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every time we do a video talking about faster Network speeds we end up buried

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under a mountain of comments about how

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pointless it is to go any faster than gigabit for your home network because

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internet speeds are still in the realm of hundreds or even in some cases dozens

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of megabits per second and honestly I

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don't expect today's video about 2 and 1/2 gig Ethernet to be any different but

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there is a point to it and I'm going to show you guys not just what we can do

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with 2 and 1/2 gig that we can't do with gigabit but also how easy and crazy

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affordable it has gotten to finally get

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faster local network

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speeds before we go any further let's talk about why you would upgrade your

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network speeds if it's not going to alleviate the bottleneck that already

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exists because of your isp's service plan so here I've got a network resource

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that is a whole bunch of games from Good Old games.com these are DRM free games

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this is my collection and it's so big that I can't have them all installed at

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once and I don't necessarily want to download them off the internet every

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time I want to install one because that's pretty slow so I'm going to go

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ahead and copy ano 1701 ad to my desktop

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you can see right here with the onboard connection on this motherboard that is a

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1 GB connection no matter how fast my network attached storage device is this

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is going to take me somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 seconds to just copy

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all the files over to my desktop that's not an eternity and waiting half a

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minute for something never killed anyone but here's the thing this article from

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infoworld is from almost 20 years ago

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discussing the benefits of gigabit networking on the desktop that's right

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my friends in the time that CPUs and graphics cards have improved by multiple

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orders of magnitude networking has

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stayed flat and okay maybe that's a bit of a

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contrived scenario here's a more realistic one I've got a folder full of

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spicy nudes from my latest racy photo

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shoot it's about let's see uh 477 items

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and each of these is 14 megabytes do you think that's a pretty realistic photo

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shoot for you Brandon yeah nudes 500 n

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definitely all nudes are are these nudes oh look at that spicy all right so let's

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go ahead and copy those I want them on my local device so that I can manipulate

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them in Lightroom or whatever the case may be why do I store these images on a

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network attached storage device well obviously because I care about not

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losing them you know that's where I've got my redundant hard drive array so if

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one fails I'm not going to lose them and whether I'm a pro or just an Enthusiast

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nobody likes losing data so it's a safe way to take care of these things and I'm

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still waiting for these things to copy

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but why wait if you don't have to now faster Network Solutions have existed

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for quite some time on the cheap especially if you're willing to go

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dumpster diving on eBay or whatever the case may be ulex cards like this can be

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had for next to nothing and you can even get SFP plus switches that will allow

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you to connect a whole bunch of computers in a very traditional

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conventional Network other than that they use different connectors the only

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problem is the cabling is where you get killed this is a direct attach copper

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SFP plus cable and what makes this so expensive is that unlike Ethernet some

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of the signaling Hardware is actually built into the ends of the cables

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themselves so they C cost much more than your standard you know Ethernet cable

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that your ISP includes in the box with your modem well that's got an obvious

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solution you might think why don't you just get 10 gig network cards like this

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one that use RJ45 connectors like this

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well the problem is what you save in the cables you end up spending on the

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adapters because 10 gig adapters are much more expensive bringing us finally

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to the subject of today's video 2 and 1/2 gig network adapters are getting

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cheap cheap cheap this one from trendnet is 50 bucks you can find ones with a

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similar chipset for as low as 30 and Intel's i225 V so that's the kind of

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chip that you would see pre-integrated on the motherboard that you buy is said

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to be available for as little as a buck 50 or

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$2 10 gig is just nowhere near reaching

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that level of affordability so having an interim standard is a pretty big deal

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now let's go through the process of actually trying it out and seeing what

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the tangible real world benefits look like shall we okay so if people want to

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upgrade to this do they have to upgrade the network in their so that's a good

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question some aspects of their existing networking will have to be upgraded like

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for example their switch so this is a multi-gigabit switch at this time most

