 I really don't think there could be anything more boring than network switches. I mean the box is boring The product's boring Like they even look boring. Look at them. Just metal boxes But I have something I'm legitimately excited about today. This is the first 10 gigabit 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 gigabit 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? Phoenix's Aria headphones come complete with a cardioid mic and acoustic chambers constructed of Japanese pinewood Check them out at the link in the video description Okay, so first things first, I'm gonna have to clear some space on my 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 internetting 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 one gigabit The speed of a standard commodity network switch So then the next obvious question that people are always asking me is 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 slash wireless access point slash 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 U2008 brings to the table is it adds these two what I'm gonna call Fastlanes these are 10 gigabit 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 ballin 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 gigabit all of a sudden you can transfer Ten 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 gigabit ports right here this one is leading to a fast storage machine over in our server room over there and This one is going to go into the 10 gigabit networking ports that are built into the x99 E10 GWS 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, okay one second my server room needs some work. I know So here we go in a moment this should pick up here and There we go Ten gigabit 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 And have a look at what a 10 Gigabyte 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 What's heavy is the quanta computer? 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