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you know it feels a little ironic that so many years into this whole tech

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youtuber thing after having upgraded my house to 10 gig networking

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seven years ago so that we could edit our video off of a

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centralized storage server i still

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haven't upgraded my house to 10 gigabit networking and the reason is that up

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until now it's simply been too expensive

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to justify the cost not because the network cards are expensive not because

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the switches are expensive or even because the cabling's expensive the

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problem is that in the past if you wanted a cheap switch you had to buy

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super expensive cables and if you wanted to use cheap cabling that you can get

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for what'd we pay for this stuff i think it was like 160 for the outdoor and 180

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canadian so that's like a thousand feet you want cheap cabling oh well now you

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need a really expensive switch this changes the game this micro tick cr

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s312-4c plus 8x g-rm wow

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terrible name is just 500 us dollars for a 12 port 10

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gigabit switch and Jake and i are 10 gig in this house

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it's rj45 yeah yeah yeah the like compatible kind yeah

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and the video is brought to you by glasswire with glasswire you can see

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what's going in and out of your pc when you're connected to the internet that

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way you can find out if there's any suspicious apps that are behaving badly

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use offer code Linus to get 25 off glasswire at the link in the video

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description

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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

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our crimper because we might have to do some custom length cables here

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um Ethernet cards 10 000 fluke tester

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what yeah so i asked the floor i didn't pay for that did i no you didn't um they

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sent it to us just to borrow i wanted to be able to actually certify the runs we

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do so we can make sure that 100 they're ready to go and they will be

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capable of 10 gigs certify the runs yeah

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so just a pretty simple one gig switch

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uh PoE switch so that handles my access point and soon to be my ring doorbell

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then we've got the two gaming desktops nas and then a couple ups

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so do any of these have 10 gig already uh this one does this one doesn't okay

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what about your nest no actually now that i think about it it does not so i

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brought two cards so that's good now one small challenge is i don't

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actually remember where we ran the cable for the media center like how it gets

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out of this room um so we're probably going to have to retrace our steps there

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because that is not a 10 gig rated cable it was cat 5e we couldn't get cat 6a

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that was outdoor rated easily or cheaply at the time so because i didn't want to

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hardwire in a bunch of direct attached copper sfp plus cables this switch's

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release was really the magic bullet that it took for me to finally go 10 gigs so

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it's a 12 port switch you can see four of them are actually shared with these

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sfp plus ports but we don't have to use those what's cool about this for like a

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budget home upgrade though is that if you did have something resembling like a

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home server room like this where you've got a couple of machines that are in close proximity you can get sfp plus

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network cards for super cheap and the short run direct attached copper cables

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are actually not that bad so if you already have some existing stuff built

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in then you can decide okay i'll use you know these eight as Ethernet only and

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then these ones well hey if i have some sfp plus gear i can go ahead and plug

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this in now we have never actually booted up this

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switch and i'm not super familiar with microtex equipment but my understanding

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is this is a smart switch isn't it smart switch yeah like managed yeah

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manage switch yeah yeah

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my camera operator and uh Jake asked for some water

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and uh maybe next time they'll bring a Linus tech tips water bottle LTT

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store.com this one's also insulated though and yes in fact gigabit is

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gigabit and no amount of having a 10 gig nick in your machine

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is going to make that any faster than gigabit unless you also have a 10 gig

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switch so we need to go ahead and get that installed so let's rip that

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thing out and it's gone

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rip so what's funny about this is this is

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actually not that dissimilar to what we did for the water cooled network switch

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project one big plate with a heat pipe kind of

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carrying heat over to some kind of cooling element here so in this case

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we've got two 40 millimeter fans and uh just kind of like a

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that's a really weird heat sink isn't it that's not too loud i'll give her a

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second yeah it's audible with that said i think

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he also did clarify that um it gets particularly loud under load and

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we're not doing anything with it right now to be clear we're talking about patrick from serve the home great guy

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great site check him out that stuff yeah we've uh got one 10 gig link here so we

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can tell because the color is green on this one instead of orange it should be

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the one to my desktop what the hell do i have on my network

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that's huawei maybe this thing

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oh that's why it's so cheap

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the chinese government spying on you huawei is an Android phone oh that's

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right my sister has an on her phone do you think we have to go through the management port and turn on

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the managed interface like it should still show as a device on the network

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like unless well it doesn't giving itself its own ip honestly it doesn't

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matter anyway does it because i'm going to use it as a dumb switch

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like what i just want to transfer files faster between my computer and my nas

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like

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okay so then i need to shut off my nas so that we can put a 10 gig card in it

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so Jake is still trying to get into the management interface on this thing

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meanwhile i am going to upgrade the server long time viewers will probably

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recognize this as old wanik

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oh yeah i'm coming out oh my back

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it's a z390 pro ASUS workstation board

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with a um 9900k

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i forget how much RAM i put in it i'm pretty sure it's 32 gigs of uh

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i have more RAM and my nas than yours rip jaws memory yeah but i have more of

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course i'm actually not running any vms

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for one vm one vm so i don't actually have any screws um

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please look we weren't using it

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i know for a fact we weren't using it it completely blocks all the airflow so

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we've got two 10 gig clients now just need to

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you know oh unread have it go yeah it might not like auto

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do it oh no

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um you might want to plug it back in the regular one so we can reconfigure it all

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balls or maybe plug them both in yeah

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our status thus far we have plugged in a network switch

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i've plugged things into the network switch okay do you want to see if it's

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up put a PCIe card in and

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that's about it oh yeah there we go is that it right there

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yes so yeah we basically just need to kind of replace this run then so the spot

