Quadruple Your Network Speed for $100 with SMB 3.0 Multichannel!

[@jbyrne8977]

I feel like this should have been included. 1) Ctrl + R 2) Type "cmd" and hit enter 3) Type "Set-SmbServerConfiguration -EnableMultiChannel $true" and hit enter 4) Type "Set-SmbClientConfiguration -EnableMultiChannel $true" and hit enter Microsoft says it is turned on by default, but many users (including myself) found that it wasn't enabled by default. Thumbs up though, awesome video. Please do a follow up video on SMB Multichannel!

[@Kcorbo]

Old video, but in case someone else comes across this you can do the following to check if it's enabled (tested in Windows 10). 1)Ctrl + R 2) Type "cmd" and hit enter 3) Type "powershell" and hit enter 4) Type "Get-SmbServerConfiguration | select EnableMultiChannel" and hit enter 5) Type "Get-SmbClientConfiguration | select EnableMultiChannel" and hit enter They should return a value of 'true' if it's enabled (which it already was for me).

[@ericb9511]

If you learn people copy paste shit all the time knows that this isn't going to work

[@kelvintechie]

@@Kcorbo Or you could just do a Ctrl+R and type powershell directly.

[@Kcorbo]

@@kelvintechie True. The shorter the better.

[@תתתתתתתתתתתתתתתתתתתתתתתתתת-ט3ד]

It should be WINKEY + R

[@DasVERMiT]

*Network administrators hate him!*

[@potatoonastick2239]

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[@Slay1337pl]

+Potato on a stick * picture of a keyboard being washed under the tap *

[@dirtydogdisco01]

+DasVERMiT Click here to grow an extra 4 INCHES!

[@potatoonastick2239]

dirtydogdisco01 Totally free, enter you creditcard information to download!

[@repeatrepeatrepeat]

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[@Snoop05B]

"Certain combinations of hardware with certain Windows installs were working while others weren't" - Windows networking in a nutshell

[@jayrx12]

5:58 I was falling asleep watching this and Holy fuck that scared the shit out of me.

[@coleboettger783]

I did the same thing haha

[@vinceoffer6526]

and BOOOM

[@ilovestreetphotography]

I had experience with this years ago and sort of shocked it was overlooked for so long. Totally wasn't expecting Linus to #dropthehammer. Solid #crashzoom camera work btw.

[@kojack635]

Peripheral Vision me too bro. Its 1:00am about to fall asleep and then boom! Linus makes me shit myself

[@dub_2953]

Scott Haddox hardware compressor, I'm assuming. If so, not all of us have that crap lying around lol

[@mebombu]

Tbh Linus makes the best in video ads. If I were selling a product I'd go to him first for an ad, his are genuinely the best I've seen.

[@ImCaveJohnson]

LINUS!!! Do a "how to set up a LAN party" video...PLEASE

[@Hackaloken]

It's really simple, just ensure you have enough power strips/outlets, and a network switch with enough ports, and you're done.

[@timothydinkledik8591]

+Cave Johnson How hard is it? Why make a video on it?

[@HentaiNat]

don't you need friends to do that?

[@ThePuffamanChannel]

+hentai nat SHOTS FIRED xD

[@ImCaveJohnson]

Its actually a little complicated. One issue I ran into is getting both wifi and lan computers to use the same game. BUT my main reason is because there are NO well made tutorials for how to setup a lan party. The tutorials currently up are all made by armatures and barley explain anything or give you fractured explanations. I want to set up a lan party at my house but its too much a dam hassle to get a straight anser. Its a Job for Linus!

[@momentary_]

So many people in this comments section don't know the difference between the internet and a network. I almost feel like Linus needs to make a video explaining the difference.

[@KingTheRat]

A network is a tube. The internet is a series of tubes.

[@ThioJoe]

Yea but how can you quadruple your WiFi speed?

