you know it feels a little ironic that so many years into this whole tech
youtuber thing after having upgraded my house to 10 gig networking
seven years ago so that we could edit our video off of a
centralized storage server i still
haven't upgraded my house to 10 gigabit networking and the reason is that up
until now it's simply been too expensive
to justify the cost not because the network cards are expensive not because
the switches are expensive or even because the cabling's expensive the
problem is that in the past if you wanted a cheap switch you had to buy
super expensive cables and if you wanted to use cheap cabling that you can get
for what'd we pay for this stuff i think it was like 160 for the outdoor and 180
canadian so that's like a thousand feet you want cheap cabling oh well now you
need a really expensive switch this changes the game this micro tick cr
s312-4c plus 8x g-rm wow
terrible name is just 500 us dollars for a 12 port 10
gigabit switch and Jake and i are 10 gig in this house
it's rj45 yeah yeah yeah the like compatible kind yeah
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so in front of me is pretty much everything we're going to need we got our switch we got our connectors we got
our crimper because we might have to do some custom length cables here
um Ethernet cards 10 000 fluke tester
what yeah so i asked the floor i didn't pay for that did i no you didn't um they
sent it to us just to borrow i wanted to be able to actually certify the runs we
do so we can make sure that 100 they're ready to go and they will be
capable of 10 gigs certify the runs yeah
so just a pretty simple one gig switch
uh PoE switch so that handles my access point and soon to be my ring doorbell
then we've got the two gaming desktops nas and then a couple ups
so do any of these have 10 gig already uh this one does this one doesn't okay
what about your nest no actually now that i think about it it does not so i
brought two cards so that's good now one small challenge is i don't
actually remember where we ran the cable for the media center like how it gets
out of this room um so we're probably going to have to retrace our steps there
because that is not a 10 gig rated cable it was cat 5e we couldn't get cat 6a
that was outdoor rated easily or cheaply at the time so because i didn't want to
hardwire in a bunch of direct attached copper sfp plus cables this switch's
release was really the magic bullet that it took for me to finally go 10 gigs so
it's a 12 port switch you can see four of them are actually shared with these
sfp plus ports but we don't have to use those what's cool about this for like a
budget home upgrade though is that if you did have something resembling like a
home server room like this where you've got a couple of machines that are in close proximity you can get sfp plus
network cards for super cheap and the short run direct attached copper cables
are actually not that bad so if you already have some existing stuff built
in then you can decide okay i'll use you know these eight as Ethernet only and
then these ones well hey if i have some sfp plus gear i can go ahead and plug
this in now we have never actually booted up this
switch and i'm not super familiar with microtex equipment but my understanding
is this is a smart switch isn't it smart switch yeah like managed yeah
manage switch yeah yeah
my camera operator and uh Jake asked for some water
and uh maybe next time they'll bring a Linus tech tips water bottle LTT
store.com this one's also insulated though and yes in fact gigabit is
gigabit and no amount of having a 10 gig nick in your machine
is going to make that any faster than gigabit unless you also have a 10 gig
switch so we need to go ahead and get that installed so let's rip that
thing out and it's gone
rip so what's funny about this is this is
actually not that dissimilar to what we did for the water cooled network switch
project one big plate with a heat pipe kind of
carrying heat over to some kind of cooling element here so in this case
we've got two 40 millimeter fans and uh just kind of like a
that's a really weird heat sink isn't it that's not too loud i'll give her a
second yeah it's audible with that said i think
he also did clarify that um it gets particularly loud under load and
we're not doing anything with it right now to be clear we're talking about patrick from serve the home great guy
great site check him out that stuff yeah we've uh got one 10 gig link here so we
can tell because the color is green on this one instead of orange it should be
the one to my desktop what the hell do i have on my network
that's huawei maybe this thing
oh that's why it's so cheap
the chinese government spying on you huawei is an Android phone oh that's
right my sister has an on her phone do you think we have to go through the management port and turn on
the managed interface like it should still show as a device on the network
like unless well it doesn't giving itself its own ip honestly it doesn't
matter anyway does it because i'm going to use it as a dumb switch
like what i just want to transfer files faster between my computer and my nas
like
okay so then i need to shut off my nas so that we can put a 10 gig card in it
so Jake is still trying to get into the management interface on this thing
meanwhile i am going to upgrade the server long time viewers will probably
recognize this as old wanik
oh yeah i'm coming out oh my back
it's a z390 pro ASUS workstation board
with a um 9900k
i forget how much RAM i put in it i'm pretty sure it's 32 gigs of uh
i have more RAM and my nas than yours rip jaws memory yeah but i have more of
course i'm actually not running any vms
for one vm one vm so i don't actually have any screws um
please look we weren't using it
i know for a fact we weren't using it it completely blocks all the airflow so
we've got two 10 gig clients now just need to
you know oh unread have it go yeah it might not like auto
do it oh no
um you might want to plug it back in the regular one so we can reconfigure it all
balls or maybe plug them both in yeah
our status thus far we have plugged in a network switch
i've plugged things into the network switch okay do you want to see if it's
up put a PCIe card in and
that's about it oh yeah there we go is that it right there
yes so yeah we basically just need to kind of replace this run then so the spot
where Jake is is basically just right on the other side of that wall we went the
super lame-o way and we just went right into the
