From HORRIBLE DSL to FIBER Internet using Ubiquiti Unifi

My Name is David, I'm an I.T consultant in a small town taking care of small to medium size businesses. Join me as I upgrade a country club's internet/intranet to Gigabit Fiber Lan between buildings and 500 megabits symmetrical internet. If you like this video, please like and share. Leave a comment with suggestions!
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[@donaldmull3680]

You did a hell of a job! Thank you!

[@Techie-B]

Fantastic video David. Please do more of these on the job videos. Keep it up.

[@rgarza7264]

This was a great video! I'm new to Unifi equipment and this was awesome!

[@anthonya.1958]

Great job man! Clean install, and you take pride in your work. Puts a smile on my face! I'm not big into Ubiquiti; I've stopped supporting them a few years ago. However, they still have products that fit certain project requirements. For this type of install I would had instead used a MikroTik PowerBox pro [Outdoor 5-port PoE switch with integrated SFP port for fiber conversion] and then connected a MikroTik NetMetal AC2 with the HGO antenna's. ;) Subbing for your work.

[@jasonf87]

That enclosure box is manufactured by Extreme Broadband. I installed hundreds of those while working for a cable company. Compared to the other brand boxes we installed, those were the best quality ones.

[@NickJamess]

Awesome video. Please keep making them!

[@MorganTN]

Great video I look forward to watching your channel and content grow.

[@bc5891]

6:25 invest in the proper staple gun for coax/ethernet wire using clear or black line protection coating. You could have spray painted the AP to be more blended. We have painted a few gunmetal, yellow, blue and realtree to blend in with a few installs. Also, you could have installed the outdoor AP at the outdoor nema box and taken another AP inside the chapel meshed. I have 14 of those same outdoor rabitear aps meshed across my 100 acre farm using 1 solar panel, 1 small SV inverter, 1 nema box and 1 small lithium battery for the ap and security camera per tower.

[@tortue71]

he said that the client doesn't want anything inside.

[@Luckett16]

Great video, keep them coming!

[@ziggo0]

"trained electrician is going to do it for me" lol

[@TheFlatronify]

he was fast!

[@backupplan6058]

It’s nice to have a trained electrician who is also your identical twin brother.

[@tomato-fh1qb]

some people are shy to camera ^^

[@ValorHeart]

Thanks David, i would suggest to use leveler when installing the box, and also measure the height distance of the cable from the ceiling when installing it so it will look more neat. also, i think that conduit is a must. Adi from Israel

[@milesvinson]

Level the box. Then for doors hinged on the left side, slightly tilt box down on left side. It will enable the door to stay open while service work is performed but will not be tilted enough to be noticeable to naked eyes and also pitch any water off of the top of the box. For doors hinged on the right side, slightly tilt box down on the right side. In that location, I would suggest running all wire and cables inside of conduit. Little critters like to chew on wire/cable jackets. Grey PVC would blend well or could easily be painted to blend into surroundings. Armored cable could also be used but more expensive and less versatile.

[@rjbell4]

So fun to see an install in Cashiers! We were just there Sunday, as my son is working this summer nearby at a camp in Glenville. (We live a couple hours to the east)

[@bertussss]

Muy bien David 👏🏻

[@MStrickkk]

It's a wallbox for cable, yes. The holes in the grid are spaced properly for all coax ground blocks. Lots of companies sell these boxes, including Amphenol.

[@ifneeded1]

Really great video, I hope your channel becomes successful.

[@raminabedinia9278]

Hey David, the tape/click style cleaners for the fiber & ferules actually sometimes end up leaving behind residue. I found out one day when a BrocadeICX SFP port would report instantaneous flaps randomly caused by this. Since then we adopted the method of using a handheld scope to physically inspect it (prices are actually cheap on amazon ~100$). We ended up switching the tape style to the Q-Tip style fiber cleaners and found a single swipe was reliable, sufficient, and produced better results than the clicker/tapes.

[@Dwigt_Rortugal]

Tape for the win 👍 The clickers are decent for the module connectors, though. If you really want to be thorough, an inspection tool can help identify if there is schmutz in there.

[@stevenfrazier7959]

Excellent video thanks

[@MGibler1]

Great video .

[@minipoll]

Excellent instructions

[@LV6LV]

Amazing video. Make more like this please.

[@santaclaus1291]

Quote: "....we don't trust the routing and firewall features of unify series as of yet..." The best decision you guys made to protect your business and customer satisfaction. I could not agree more. All IDS/IPS features of unifi seem to be broken and cause severe errors even in a simple 80Mbit environment. The outdated suricata engine and the horrible pretictability of changes and updates are toxic for pro-business and SLAs.

