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I really don't think there could be anything more boring than Network

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switches I mean the box is boring the products

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boring like they even look boring look at them just just metal

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boxes but I have something I'm

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legitimately excited about today this is

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the first 10 gbit network switch

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designed for like prosumer use at a much

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more reasonable price point $250 compared to the kind of money that

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we've spent on the past on the 10 gbit switches in our server room but is this

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even the only option this one from ASUS or are you better off picking up one of

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these suckers off eBay well let's find out shall we

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Phoenix's Arya headphones come complete with a cardioid mic and acoustic

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Chambers constructed of Japanese Pinewood check them out at the link in

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the video description okay so first things first

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I'm going to have to clear some space on my uh test bench here so the first

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question I need to answer and I can do this while we open this puppy up and

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have a look at it is what is the point

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of a faster Network infrastructure in my

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home does it make my I interneting

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better can I load Neopets faster and the

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answer is no if the only thing you use

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your home network for is browsing the internet this will not make any lick of

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difference whatsoever Unless somehow you

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have an internet connection that is faster than 1 gabit the speed of a

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standard commodity network switch so then the next obvious question that

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people are always asking me is well well if it doesn't make your internet faster

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what's the point and where does it even go do I replace my wireless router with

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it the answer is no you don't it

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actually works in conjunction with your existing router whether it's an

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aftermarket one or whether it's one that was provided by your internet service

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provider so what you do is your internet

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goes in where it always did and instead of plugging your computer into this bad

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boy you plug this switch into your

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original router SL wireless access point SL modem

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and all of that good stuff so all of this accomplishes two things first and

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foremost it allows you to plug more physical devices into your network than

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would previously fit so you've gone from this to now this a lot better right but

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that could have just as easily been achieved with a cheapo $20 switch so

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what the XG u200 8 brings to the table

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is it adds these two what I'm going to call Fast Lanes these are 10 GB ports so

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they run at 10 times the speed of standard gigabit networking this is

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useful for a couple of different use cases so number one let's say you have a

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lot of people in a house or an office who want to edit 4K video or who want to

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watch uncompressed Blu-ray rips at the same time you plug all those guys into

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all these other ports here boom boom boom boom boom and then you plug a

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server machine with faster networking on board and fast storage into one of the

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10 gig ports now all of a sudden these guys can all get their full network

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speed off of that same Source device

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pretty cool right another potential scenario is let's say that you've got a

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new gaming rig with some balling out SSD

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and you want to get files off of I don't know a steam library or something

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Elsewhere on your network much faster well an SSD even a SATA one can do

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somewhere in the neighborhood of four to six times the speed of standard gigabit

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networking so by adding 10 gbit all of a

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sudden you can transfer 10 times faster

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to one other machine on the network off of that same server so let's do a

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practical demonstration then here are my 10 GB ports right here this one is is

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leading to a fast storage machine over in our server room over there and this

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one is going to go into the 10 GB networking ports that are built into the

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x99 e1g Ws that I used for my desk PC

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hopefully what I'm about to do doesn't shut down the network in the rest of the

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building but we will find out soon

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enough what oh crap uh okay one second

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my server room need some work I know so

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here we go in a moment this should pick up here and there we go 10 gbit per

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second speed if you're not seeing that by the way you might need to upgrade

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your cables we're using cat

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6A so let's go ahead and uh and have a

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look at what a 10 gbyte file transfer

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might look like on a 10 gig Network very nice wow

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you know what I think I was totally wrong this does make Neopets better but

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I promised a weird eBay alternative didn't I yes I did and I'm delivering

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this my friends oh it's heavy is the Quant computer

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lb6m this is an entrylevel kind of

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Enterprise grade 10 GB network switch

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that seems to be being phased out of some big data centers somewhere because

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these things are all over eBay for

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around the same price 250 bucks you get

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two power

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supplies that have a reassuring wine to

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them and you get 24 10 GB ports along

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with four regular gigabit Ethernet ports a couple management ports and a console

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Port so while you will have to deal with

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some funny business for example you're going to have to use

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these SFP plus direct attached copper cables or like fiber optic modules in

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order to connect everything and these can be quite expensive uh anywhere from

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kind of 20 to even over $100 a pop and

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you will need to have the same matching Hardware on the other side for your

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network cards but again there's more good news because these SFP plus cards

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can sometimes be had for cheaper than RJ 45 equivalent but if you're willing to

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do some fooling around because there are a lot of different firmwares out there

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and you're willing to get all command line Linux on it this baby looks like it

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could be a pretty good value if you want more 10 gigabit and you're willing to

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give up the convenience and the uh Silence of a desktop switch like

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