[@geometryplayer5004]

i almost thought this was your vid because of the thumbnail

[@Ben123466789]

+ThioJoe By wrapping sticky tape around the centre of your router 7 times (anti-clockwise) and putting it in the oven at 60ºc for 14 minutes.

[@venom174]

thio joe can do it faster

[@AnimeReference]

+ThioJoe four wifi access points is a foolproof method. It is how my university maintains it's rock solid network access reliability.

[@ayyypizzarolls2331]

+VENOM 17 read the about in his channel

[@jamesb1221222]

Lots of people thinking this video is about speeding up your internet connection.

[@cowboyjordan01]

This is actually helpful to me because I'm renovating my network

[@cwill6491]

jamesb1221222 I'm guessing this wouldn't help squeeze every bit of bandwidth that greedy isps are willing to give.

[@cowboyjordan01]

not at all since this is for internal networking.

[@matthewmurphy2631]

It won't speed up your internet however could smoothout latency like a beast! :D

[@kalijasin]

Deon, exactly right. Linux is a Network operating system (NOS) so its going to have support for SMB multichannel.

[@garyschermer5463]

I don't know why, but when you say, "boom" at 6 minutes in.... its just hysterical. It's so full of passion and energy. It resonates with me.

[@roryfree4707]

Thought this was ThioJoe for a second

[@omegapng]

+Grant Pennett Hasn't he already done something like this?

[@omegapng]

+Rory Free kzbin.info/www/bejne/pIPQfp6fiaeSq6c

[@EraseUrFace]

+Rory Free YEA LOLLOL

[@linusmlgtips2123]

+CMDR Kappa Yeah and his methods are WAY better

[@EraseUrFace]

+Rory Free Only flaw is that it doesn't say "For Free!"

[@danvaldivia6155]

I'm in college and live in an apartment that has restricted 2mb/s Internet. It took almost a minute for this video to load. Any suggestions?

[@LinusTechTips]

+Dan Valdivia This won't do anything for your INTERNET speed. This only helps with local file transfers between machines on your LOCAL network.

[@FullOnKnives]

lan cable?

[@AB-ih4nh]

+LinusTechTips then this video seems kind of clickbaity

[@jimm5091]

I got the same problem mate, I live in Australia and it's like that pretty much everywhere except the cities

[@blue.android]

+LinusTechTips there are people who use ssh injection to use high speed Internet with least speed price right?

[@teknoman117]

Honestly what I did was grab some 10Gb NICs for cheap off ebay. Got them for like $18 for a single port card. No connection ganging to worry about...

[@stefanl5183]

Indeed, that's an option. So, is fiber channel and infiniband. Infiniband supports speeds up to 40Gps and something called RDMA which allows you to access devices on other computers over the network as if they were in the local computer. That what super computing clusters use. Anyway, either of these three (10Gb, fiver channel, or infiniband) would probably be easier to get up and running for just a fast point to point connection between 2 computers than teaming multiple gigabit adapters.Teaming almost always works better for applications like servers which transfer data to multiple clients. A single faster connections is probably going to perform better for point to point transfers between 2 machines much similar to how a faster CPU will perform better in single threaded applications than a slower CPU with more cores.

[@ronald4life1]

Also need a 10 gigabit router and cat 6 cabling. Thisis good for older setups

[@ToastHosting]

Not if they are directly connected. And those cheap cards use SFP/DAC cables not ethernet.

[@Heathfx5]

I just did this last weekend, but with dual 10g connections and I was able to hit 2400MB/s. HOLY BALLS!!! Better yet, my server was a linux machine with samba 4.5 configured to enable multichannel. I have no idea what I would used that speed for, but the fact that it worked so well is mind blowing!

[@mattscott6765]

Oh dude! I know this comment is 4years old but I'm just learning Linux / samba and can't get anything faster than 12megabits per second.... Windows to windows I'm getting 400MB/s....can you point me to any resources that might help please?

[@TheTechKid21]

Wow I love these vids! I'm 13 and I started building computers just because of this channel!