[@Morno007]

i dont trust edge routers i do trust pfsense :) the USG is maybe ok for old grandmas home that just need a router but most power user or business need stuff like VPN and other stuff like that.

[@ocdtechtalk]

He doesn't trust the ubiquity routers but he's using an edge router made by ubiquity?

[@nickswebtsv]

Great little fiber tester especially for finding your core - I’ve seen them online but didn’t quite work up the courage to fork out some money for it without know how it worked. I think I’ll get one now that I’ve seen a cheap one in action. Looking forward too seeing some more videos.

[@shylodesloovere4070]

The only big factor between cheap/expensive ones is how far they reach. If you are doing mainly building and patch/patch you should suffice with a cheapo one. The one im currently using has a reach of +- 10km (depending on splices/patches).

[@nickswebtsv]

@@shylodesloovere4070 Thanks for that info. Can't wait till the one I've ordered arrives.

[@marioStortuga]

Love the calm demeanor and great explanations. Keep at it and get an amazing associate account I was interested in a couple of items would use your link 😁

[@dizquier91]

Very kind words. Thank you! I'll look into starting an Amazon affiliate account.

[@DmitriyKhazansky]

It might be fine, but the APs wire doesn't have a drip loop. You should always account for a driploop on outdoor wiring. You can easily fix that with some of the coiled up wire by the AP.

[@tigerfan525]

Everyone is complimenting the install, I'm wondering how long the AP is going to survive at that angle and no loop.

[@MickyTicky2x4]

This is a really good call out.

[@reddyuda]

@@tigerfan525 I live in FL and didn't have enough extra cable for a drip loop on 1 of my outdoor AP's and 1 camera. No issues 3 years later and I probably get more rain than you all do (Gulf Coast of Florida)

[@VV-om8vv]

Needs conduit on the power too. Big shock hazard.

[@clblanchard08]

@@reddyuda Drip loops are really for the "next guy" lol. It's an easy way to leave extra cable in case there is a service issue and a connector has to be cut and replaced. Even with outside coax installs you usually use grommets and/or dielectric grease to keep water out.

[@UserName-yk7om]

Nice video, do more!!! If possible, show also the config of the devices 🤓 To make it look even better, you could have put all the cable to the AP also into conduit, pull the slack from the AP back into the device-box and store it there 😉 But nice installation and a premium location 😉

[@olorio75]

Nice work. You made a new subscriber.

[@dennisnjore8982]

Yeah definitely go with affiliate links for amazon...I will want to buy the media converter sometime later and the fibre cables for my home network.

[@jerryzigmont7507]

Great job, David. Very informative and hope you continue making more videos!

[@dizquier91]

Thank you for the kind words!

[@johnstancliff7328]

I'd love to get fiber.... we are in a old mobile home park and centurylink has fiber to the service cabinet down the street, but we are all on either cable, or copper. nice video, though you didn't really show how you made all the connections. nice to see the new technology!

[@jacob.mcelyea0727]

WOW! uses those outdoor coax house boxes. They are bought in bulk from Extreme Broadband. They come in medium and large sizes.

[@archjapanmotovlogs]

thank you for sharing!,

[@GROGU123]

I would still droop the wire going into the outdoor wifi access point. Make sure it droops lower than the ethernet port so that it droops and then come back up to the ethernet port. If water gets onto the cable, it could drip and follow the cable into the ethernet port. If you droop it down lower than the port with a little extra slack, water would need to fight gravity to up back to the port.

[@christophergee1521]

Bypass the inhibitor, and change the polarity. Once you get to the terminal, the circuitry should guide you to the LAN.

[@HugoTaljaard]

Good video, thank you, and to all the people commenting how it should be done, where is your videos???

[@ghostcat8244]

I live in the rural area on countryside and we just now getting fiber internet by the end of august everything should be done. Pretty excited to have something way better then dishnet or any other crappy satellite company.

[@JulianRamirezAcevedo7]

Saludos desde Colombia, muy bueno el video.

[@durakis]

500 Gigabit symmetrical...wow, that is impressive

[@trailerhaul8200]

I think he means Megabit, but that would be awesome

[@shamanthks7218]

I think he said 500 Megabits/sec which is equivalent to 62.5 Megabytes/sec. Wow! That's a crazy speed you can get

[@friedrich1277]

@@shamanthks7218 with DSL we can get nearly half of it. but ofc not symetrical...

