Fixing Our Terrible WiFi 💀#Helpful Post

hey guys Boston and our Wi-Fi sucks so

you guys would probably remember our old

set alright now that was great it was

cool to have everything in one office

but as we started expanding we've gotten

another office that's across the hall

it's awesome because it's unlabeled us

to do a ton of cool stuff build some new

sets have a lot more space but the

problem is that the Wi-Fi is now a

straight-up disaster so that's where a

sous comes in really do they sponsor

this video but more importantly they

hooked us up with their brand new Lyra

trio hopefully the saving grace to our

terrible Wi-Fi situation so the thing is

we actually have good internet here at

the office we have a dedicated business

line with 300 megabits per second up and

down and as long as we're actually here

in the office typically we get pretty

decent speeds so over Wi-Fi a lot of

times we're actually going to be pretty

close to that full 300 megabits per

second now see there we go we're getting

190 240 260 I mean that's definitely

totally solid speed now Wi-Fi is really

important for us as not only we're

obviously going to be doing stuff like

watching videos and downloading stuff

but importantly we deal with a lot of

really giant video files for constantly

uploading to YouTube uploading and

sending files back and forth between us

and of course most importantly

downloading those sweet sweet steam

games to do the benchmarks with so in

comparison if I run a speed test and our

second office you're going to see that

the speeds are slightly less than 280

megabits per second so right now we're

getting for maybe 5 megabits up and up

down to 2 1 so the thing is Natalie

doing that great speeds but almost more

important than that it sort of drops out

pretty consistently so the way that a

mesh Wi-Fi system works is pretty

straightforward so right now we have a

single Wi-Fi router now it's going to be

a fairly high-end AC solution and it's

fine for a small space but the laws of

physics mean the Wi-Fi can only go so

far so if you take a look at the actual

lyra itself you'll see that the way of

getting around this is just to add more

stations to the mix I think it sound

really simple as if bunch of engineers

that the seuss didn't spend years and

hundreds of thousands of man-hours on

developing a product I'm like is that my

Wi-Fi it's fine don't worry about it

out of the years of we've shot videos

I've never heard Ken say the words my

thumb was in the shot so the way this

works is that one of these will function

as your main base station so just like

any other Wi-Fi router you just need to

connect it via ethernet to your modem

and especially you have a smaller house

or apartment one of these is actually

going to be enough to cover it however

if you've got a little bit of a bigger

house or specifically for our situation

you have an office that has a lot of

space to cover you can connect to the

additional hubs and they will all work

together what's unique about these is

that nine do they have 3x3 mimo Wi-Fi

but you're also going to be getting this

triangular design so it's cool about

that is that now I do have full dual

band support for two point four out of

five to carats Wi-Fi but because they do

have this triangular shape you're going

to be getting some better range so you

have to think about a mesh network a

little bit differently than a standard

Wi-Fi network and that your devices are

going to be connecting and bouncing

between all of these depending on where

you are in the house but also only one

of these typically at least although

I'll talk a little bit more about that

later

is going to be connected to your router

so these also need to be able to

communicate between each other and the

3x3 plus the actual triangular design

makes all of this work a lot better than

a traditional 2x2 solution the

triangular design also helps the lie

right to project better Wi-Fi signal

into multiple story houses so this is

something that actually wouldn't mind

using in my own place

so I do use a mesh network in Google

Wi-Fi well for the most part it actually

does work really well one of my main

issues is the performance it's reliable

but a lot of times when I'm farther away

from the main base station I see

significantly reduced speeds in addition

while these will work wirelessly if you

have a newer place that has decent at

Wired around your house you actually can

use the Ethernet backhaul to connect

each one of these to the network

independently so that will give you some

better speeds because instead of them

having to talk to each other wirelessly

it can all be done via wired Ethernet

and you're going to be getting the

maximum speed so recurrent network setup

is pretty straightforward so a lot of

that surrounds this thus tornador that I

built with Linus a little over a year

ago which currently has over 150

terabytes of capacity that we use to

store all of our raw footage as well as

our completed projects so Jimmy has the

iMac Pro which is connected via 10 gig

Ethernet to this tornador so you

actually don't need the Wi-Fi that much

but for Ken and I we're actually pretty

much entirely relying on Wi-Fi

be able pull down files and that kind of

stuff so let's actually get this

that with our ups installed and our

cable modem disconnected the next step

is to install Lyra so all we do with

this guy is just plug it in with the

included power cable and plug it

directly into our cable modem so we plug

the Lyra into power as well as connect

our ethernet port into the land /when

then we just need to turn on our cable

modem and we will be up and running

hopefully the next step is to download

the Lyra app for iPhone or Android and

it should be as simple as just

connecting it like this excellent your

library mesh Wi-Fi node has been

discovered and there we go the Lyra is

set up so our next step is to take our

other base stations and spread them out

throughout the office so one of the main

things we actually need to keep in mind

is that we have to cover not only this

space but also the space across the hall

so the base stations is really

straightforward all you do is plug them

in and then inside the app they will be

added and then once everything is tied

together any firmware updates are done

you're going to be up and running inside

the app you can see that not only do we

have the main light up but we also do

have the secondary one in the office as

well as most importantly for what we

need here we have a Lyra set up in our

secondary studio so with Lyra we are

getting features like a eye protection

which is using Trend Micro to be able to

analyze any kind of threats on the

network but the most important question

is is it going to be faster in here now

let's find out please be faster please

be faster all right pings pretty quick

and oh yeah I do 120 hundred 30 Wow and

that's not serious uploads well 170 180

megabits so no it's not going to be the

full 300 megabits that's theoretically

possible but considering that we were at

2 3 and 84 megabits per second and here

before this has made a huge difference

so that my friends is how we fix the

Wi-Fi and our studios of course huge

shadow sues for sponsoring this video

and if you guys wanna go check out the

Lyra the link will be in the description