[@Veritas-invenitur]

Linus I have experienced the same problems with inconsistency as you have when i experimented with multi-channel. I am glad you were able to get your setup to work, as for me i gave up after a few hours of troubleshooting. Maybe i will give it another try

[@LinusTechTips]

Troubleshooting it doesn't seem to lead anywhere. I am considering a long form vlog style follow up where I show how effortlessly it works sometimes and how impossible it is to make it work other times to see if I can get MS to acknowledge the issue.

[@grant.fitzsimmons]

glad I'm still awake at 1 am

[@rudyroman5192]

same

[@jangelelcangry]

+Grant Fitzsimmons glad I'm still awake at 3:00 am Dat comment copying i did tho. :P

[@kisone9339]

Same as well

[@CutoutClips]

+Grant Fitzsimmons Why am I awake this late o_O

[@sinistershadow744]

6 am for me rn rip

[@vzangel]

Sure, for under a 100 dollars... + a new CPU and 2 SSDs

[@kenkalajdzic]

+Miguel Angel Vazquez You usually have a decent PC before trying to max out network speed.

[@transposedmessenger9251]

+Miguel Angel Vazquez A lot of things to buy...! Interesting video though.

[@joaquincarrillo5354]

+Miguel Angel Vazquez also 2 computers, screeens, OS, ethernet, etc etc, etc lol pointless like u can see

[@yourick1953]

+kevin G. He wrote it right...

[@gottesman007]

+Miguel Angel Vazquez This is for enterprise and High End network purposes... If you are a normal user it's obvious you are not going to need this LAN speeds...

[@LordMarcus]

I like this set you guys keep shooting in. The lighting reminds me of Christmas. I feel so cozy when I watch. I want some cocoa.

[@ebc92]

This is the kind of content i want! Linus, please do more videos like this!

[@ZijZ]

real Linus hours who up clicc like😂😂😂😭😭😭💯💯

[@OfficialDaveChannel]

Yo

[@Kaikyou519]

+ZijZ smash that MF thumbs up button 😂😂😂😂😂👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻💯💯💯💯

[@tijn122]

real linus hours 😂😂😂😂💯💯💯👍👍👍🔥🔥🔥

[@thelol1759]

👌😩🎊🎊🎊🎊🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@TheArtVe]

English please

[@FoodOnCrack]

if you guys can't get it to work with multiple installs and different components, this is practically useless for 90% of the people watching this video.

[@Ultravore]

+FoodOnCrack true... I was really hoping for a good installation guide because I really need this for my network but appearently it still doesn't work well. guess he just didn't want to throw the video material away after this failure.

[@m8onethousand]

+FoodOnCrack It's okay since over 90% of people watching this video will never use a local network anyway.

[@btoiscool]

+FoodOnCrack It's practically useless for 90% of the people who watched this video in the first place, because 90% of people who watched this most likely don't have a NAS.

[@hnaht321]

+FoodOnCrack 90% of the people watching a Titan X review won't buy one

[@CrabSt3r]

+hnaht321 it's true I watch one and bought a 980 ti instead haha.

[@JasonDeej]

Bonded links like to loadbalance on Source+Destination IP Pair -- that was part of your problem in the NCIX days. If you were so inclined, you could theoretically do 10GbE between two hosts on roughly the same budget with eBay NICs and twinax.

[@AshenElk]

Linus had so much fun in this video. It was good to watch.

[@dieselphiend]

I'm kind of surprised you've never explored or talked about POF- plastic optical fiber. It's incredibly cheap, can travel in runs of 300 feet, is easy to install, has no connectors on its ends (bare cable is simply inserted into a receptacle), can be cut to length with a sharp knife, doesn't emit radiation, can carry Ethernet, USB, IEEE1394 and other protocols, and can deliver over 3 gigabits per second. It is also resistant to vibration, EMI, radiation, and humidity.

[@TeenyTinyMoose]

Getting speeds of 442 mbs. Thanks for the pro tip linus!