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where Jake is is basically just right on the other side of that wall we went the

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super lame-o way and we just went right into the

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back with like an rj45 connector now this is a cat5e rated

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uh plate here so hopefully we're good without that at any

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rate i guess we're just gonna have to cut this off and pull it back through

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boop okay go ahead and pull oh there we go um

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do you know where where does this go uh that actually goes right up to that

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crawl space now seems like a good time to take a look at the differences though

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between cat 5e and cat 6a so we know cat6a is rated for higher frequencies

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and therefore higher data rates but what's the physical difference because

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the conductors themselves are both copper they're all eight conductor

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twisted pair um they're actually the same gauge so it

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comes down to the way that the cable itself is designed so aside from the

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sheathing there's this plastic insert here it's in like a cross pattern that

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keeps each twisted pair separate as it's running down the length of the

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cable so that's why these will do 10 gig

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over 100 meters whereas cat5e you're lucky if it does 10 gig over like

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i don't know what five meters 10 meters and even then i wouldn't recommend it

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so is there any spots that are not safe to walk on uh oh yeah so if you want to

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go through my ceiling like a pro then you you step in here without prior

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prior training that's what dennis did dennis put his foot through my through

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my garage ceiling oh i don't think that's gonna hold dude

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that's i'm pulling pretty hard it's it's so close ah

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oh it disconnected no it just got through

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oh there we go it's through it's through through okay i was able to push it a bit

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oh holy crap there's a lot of mouse droppings in here

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but there's so many nails sticking through the the strapping for my roof i

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can't oh i hate this

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ah so much spider web ow just hit a nail

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pushing it up more i got it i got it hold on keep going

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whoever said being a nerd is easy look at this

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these were still taped together the original cat 5e cable broke

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not crazy now all we got to do is crimp an end on this thing and

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theoretically we have 10 gig down to the media center boom

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all three of our Ethernet interfaces are

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working so all we're gonna do is we're gonna just add all of our interfaces to bond zero

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which is going to just use them all for failover uh now theoretically i can

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unplug the one gig connection and we'll have 10 gig to the server uh oh nice

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underwear by the way lttstore.com why do you why do you do

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this to me this is the second time all right so now it's time to actually

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terminate one of our cables here this cat6a is our outdoor specked uv

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resistant stuff so it's got a really thick insulation so you basically just

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put this on spin it around it's even got a hole for that i'm totally doing this

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from the wrong side there we go oh and you don't actually even really need to

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pull off this much this is like a lot of extra wire you could you could get away

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with about two inches so we're going to start by peeling back our individual

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pairs take off the separator on the inside i'm actually going to throw the

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boot on the end here the first sort of step is to

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untwist them we want to actually use the butt of a screwdriver to straighten them

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out a bit um but we're going to use the 568b spec

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so while we're lining up the the colors how we want them to go into the

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connector it's good to keep in mind that you need to keep it as clean as possible

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because we want the connector to be as close to the insulation as possible and

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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

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cables unlike cat5e you can see inside there that there's

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holes for the connectors and they're actually staggered rather than just being a straight line like this so as we

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put these conductors into this bar it's going to move some of them up so they

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can actually fit inside the end of the connector

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make sure it's right up to the end you should be able to see

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inside there the bar will meet up with the plastic inside the termination when

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you're ready crimp it shut and we're done

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this time i've got seven gigs of test files let's go ahead and copy that over

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hey not bad this is only on a couple of raid one

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SATA ssds so that was

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higher than i was expecting but also okay

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i guess we good now so that's it now that we've tested and we've got a good

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10 gig connection down to the media center here you might be wondering why

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do you need 10 gig down there well that's where our xgu 2008 switch comes

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in this has two 10 gig ports and eight

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one gig ports so the point of that is that you've got a 10 gig trunk and every

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one of the individual devices down here whether it's an NVIDIA shield or a smart

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tv or gaming pc or whatever the case may be each device down here gets its own

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one gigabit connection even if none of them are taking advantage of 10 gig and

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of course it's two 10 gig ports so if i

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did get a gaming pc that was 10 gig then i could always add that as well

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we've got these couplers instead of the more typical keystone at the back things

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looks like we got a 10 gig link so now we just need to test it like for reals

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with our fluke doodad Jake do we know how to use that thing um

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somewhat it should be able to tell us whether or

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not this cable is ready for 10 gig base t a pass look at that

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so we check our wire map we can see that the wiring is all matching on both ends

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nobody messed that up and see our length of 46 feet

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all of our numbers look good and the resistance also good

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hey it's not money but it's a working cable

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so that's it then switch upgrade a couple network adapters needed upgrading

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and a couple of our cable runs needed upgrading and we're 10 gig up in this

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biz so goodbye cat5e hello cat6a and

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what was the total damage then so we've got 500 for the new 10 gig switch

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assuming that you need an entire spool of cat6a cabling that was about 150 bucks

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from infinity cables then there's a couple bucks here and there for your

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termination ends your wall jacks your wall plates and all that kind of stuff

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so all told depending on whether or not you need a 10 gig switch for you know a

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whole bunch of devices that are in one place you're looking at under 850 us

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dollars or a little over a thousand dollars for

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10 gigging your house now that might seem like a lot of money

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but compared to what 10 gigging your place would have cost even just three to

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five years ago it is pretty darn affordable i mean back then even on ebay

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for second-hand hardware you were paying you know 300 plus dollars for a single

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Linus so hopefully you guys enjoyed this video if you did maybe you can check out

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our previous network run install video i'll have that linked down below and i

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will see you next time