10x Your Network Speed.. On a Budget!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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1,607 words · ~8 min read
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Brandon's lame quiet onet oh we're terrible is this supposed to be on sorry
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I'm not quite started yet Brandon sucks okay quiet
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onet last time we showed you how to quadruple your network speed for $100
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and you complained now some of your
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complaints were misinformed and applicable or otherwise completely
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ridiculous the technology I demoed as I mentioned in the video only works on
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Windows 8 and up I mean come on and who
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the devil invited this guy to my comment
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section but some of the complaints were
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very fair and even went as far as to ask
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why it is that we're talking about an admittedly flaky and proprietary
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solution when there's a more broadly applicable one also available on the
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cheap so this video then is about how to
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10x your network speed and yes thank you
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iron cut that is internal network speed not internet speed between two system
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systems on a
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budget the master case 5 by Cooler Master gives you the freedom to truly
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make your midtower PC case your own with a variety of modular parts and
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accessories check out the link in the video description to learn more first
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order of business there is no magic peanut butter that you can smear in your
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network port to turn it from a 1 GB to a 10 gbit port so we will need new faster
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network cards for our two systems and while I could say all right then let's
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head over to Amazon and grab a couple of Intel X540 10 gig cards with RJ45 Jacks
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and then pick up a net gear 10 gig switch which would work great and scale
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well for the future by the way that would cost
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$1,500 which is like a million Canadian
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rubles so no no we won't be doing that instead as with most of my budget guides
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we will Begin by shopping on eBay so
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let's find those network cards we can save a lot of money by buying retired
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server cards these uex dealies have served us very well get it served us
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that's a joke but all the cheap ones out there have SFP plus connectors instead
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of the standard RJ45 connectors that consumers are used to so what do you do
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easy you'll need a direct attach copper cable I've had good experience with the
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passive ones from cables ondemand.com and I've bought from them a couple of
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times they cost anywhere from $40 to $140 and go up to 10 m so get a cable
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that is long enough to go between the two systems that you want to talk to
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each other more quickly so probably your personal desktop and your network
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storage machine next we'll need actually
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that's about it we're going to skip the network switch requirement by attaching
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our computers to each other directly so
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let's get to it it step one is to leave
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your onboard network card plugged in to the rest of your network devices and
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your internet connection pop those Nicks you bought into the two machines run
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your cable between them and boom Windows will automatically detect the faster
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link whenever those two machines talk to each other
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which oh I'm just kidding Network crap is never that easy step two with it
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still plugged in that part of the first step was real configure the IP addresses
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of your 10 gig cards manually you can follow the guide that we have on the
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screen and if you're not sure what to enter here check your existing
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connection via ip config then leave the first and second values the same and add
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some amount so we're going to put 50 in here to the third value this will be the
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same for both of your machines then you need to pick a unique number from 1 to
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254 for the fourth these need to to be
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different between the two machines you're connecting
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255.255.255.0 is good for the subnet mask and everything else is left Auto or
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blank step three for testing disable
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other network interfaces and disable Windows Firewall don't forget to turn
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those back on when you're done or you'll have no internet or unprotected internet
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step four ping so we can see if these
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two machines can see each other properly by pinging the network addresses that we
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manually enter for the other machine then we can see if
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they'll pick up each other's host names with a slightly different command like
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so step five is to set up RAM diss using
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soft perfect RAM dis a free tool on each
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machine a small RAM disc is fine this is
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just to do a real world test of how quickly we can transfer files step six
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is to create test shares on both sides
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on the RAM discs with read and write permissions in both the share Ing and
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security tabs on both machines and then you can change these to the permissions
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that you want later on although they're on RAM dis so they're going to disappear
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anyhow step seven is to test the transfer using a large file and you'll
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either be saying holy schmow or WTF if
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it worked great if you're in the WTF Camp then uh or it stops working later
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move on to step number eight while in
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theory Microsoft should prioritize the faster link
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between the two computers in practice we found that even manually changing the
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priorities of our interfaces wouldn't stick so we needed to alter the hosts
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file in order to statically assign that
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host name of the PCS to their IP addresses that are on the 10 gig network
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cards to prevent these computers from talking over the one GB Network that
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they are also connected to for access to the the internet and to your other
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devices so do it like so substituting in
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whatever IP addresses you're using for the ones that we've entered and at that
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point step nine it's a Christmas miracle
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unless step 10 your wife or brother or
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sister or whatever is like how come Jeffrey gets faster Network speeds and I
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don't well if you had the foresight to buy a dual interface that is two port
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card for the file server then you you can actually do the same thing again by
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just buying another cable and another Nick or network interface card so all
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you've got to do then is change the third value in the manual IP address
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that you're setting again so the server machine will actually have three
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separate interfaces on three separate subnets alter the host files like so and
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Step 13 test access between these
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computers so you should see one Gigabyte
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per second between the two clients and the file server and about 100 megabytes
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per second between the two clients to each other unless you want to take it
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one step further with another cable and another subnet if they all have dual
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interface cards but I mean at that point you might want to start thinking about a
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network switch because you're basically back to token
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ring speaking of which tunnel bear is
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the easy to use VPN app for mobile and
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desktop bear lets you tunnel to up to 16
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different countries allowing you to browse the internet and use online
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services as if you are in that different
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country they have apps for iOS Android
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the PC and mac and they also have a Chrome extension the apps are super easy
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to use even if you're not a networking person you don't have to do any of that
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port forwarding nonsense or anything you just turn the little dial it actually
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looks like a little little dial you pick the the country that you want to browse
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the internet as though you're in and then two things happen your connection
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gets encrypted with ases 256-bit encryption and boom your public IP
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address gets switched so you show up as if you are somewhere else and if you do
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have any trouble even though they've tried to make it as simple as they
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possibly can their friendly support Bears will be there to help you they'll
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even give you 500 megabytes of data for free to try it out with no credit card
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required all you got to do is go to tunnel bear.com /lt and then if you want to upgrade to
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unlimited you can actually save 10% at our link as well so check it out at the
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link in the video description all right so thanks for
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you're done doing all that stuff you're probably wondering what to watch next so
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check out the video up there which I'm filming this so far in advance I have no
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idea what it'll be but I guarantee you it's awesome