[@Rosscoff2000]

From the UK really like your low key presentation style compared to a lot of US KZbin! Also very interesting to see some basic fibre deployment work - not something I have got into yet. But, as others have said, your cable management and other aesthetics really could do with some work. And I definitely wouldn't have left that AP Mesh sticking out sideways like that. It will get rain in, it could easily be stolen, the antennas aren't in the best orientation, and it looks real ugly. Sorry, please take this as constructively intended. Look forward to seeing more from you.

[@CL-ll2pt]

Yeah he must be doing that as a hobby and like for the first time lol

[@bartbatenburg]

Never actually seen someone cleaning fiber, even my isp just plugs them in.

[@florichi]

Well, most of the time it's clean, but a dusty port can degrade the signal by 1-1.5dB

[@VV-om8vv]

Would clean it all the time in the datacenter. Fiber optics are highly susceptible to dirty optics.

[@nellermann]

@@VV-om8vv Especially at higher data rates. When we still had Fibre Channel storage, any time we had errors on a path, first task was to clean the optics and the cables. amazing how often this would resolve issues in 8Gbps and 16Gbps FC.

[@derwildeKnut]

everyone who is doing his job right is: cleaning, cleaning, cleaning.

[@OL3D]

Yeah same. He’s also using APC instead of the cheaper UPC. So I’m assuming he’s worried about light levels for this link.

[@markolafploeg3265]

From Holland again same reaction as earlier: Nice content hope you do more. Like to see more of this content and the other one with the little chapel. My speciale intrest in Ubiquiti Stuff or concurrent companies. Connection off small/ home/ lager companies with fiber/ coax / utp/ stp/ wifi/ beams etc solutions. I klnow i is sometimes difficult filming at locations of customers. I personale love to see more of that type op projects on/ ad locations. Cant say it to many time but hope you make more content thanx.

[@joegomez5807]

Nice video

[@WAFFLE-il6tv]

Damn!!! He said he was going to replace the wire with conduit at a later date. Yall youtube police neet to stfu. This guy is very knowledgeable and he is running his own business. If yall knew it all you probably wouldn't be looking up youtube video's on networking.

[@ShiggitayMediaProductions]

Hi David. I'm a lifelong tech enthusiast (currently age 37) and more recently a(n) Ubiquiti product fanboy... lol. Currently I have two UAC AP Lites (one in my bedroom to cover the back of my family's apartment, and another in the living room/den to cover the front areas like the dining room etc, leaving only the kitchen with spotty coverage that I need to figure out a solution for) though my router/firewall is a miniPC from QOTOM running pfSense fork OPNsense. I'd ultimately like to get a UDM Pro and an accompanying PoE+ and/or POE++ switch as well as more powerful APs, (maybe a NanoHD or 3) but for right now as I have it it works quite well. I like watching videos like these. It's cool seeing a network built up from scratch (I've done it a many times with my own equipment I have here, though I'm no CCNA certified technician... I'm 100% self-taught.). Please do more if you haven't already! Just subbed!

[@ifneeded1]

Open an Amazon affiliates store so people can buy the products that you use. It'll likely generate more revenue for you than the videos.

[@mudlife318]

Good luck on that access point lasting. You should have angled it to keep the port dry and at least added a drip loop to the cabling.

[@Matt-ij4zb]

Hey David watching this video gave me ideas to start fiber in my small network, asking basics and guides if u will be willing to aid.. Thanks

[@robertnorris4642]

I been running UB products sense 2005. Have had great success with them. I would have never mounted the mesh body horizontally nor pointed the one antenna down. They are not sealed moisture or rain is going to ruin the antenna and for sure weaken the signal, or the poe/network port is going to ground out from moisture.

[@AkkerKid]

You're right. That AP is designed to be mounted vertically. Also the WiFi antennas should be vertical and parallel to each other. You can't proper do MIMO / Beam Forming without the antennas being parallel to each other and perpendicular to the remote device(s).

[@ryderholland]

Almost certain the name brand of that box you like is Amphenol Broadband

[@ADGNet]

Probably a good idea to use a conduit for any exposed wiring. Also would be good if the box was more secure with a lock or something so people dont play with it

[@sasser9731]

Great video, but I would have loved for it to end with a quick iperf/speedtest run!

[@RotineQue]

ive worked with fiber for the past 5 years. never cleaned them. and zero throughput issues

[@markolafploeg3265]

I forgot to mention below but the tools and materials are also intresting to learn witch you use at work and customers.

