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now you might assume that everyone who works at Linus media group is super tech

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savvy but you'd assume wrong so let's take a look at Colton's game

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streaming setup so this is it

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this is the room where quite literally dozens of people tune in to watch Colton

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game stream and ignore his wife every week

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oh what's this i see

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that's a factory router that look at all the cat hair in this thing

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so this is it Colton

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this is how you ended up with the free router upgrade from netgear you betcha

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so netgear wanted to sponsor a video where we took the LMG employee with the

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worst networking setup and got them up to speed

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and uh i think we have chosen wisely

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in some ways Colton's wi-fi woes are a

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bit of a first world problem now a lot of people live in apartments where all

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the different competing access points make it so that it's hard to get a

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decent amount of air time so you can get uh adequate latency for gaming or enough

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bandwidth for things like netflix streaming but Colton has a bit of a

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different problem he lives so far out in the sticks that it's a non-issue but the

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thing is you gotta have pretty decent range or you're gonna drop your signal

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so let's run around and take a look at what some of the problems are here okay

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so problem number one is that on Colton or should i say caltane's

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stream um it's become a bit of a running gag

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that his internet connection just drops out outright but the thing is you're

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actually plugged in via a wire so is this thing just that bad that you

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just lose your stream even though the so is the internet working like other

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devices still work most of the time yes but the real issue from a like household

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harmony standpoint is not Colton's gaming rig let's face it his wife

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doesn't care if his game streaming setup is working it's netflix so especially when Colton's

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streaming there are issues with netflix not just

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not defaulting to the utmost of quality we actually unfortunately missed an

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opportunity where we were really watching this punch in and out of high

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and low resolution here but that's the thing about wi-fi for some reason why is

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your tv hooked up via wi-fi can't run cables okay it doesn't it doesn't matter

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it doesn't matter anyway the point is that especially while Colton's streaming

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steph has issues with netflix and that's when it matters the most when she's

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being ignored when all she has is netflix so if netflix doesn't work

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now what so just to get a baseline for what our

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wi-fi signal looks like around the house we're using a tool called wi-fi analyzer

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here to have a look at both the 2.4 g

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and 5g bands so overall signal strength from within the

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house actually not too bad

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and actually that's bizarre even out in the yard the signal strength is pretty

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darn good Colton that thing must just really suck if you're dropping your

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connection all right maybe we just need to get on with this i was actually going

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to connect to their wi-fi and do some

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speed testing but um the the piece of paper with the password

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has apparently fallen down next to the fridge uh because the magnet came off

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and they never changed the password on their access point because

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for shame Colton wow this is actually a really significant upgrade you're going

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from like zero to basically top of the line for an ac

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router so this is the xr500 from netgear and

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what makes it special aside from just having powerful hardware in it is that

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it's running douma os which is made by a company called

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netduma and their goal was to create a

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network appliance operating system that has advanced functionality some of which

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that you wouldn't normally find in like a home router but more importantly make

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all those functions accessible even to people who don't know a ton

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about networking and overall it's getting rave reviews even just from

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the netduma routers and i'm really excited to see what a company like

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netgear who's already well known for their powerful home access points is

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able to do with it oh my god the stock password for this thing is rustic road

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168. it's like they knew who it was for this

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is great so you know what i think the real test is uh here we are in the doom

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os dashboard can Colton do it

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what do i got to do well first you need to set your

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wi-fi to something that uh is not rustic road 168 here

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so uh here okay do you want me to yeah you drive okay i'll drop

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ah so i did the thing funniest thing for a while i live in a cul-de-sac

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and so i called my ssid the corner house so that people be like

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which one is the corner house that's good it's not that funny that's great

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i'm gonna do what if i did like hate my neighbors

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wow not bad i'm gonna do it well i don't care okay they won't nobody uses Wi-Fi

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around okay do it did we do it you did it

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all right that really wasn't the point of today's video though anyway that's

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that's fine that's just so that now we can actually get on your wi-fi oh cool

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hey not bad

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hey Colton yeah what's up good news what's the good news you're like uh

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eight percent faster than you're supposed to be

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on the download anyway dang also your wi-fi is as fast as you're wired now now

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we're outside though and

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i mean it's acceptable like we're still getting over 100

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megabit down actually that's not bad but uh

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hey netgear was like yeah we want this place to have like amazing wi-fi

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everywhere and we were like okay so we're gonna put a range extender in yeah

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this is like perfectly fine for whatever you're doing right now

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planning ltx presumably

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yes in a perfect world you would actually hook up a range extender via

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wired Ethernet because that way you're not using a precious spectrum

