so it's finally the day we are going from gigabit fiber internet to 10
gigabit internet on our own
dedicated wavelength so behind this door
is my friends danny and chad from ital who are going to be helping me with this
little upgrade by the end of which we will have literally 10
times the bandwidth that we have currently to the main harbor exchange in
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okay so step one uh collect underpants
step two we need to look at these two electrical
rooms this one is building a is that correct
and then we also need to take a look inside the electrical room of building f
because my understanding is that maybe you could help find it for me the main
fiber connection to telus is coming into
this building is that right yeah so here we found it this is the telus fiber
optic cable that is coming in from the street this is a it's a beefy it's a
beefy boy but you can actually see there's a reason for that
here we are so that right there is all
of the fiber strands that are protected not just by this orange and blue shea
thing but then also by this thick black sheathing around the outside so we can
tell three pairs so each one of these is a
send and receive pair but that doesn't necessarily mean that you can only have
three fiber optic connections running into this entire complex of business
units so one of the pairs here has actually been
there we go uh run into this guy so this is a cwdm and this takes a single 10
gigabit wavelength and then it is splitting it out into ten one gigabit
connections so our old connection actually runs off of this puppy right
here and then we just had two entire pairs that's what that would
be called dark fiber is that correct we're just not doing not doing anything
at all so now aha you can see here minus media group
gets its own so we're running off of three and four that are dedicated just
to us now we're gonna take ah there we go this right here and we're gonna plug
in the one that's sitting up on the top and instead of going into our gigabit
gear it's now gonna go into our 10 gig gear
now you guys said this was some kind of switch what was the brand of it
so what this sienna switch does is it allows itel to constantly monitor the
speed that we're getting make sure that nothing's going down there's no hiccups
or anything like that and then it's basically just going to pass through
over to building f where it will then carry over to our server room so to isp
or data center guys who work with this kind of stuff all the time i might as well be making a video about a
screwdriver i suppose but for those of you who don't i want to take this
opportunity because we're not ready to cut over to this yet we've got to make
sure that the transceiver on the other end in our server room matches this one
before we can go ahead and just pop the fibers in i wanted to show you
guys exactly what kind of gear we're looking at so this is a long-haul 10
gigabit transceiver so our fibers go in here
and then they are converted to copper signals that your computer or your
router or your switch in this case can understand and there's all kinds of
different types of these things everything from
10 kilometer long range to 40 kilometer long range to short range ones to ones
that are designed to carry a single wavelength the ones that are designed to
carry multiple wavelengths and the main difference for this one is that it's
going to be laser rather than led which is what you'd
normally use for just like one of the cheaper ones you get off ebay just you
know running from your server room to your you know editing room or whatever
else and the strength of the signal so
it's super bright because it's designed to go over very long distances you want
to make sure they're not mismatched because even if you have two long range ones if you've got a very long range one
and it's too bright for the distance of the cable you can actually get
attenuation so it's all dark magic to me but it's
pretty freaking cool okay so now we're headed over to the
electrical room of our building where honestly nothing really happens other
than that it's just like spliced together basically is that right
yeah okay so this is a good opportunity though to explain the difference between
having your own dedicated wavelength and having your own
dedicated fiber run so even though that fiber that's over in
building a is going to go all the way out to the road and to tell us his
nearest like like what would what would that be called
a splice point it's going to be combined with other pairs over there and it's
only that light wavelength that is actually dedicated to us along that path
and that path is dynamic like if if someone's you know digging a post and
cut something or whatever it's going to get automatically routed around but it's
still pretty much a direct path
tens of kilometers away to harbor center
and what we're expecting to see is somewhere in the neighborhood of 10
gigabit per second and about one millisecond of latency so you guys
actually had one of your texts did i overhear someone ran a benchmark and
what are we looking at from your switch
9.8 gig well where's my other point too
you bastards i can explain where it is yeah can you can you okay all right you
want to explain it no not on camera you don't want to explain it on camera all
right all right some something about tcp testing this is the thing about internet
service providers you know there's always an excuse there's no oh there's overhead overhead
okay so now we're over in our building so
building a was the first one of this complex so that's where everything comes
in from the street that makes sense so we've got one black
cable here we go that comes all the way up here
and then into what would this be like a splicer box
like what would you call this sure i'm calling it a splicer box but he's
splicing cabinet maybe it's detecting around and it doesn't matter anyway so
you can see here all our fiber strands are
separated here and this would normally be closed for protection and then it's
going right there we're the only ones in this building with fiber internet
obviously and then our yellow one goes into this orange sheath and then all the
way back down here to unit 102 so 101 102 103 and 104 are
all Linus media group but that's where our server room is so now we're gonna go
over there so now we're in our server room where that orange uh sheath that we saw in the
other building comes in from the top and then it comes in the back of our cabinet
and plugs into this guy just a patch panel okay cool so then we're actually
going to continue to use this exactly the same way we used to is that right
now the one extra piece of equipment that we had before that we will no
longer need actually is this mrv right here which was essentially a media
converter so we were taking this fiber out of our fiber patch panel and then we
reconfigured this guy so that we could run this copper connection into our
pfsense router which is actually over on
the back of our rack so this just goes away and i i get a you back