[@qlbeansbelgrade2279]

+Mathew Boston Hi Mathew, I just posted above I can't make this work in my setup. I was using LACP team, 4 port card on 2012 r2 server with raid and work station with dual nic and SSD. Only getting 1Gb. RSS is enabled etc...

[@TeenyTinyMoose]

+qlbeans belgrade Hi, I too am using the same server setup. All the desktops connected have windows 10. On the server side. I noticed that teaming would cause weird transfer speeds. So I just went ahead and unteamed the nic and created a new share with the SMB protocol. On the desktops, I just mapped the share. This produced 400+ mbps on all desktops.

[@qlbeansbelgrade2279]

+Mathew Boston Thanks Matt, I will look in to this and get back... ;) Best, Bogdan

[@qlbeansbelgrade2279]

+Mathew Boston Hi Matt, It's working with win 8.1 pro just plug and works. ;) the problem comes when you share from win 2012 r2 over SMB multichannel no nic teaming etc same setup like on workstations... just getting 1gb/s Do you have any idea? I made one longer post on this question above... Thanks for replying earlier! Best, B

[@oooppiikkk]

can you do a quick recap of what u need, i got lost after the 3rd attempt

[@astroidea]

+Tieng Nguyen 2x i7 systems, 16port gig switch, 2 crazy fast ssd, or ram drives.

[@HeyJerry55]

"Under 100" my ass

[@Hackaloken]

+Marcus DeFilippis It's reasonable to assume that anyone who would actually benefit from higher local speeds would have a good rig already, so it's just $100 for new network equipment...

[@mannixmd]

+Marcus DeFilippis you know pc's are not the part of the buying list ;)

[@MARSTVCHANNEL]

He can't 'coz he's a fckd up nerd, with no social skills and creativity, that's why he uses all these annoying infantile KZbin gestures that he learned from their "how to get more views and likes" for attention hoes video.

[@Franklyong]

I would recommend getting Mellanox Connect X-2's. Cheaper and up to 10gbps with Twin-Ax cables

[@PJ00240]

Linus and LMG team kudos to you for giving us this video. I believe this will be a great series for common man like myself who rely on eBay to get used quality server class network equipments. I get servers, managed switches and nice from eBay at less than 1/4 of the original price. I wish there are more videos about building a better network or servers from parts bought of eBay. Either way, great content as always.

[@vadermike7772]

"And boooom! Just like that..... " Man i love your enthusiasm, and all your videos rock!

[@ActionParsnip]

Try using Linux. It does this kind of thing very well

[@oldbatwit5102]

If you can actually manage to get the WiFi working in the first place and if you can't, good luck finding the answer on the net

[@CheapBastard1988]

Oldbatwit You're talking about hackingtoshing of yesteryear even so this video is about cabled networks between desktops/servers so how is wifi relevant?

[@lordzeuscannon6400]

nah. nothing beats the compatibility of windows

[@dan8t669]

Linux doesn't do anything very well. It does one thing in this one niche almost perfect, and if you try anything else it breaks. With no one willing, or even able to help.

[@ActionParsnip]

@@oldbatwit5102 WiFi works out of the box for me. No problems at all.

[@ReCodeDetro]

And here I thought getting transfer speed of 50-70MBps was the height of the world.

[@birdinmotion1525]

My brother told me the entire city of Salt Lake was upgrading some google thing that has gigabit transfer speeds

[@ReCodeDetro]

Bird In Motion Thats internet retated. This is data related. Different thing. Mbps isn't the same as MBps.

[@ReCodeDetro]

***** Jesus fuck can you people not read. This isn't internet related.

[@GamersTrue]

+ReCode Detro yeah read this guys comment. You guys are confusing internet speed with transfer data speeds.

[@asldfkjasodlfkjasdfasdfikl1674]

+ReCode Detro I am sitting here with only a MegaByte per second

[@ankit22sharma]

0:05 1 Gigabyte transfer speed or 1 Gigabit transfer speed? ...What is said and shown does not match..

