I made my internet 10X FASTER for $10

We're hitting 900 megabytes a second for $20. Making YouTube videos requires cutting through tons of footage. And to do so efficiently, it's not exactly a huge team here. You need a fast computer, which means I've basically been the younger sibling that never gets to play on the Xbox for months now, except with my personal computer. Thanks, editor. Very funny. Fortunately, my shiny new titanium rig is ready to take its place. But before old Bessie here can ascend to a torturous life in an Adobe themed hell, there's a much bigger problem. The townhouse I rent only has Cat 5e Ethernet. It's much better than Wi-Fi, sure, but for video editing on network storage, you need fast. Like 10 gig fast. But Jake, I read the Cap 5B can't do 10 gig. Sure, that's what the spec says. But what if I told you in the real world with a little bit of care, Cat 5e can easily handle full 10 GB speeds, even running all the way down to the home data center. And that you can do the same in your own house with your own NAS or pair of computers or whatever with these Intel 10 gig nicks, which you can find on eBay for like $10. I bet you'd like that, huh? You dirty little. Now, I'm sure your next question is, why not just put the editing rig right next to your NAS? Then I don't have to worry about the networking. You think I haven't thought of that? Hm. The problem is the power in here is already totally maxed. I don't I don't even actually run this 3D printer. It's just down here because I ran out of space upstairs. So, that PC needs to go somewhere else. Like maybe this bathroom up here. It's got its own circuit. What for blow drying your hair? And um I don't usually shower in here. It's just that there's no Ethernet in here for obvious reasons. You know where there is internet? Here in the kitchen, right next to this 20 amp electrical outlet, huh? Don't worry, my partner's not home. And by the time we're done, it's going to be too late for them to do anything about it. Oh god. Wow. That is some uh workmanship. Now, you might be wondering why there's an Ethernet jack in the kitchen. That's because this is meant for a phone. That's why there's only two wires in use here. The rest of them are all wrapped around. That wouldn't fly for our 10 gig Ethernet, and neither would this. For Cat 5e to work at 10 GB speeds, it needs to be terminated really well. So, the amount of untwisted pairs you got, oh my god. Oh, and it's like kinkedked, too. needs to be like a quarter of an inch, not um that's like uh 6 in probably. You sick. For the record, I already terminated this cable downstairs like 2 years ago or something like that. I just never made use of it. So, we really only just have to terminate this side. I am going to pull a bit back though. Oh. Oh, he's discovered the hole. You know, there could be mouses in there. Can I get in there? Sorry, landlord. Canipex. Canipex. Recognize the colors. Link in the description. Also down there will be all the other stuff we featured today. And while you're down there, get subscribed. Okay. God. There are two different types of Ethernet terminations. You can do a mail jack like this. This is the pass through type that everyone said I was psychotic for not using last time when I did Alex and Andy's internet upgrade. Or keystone jacks. And this is what we're going to be using because this is what's meant to be used when you're installing it in a permanent location like this. With our pairs untwisted, stick the little toolless thingy on. And then we need to pull the wires into their correct position, which um there's two different ways to do it. There's a B termination and an A termination. Most of the time people use B nowadays, so that's what I'm using. And that's what I did on the other side. If you do the opposite, you have made a crossover cable, which unless you have a reason to need a crossover cable, it's not going to work very well for you. We're gonna do B. >> White, blue into the white blue spot. Blue into the blue spot. You see the B there? That means the green goes over here for a B termination. Boop, boop, boop. And then the same on this side. And then just to make sure that the wires are like really in there because sometimes they don't quite align super correctly, I usually just take my pliers and just just do them like a slight push into the little spots. We trim off the extra and then you stick it in the hole. And we're not Normally you would put a cover plate here, but um I neglected to order one. So she's fine. The wife's not even going to see it. There's going to be a giant computer here blocking it anyways. It's fine. See, it's mint. Can't even tell. There's nothing weird about this at all. I mean, an RTX 5090 in your kitchen. I like it. Also has a 9800 X3D. The 96 GB of RAM that I put in the Titanium PC because, yep, editors get priority. I guess I don't need 96 gigs of RAM to play video games, right? What I do need is my Linux boot drive. O. Oh, that was very unpleasant. In goes the cheapo random Intel SSD that I put Windows on because to be honest, if I made my editor use Linux any longer, I'd probably get murdered. I'm also probably going to get murdered for this. So, last but not least, our network card. This is an Intel X540T. It's a dualport 10 GB network card. It's PCIe Gen 2 by8. So, it's important that whatever slot you plug it into and whatever computer you're using has at least a BY4 slot because if you go in a B1 slot at PCIe Gen 2 speeds, that's only like 500 megabytes a second. Maybe that's fine. Usually, the fan on the inside is like toast or really noisy. So, I actually removed it and in place I'm going to stick this cute little knock to a fan I stole from a 3D printer. I wouldn't recommend not running a fan though because when they overheat, they just disconnect. Let's stick it in. Woohoo! Look at how professionally installed this fan is going to be. It It's janked. But you basically just need any amount of air flow to cool these things. And since I have no idea which cable it is downstairs, we're going to use this handy dandy little Klein probe tool. You just turn it on. It's probing between 800 and 1,000 hertz. Stick it into the cable and then you use the probe and you can hear the little song it plays. Let's go find it. No. No. Hey, the system works. This patch panel is kind of a piece of crap, but it is at least Cat 6 rated. And I did terminate it um as tightly as I possibly could. We'll see if it works at 10 gig speed. There you can see what a good male termination is supposed to look like. It's nice and