Home 10 Gig Network Upgrade for CHEAP 

"I didn't pay for that did I!?" The look on his face, lol

Doctor: Widescreen Linus Wallpaper isn't real, he can't hurt you. Widescreen Linus Wallpaper: 4:01

1:02 "wow terrible name" Until you actually look into what it means and start to go: "Huh, that's actually quite clever". Seriously, compare CRS-312-4C+8XG-RM to something like "UniFi FlexHD", "UniFi AP HD", "UniFi AP SHD" and "UniFi Switch 16 PoE Gen2" and you'd actually be surprised how much easier it is to see the ports it has without having to look into the entire specsheet... For those wondering what I'm brabbling on about: - CRS: Cloud Router Switch - 3: series 3 - 12: 12 wired interfaces - 4C+: 4 Combo 10G/SFP ports - 8XG: 8 5G/10G Ethernet ports - RM: RackMount

"For a budget home upgrade." I don't even have a switch in my house!

4:00 "I showed you my 10Gbps switch, pls send pics"

Jake holds up a $10,000 meter, Linus: "I didn't pay for that did I"...........Well you havn't dropped it so no not yet.

The easiest way to deal with roofing nails is a hard hat.

This has to be the smartest Write Off I have ever seen

8:49 "are there any spots that are not safe to walk on" linus stares with devil eyes

Linus’ attic is actually a dark souls level.

CAT6A Has a tighter twist in the pairs allowing for high freg, the divider helps with emi. also should of used CAT6A keystone jacks and CAT6A stranded patch cords be a little more bicsi standard.

9:32 just might be some of the finest content you've ever provided

Linus: I need 10gb because I edit videos at home Linus at home: editing Linus cat tips

Previously on LTT (tech horders) Linus: "you never know when you need 300 ft of ethernet cord" Linus now: 1000 ft indoor cable + 1000 ft outdoor cable

“This person tried to unlock your phone” 4:00

Finally, I can upgrade my flat to 10Gb, that I live in alone and only use my computer and phone for internet. *Cries*

Mom: why do you need a curved monitor they are more expensive Me: 4:00

THAT DESKTOP BACKGROUND THO

Linus: Using 10Gbps switches all around the house. Me: Using my stock router as the whole network backbone.

10:20 lol "Why do you do this to me. For the second time!?"

"If I film it with my crew, I can write this labour off as a tax deduction!" EDIT: This is not an actual accusation of tax fraud.

"Only cost around 850 dollars" *Cries in minimum wage*

5:18 Stalker icon on the desktop. A man of true culture i see.

"WHAT THE HELL DO I HAVE ON MY NETWORK THATS HUAWEI?!"

Let's all ignore the meme worthy Linus desktop wallpaper at 4:01 Hell no, gimme that source bruh

after upgrading my house 7 years ago i still haven't upgraded my house

Although mikrotik started with wireless network equipment with routerboards these switches are exceptional. Great equipment from my experience.

11:55 Cat6A cable turned into Cat6 only. Difference between 5e and 6A is also the way each pair is twisted. 6A is tighter twisted. Cat7 is a whole different story where the twist-"spacing" is varying.

me: has no use (at this time) for anything faster than 1GB home networking also me: I NEEEEED IT

5:57 Linus: "For proper lifting technique, lock your legs, lift with your back, using a twisting, jerking motion."

4:43 Totally expected Audible sponsorship plug right there.

I really like this one. Seeing how to attach wiring is super cool

Nobody: Linus: NEEDS 10 GBIT *EVERYWHERE*

This is kind of like how Tim Taylor uses Tool Time to renovate his house.

In the future, I recommend getting special cat 6 heads, they have little holes in the front of the head that let the individual leads pass through, it makes it far easier to crimp the cables.

Thank you Linus for featuring us in your video!

I would love to live in a world where a "cheap" upgrade was $500 just for a switch lol

I remember when Dennis went trough the roof! It was so funny

I would love to see some more speedtest moving files around the LAN.

I'm in the process of setting up my new houses network. Debated going 10 gig, but I'm not sure the benefit on a home network is there yet. Nice to see products coming down in price, its incredible what you can do with legacy hardware these days!

Did I just watch 16 minutes of "guys running cable and plugging things in?" .... yes, and I liked it.

Linus out here judging the electrician for hoarding tech whilst having a literal mouse zoo in his roof

super cool to see you guys doing this right, that versiv is the same tester I use daily

I love how poorly this went, feels like real life, also he's got amazing fluke testing equipment, but not fiberglass fish?!

Dude, do some cable management! Also, call an exterminator. Rat poo is no joke.

"you can get away with 2 inches" - jake

I am totally glad to see Latvian company MikroTik and its switch in your house. Great choice and great company with lots of good stuff regarding IT.

8:50 Linus: "I'll be back."

Hey Linus and crew. I have been watching your awesome tech vids but I haven’t been sending comments as much as I would like. But I want you to know that your content haven’t cease to amaze, at all. Keep up the good work and see you next vid.