[@WoahWoah378]

+Ankit Sharma He said they were able to "break the Gigabit barrier". 1Gigabyte speed that was shown is what they get on 10 Gigabit connection.

[@someusername121]

+Ankit Sharma He's saying he wants to exceed 1 gigabit. 10 gigabits which is shown is > 1 gigabit.

[@ankit22sharma]

Ohh alright got it.. Peace!

[@JusstyteN]

+Abdul Muhaimin no, 1GB/s is 10Gbps

[@allantinker6838]

+JusstyteN As a network engineer, Thank you.

[@AgentSkyper]

Hey Linus, thanks to you I now have much, much faster transfer speeds. It really works, even with 3 LAN ports per PC and older machines.

[@cameronbell7914]

I'm new to your channel, I've seen about 4 of your videos. I gottta say I'm impressed. Liked and subscribed!

[@abeibrahim5846]

Hi Linus, I tried to follow the HW configuration but failed; PLEASE provide us with your final list of HW and steps to take to achieve maximum throughput, Thanks!

[@steevemccloud5841]

The new ThioJoe

[@lauritzt]

There's a difference between a network and the internet.

[@steevemccloud5841]

+LauritzT no.

[@Quietbut_Deadly]

It's titled as is it. Some people are dumb and don't know the difference between download speed and network speed

[@steevemccloud5841]

+Quietbut_Deadly That's just opinion.

[@steevemccloud5841]

+simon 101 No but you are. #rekt

[@pseudocoder78]

Or, you could buy a 4 port 10 Gbit switch for $89 and 10 Gbit nics for $25 and it will work all the time, with every application and OS. Since the solution you presented doesn't really cost just $100 I think this is a better solution. It also scales up better because the Nics are cheaper.

[@ATRMadcatz]

Nice to know that coming back to this video years later, I'm using the sponsored mouse as my daily driver mouse :D

[@Bamshi101]

So just so I'm clear: 1. Get 2 or more cheap quad port gigabit NICs and install them in the PCs you want to pass data through 2. Get a cheap 16 or 24 port switch 3. Run 4 ethernet cables from one PC, into the switch, then four out of the switch and into the other PC/s. 4. Have at least 8 thread CPUs on all PCs in the network for optimum performance. 5. SMB 3.0 is already enabled by default on any version of Windows Server 2012 or Windows 8 (or greater) My only question then is it really as simple as plugging it all in? Do you have to do anything with the switch?

[@luisdanielmesa]

improves network speeds for under $100 (but you'll have to change your i3 to an i7)

[@MRSketch09]

05:59 BOOM! Just like that... It's cool.. but damn I was hoping this was related to our ISP's...

[@thysonsacclaim]

Why? Network speed =! Internet/ISP speed....

[@MRSketch09]

@@thysonsacclaim Why?.... .well why not?

[@thysonsacclaim]

@@MRSketch09 - Do you think your ISP uses SMB / SAMBA? Because it doesn't. That's only used on LANs.

[@landychev]

Why dont you put 4 port into etherchannel ? Link aggregation should work..

[@MatthewSimpson2006]

Just seen this video for the first time. SMB multichannel is a cool concept, but I was thinking the same thing. If you have enterprise server grade 4 port Nics then why not just use windows 10 to create a network team? this presents as 1 network card with the potential for 4Gb.

[@nautaki]

It seems that you can't do NIC teaming with Windows 10

[@landychev]

Yes, you can do it in windows 10. Just replace the Ethernet names with your NIC names. Run powershell. New-NetLbfoTeam TheATeam "Ethernet","Ethernet 6" You should then get a 2GBs Switch Independent team. From there you can use the Network Connections screen to set it up how you want.

[@justinhannah1023]

Yeah NIC Teaming with etherchannel also set up on the switch side is the way to do this. and works with nearly any OS.

