tapcons stripped out because you didn't hold the drill straight when you were drilling into the wall. It is very common. Also do not over tighten tapcons. A gentle tap with an impact driver is plenty.
Jake’s face when the scissor ladder started moving up ☠️😂😂😂😂😂😂
15:17 you just know how confident linus is for that laptop to not drop
“What song are you listening to?”
Me: “Wap”
“You know what that song means right?”
Me: “yeah wireless access point.”
Who uses "WAP" for AP's? Professionally never used the term WAP for a AP or just calling it simply an Access Point, WAP is Wireless Application Protocol, basically what you used to surf the web on the GSM network on older phones.
@@Arcifer dude, pull that stick out of your a** and let him joke a bit
It was a joke lmao no need to get offended
I just thought he was watching too much of TastyPC's channel 😜
Is that nsa , "no strings attached "
No way
Nsa, national security agency my guy
Gamer: "Hold up guys im bout to clutch this game watch.."
*Boat sails between the dishes*
Game: "Ight ima head out"
luckily his parents aren't avid gamers. it will only be a very short drop if a boat or bird passes by or something so it should be fine for your 'average Joe'. especially combined with the high speed to quickly catch up on buffering streaming media again.
It would have to be one hell of a big boat to cross the line between those dishes. Over 6 km at an up angle and it starts at at least 3 meters above the water line, ending at a good 10 meters at least. If a cruise ship or tanker goes by sure, but all the little fishing vessels I see in that marina aren't ever going to block it. A mast here or there might break the plane for like a split second and they won't even notice.
What if it rains or snows lmao
@@deadlypyre I'm pretty sure that given the location they thoroughly thought about that
@@deadlypyre No issue with snow or Rain, bandwidth may drop a little but we use this in big commercial enterprises so no issue with weather,
11:17
Decicides to hang off of it.
Edit: Spelling somehow
i love how this off grid cabin in canada now has better internet connection than most people in large urban areas in the US
If a piece of paper blocks signal, I’m curious how it would react to fog or rain.
It has to be very heavy fog and/or rain for it to be affected I think. Longer wavelengths aren't affected in the same way as visible light, so even though you can't see the other side with your eyes the radio waves still sees "fine" but water and radio waves never mix well so I don't know. It'll be interesting to get a follow-up
I'm more curious about any amounts of wind and vibration from the rain considering they kept mentioning how tight the adjustments have to be at that distance...
We use multiple of them at my work, the fog has never been an issue even when it gets super bad. We have had multiple get struck by lightening though! The method they used to mount them isn't the best. Within an hour of messing with them, we can normally get the connection to be 95% or higher.
Wind: "hold my beer, i'm gonna ruin this man's whole career"
Was just thinking the same thing.
@@patricklines8872 my uncle has like 15 of those to give internet to a small town from a city, like 60km, over 10gb internet, wind does nothing, but rain, that kills the internet so bad xD.
@@gaboxd1221 that's because water is reflective. Even tree leaves could affect it not because they block the signal but because they get reflected from the water inside the leaves haha.
Rain: “let me show you how it’s done”
Tree branches growing: “they won’t see me coming”
for the first minute linus holding the airfiber box with one hand AND his past history of dropping stuff AND also being on a moving boat gave me anxiety it was just going to go flying out of his hand
Linus: "wow this satellite is really cool and it's pretty good"
Jake: "mmmmm mount*
Not satelite,it's point to point,2 antenas pointed one versus the other.
🤦🏾♂️
15:17 is the best 'Linus setting himself up for failure' moment you will ever get. Are they straight up aiming for Linus Drop Tips content now?
The story of dumb Linus sells. Meanwhile, the guy is a freaking millionaire. I think he won that deal
Idk what's at that time stamp but I've got a hunch it was when he set the laptop on the 2x4.
@@atticus2581 Trust your instincts
I saw that and cringed. Lol
Linus's POV: generic LTT video
Jake's POV: "uh.. this works i guess. lmao."
For people who don’t know. These are a 60ghz link not 2.4 or 5 ghz. It’s a laser based system that is usually rated for around 2-5 mile clear shots. They can catch interference from rain. No the wind doesn’t mess with it if it is installed correctly. I’ve installed atleast 40-50 of these for the wireless internet company my family owns. It’s great for backhaul shots between smaller towers or for a customer that is further than it’s worth running cable or for someone who may not be down the fiber lines. Other than the rain the lake can possibly mess with it in this case as well if it gets rough enough. But that’s for anyone who was more interested in what these things are about.
Side note. The newer ones also have a 5g failover if the 60g is blocked