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communicating from the range extender

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back to your router but this particular one this is the x6s is

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actually a tri-band wi-fi range extender so since most devices

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cannot actually use three bands at once you can have a dedicated band as like

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uh a back channel and then you've got dedicated bands

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for out there in your yard for whatever devices you're using so you use one five

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gigahertz for your back haul and then another five gigahertz out there and

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your two and a half gigahertz there so we can actually put this anywhere we

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want as long as it's close enough to your game streaming room and it has a

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power outlet oh thank god yeah so you want it in that corner because it

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also happens to have an Ethernet switch on it so this looks like a place where

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people sit and use their computer and then they could use it with a wire

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this works i just used wps because i was

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lazy so i'm going to put that there and i'm going to go back outside

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faster yeah yeah i mean i don't know what i was expecting but it's like

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double the speed hey

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he got me i high-fived Colton i congratulated him good job Colton thanks

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you rock man and now your internet rocks just as much

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as you do okay so now that everything's working we

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can actually poke around in the software a little bit starting with the device

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manager which is this cool map of your entire network so you've got your router

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here at its heart and then you've got your wired devices so philips hue and

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desktop gd9 whatever that's this guy and then you've got your 2.4 and 5 gigahertz

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wi-fi from inside here you can see any details about the device so in the case

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of my phone it managed to grab my Mac Address uh the name of the device the

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type of the device it knew it was a phone and if you know that's not your

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phone you can go ahead and quickly block if it's like your neighbor piggybacking

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off your wi-fi or something along those lines then

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once you got your map of devices you can actually play around with them a fair

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bit in the qos tab so they've got a feature called anti-buffer bloat which

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basically will detect well you can actually set it to go all the time but

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i'd recommend leaving it on detecting it'll detect high priority traffic which

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would be game traffic and then when it detects that you can set a certain

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amount of your overall bandwidth to leave a loan to reserve for that high

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priority traffic and then another amount let's say uh you know 70

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for everything else on the network so that way you're still going to be able

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to use netflix but your gaming packets are going to be able to jump the queue

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another cool thing here is this little graphical bandwidth allocation now qos

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is not a new concept it's present on everything from entry level up to

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enterprise grade routers but having it laid out graphically like

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this is pretty cool so we can say okay philips hue you get one percent of the

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bandwidth you are like super not important

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versus let's just go ahead and update that

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desktop gt9 whatever you get like

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i don't know 75 of the upload because that's really where most of the

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uploading in this house happens then we could also take uh you know my

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one plus seven we could say okay you get you know two percent so now you can see

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that our download speed is significantly less than the 300 megabit we had before

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and we're only getting about half of the upload allocated to us the other cool

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gaming centric feature is called geofilter and what this basically does

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is in the old days you used to just refresh a list and you could see all the

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servers for a given game and connect to the one that has um really low ping

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but nowadays it's all matchmaking based so you don't really get to do that what

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this does is on your router's level it will actually block

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any game servers that are too far away such that they're going to result in a

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less than satisfactory gaming experience so you just set whatever radius you want

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so i could say i don't want to connect to anything that's less than

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a thousand kilometers so basically i'm only going to be playing on like west

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coast north america servers and then we go ahead and add a device

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this guy right here and what games okay so this is cross

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platform actually most of these by the way call of duty's pc battlefield cross

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platform we'll go ahead and say yeah call of duty i don't want to play on a

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server that is more than a thousand kilometers away pretty cool

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right so there you have it guys that was how Colton managed to scan his work into

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giving him a free network upgrade um

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yeah you can i guess you can you can hold on to this

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so i never really understood that upgrading your router really mattered

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until this project some of the doom os features are really cool like their geo

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filter i use it when i'm playing rainbow six siege early on like a saturday

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morning when i'm you know i'm on the west coast servers and i'm getting paired up with people from the eu so

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using that feature actually manages to get me in servers that are actually on

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the west coast which is really good and if you use a vpn you can actually set up

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on the router instead of having it on each device that you own that way you

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use doom os to specify which program should go through the vpn and which

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don't so it doesn't slow down your game so some other cool points is that netflix is a lot more stable now we have

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much better coverage in our backyard plus steph can have a wired internet

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connection when she uses her laptop in our kitchen because the extender has two

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gigabit Ethernet ports on it plus there's four more on the router itself

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back in my office other extenders often create a separate network so you have to

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connect to a different network in each part of the house which is super annoying but this router and extender

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automatically forms a single mesh network so there's just seamless roaming

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between them so thanks to netgear for sponsoring Colton's streams not cutting

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out all the time very valuable caltane on twitch okay

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