[@felixbaez3650]

Great job love your video What type of network cable do you use? Cat 5e or 6?

[@midnightwatchman1]

Not knowing the primary material of the chapel walls and coverage area I notice you have some metal guttering near the access point this could be points of the reflection signal degradion. if the chapel is primarily wooden walls it should be no problem but if you have rock or steel-reinforced concert, I did notice a concert column you might have some issue with coverage inside the chapel. also, rain might be a problem again signal might degrade when rain is falling. water absorb the microwave spectrum

[@coregmr]

2times playback speed makes this a very good video

[@jasonluong3862]

I live in a major metropolitan area and can’t get fiber. Yet, some backwoods location has one. These telecoms have to get their act together.

[@eugenestarkey8344]

It seems that Rural American is getting access to fiber before Metro areas are. Small ISP are running Fiber in the areas they Service and beating out the Big guys.

[@ghostcat8244]

I live in rural area on country side myself and we just now getting fiber internet by the end of august. But my friend who’s live in the town area doesn’t have fiber at all just AT&T and something else for now. I wanna guess due to the area on country side is mostly famers who needed something faster to do business. That’s my guess.

[@avs_smart_systems]

Beautiful scenery, can I extend dual mode fiber to a remote IP based intercom system?

[@PrinceDare]

hi David i know this is not about the vid, but can you make a vid on how you started your consultant company, what made you start one, basically the why, who, how etc. would like to learn from you experience and am sure others will as well. Thanks

[@grldistheman]

Hwt David, what power supply box for the switch did you use? Inside your outdoor box like a cover for power adaptor? Like how there is a lock tight ac power cord attached to it going to supply voltage, how did your trained electrician do it? What parts were needed

[@SDRLG]

I'm jealous you got ahold of an 8 port POE switch, I haven't been able to buy one in many months.

[@JoeTaormina]

Thats because Ubiquiti’s customers are integrators. Its easy to buy products from their distributors if you are a business.

[@snobsnobov9999]

Not bad. Could you make a video about building Mesh Wi-Fi networks with Unifi Setup?

[@ryderholland]

Please make more IT videos like this

[@dizquier91]

Planning on it. Thanks for watching!

[@davidlp6510]

David, when you say it (the switch) won't get very hot because you are in a high elevation, is it based on the fact that the weather is never severe where it is located or something else? If something else please elaborate. Also when extending cables outside for a long distance sometimes they act as an antenna and that alone is a nightmare to troubleshoot down the road. Even double insulated cables have betrayed me that way. Especially if you have weather with lots of lightening these external cables tend to get a hit or two. Perhaps using a grounded conduit may help out in these events. That was the case for me in Utah, Nebraska and in Texas. BTW I would strongly suggest that you ground your power in the box. Great video!!

[@cjkokay]

You will have problems with the ap being horizontal. Why, because water will come down the cable and leak into the port. At a min a drip loop will be needed. Also spec's state mount vertical

[@denniswier]

So, they dó pay for Dark Fiber... And hope to save in dsl uplink... Good they brought u in my man 💪

[@dizquier91]

They paid a 1 time fee for the dark fiber to each location. Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@CPD-KD6-3.7]

Hi David! I swear if I could hire you I would, but I'm in rural Mexico, so yeah. Anyway, I want to extend a network from an office to a barn that's off-site a couple of miles away with single mode fiber. I was wondering if I could use an ONT instead of a pair of SFP adapters as those are pretty pricey around here. Many thanks!

[@jerryzigmont7507]

Sounds like we may have a troll leaving comments. David, please put affiliate links to some of the products you used. I'd like to have a link to the box, for instance.

[@Richard_GIS]

Ok so you got fiber there, but why didn't you go with the flex hd, 4x4 would be better especially for crowds as they might happen for a wedding?

[@williamvangundy3358]

Curious why you chose the mesh ap instead of FlexHD. Having those adjustable antennae down at broom height just seem like a callback waiting to happen.

[@BradyLippert]

I would love to see the edge router configuration!

[@imran7799]

Can you please share amazon link for the outdoor box you used?

[@terancebooker7794]

Can you please give the description of the equipment you use

[@LuisRuiz-pu3zb]

Would love to see setup of the fiber converter. Do you manage that through UISP as well or locally?

[@dizquier91]

Ill put it on the list, it is not controller through uisp, it is setup partially through the unifi controller. Thanks for the sub!

[@ziper8rg872]

Cam you share your fiber cleaner? Tnks for your video you should do more.

