I really don't think there could be anything more boring than Network
switches I mean the box is boring the products
boring like they even look boring look at them just just metal
boxes but I have something I'm
legitimately excited about today this is
the first 10 gbit network switch
designed for like prosumer use at a much
more reasonable price point $250 compared to the kind of money that
we've spent on the past on the 10 gbit switches in our server room but is this
even the only option this one from ASUS or are you better off picking up one of
these suckers off eBay well let's find out shall we
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the video description okay so first things first
I'm going to have to clear some space on my uh test bench here so the first
question I need to answer and I can do this while we open this puppy up and
have a look at it is what is the point
of a faster Network infrastructure in my
home does it make my I interneting
better can I load Neopets faster and the
answer is no if the only thing you use
your home network for is browsing the internet this will not make any lick of
difference whatsoever Unless somehow you
have an internet connection that is faster than 1 gabit the speed of a
standard commodity network switch so then the next obvious question that
people are always asking me is well well if it doesn't make your internet faster
what's the point and where does it even go do I replace my wireless router with
it the answer is no you don't it
actually works in conjunction with your existing router whether it's an
aftermarket one or whether it's one that was provided by your internet service
provider so what you do is your internet
goes in where it always did and instead of plugging your computer into this bad
boy you plug this switch into your
original router SL wireless access point SL modem
and all of that good stuff so all of this accomplishes two things first and
foremost it allows you to plug more physical devices into your network than
would previously fit so you've gone from this to now this a lot better right but
that could have just as easily been achieved with a cheapo $20 switch so
what the XG u200 8 brings to the table
is it adds these two what I'm going to call Fast Lanes these are 10 GB ports so
they run at 10 times the speed of standard gigabit networking this is
useful for a couple of different use cases so number one let's say you have a
lot of people in a house or an office who want to edit 4K video or who want to
watch uncompressed Blu-ray rips at the same time you plug all those guys into
all these other ports here boom boom boom boom boom and then you plug a
server machine with faster networking on board and fast storage into one of the
10 gig ports now all of a sudden these guys can all get their full network
speed off of that same Source device
pretty cool right another potential scenario is let's say that you've got a
new gaming rig with some balling out SSD
and you want to get files off of I don't know a steam library or something
Elsewhere on your network much faster well an SSD even a SATA one can do
somewhere in the neighborhood of four to six times the speed of standard gigabit
networking so by adding 10 gbit all of a
sudden you can transfer 10 times faster
to one other machine on the network off of that same server so let's do a
practical demonstration then here are my 10 GB ports right here this one is is
leading to a fast storage machine over in our server room over there and this
one is going to go into the 10 GB networking ports that are built into the
x99 e1g Ws that I used for my desk PC
hopefully what I'm about to do doesn't shut down the network in the rest of the
building but we will find out soon
enough what oh crap uh okay one second
my server room need some work I know so
here we go in a moment this should pick up here and there we go 10 gbit per
second speed if you're not seeing that by the way you might need to upgrade
your cables we're using cat
6A so let's go ahead and uh and have a
look at what a 10 gbyte file transfer
might look like on a 10 gig Network very nice wow
you know what I think I was totally wrong this does make Neopets better but
I promised a weird eBay alternative didn't I yes I did and I'm delivering
this my friends oh it's heavy is the Quant computer
lb6m this is an entrylevel kind of
Enterprise grade 10 GB network switch
that seems to be being phased out of some big data centers somewhere because
these things are all over eBay for
around the same price 250 bucks you get
two power
supplies that have a reassuring wine to
them and you get 24 10 GB ports along
with four regular gigabit Ethernet ports a couple management ports and a console
Port so while you will have to deal with
some funny business for example you're going to have to use
these SFP plus direct attached copper cables or like fiber optic modules in
order to connect everything and these can be quite expensive uh anywhere from
kind of 20 to even over $100 a pop and
you will need to have the same matching Hardware on the other side for your
network cards but again there's more good news because these SFP plus cards
can sometimes be had for cheaper than RJ 45 equivalent but if you're willing to
do some fooling around because there are a lot of different firmwares out there
and you're willing to get all command line Linux on it this baby looks like it
could be a pretty good value if you want more 10 gigabit and you're willing to
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