[@napsterbater]

Except this is talking about speeding up a single SMB 3.0 transfer buy however many Nics you have. Setting up a link aggregation group are etherchannel requires four separate TCP connections possibly the four different eyepiece depending on if just eye peas are used to Hash or port numbers also and then you still get into the hashing and if two connections hash to the same port and things of that nature.

[@randomxaos]

When I heard you say 4790 I was like what year was this made? LOL 6 years ago. Still a great video. I should have noticed this earlier

[@djsi38t]

Ok so I really haven't been a big fan of linus but when he does this kind of thing it really does peak my interest.Nice work.

[@AlterDieg8]

Hey! Do this again with todays hardware, to see, how cheap it is now

[@TheTrigger210281]

AlterDieg8 heosnshauphzy Fm jx &&tqqeeazl L

[@geogmz8277]

in linux world this is been working for years flawlessly at my home. bonding is the answer..

[@epsonBaptism]

Tfw every NIC with 3-4 ports costs 300$ here in Romania

[@CesarPetrescu]

Petru Mihai :)) Romania

[@CheapBastard1988]

Well if that is the case get on a plane to China and buy a seacontainer's worth of them and sell them in your country cheap. Then they will no longer be expensive in romania and you make a quick buck.

[@manuelconey6545]

CheapBastard1988 a genious

[@MAP3D1234]

nice little bit of info I didn't know before today, thanks! even using mellanox connect-X 3 10gb fiber cards, knowing this additional trick will prove very useful. now to probably upgrade my servers end cards to infiniband cards with breakout cables to upgrade my point to point connections with dual ports from workstation to server! Very much appreciated!

[@baconbliss4796]

it was such an "honor" to watch this video

[@KenjiUmino]

now wait a minute - I only need a multiport NIC on each machine and a beefy multicore CPU on each side, right ? so no special windows software or drivers or anything to tell the NICs to bundle all 4 ports on each side to a single logical connection with a single IP and everything? or did i just miss something here ?

[@qlbeansbelgrade2279]

yep that's right... just 4 port card on both ends and simple gigabit switch and it works. I did full research on this. 10GB is cheap now but this is cool if you have few of these 4 port or dual port cards laying around. SMB 3.02 is on by default on windows10 and win8.1Pro I want to try 10GB link on one end and 4 port 1gb on other, to see if it will get me 4GB transfer.

[@rich1051414]

I am the first to cry foul when someone yells 'its easier on linux'... but in this case, it is. Basically, anything network related I would want the backend to be linux. I actually use a 4 port intel nic card so that 4 pc's in the house have full gigabit speed to the nas, and it is always limited by the processor(or drive speed) on the backend, so using a bloated OS like windows for that work seems retarded in my opinion. It just sits in the corner, so why does it need a UI at all :P

[@LinusTechTips]

+Richard Smith That's not what I was doing here, and in fact this feature (SMB 3.0 multichannel) only works on Windows right now.

[@abdulmuhaimin5274]

Linus right he use ONLY Windows

[@livesimplyandhumbly]

+Richard Smith Windows has a lot of internal bottlenecks and bugs when it comes to fast and consistent networking. Worst part, Microsoft does not give a shit. MPTCP has been in development in LINUX, FreeBSD and Mac OS X for about 3 years now.

[@stevencurt1758]

nfs 4.1 has mpio avail, google. it or go here .packetpushers.net/multipathing-nfs4-1-kvm/ . Confident there won't be any limitation on thread count either. btw, if you run into a bottleneck @ 120mb/s, I promise you switching form SSD to ramdisk won't relieve it, =P Though I may be confused as bonding and mpio are relic's in *nix just not samba's implementation to *nix. It's just a bad idea since only on sequential streams do you see a benefit. As soon as 4 clients access different data off those backend disks, network will no longer be your bottleneck. I can see this happening with the smb 3 he's offering above, only good for 1 client. If you're wanting high throughput to one client, setup mpio iscsi and mount em.