back with like an rj45 connector now this is a cat5e rated
uh plate here so hopefully we're good without that at any
rate i guess we're just gonna have to cut this off and pull it back through
boop okay go ahead and pull oh there we go um
do you know where where does this go uh that actually goes right up to that
crawl space now seems like a good time to take a look at the differences though
between cat 5e and cat 6a so we know cat6a is rated for higher frequencies
and therefore higher data rates but what's the physical difference because
the conductors themselves are both copper they're all eight conductor
twisted pair um they're actually the same gauge so it
comes down to the way that the cable itself is designed so aside from the
sheathing there's this plastic insert here it's in like a cross pattern that
keeps each twisted pair separate as it's running down the length of the
cable so that's why these will do 10 gig
over 100 meters whereas cat5e you're lucky if it does 10 gig over like
i don't know what five meters 10 meters and even then i wouldn't recommend it
so is there any spots that are not safe to walk on uh oh yeah so if you want to
go through my ceiling like a pro then you you step in here without prior
prior training that's what dennis did dennis put his foot through my through
my garage ceiling oh i don't think that's gonna hold dude
that's i'm pulling pretty hard it's it's so close ah
oh it disconnected no it just got through
oh there we go it's through it's through through okay i was able to push it a bit
oh holy crap there's a lot of mouse droppings in here
but there's so many nails sticking through the the strapping for my roof i
can't oh i hate this
ah so much spider web ow just hit a nail
pushing it up more i got it i got it hold on keep going
whoever said being a nerd is easy look at this
these were still taped together the original cat 5e cable broke
not crazy now all we got to do is crimp an end on this thing and
theoretically we have 10 gig down to the media center boom
all three of our Ethernet interfaces are
working so all we're gonna do is we're gonna just add all of our interfaces to bond zero
which is going to just use them all for failover uh now theoretically i can
unplug the one gig connection and we'll have 10 gig to the server uh oh nice
underwear by the way lttstore.com why do you why do you do
this to me this is the second time all right so now it's time to actually
terminate one of our cables here this cat6a is our outdoor specked uv
resistant stuff so it's got a really thick insulation so you basically just
put this on spin it around it's even got a hole for that i'm totally doing this
from the wrong side there we go oh and you don't actually even really need to
pull off this much this is like a lot of extra wire you could you could get away
with about two inches so we're going to start by peeling back our individual
pairs take off the separator on the inside i'm actually going to throw the
boot on the end here the first sort of step is to
untwist them we want to actually use the butt of a screwdriver to straighten them
out a bit um but we're going to use the 568b spec
so while we're lining up the the colors how we want them to go into the
connector it's good to keep in mind that you need to keep it as clean as possible
because we want the connector to be as close to the insulation as possible and
if it's all bunched up at the end there you're not going to be able to get a clean snug fit all right so our cat6a
cables unlike cat5e you can see inside there that there's
holes for the connectors and they're actually staggered rather than just being a straight line like this so as we
put these conductors into this bar it's going to move some of them up so they
can actually fit inside the end of the connector
make sure it's right up to the end you should be able to see
inside there the bar will meet up with the plastic inside the termination when
you're ready crimp it shut and we're done
this time i've got seven gigs of test files let's go ahead and copy that over
hey not bad this is only on a couple of raid one
SATA ssds so that was
higher than i was expecting but also okay
i guess we good now so that's it now that we've tested and we've got a good
10 gig connection down to the media center here you might be wondering why
do you need 10 gig down there well that's where our xgu 2008 switch comes
in this has two 10 gig ports and eight
one gig ports so the point of that is that you've got a 10 gig trunk and every
one of the individual devices down here whether it's an NVIDIA shield or a smart
tv or gaming pc or whatever the case may be each device down here gets its own
one gigabit connection even if none of them are taking advantage of 10 gig and
of course it's two 10 gig ports so if i
did get a gaming pc that was 10 gig then i could always add that as well
we've got these couplers instead of the more typical keystone at the back things
looks like we got a 10 gig link so now we just need to test it like for reals
with our fluke doodad Jake do we know how to use that thing um
somewhat it should be able to tell us whether or
not this cable is ready for 10 gig base t a pass look at that
so we check our wire map we can see that the wiring is all matching on both ends
nobody messed that up and see our length of 46 feet
all of our numbers look good and the resistance also good
hey it's not money but it's a working cable
so that's it then switch upgrade a couple network adapters needed upgrading
and a couple of our cable runs needed upgrading and we're 10 gig up in this
biz so goodbye cat5e hello cat6a and
what was the total damage then so we've got 500 for the new 10 gig switch
assuming that you need an entire spool of cat6a cabling that was about 150 bucks
from infinity cables then there's a couple bucks here and there for your
termination ends your wall jacks your wall plates and all that kind of stuff
so all told depending on whether or not you need a 10 gig switch for you know a
whole bunch of devices that are in one place you're looking at under 850 us
dollars or a little over a thousand dollars for
10 gigging your house now that might seem like a lot of money
but compared to what 10 gigging your place would have cost even just three to
five years ago it is pretty darn affordable i mean back then even on ebay
for second-hand hardware you were paying you know 300 plus dollars for a single
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