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you've seen all the expensive Network crap that we're using around here to

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break the 1 gbit network transfer speed barrier that we've been stuck with for

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the last decade well today is not about

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that it's about hitting your network at home with a much needed shot of

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adrenaline on the

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cheap the simitar RGB from corser features 17 programmable buttons a

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12,000 DPI Optical sensor and a shape design for comfort in MOBA and MMO games

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check out the link in the video description to learn more okay so the first time I tried to

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do something like this was way back in the NC Tech tip days with this video

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here I had the right idea use a

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relatively inexpensive multi-port network card with multiple cables

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attached to it to achieve faster transfer speeds than what would be

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possible with a single port and a single cable but the software implementation

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wasn't as mature yet and the only scenario where I saw a real benefit was

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with multiple clients hitting a single server connected in that way all at once

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today we're going to actually do what I theorized would be freaking awesome all

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those years ago and demonstrate a point-to-point transfer speed of more

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than 1 gabit with about $100 worth of Hardware off of eBay assuming that

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you've already got a couple of decent Windows 10 PCS so it starts with the

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hardware shopping first you'll need a couple of quad Port network interface

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cards or NYX I ended up with a couple of HP branded Intel Pro 1000 PT cards that

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I snagged for about $30 each next you'll need a network switch that can actually

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handle all of those plugs so the four port one built into your home router or

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even a standalone eight Port desktop switch won't cut it if you want to plug

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in anything else the good news is that for this

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functionality you don't need a fancy Smart Switch so any cheap 16 or 24 Port

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will do we used a dlink one that Johnny the network guy who helped us with this

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project had lying around the last thing that you're going to need is 8 Ethernet

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cables but if that comes as a surprise to you you probably shouldn't be taking

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on any networking projects so our initial testing actually didn't go very

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well we threw the two Cheapo quad Network Cards into my usual test bench

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and my up Ed personal rig disabled Windows Firewall plugged in all the

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Ethernet cables without actually worrying about plugging into the main

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router for internet and then we wanted to see what would happen the answer was

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nothing um they transferred at exactly

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gigabit speeds um a disheartening result

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given that Johnny had assured me that he had gotten it to work on his test

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machines with no hassle whatsoever so we put new fresh Windows

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10 installs on each and NADA same thing

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what the heck time to bring up the big guns so Johnny ran home and got his

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custom z170 ASRock board with an Intel Core i5 Skylake chip in it and a random

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Lenovo pre-built with a core I 34130 dual core we put his Nicks into those a

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couple of Intel i340 t4s that are a bit

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more expensive than the ones I bought but still quite affordable and voila

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transfer speeds in excess of 1 gbit not

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particularly impressive still and frequently dipping below gigabit even

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but the important thing that we're looking for here is activity on all four

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interfaces and we got it from there

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though it was time to keep tuning we wanted to eliminate the mechanical hard

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drive in the Lenovo machine as a bottleneck so we threw a secondary SSD

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in there big Improvement but still not

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enough we needed to do more so we tore apart Johnny's Lenovo machine and put in

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16 gigs of RAM so we could make a RAM disc and still not the results we needed

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I mean this should have been capable of over 400 megabytes per second so we

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started trying a lot of other random

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stuff we wanted to boot the Lenovo hard drive off of my8 core machine we tried

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installing fresh with Johnny's Windows 10 ISO to see if maybe that was the

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issue we were having when before when I was trying to do it and in either of

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those situations the multi-channel transfers that we wanted didn't work at

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all all both of us were tearing our hair out at this point getting SMB

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multichannel to work seems to be as much about luck as anything else and certain

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combinations Hardware with certain Windows installs were working while

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others weren't so in the end we did

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manage to get Johnny's boot SSD from his Skylink personal rig to run on my x99

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test bench but we were stuck with that Lenovo box with the core I3 the good

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news is that that change and we actually

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switched back to my cheap network cards at this point because the 340s didn't

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seem to be making a difference anyway resulted in a much faster and more

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consistent transfer just still not what it should be capable of and then we had

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the Eureka moment SMB multi- Channel

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leverages multiple CPU threads for

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faster file transfers so I tried

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adjusting the number of cores in my extreme Edition machine down to two to

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see if that would slow things down it actually didn't but it did help me

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observe the very high CPU usage on that

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machine so the answer then was actually

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the core I3 the equivalent I had tried to create on the other side so we turned

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the extreme Edition back up to four cores eight threads to be similar to

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what an Enthusiast with the core i7 would have then we swapped out the core

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I3 and the Lenovo machine with a 4 790k and

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boom just like that it worked the proof

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is in the pudding SMB multi channel for under $100 can improve your network

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transfer speeds and this is great for editing HD or 4K video files over a NZ

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uh for improving the ability of a single file server to serve multiple clients or

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even just making impatient people who hate waiting for access to network

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resources happier and the more CPU

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threads you have with a core i7 being ideal on both sides of the transfer the

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faster it can go I do wish at this point

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in the video that I could explain some of the inconsistencies that I observed

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in getting SMB multi channel to work at all but maybe that's an investigation

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for another day for now that's the hardware you need and that's the results

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that you can achieve which leads us pretty well into our sponsor honor who

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