Made in Latvia... Wooop wooop. At last Mikrotik got some coverage.

I think it's great that Linus uses his face meme as a super-stretched background Just... magnificent

6:18 : nobody actually ever offended Linus more 😂

I liked that "this is how you crimp a network cable" segment. More of that practical skill demonstration, please!

To clarify more, the cat 6a cable is twisted more for less crosstalk. Apart from having a larger frequency, the gauge of the wire as well as the plastic coating outside of the copper sheaths are also different.

4:43I kind of expected something along the lines of "Speaking of audible... Here's a message from our sponsor: Audible".

Linus: ~makes a GlassWire sponsored ad~ Also Linus: "I'm gonna use it as dumb switch anyway."

When I ran the first internet lines at my parents house 10 years ago I INSISTED using CAT6 cable, if we EVER get 10gig to their house, it has been ready for YEARS

8:50 Linus confirmed Vampire.

That is a strong tape... the Cat5 ripped in half first... I run all Cat6 standard for many years... I know this is 3 years ago... I had my house built 3 years ago and the company doing the low voltage was STILL doing Cat5e as standard (in 2019!) when I had been using Cat6 for about 5 years.... They made me pay an upgrade fee to change to Cat6 on my runs.... The guy was telling me, oh yeah, you dont need anything over CAT5e, and if you put in 6, thats all you'll need for the rest of your life... I said Cat5e has been around for 20 years, how could you still be using that!?!? And I said I will use all Cat6 and then some when Cat 7 and 8 and 9 and 14 and 18 come out! I had to explain that I am running all my cameras (18) and 4 AP's, and I have a complete server rack FULL of servers and network equipment and lots of other gear. And all my smart home setup... I had to show that I did indeed need CAT6 and dont tell me that BS about it being good for all i'll ever need... I"m NOT your typical customer and dont downsell me so you can pocket more money by getting CHEAP CAT5e... He had never pre-wired for anyone with AP's, let alone 4 of them, and PoE cams. I asked about running fiber lines where I wanted them and at first he was like "the ISP can do that" and I said, no, not the DMARC to the wire closet, I mean wire closet to Rack and to a few other places where I need 40gbps drops for my internal network. and he was like yeah, we dont do fiber... And they wouldnt let me run my own fiber and cable, I HAD to pay them :(.... I ran my fiber lines after closing... This was a production builder in a very high end community... My next home, Wife and I are purchasing land and doing a 100% custom build the way we want it... shoot for net zero and then I get to run ALL my own cables and fiber before they begin drywall...

0.06 "He means the old office, which was a house" Yeah we remember :')

Last sponsor: ring doorbells This sponsor: privacy dot com Hmmmmmm, something isn't adding up.

Been waiting for some MikroTik love on this channel, they've been seriously undercutting the prices of the major names for networking hardware for years now with a vastly superior feature set as standard.

4:01 I nearly spat my drink out at that wallpaper

Seeing droppings from an animal while crawling around your accident prone padded loft trying to do what you thought would be a simple run task... That one hit home for me

10:15 - "UnBlug" - Linus Sebastian, 2019

11:54 Jake just taught me more in 30 secs than my teacher in school in 30 mins. Yeeeah

Just ran 4 ports in my home with Cat7. For a newblet running bulk cable and connecting them to Cat7 keystones it went fairly well, didn't need to redo any of the connectors. Realistically there are 2 more rooms I could run cable to, but they're so much further away from the switch, I don't really want to deal with all the wall effort it would take. I may do a secondary structure, hence the Cat 7, where I'll really make use of the shielding and get the distance spec out of it.

I recommend looking into Platinum Tools 10Gig crimpers and their CAT6A shielded plugs or Simply45 CAT6A system for outdoor cabling. Designed for 10Gig applications.

pro cabling tip, you dont need a screwdriver or anything to straighten them out (this is gonna be crazy hard to explain in text, but here goes..) 1) untwist them 2) line them up in the right order 3) firmly hold them together (while keeping them flat) at two different points ~1/2 an inch apart 4) wiggle those 2 points back and forth on a 2 dimensional plane, the wires will straighten *much* more. 5) snip off the un-straightened part

10,000 dollar tester "A Canadian man's family is grieving after their loving father and husband had a massive heart attack while shooting a youtube video today"

@linus tech tips , Great video, this is what i do for a living, i would say this, i never crimp a cable with a RJ-45 as my first option. i always go to a keystone, with a 6 inch patch cable. Its to prevent broken or lost lines, plus easy change later if something happens to just the patch cable end.

