Our NEW NEW Office WiFi - Alta Labs AP6 Pro

hi welcome to Short Circuit I'm really

excited for today because we're solving

a problem that we've had for about 1 day

we don't have Internet in our lovely

office that is definitely not the old

Langley house but ala Labs is hopefully

here to save the day this is a switch

and AP and networking ecosystem that I

have not had the pleasure of

experiencing yet and I'm really stoked

to be doing it in this exact environment

Belle's here with me to fact check we're

staying 5p to fart don't worry we're

going to start with the switch the S2

for Poe we've got the accessory pack

here what do we got in here propaganda

Community Forum technical support oops

sorry there's stuff in there the elater

did you pee is that why it's warmer uh

don't don't think about it okay oh they

come with rack studs that's so cool

power cable only one which makes me

think that this is not going to have

redundant power supplies not my

preferred but here we are and then we've

got the little rack here that we're

going to have to put on the switch in a

minute oh we've got some free

floaties

wonderful oh nice nice

foam oh that went right on my

laptop okay this is the s24 poe it's a

24 plus two Port switch here 16 of them

you can see in the Box here can do Poe

plus power and the other eight are just

normal gigabit and then on this side we

have two SFP plus ports so those in

theory based on it being sfb plus should

do 10 gig although it doesn't say I'm

just hoping that is the case around back

we have two fans and a single power

supply I would have really liked to see

two power supplies here if I'm being

honest I don't know what the price point

is but I imagine it's reasonable and

that's probably why I do like they have

discreete uh LEDs for the poe power

which is nice and I think that's pretty

much it for here you can screw on the

rack ears on the side but let's look at

the Wi-Fi that's what people want hey

look at that ap6 professional it's a 4x4

dualband Enterprise wireless access

point so it's not going to be doing

Wi-Fi 6E with 6 gz but it will do 2.4

and

5G on 4x4 which is nice wow it's a cool

it's a nice form factor I will say I

imagine this is an LED here we got a

little that must be their logo yeah it's

their logo on the back heat sinking a oh

this reset button good job ala Labs it's

on the back of an access point nobody's

going to accidentally like push it we've

got the poe plus input which is a 1 gig

R j45 what else is in here

propaganda uh plastic mounting bracket

screws oh and little Feats if you want

to put it on your desk that's a good

good inclusion oh nice a bracket for

installing on drop ceiling t- bars it's

got the little ears so you would click

it on and then screw in the presumably

the blast the plastic bracket so it's

ip54 which means I should be able to do

this

no we've got two I wouldn't go all the

way way I think the 54 what does 54 mean

you remember what ip54 is like splashes

indirectly ip54 is pretty good I just

dipped the tip that should be fine right

yeah yeah tip dip tip dip here I could

try this tip too or I'll tip dip this

tip too what are you trying to do is

this like a ubiquity competitor or

something yeah but we need internet at

the house right so that light you're

welcome yeah brilliant how does this

work ah wait what the hell how does this

go oh oh uh so it just clicks in I this

would be a lot easier to do if it was on

a wall cuz you would just like tilt the

end in and then slide it I imagine

there's two little like spring-loaded

tabs on the

side well that screw's gone forever it's

really really springy sprongs oh there

we go and then you said wiggle it back

and forth oh yeah that come came out

pretty easily you'd imagine it would be

on a ceiling and you would just stick

the screwdriver in there that would pop

that side out and then you just do it a

wiggle yeah that's that's pretty easy I

like that you don't need a special tool

and uh this is just another one of those

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Suite today all right we've moved inside

