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You know, it feels a little ironic that after so many years of this whole tech YouTuber thing, having

upgrade

d my house to a 10 gig

network

seven years ago so we could edit our video from a centralized storage server, I still haven't I have updated my house. to 10 gigabit

network

s and the reason is that until now it has simply been too expensive to justify the cost, not because the network cards are expensive, not because the switches are expensive or even because the cabling is expensive, the problem is that in the past if you wanted to for a

cheap

switch you had to buy very expensive cables and if you wanted to use

cheap

wiring that you could get, why would we pay for this?

I think it was like 160 outdoor and 180 Canadian, so it's like a thousand feet. i want cheap wiring well now you need a really expensive switch this is a game changer this micro tick cr s312-4c plus 8x g-rm wow the terrible name is only 500 US dollars for a 12 port 10 gigabit switch , and Jake and I have 10 gigs. in this house it's rj45 yes, yes, yes, the compatible type, yes, and the video comes to you through glasswire with glasswire, you can see what goes in and out of your PC when you're connected to the Internet, that way you can know if there are suspicious apps that are misbehaving use offer code linus to get 25 off glasswire at the link in the video description so in front of me is pretty much everything we are going to need we have our switch we have our connectors , we have our crimper because we may have to make some custom length cables here um ethernet cards 10,000 fluke tester what yeah, so I asked the floor, I didn't pay for that, right?

No, you didn't, um, they sent it to us just to borrow. I wanted to be able to certify the runs that we do so we can make sure that 100 are ready to go and be able to certify runs on 10 gigs, yeah, so just a pretty simple change of a gig, uh, poe switch, so that's done. drive. my hotspot and soon to be my doorbell, then we have the two nas gaming desktops and then a couple above, are any of these already 10 gigs? This one doesn't work, what's wrong with your nest? Not really. Come to think of it, it's not like that, so I brought two cards, so that's fine.

Now a little challenge is that I don't actually remember where we ran the cable for the media center, how it comes out of this room, um, so there we are. we'll probably have to retrace our steps there because that's not a 10 gig rated cable, it was cat 5e, we couldn't get cat 6a that was easy or cheap for outdoors at the time, so since I didn't want to plug in a bunch of directly connected copper SFP plus cables. The launch of this switch was truly the silver bullet that took me to finally reach 10 gigs, making it a 12 port switch.

You can see that four of them are actually shared with these sfp plus ports, but we don't have to use them, the nice thing about this for a cheap

home

upgrade

is that if you had something like a

home

server room like this, where you have a couple of machines very close, you can get sfp plus. Network cards are super cheap and short term direct attach copper cables are actually not that bad, so if you already have some things built in, then you can decide, okay, I'll use these eight just as Ethernet and then these, well, hey.

If I have any sfp plus equipment, I can go ahead and connect it now. We've never actually turned this switch on and I'm not very familiar with microtex equipment, but my understanding is that this is a smart switch, isn't it a smart switch? as managed, yes, manage the switch, yes, yes, my camera operator and Jake asked for some water and maybe next time they will bring a bottle of water from Linus's technical tips. Ltt store.com, although this one is also isolated and yes, in fact, gigabit is gigabit and no. The amount of having a 10 gig nick on your machine is going to make it faster than a gigabit unless you also have a 10 gig switch so we have to go ahead and install that so we're going to boot that thing up and it's going to break , so what's funny?

This is actually not that different from what we did for the water-cooled mains switch project: a large plate with a heat pipe that transports heat to some kind of cooling element, so in this case we have two 40 millimeters. fans and uh, something like a really weird heat sink, isn't it? It's not too noisy. I'll give it a second. Yes, it is audible. That said, I think it also clarified that it gets particularly loud under load. We're not doing anything with that right now to be clear, we're talking about Patrick from Serve the Home, great guy, great site, check out that stuff.

Yes, we have a 10 gig link here so we can know because the color. It's green on this one instead of orange it should be the one on my desktop what the hell do I have on my network? that's huawei maybe this oh that's why it's so cheap the chinese government is spying on you huawei it's an android phone oh that's true My sister has a phone on her phone. Do you think we have to go through the management port and turn on the managed interface as if it should still show up as a device on the network?

Unless her own IP is not given, honestly, no. Anyway it doesn't matter because I'm going to use it as a dummy switch I just want to transfer files faster between my computer and my nas so then I need to turn off my nas so we can put a It has a 10 gig card so Jake is still trying to get into the admin interface of this thing in the meantime I'm going to upgrade the server. Viewers will probably recognize this as an old wanik. Oh yes, I'm dating. Oh, my back is a z390. asus pro workstation board with a um 9900k, i forgot how much ram i put in it, i'm pretty sure it's 32 gigs of uh, i have more ram and my nas than yours breaks the memory, yes, but i have more of course , I'm not actually running any vms for a vm, a vm, so I don't actually have any screws, um please look, we weren't using it, I know for a fact that we weren't using it, it completely blocks the entire flow of air, so we have two. 10 gig customers now just need you to know oh no read let it go yeah it may not be automatic oh no you might want to plug it back to normal so we can reconfigure everything or maybe plug them both in , Yeah. our status so far we have connected a network switch I have connected things to the network switch okay do you want to see if it is active?