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of the switches out there are 10 gig switches that are also capable of 2 and

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1/2 or 5 gig but in the future I would

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expect cost to come down on pure 2 and 1/2 gig switches the one thing that will

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not need to be upgraded however is the cabling that's the beauty of 2 and 1/2

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gig is that it can use even Cheapo cat 5e and doesn't require the same cat 6A

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that you need for 10 gig over RJ45 hey

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look at that wow that was simple I didn't even need any drivers or anything

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so I'm going to delete those two folders from before and let's go ahead and see

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what the real world difference feels like so here's my game copy coming in at

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a smoking 279 megabytes a second well I could get

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used to that so that's closer to 10 or 15 seconds which feels a lot different

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and then now I'm going to go ahead and copy over my nudes so these are smaller

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files which is why we're not able to see quite the same speeds but we're still

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getting nearly double the transfer speeds that we could with a simple 1 GB

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network card not bad for a$ 30 to $50

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upgrade well they should do it but maybe not quite yet so the thing is this

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multi-gigabit capable switch is going to cost you around 500 bucks that's the

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cheapest price that I can find for it and there's 2 and 1/2 gig ones that are

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coming that honestly aren't much cheaper so we're so close but not quite there

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yet of course one of the key benefits of fast networking is that you don't have

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to copy everything to your desktop before you work on it so here's 190 raw

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files so each of these are about 110

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Megs these are photos you can see this process actually is not that networking

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heavy but as we load up the entire image each time that's going to

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change wo look at that we spiked it over

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a gigabit there it is again so mostly

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we're in pretty good shape here but we are definitely exceeding our previous 1

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GB connection at times so what would you say Brandon is this pretty sufficient

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Lightroom performance even though we're working off of an AS yeah this this was

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not my winning picture so you can see here when I'm loading up an individual

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picture actually this is a great example of where just a little bit faster than

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gigabit would come in handy I'm not spiking over a gig but when I cycle

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through my pictures quickly we're going to see spikes that are well in excess of

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1 gab cool though right there's a use case doesn't make my internet faster but

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it sure makes scrolling through pictures and Lightroom faster now let's really

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punish it I'm pulling up a project that was shot at 8K 10 to1 on a red camera

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and we're going to see if our 2 and 1/2 gig Network can take the heat all right

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Project's loaded up so you can see scrubbing around in the footage I'm

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never exceeding 1 gbit so that looks pretty good as long as we're only

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pulling key frames but what if we actually try and play this back at one

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quarter quality here you can see playback is smoothing look at that so we

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could easily get away without upgrading to full 10 gig networking but it's clear

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that if we want to work with this kind of heavy footage we do need to go over 1

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gig if we want to experience smooth playback while we're moving around on

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the timeline and I haven't even gotten to one of the best things about these

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inexpensive 2 and 1/2 gig chips they're super low powerered so

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check this out this is what a 10 gig

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laptop Ethernet adapter looks like it uses Thunderbolt 3 it's super expensive

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it's bulky and it has gigantic heat sinks on it to take care of all the Heat

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that the thing outputs this is what a 2 and 1/2 gig one looks like so this is

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also from trendnet we're going to go ahead and plug this in and see what the

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2 and 1/ 12g experience is like on a laptop now technically this is a

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Thunderbolt Port but it doesn't need to be this would work with any USB type-c

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port not USB 2 I mean it might work but

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USB 2 is slower than 2 and2 Klan anyway

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well look at that it seems like it picked up right away so let's go ahead

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and see how quickly we can transfer some files over here copy my new over

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gorgeous 200 plus megabytes a second just like that and all of this is just

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today moving into the future I could see inhome Media or game streaming being

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able to take advantage of this additional bandwidth for better image quality and some parts of the world are

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already running internet speeds in excess of 1 gig at residential addresses

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so as North America and the rest of the world catches up to that 2 and 1/2 gig

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is going to be the way to take full advantage of that

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