I've been allowed to use a little bit of

power so we can try this out and uh we

got the aps here it linked up to the

neighbors's Internet which is great I

mean uh our internet great let's see if

the Wi-Fi works got these great ubiquity

ether that cables there's one see do we

get any lights

hey blue I downloaded their app and got

signed in oh yeah look at that right

there so yeah I see them on my phone

already which is cool wait oh they even

show on my laptop sick I just am on the

Ala Labs website connected to the

neighbor's Wi-Fi and it's working just

fine so here let me go set up looks like

they both have for more updates

unfortunately damn that was uh that was

fast connect it I want the most Wi-Fi

five we'll do 160 wide why not it's not

letting me pick DFS channels which is a

little strange look at that oh that's

cute it's even got like a traffic graph

let me add a Wi-Fi network that we can

connect to here neighbors Wi-Fi that

seems

appropriate add password oh oh yeah I

forgot you can do that uh it was one of

the big features that they announced

when Alta laps kind of came to Market

with these new APS uh you can have

multiple passwords and Define different

settings based on that password you can

do this on ubiquity access points now

too but you could have like one Wi-Fi

network and you have a password for you

and your partner and then you have a

password for your kids and you want to

have no download cap where you set them

a cap where you can set a schedule so

they only get Wi-Fi at certain times or

uh you can make it so you bypass the

like adult filtering and they don't

blocked applications what can I add

ooh look at all these applications oh

there's no search here that's a little

lame let's try that Tik Tok yeah no Tik

Tok in this house I'm going to update

these and then let's try them out you

know curiously actually I don't see the

switch it's not detecting the switch I

don't know if the switches work on their

dashboard maybe it's just a dumb switch

wow they actually updated feels like in

seconds I mean we cut the camera for a

few minutes there but I wasn't really

paying attention and they're already

done oh yeah look at that wow the

traffic it's already there it's very

responsive I like that and it's cool

because this isn't like a cloud key with

ubiquity or like a paid online service

this is just what you get by default you

can have full management of your devices

on their Cloud uh without having to pay

for anything or pay for a subscription

which is pretty cool for like normies um

it would be nice to have the option to

self-host the controller and I imagine

they're probably working on that I can

see my device here look I got an IP

address we can see our negotiated rates

are around 1,300 Meg let's run a speed

test I think the neighbors only have one

gig up and down so that's the best we're

going to get here probably should uh

here let me let me let me optimize this

a little more here look at how optimized

my Wi-Fi I don't know if these channels

are already in use though so let me

check that really quick let's try the

scan feature and it will tell us scan

quick scan shouldn't interrupt your

Wi-Fi network that's cool oh wow that

was look how fast that was it's already

done it looks like I should use I need

160 wides so I need quite a few are the

only 160 wides we got okay so I could do

like 112 let's try that WiFi

channel there we go yeah the DFS Channel

channels are working now too so maybe

that's just an app thing or because they

were out of date I'm not sure and then

for AP1 let me just disable AP1 oh look

at that you pick the channel and you

just hit disable so easy I love you

ubiquity but the amount of times I've

asked for just let me turn off the

goddamn radio on an AP without having to

screw around with like AP groups that

was so easy and that's how easy it

should be we do have it up on the 160

wide now let me connect and then we'll

do a proper speed test and see how fast

she goes it's not Wi-Fi 6C so we're

probably not going to see beyond gigabit

speeds and we only have a 1 gig uh

neighbor connection here but it should

still be pretty quick looks like about

560 down getting pretty close to 700 up

if you had faster internet and um maybe

not other people using it sorry

neighbors it'd probably be faster but

that's pretty good try it on my phone I

guess it looks pretty similar 450 down

360 up not not the best ever but also

not ideal circumstances whatsoever

something I realized I missed earlier on

the front of these switches is the reset

button but it's not recessed now I liked

it on the access point right there

because it would be hard to accidentally

press this it's on the back you can't

even get to it if you wanted to here

when you're fumbling around in the rack

trying to plug in a cable I could see

you accidentally pressing this that

being said you probably have to hold it

for some amount of time uh so it's

probably a nonissue but seems a little

bit sketch hey look at that actually the

switch is picking up now here let's

click set up appears to have been

factory reset do you want to set up this

device again

yes is currently assigned to another

user's

account this can happen if the previous

owner of this device has not deleted

this device from their account do you

want to request permission to use this

device oh okay yeah I guess it's

software drmed with their Cloud hosting

even though I reset it I don't know how

I feel about that I mean it's good from

the perspective of it getting stolen and

not being able to reuse but also if you

were to sell one of these and not reset

it from your account that would be not

great they tested it in the lab and

that's why it was adopted to somebody's

account they reset it and now we are in

it also has a software update but this

time I'm going to roll because I want to

know how fast it updates so there we go

update click let's see oh there's a

little no way there's no way it was that

fast update 100% complete it says bullsh

I'll refresh let's see no it still says

100% complete I don't know about this

Chief the update status went away oh I

think it's rebooting now that's pretty

fast let's see how fast it reboots

though yeah I don't have internet

anymore that makes sense internet gone

no I have to connect to the neighbor's

Wi-Fi now the signal

sucks okay I'm doing stuff now Blinky

blink hey there we go okay a couple

minutes pretty pretty fast pretty

respectable let's take a look at what

the switch features are really quick

okay open it up there I see the ports in

a very condensed manner power cycle the

poe that's good I can click on

individual ports I can set the native

VLAN the tagged allowed vlans Poe speed

isolation a download upload limit a

voice VLAN Loop detection storm control

Mac control seems like most of the

things here oh it even has

802.1x uh so you can do network access

control that's pretty cool I can mirror

ports combine them I don't know what

this color stuff is what does this even

mean colors are a way to group specific

APS together APS will only broadcast

these Wi-Fi networks that match their

configured colors both APS and Wi-Fi

networks can be part of multiple colors

and groups okay so that's basically AP

groups that's what the colors mean they

probably should have just called it

groups and given the groups colors

rather than calling them colors but here

we are I can set vlans I can select all

it's it's pretty much what you would

expect it feels very new like this

is software has existed for I don't know

you know a year and they've got all the

features in there but maybe the layout

and whatever isn't the most optimal yet

but it seemingly Works link lights hey

you can turn them off let's try

it hey look at that the link lights are

off that's a good feature LED white red

oo I can change the color let's go

green eh ah green I wish it had a screen

but the green is cool too so overall I

mean I'm pretty stoked that there's

another competitor in this kind of price

point and space for small businesses and

kind of like Enthusiast at home where

you want more control over your stuff I

look forward to when there's a local

self- hostable controller I know that

that's in beta right now but we'll have

to see how that goes don't really like

that it was DRM to another account as

physical Hardware really wish that

wasn't a thing maybe the local

controller will make that not a problem

but overall it cool it's a very

responsive dashboard that much I like

like look at this this is like a live

feed of what's going on like the

ibiquity one is pretty responsive but

this is this might be another League

especially considering it's currently

cloud-based it's pretty impressive if

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