Man seeing Linus tool around in that crawl space was hilarious lol 😂 😂 😂

**Cleaning up the coffee that I spit out when he said, "just 500 USD" for the 12 port switch**

Linus “i just need to transfer files faster between my computer and my NAS” Jake *repositions his glasses “okay” 😂😂😂 i was dying there mah dudes 5:37

I use used SFP+ cards and SFP+ DAC cables with a MikroTik CRS309-1G-8S+IN 8 port SFP+ switch. £10 per card / £10 per cable and £200 per switch. It's a managed switch but will only do 10Gb at layer 2, any layer 3 traffic / tagged packets have to go via the CPU not the custom switch chip, so will only be about 3Gb max. but it works really well for my purposes. SPF+ uses less power too, so less heat in your case.

2 years later he upgrades his new house

10:16 "I can unblugg the 1 gig connection"

Come on dude your last cat tip was like a month ago get it together

9:20 the tense music makes it so much better

Can someone explain the benefit of a switch. I currently have 1 gig plan through Comcast with nighthawk cm1200 modem and orbi WiFi 6 rbk852 router. I also ordered a few cat 8 cables for the few wired Iteams I have in my house.

it's actually a great name for a switch. Mikrotik labels all their stuff so that you can know exactly what it does and what ports it has right from the model name.

4:44 I thought he was gonna say “Just like our sponsor!”

If I need to add a access point in my detached workshop can I buy the outdoor cable and buried it in conduit to run across the yard ? or just buy a repeater to boost the signal ?

Hi, I have installed CAT 6 cable throughout my house from one central location, i wanted to know how I can make one singular wifi network from that, so that i may be able to move throughout the house without drops in connection, or having to reconnect to another network, which devices will I need to buy for that, to create a mesh like network. Thanks so much in advance.

8:50 Lucifer, is that you?

Linus's twin vampire living in his attic confirmed.

Cat 6A is augmented category 6 and rated for 500 MHz vs the Category 5e which is rated for 100 MHz only so its definitely a good upgrade :) for those of you who are worried about the price you can get a lowered 10 port with similar specs for around 170 otherwise a 1 GB 8 port switch can run you around $30. Cabling and ends are cheap just make sure you don't get a lower rated connector.

Is TIA/EIA 568-C.2 standard another way to say TIA 568-C22? I am looking for pure copper wire so I am wondering if i found it. Also, I am about to DIY an Ethernet cable in my house the cable only takes up what I need right? it doesn't horde the internet to 1 single PC. Thanks love the info on the vids!

Linus: "I STILL haven't upgraded my house to 10 gigabit networking" Me: "Sir could you spare some data for a humble meme farmer"

I have to say, your desktop wallpaper just killed me xD

Glad to see 10 gig local networking catching up. I believe that it has not previously caught up because hard drives and internet connection connections has usually been slower than 10gig and therefor the benefit has not been that visible. With FTTH 1gig connections and ssd's getting faster, the need to upgrade the home networking is getting more prevalent.

1:00 - "Made in Latvia?!" *latvian jumps up*

**splices into that external ethernet cable** Just "borrowing" some high speed internets Linus.

I've just run single mode fibre cable runs everywhere in my house that I need 10G, the LC connectors are about the same diameter as Cat6A cable so I don't need larger holes, and if you use BiDi SFPs which are still very cheap you only need a single fibre for 10G anyway.

Interesting. Man you make a good set of teachers! Thank you for giving me an education on cat5e vs. cat 6Aand b.t.w. Linus @ 8:47 in your crawlspace...you got the death note devil pupils lmfao

If this will helps, whean configurating the mikrotik switches and routers better use Winbox software, dont know what you use but i think simple using browser, configure RoMON that you can connect to device without any filter rules = saver things, you can also make many DHCP servers and VLAN rules for your servers to keep saver and separate devices from your normal devices like normal use laptops or phones, in ip>firewall>service ports change the ports you like beceose many of ppl like to try enter your cr using standard service ports and also if anyone can connect to your internet provider network and use scan in winbox, can see your device. In ip>firewall>nat you can make ports rules also in connections you will see all connections in and out to your network. Make in firewall filter rules flood protect rule for make your sarvers saver. In ip>dhcp server>leases you can easly make static adresses rules, also you can see there alerts. PRO TIP - you can play music on your mikrotik switches and routers using scripting, you all can find in google serch. Think about that, flood rule starts to working, someone attacks your server, router starting the script to block that and also plays imperial march from star wars :D. there are almost everything you can do with this router. PRO TIP for ppl working in internet providers - if some company have many of radios from mikrotik and you dont know what radio you need to service, someone who can enter to this radio can play for you any music to locate the radio, we have many of SXT radios for clients and whean you reech the roof of building and see 6 radios .... that can helps 10gbps you can also reech using 2 x cat 5e cable, using any cables outside better use cables with gel inside, that will make water out from the inside of cable. PS. Sorry for my poor english language :) Cheers.

Linus: "The original cat-5e cable broke!!!" Reality: the mice chewed through the original cat-5e cable.

>*He mean's the old office, which was a house. >mean's really now

2020 i still have 1mb radio internet since 10 years ago with no chance for upgrade. Its realy cool for me to see people upgrade their own network. im watching ytube with 360p

When you get an ad made by Linus before a Linus vid: stonks