tight with like barely a/4 in of untwisted pair. Plug that in. This cable is Cat 6A, so it's uh nice and thick and shouldn't cause any problems. Got to be that one. And now another termination. Heck, if you still don't believe that Cat 5e works, consider this. It's like a 60 ft run from the garage up to the kitchen and then it's patched in the garage another like 20 ft into here. There's going to be loss at that patch obviously. And then it's also patched here. That's three separate connections when you include the patch cable we're going to put in upstairs. And uh I guarantee you it's going to work at 10 gig 100%. I am that confident. Okay, it's too close. Now that we've got a 10 gig nick in the computer, it's patched in the rack. We can plug in our other side. Now, if you were just trying to go for the most basic setup, get a second X540 T2. Stick it in your NAS if you can, and boom, you've got a direct 10 gig connection. You just got to set some static IPs. If you want to share it with multiple computers, you don't need a like insane ubiquity switch like this. You can pick up something like this Mooker link one I found on Amazon. It's got six 10 gig ports. Two of them are SFP, four of them are RJ45. But what you might also want to plug into it is today's sponsor, UG Green, and their new AI NAS. This thing is crazy. It's got dual 10 gig ports. You can plug your crazy computer right into that, no problem. It can support up to 196 terabytes thanks to its six hard drive bays. That's good enough for literally millions of photos, thousands of movies. This thing has a 14 core Intel processor with up to 64 GB of LPDDR5X memory. That good enough to run local AI models. It's like having your own private cloud except without the monthly subscription. With their universal search, you can use simple keywords to find whatever you're looking for across photos, videos, documents. Like, look, I typed in license and it found it right away. And with their Ulia localhosted smart assistant, you can use natural language commands and instructions to interact with your files, like having Ulia summarize long and complicated documents, or using smart commands to find movies or songs you want to listen to without scrolling through lists of files. Heck, it can even do voice memos where your NAS locally transcribes the audio, summarizes key points, and can even generate cute little mind maps like this. And it's fast, too. They've got support for up to two NVME SSDs, the dual 40 gig Thunderbolt ports up front. And they even have an SD card if you need to ingest media off your camera, you're filming, you're taking photos, and if you are, you should be taking control of your data, too, by checking out the UG IDX 6011 AIS at the link down in the description. What are you waiting for? Just go check it out. It's genuinely sick. And honestly, I'm probably just going to use that as my backup NAS because I do already have this NAS, which already has an X540 T2 in it. That thing has been in there probably 5 years and it's just rock solid. Patch it in and then let's go turn it on. For remote access to our computer, I'm going to be using this GLET Comet Pro KVM. It's very nice. Just plugs right in like this. HDMI power and then the USB connection for like the virtual keyboard and mouse. And then we've got our 10 gig. Very nicely cable managed and blue and really matches the kitchen. And then we just need power. Green is 10 gig. Yes. Yeah. You didn't believe me. And I I I knew it was going to work. I was a little nervous it wasn't going to work. And would you look at that? Number 19, Jake. It's working. Woo. Okay, let's let's do a file transfer or something. By default, if you're on Linux, the X540T2 is just going to work right out of the box. The driver is baked into the kernel. On Windows, however, it is not. So, you have to download it. And for some reason, Intel removed the downloads from the X540 T2 product page. So, in order to get drivers for it, you have to download the complete driver pack for Intel Ethernet adapters from their website. Just click download here. Then, open up device manager. Find our two missing Ethernet controllers here. Click update driver. Browse computer for driver. And then select the folder we extracted earlier. Release 31. Click okay. And just make sure you have include subfolders checked. Next. Can't verify the publisher of this driver software. Install it anyways. We don't care about that. We just downloaded from the Intel website. For the other one, same deal. Update driver. Just click the search automatically one because it's already in the driver database. And now we can test it. Nine G. Well, it's going between 7 and 8 and 9 GB. That's close enough for me. I don't think that's a problem with the network card. I think that's a problem with the SSD in this computer being kind of a turd. And um Windows file copy not being the most amazing thing ever. But look at that. We're hitting 900 megabytes a second for $20. And a RTX 5090 computer. Look, it works in any computer. Okay? As long as you have a PCIe slot, that's all you need. I can believe it works. I was going to say I can't believe it works, but I knew that this was going to work. Try it in your own house. And if you don't have Cat 5e in the walls, maybe just run some Ethernet. Now you know how to terminate it properly, right? Pretty cool. And then we'll go back the other way. Boom. Same deal. 800 900 megabytes a second. Basically 10 gig. It's a little bit slower the other way. Look, I told you guys my NAS was being slow. I need to put the Mac Mini in the rack. I haven't done that yet. Might as well get my head start. I might be sleeping here for a little bit. Is this um is this okay to be in the kitchen? >> I don't care. You really want me to say no? >> What? This doesn't bother you? >> No. There's already everywhere. It's not like it makes that big of a difference. >> Oh my god. So, there you have it. You should put an editing rig, a gaming rig, whatever you want in your kitchen. We got approval from uh uh the boss, and uh I think that she can speak on behalf of all other bosses to say that this is acceptable. And uh you have your computer in the kitchen pass now. You're welcome. And since you owe me a huge favor now, I'm gonna ask you to get subscribed, hit the like button, and let me know down in the comments if you've ever run 10 gig over Cat 5e. Let me know how your experience has been because I've been doing it for a while and now I'm doing it even more apparently approved manner.

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