yes good fantastic so then danny
basically what you need to check is if these are
long-haul transceivers or short-range ones is that right not these not these
we need to check your new transceiver to make sure it's 10 gig my new transceiver
which one's that in your pf sense 10 gig
yeah it's just an sfp plus port so there's no transceiver okay then we'll
give you a transient yay okay so i've got up the menu and i think
i know which ones they are i think it's igb0 or one
i don't know which though so we're just it's gonna be a little bit of trial and
error here um so next step then is
message everyone and tell them the internet's going down
internet going down warning
and five four three
two one so i tell tells me normally this is a
two-person operation so you can just like both move them at the same time but
um we wanted to film it we only had one camera person available so i guess
everyone gets to sit inside in the dark of no internet they're both doing things
look danny's plugging in the other one so there we go so what have you moved
over all i did was plug the cable in okay so that old one gig hardware is
technically all still there the one gig circuit's still up in parallel we know
it works then we tear it down then we tear it down got it so now theoretically
over on the other end we're 10 gig okay
so theoretically i should see like some kind of led indicator on that
if it's working i guess right nothing so far so there's six rj45s
and two sfp plus right the smp plus are
not showing up in this place okay
so worst case scenario there is a pci x
pci express expansion slot on this thing and we definitely have sfp plus cards
that was definitely showing ixl 2 and 3 before though i'm sure
did they just die
what is this it doesn't actually say what it's trying to find
arp requests cannot find matching address what is that even five reboot
the system yeah let's reboot normally so while it was booting up ix2 and
three showed as all the devices were initializing
so uh they exist
they're just not showing up in the list i think the problem might be
that for lan interface i entered ixl0 instead of ixl0.1
shouldn't matter well
it's still freaking out about that 10.20.0.74 nonsense i'm rebooting on the
bright side we have a link now that's good thank you danny let's thanks
danny no pillow there's no update
holy crap i think it actually kept the
configuration from last time look at this
when is ixl3 it has an ip
okay so when interface
um you guys want to have a look at this it appears to be up
okay so we're not sure exactly what happened but the latest update is that
uh itels guys are seeing our Mac Address
what is that Anthony
why did you have those why were those aggregated i don't know
on our internet's up
legs
got leg killed today so
let the record show i actually did know what i was doing i
just didn't know that someone had tampered with my i mean sort of knew what i was doing
like i i could have checked this before they got here what was happening was two
of our eight interfaces just weren't showing up in this list because
there was a link aggregation group set up that was showing up but we didn't
recognize because we were looking for ixl3
so everything that i thought was supposed to happen with everyone arguing
with me where i was like no no blah blah blah it'll show up and all this stuff
and blah blah blah blah blah the only thing i did wrong was i bunged up
plugging in the fiber so that it wasn't lighting up since
then it's been i mean there's a there's
an element of user error you know what i'm sure all the network admins in there
the ones that aren't telling us that pfsense is totally unsuitable for 10 gig
are are telling me why i'm wrong but anyway the point is
you know what
bam it's working all right so what we want to do now is
ping our gateway and see if we're getting the advertised one millisecond
uh ping times so you're at percent here danny fifty percent part of that
response from your road oh yeah oh you're blaming my router now oh i see
how it's gonna be so we can actually see here whether we should blame my uh my
router or not it looks like our
send time is point three milliseconds
and then our round trip time is right in the neighborhood of two milliseconds
there so we can see that by refreshing it here it's really consistent
dang so it's all working we've got internet
but one of the coolest things about our sub two millisecond round trip time to
harbor center is that we could basically
have direct layer two access to
anything else that's in there so if we wanted to connect directly to a cdn or
if we wanted to put our own servers in there i mean i guess that's probably
expensive but theoretically we could do it right we just have a 10 gigabit pipe to harbor
center that happens to be bringing us internet now the way you explain it to
me we basically have five and a half gigabit to the broader internet but 10
gigabit to anything that's at vanix is
that right or harbor center it's your wavelength
okay five gigs of internet five and a half
six six with overhead sure
so all that's left now is to run a speed test
but we have a slight problem we're going to press go and we're going to discover
that speed test relies on the server at the other end
having the amount of bandwidth that you are testing for
so we just maxed out
someone's gigabit server somewhere because the reality of it is
if anyone had a multi-thousand dollar a month internet connection a 10 gig
connection they'd be using it for something it's not just sitting there
waiting for me to speed test i mean apparently it's got more down than it
does up which is fascinating but uh poor
urban fibers like what are you guys doing to me right now
so now what how do we test this thing what even do danny
multiple sources i mean you know what
oh a torrent a torrent could work well i wouldn't
know anything about torrenting danny you know what
i'm gonna call two and a half gig up okay for now and i'm just gonna do like
a fun test okay because technically google is in harbor center right so why
don't we upload something so slight correction google is peered there but
either way we should be looking at some pretty serious speeds here 2.6 gigs
let's upload it to youtube week week youtube you're weak all right we're
gonna have to find something else like what can we what can we like
hit with this
iperf test yeah i need that running on the thing
remotely so basically there's nothing that we can do to test this
other than hand this connection over to the Floatplane guys
and give them a server here in our server room and then do like
a live stream or something so maybe that's something that we'll do in the near future and see how hard we can hit
this thing in the meantime though massive thanks to danny and the itel
folks chad coming out here and helping us hook this up massive thanks for the
discount i guess it wasn't that substantial still very expensive but
they claim they're not making any money on it so you know
you know it's the word of an isp so they're pretty nice guys but
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