Put in a pcie card and that's it. Oh yeah, there we go, it's there, yeah. Yeah, we basically just need to replace this route, so where Jake is is basically right on the other side of that wall, we took the super boring route and went straight to the back with an RJ45 jack. now this is a cat5e rated uh board so i hope we're fine without that in any case i guess we're just going to have to cut this out and pull it back via boop okay go ahead and pull oh there Come on, do you do it? know where this is going, that actually goes right into that trace space, now seems like a good time to take a look at the differences between cat 5e and cat 6a, so we know that cat6a is rated for higher frequencies and so therefore, higher data speeds. but what is the physical difference because the conductors themselves are both copper they are all eight conductor twisted pair they are actually the same gauge so it all comes down to the way the cable is designed other than the lining there is a plastic insert. here it has a crossover pattern that keeps each twisted pair separate as it runs along the cable, so these will do 10 gigs over 100 meters, whereas cat5e, you're lucky if it does 10 gigs like I'm not.

I know what five meters, 10 meters are and I still wouldn't recommend it. Is there any place that is not safe to walk on? Oh yeah, so if you want to smash through my ceiling like a pro, then you come in here unannounced. pre training that's what Dennis did Dennis put his foot through the roof of my garage oh I don't think that's going to hold up buddy that's what I'm pulling pretty hard it's so close ah oh it disconnected no it just happened oh here we go It's over, it's over, it's okay, I was able to push it a little, oh shit, there's a lot of mouse droppings in here, but there are so many nails sticking out of the straps on my roof, I can't, oh I hate this, so many spiders. web ow just hit a nail pushing it up further i got it i got it wait keep going who said being a nerd is easy look at this these were still taped together the original cat 5e cable broke isn't that crazy now all we have to do do is Put an end to this and theoretically we have 10 gigs to the media center boom, all three Ethernet interfaces are working, so all we're going to do is add all of our interfaces to link zero, which is going to use them all to failover.

Now, in theory, I can disconnect a gig's connection and we will have 10 gigs for the server. Oh oh, nice underwear, by the way. lttstore.com why are you doing this to me? This is the Second time is fine, so now it's time to terminate one of our cables here. This cat6a is our outdoor UV resistant material, so it has very thick insulation, so you basically just put this in and turn it. It even has a hole for that. I'm doing this totally from the wrong side, here we go, oh, and you actually don't even need to take this out that much, this is like a bunch of extra wire that you could get away with about two inches, so let's go.

To start we peel off our individual pairs, remove the spacer on the inside, I'm actually going to throw the boot in last here, the first step is to unscrew them, we want to use the tip of a screwdriver to straighten them out. a little bit, but we're going to use the 568b spec, so while we're lining up the colors how we want them to fit on the connector, it's good to keep in mind that you want to keep it as clean as possible because we want the connector to be as close to the insulation as possible and If it's all bunched up at the end, you won't be able to get a clean, snug fit, which is why our Cat6a cables, unlike Cat5e, can be seen inside. that there are holes for the connectors and they're actually staggered instead of just being a straight line like this, so when we put these conductors on this bar, some of them will move up so they can fit inside the end of the connector.

Make sure it's right all the way to the end. You should be able to see inside. There the bar will join the plastic inside the finish. When you're ready, close it and we'll be done this time. I have seven gigs of test files. let's go ahead and copy that, hey, not bad, this is just on a couple of sata raid one SSDs, so it was higher than I expected, but that's okay too, I guess we're good now, so that's it all now that we've tested and we've got a good 10 gig connection to the media center here, you might be wondering why you need 10 gigs down there, that's where our xgu 2008 switch comes in, it has two 10 gig ports and eight one gig, so the point is you have a 10 gig trunk and each of the individual devices here, whether it's an nvidia shield or a smart TV or a gaming PC or whatever the case may be, each device here has its own one gigabit connection even if none of them are taking advantage of 10 gigs and of course it's two 10 gig ports so if I got a 10 gig gaming PC I could always add that too we have these couplers instead the most typical keystone on the back.

It looks like we have a 10 gig link, so now we just have to test it for real with our Fluke Doodad Jake. Do we know how to use that thing? Somehow you should be able to tell us whether or not this cable is ready for 10 giga base t a pass, look at that, so we check our cable map, we can see that all the wiring matches on both ends, no one screwed it up and we see our length 46 feet, all our numbers look good and the strength is good too. It's not money but it's a working cable so that's it then I changed the upgrade a couple of network adapters needed upgrading and a couple of cable runs needed upgrading and we're 10 gigs in this business so bye bye cat5e hello cat6a and what was the total damage then so we have 500 for the new 10 gig switch assuming you need a whole spool of cat6a cabling which was about 150 dollars worth of endless cables then there's a couple of dollars here and there for the ends of your terminals, your wall jacks, your wall plates and all that kind of stuff, all said depending on whether or not you need a 10 gig switch, you know, a bunch of devices that are in one place you're looking at less than 850 US dollars or a little over a thousand dollars for 10 gigs. your house now, that may seem like a lot of money, but compared to what it would have cost 10concerts at your house just three or five years ago, it's pretty affordable, I mean, back then, even on eBay for the second-hand hardware they'd pay you.

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