[@TonyRule]

13:49 I'm not a fan of creating a downhill track to water straight to the port of the AP regardless of how waterproof it claims to be. Always have the cable rising to any gland or connector.

[@miles5600]

Can you do a fiber hut tour?

[@carlyleroberts3995]

Nice job David. Why the switch though? Or is it that the Ubiquity media converter has no POE?

[@marcogtturbo]

The access point is generating a new network or is it in mesh ? What is the main router at the office ?

[@suikwan590]

If possible I would like to see what kind of WiFi signals are inside the Church.

[@robtaylor1424]

what us the fiber cleaning tool you used?

[@TNFGamingLive]

You could use DAC which you can get for a lot cheaper and get up to 100gb :o

[@CoverageAwarenessStudio]

I have dark fiber that was run to my home... There are no boxes outside because I made it done inside..

[@grandsoleil56]

Could you use two of them ubnt media converters for a fiber link?

[@jasonluong3862]

"Clean your fiber." Usually, fiber cleans you.

[@TechMelee]

Algorithm brought me here to a great start of a video playlist. What happened? 2 years and you didn't continue. 😢

[@BenMarton]

Is that box missing the rubber gasket? Looks like the channel is there with no seal

[@taylorlightfoot]

I thought most SFP modules are supposed to have UPC style ends plugged into them? I think the patch cable should have been APC to UPC at the chapel?

[@gumshoe-tech]

I have to say, I have never seen anyone clean the optics side.

[@markgilbert218]

can the ubiquiti media converter be managed in UNMS?

[@BrunoPeixotoVieira]

Dude, i don't know if the AP is water/weather sealed but I think you should make drip loops in your cable before you connect. Even though the AP is sheltered, better be safe than sorry.

[@imperialdoggo5826]

All ubiquiti access points are water resistant. The system should be fine.

[@teknogrid5362]

@durakis are you still providing UBNT OLT support ?

[@sickonfriday]

And here I am switching from fiber to dsl. (Moved to a rural area) 😭

[@mrmotofy]

Ouch, you have my condolences haha

[@dotnetdevni]

Ur lucky my line is 900 down only 100 up uk still way behind in asymmetrical

[@johnmoricone294]

Nice video, I'm over in Eastern Raleigh, would like to know more about your service. Upgrading my current UniFi set up to newer equipment. How you can help, thank you.

[@MikePowlas]

Im in jacksonville NC like 2 hours from you, If I can help let me know. I own a WISP business and use Ubiquiti UISP airMax equiment.

[@ipmi]

What is the model you used for the fiber to SFP. I want to soon go from the coax at home to fiber. I just dont want to upgrade until I figure out how I can just take the fiber they give me at home straight into a UDM Pro.

[@dizquier91]

You being able to hook in the fiber directly to your udm pro depends on what type of optical system they are using, if they are using a passive optical system, you won't be able to hook in directly. You would have to go through thier modem. If it's an active optical network you may be able to. All depends on what they will allow. The sfp is from "ROBOfiber" I got it from datainterfaces.Com they have great customer service and quick shipping.

[@ipmi]

@@dizquier91 okay I'll see if I csn figure out from my provider which it is. I'd be using EarthLink for the fiber. I hope I can manage to not have ethernet in my network for anything other than switch to devices.

[@caboose2016]

Hey David, I’m helping a small town build for more local affordable housing, unifi gpon network is installed on 8 of the upcoming 75, what do you use to sniff our rogue onus and any other helpful tips? Uptime per device averages days not months…

[@inachu]

I am wondering when fiber cabling homes will be the norm. Maybe 10 years away. I do know those with lots of money are already doing this.

[@tortue71]

why ? you can do 10gbps on ethernet...

[@christopherkelly8245]

do you need a OLT as presume they are the ONU ubiquti loco / nano g with a ubiquti instant, so are they running a GPON system?

[@dizquier91]

No, no OLT. I miss spoke in the video, it's not the instant, it's the ufiber Active Ethernet media converter.

[@ItIsAHumanNumber]

+1 Nice video. But what is up with you Americans that electrical is outside (saying this from The Netherlands, haha). Also, I would be really annoyed if the cable-management on the walls was like this. Why not a little enclosure around the cable and some brackets? It's probably 10 to 20 bucks, but looks so much better, it's better protected and looks less ugly than a black Ethernet cable on wood.

[@ItIsAHumanNumber]

Oh by the way. I subscribed. Liked. And would like to see more! See my comment as constructive criticism! All meant nice!

[@diamondhoodgem]

Are you doing this at all of there sites?