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so the first question you might ask me about this unboxing is lonus why are you

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unboxing a network switch could there possibly be anything more boring to do

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an unboxing video of and the answer that I might give you is a yes there is

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something that could possibly be more boring to do an unboxing about and I'm

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actually going to do one about this hard drive okay so so yes there could be

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something more more boring and the other question of why am I doing an un boxing

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of a network switch actually I don't know if I ever posed that question but

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uh why am I doing this is because this is a green network switch so green Net

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Technology reduces power consumption by up to 70% how does it do that well one

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of the ways it does that is it uses energy efficient Parts okay so this is a

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trend net te s8g it's an eight Port

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switch one of the other ways it does it is even if you have only two ports

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plugged into an older switch it's actually going to be powering all of the

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ports this guy as part of their green initiative does not even send power to

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the ports that are not being used or sends very very very little so you can

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reduce power consumption that way by not actually powering the ports that aren't

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being used you can build a high performance energy efficient gigabit

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Network in minutes probably less than minutes probably about a minute if all

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the computers are close together and you can like unplug your old switch and then

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plug in all the other ones quickly uh it has a sturdy metal construction with

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plug-and-play installation and it is powered by an energy star qualified

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adapter for a better environment very nice okay so aha delivers less power to

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unused ports they're going to explain it all for me delivers less power when

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devices are off hey so if that computer's off it delivers less power

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and delivers less power with shorter cable length look at that so if you have

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a shorter cable length it will just deliver less power and if you have a

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longer one hey it can deliver more power too whereas a regular switch will give

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full power to every cable length that

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you have attached to it so that is what Green net is all about let's take this

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guy out and have a quick look at it I mean Trend net has a pretty good

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reputation for switches so you can rest pretty much assur the performance is

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going to be good and there's not much to worry about as far as that goes comes

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with four little rubber feet that you can install on the switch should you so

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desire here is your energy star qualified AC todc

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adapter okay it is made by leader

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Electronics Inc and it is capable of providing 1 amp at 7.5 Vols so there you

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go here's a quick installation guide that probably shows you something along

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the lines of how to plug a power plug in and how to plug an Ethernet cable in so

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I don't think they're too interested in that and then we'll have a look at the

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switch itself up so it's quite heavy because it does have a a metal casing I

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really like the look of trend Net's new products I don't know if you remember their goofy old uh blue plastic ones but

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these look much better you got a nice little green stripe so that indicates

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Ates a green product from trenet regardless of what kind of casing it's

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using if it's got that green then you know it is a green networking product

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well here is the gigabit switch model number here is the power indicator here

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is the link indicator for all of the ports on the back as well as an

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indicator light to show you just what speed they are connected at so if they

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use the standard scheme it's probably oh

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I'm just guessing here but it's probably green for fasty EET and orange for gabit

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Ethernet and I really hope that's right here's the overall specs by the way

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guys okay I hope that was interesting all right then we have some a wall

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mounting thing down here at the bottom then we have some ventilation holes on

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the side some ventilation holes on the other side and the business end of

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things so we have 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 gbit Ethernet

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ports 1 DC power in and that pretty much

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covers it thank you for checking out my unboxing of the

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te s8g Green net switch from trenet

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