you've seen all the expensive Network crap that we're using around here to
break the 1 gbit network transfer speed barrier that we've been stuck with for
the last decade well today is not about
that it's about hitting your network at home with a much needed shot of
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check out the link in the video description to learn more okay so the first time I tried to
do something like this was way back in the NC Tech tip days with this video
here I had the right idea use a
relatively inexpensive multi-port network card with multiple cables
attached to it to achieve faster transfer speeds than what would be
possible with a single port and a single cable but the software implementation
wasn't as mature yet and the only scenario where I saw a real benefit was
with multiple clients hitting a single server connected in that way all at once
today we're going to actually do what I theorized would be freaking awesome all
those years ago and demonstrate a point-to-point transfer speed of more
than 1 gabit with about $100 worth of Hardware off of eBay assuming that
you've already got a couple of decent Windows 10 PCS so it starts with the
hardware shopping first you'll need a couple of quad Port network interface
cards or NYX I ended up with a couple of HP branded Intel Pro 1000 PT cards that
I snagged for about $30 each next you'll need a network switch that can actually
handle all of those plugs so the four port one built into your home router or
even a standalone eight Port desktop switch won't cut it if you want to plug
in anything else the good news is that for this
functionality you don't need a fancy Smart Switch so any cheap 16 or 24 Port
will do we used a dlink one that Johnny the network guy who helped us with this
project had lying around the last thing that you're going to need is 8 Ethernet
cables but if that comes as a surprise to you you probably shouldn't be taking
on any networking projects so our initial testing actually didn't go very
well we threw the two Cheapo quad Network Cards into my usual test bench
and my up Ed personal rig disabled Windows Firewall plugged in all the
Ethernet cables without actually worrying about plugging into the main
router for internet and then we wanted to see what would happen the answer was
nothing um they transferred at exactly
gigabit speeds um a disheartening result
given that Johnny had assured me that he had gotten it to work on his test
machines with no hassle whatsoever so we put new fresh Windows
10 installs on each and NADA same thing
what the heck time to bring up the big guns so Johnny ran home and got his
custom z170 ASRock board with an Intel Core i5 Skylake chip in it and a random
Lenovo pre-built with a core I 34130 dual core we put his Nicks into those a
couple of Intel i340 t4s that are a bit
more expensive than the ones I bought but still quite affordable and voila
transfer speeds in excess of 1 gbit not
particularly impressive still and frequently dipping below gigabit even
but the important thing that we're looking for here is activity on all four
interfaces and we got it from there
though it was time to keep tuning we wanted to eliminate the mechanical hard
drive in the Lenovo machine as a bottleneck so we threw a secondary SSD
in there big Improvement but still not
enough we needed to do more so we tore apart Johnny's Lenovo machine and put in
16 gigs of RAM so we could make a RAM disc and still not the results we needed
I mean this should have been capable of over 400 megabytes per second so we
started trying a lot of other random
stuff we wanted to boot the Lenovo hard drive off of my8 core machine we tried
installing fresh with Johnny's Windows 10 ISO to see if maybe that was the
issue we were having when before when I was trying to do it and in either of
those situations the multi-channel transfers that we wanted didn't work at
all all both of us were tearing our hair out at this point getting SMB
multichannel to work seems to be as much about luck as anything else and certain
combinations Hardware with certain Windows installs were working while
others weren't so in the end we did
manage to get Johnny's boot SSD from his Skylink personal rig to run on my x99
test bench but we were stuck with that Lenovo box with the core I3 the good
news is that that change and we actually
switched back to my cheap network cards at this point because the 340s didn't
seem to be making a difference anyway resulted in a much faster and more
consistent transfer just still not what it should be capable of and then we had
the Eureka moment SMB multi- Channel
leverages multiple CPU threads for
faster file transfers so I tried
adjusting the number of cores in my extreme Edition machine down to two to
see if that would slow things down it actually didn't but it did help me
observe the very high CPU usage on that
machine so the answer then was actually
the core I3 the equivalent I had tried to create on the other side so we turned
the extreme Edition back up to four cores eight threads to be similar to
what an Enthusiast with the core i7 would have then we swapped out the core
I3 and the Lenovo machine with a 4 790k and
boom just like that it worked the proof
is in the pudding SMB multi channel for under $100 can improve your network
transfer speeds and this is great for editing HD or 4K video files over a NZ
uh for improving the ability of a single file server to serve multiple clients or
even just making impatient people who hate waiting for access to network
resources happier and the more CPU
threads you have with a core i7 being ideal on both sides of the transfer the
faster it can go I do wish at this point
in the video that I could explain some of the inconsistencies that I observed
in getting SMB multi channel to work at all but maybe that's an investigation
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