[@nikushim6665]

"Microsoft does not give a shit." Well of course not, they have not given a shit about power users since the XP days. Their current target demographic is focused primarily towards mobile platforms (at least that's what they have been pushing at every Microsoft developer convention for the past five years). The company as a whole has been badly mismanaged since Steve stepped down at chair in 2006 giving Ballmer free reign to royally fuck everything up, after he resigned in 2013 there was no one left in the company who had any real insight to the proper direction of the company and thus now stuck with Satya Nadella who has no clue what hes doing.

[@FiraRally]

Ever heard of Double your internet speed by ThioJoe? Just do that twice and you get quadruple the ineternet speed.

[@lauritzt]

There's a difference between a network and the internet.

[@HeyJerry55]

That's not how this works.

[@Firejeremy10MC]

Nobody gets sarcasm.. It's clearly there...

[@zvxcvxcz]

+Abdul Muhaimin Sure it does, just replace wireless 300 mbps n devices all with 1200 mbps ac devices, viola, quadrupled. ^_^ Or man, if you still have any 54 mpbs gear....you can get almost 24x!

[@abdulmuhaimin5274]

zvxcvxcz is too expensive to upgrade gear

[@dougman066]

the hand movements are off the charts with this guy.

[@sflxn]

I have a pretty beefy PC that can do almost anything, but this video gave me a chuckle. If you have Macs, you can establish a 10gigabit network simply by plugging in a thunderbolt cable between them. One cable, 10x speed, no hassle, no hours of pulling out hair. The network is established automatically.

[@darksidelead]

+sflxn You miss the point of the video then. This is to show SMB3.0 multichannel and cheap and dirty way to go past standard gigabit speeds. You can easily buy a thunderbolt or 10gigabit nic and call it a day. Or better yet team up multiple 10gigabit cards

[@griffin8062]

Simple, Linus, just run linux!

[@Kilometers_KPH]

Hey +LinusTechTips where would I be able to get the jacket you're wearing in the video?

[@LinusTechTips]

It's coming out soon. Not available to the general public yet.

[@clickynote]

+LinusTechTips Have said before, going to say again. Will buy.

[@tohopes]

In other words: the results aren't worth the effort.

[@ITpanda]

This is awesome! thank you for spending the time to trouble shooting this and sharing it with us. Shared.

[@heresJohnnyBlaze]

that's awesome that you guys finally figured it out

[@TheTechAdmin]

and BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@a.artbart3020]

*jumpscared*

[@TheTechAdmin]

A. ARTBART I forgot to include a timestamp, so it seems out of context

[@flame006]

5:59 hahaha BAM!

[@ghazik3656]

i have 1mbps download, 4x it - 4mbps.... pay 100$ for that?

[@2awesome292]

You would just get slightly more consistent 1mbps download

[@matthewmurphy2631]

Increase latency meaning you would get a faster ping possibly.

[@SimonZellox]

Cat. -3? How did you get your network this slow?

[@ghazik3656]

Simon My network always is 0.5-1.7 mbps, i have DSL not optic internet, but its very stable.

[@SimonZellox]

This is about the network and not about the internet speed. Your network is probably 100 mbit or 1 gigabit and a 4x increase won't affect your internet speed unless you're moving files over your network to another computer. Your bottleneck is your internet (DSL) line.

[@mikelastname6469]

And BOOM!!! Just like that. Awesome video Linus!

[@securityfirst1352]

thats why I love to watch every Linus videos, they are really useful

[@shinjiku01]

You said gigabit you were transferring at 1 gigabyte per second.

[@LinusTechTips]

I was talking about breaking the 1 gigabit barrier

[@alexplieu]

1 gigabyte = 1000 megabyte, they were transferring under 500 megabyte. So Linus was right to use the term gigabits

[@shinjiku01]

alexplieu kzbin.info/www/bejne/gWW5n4qHhbxgnJY 1.13 GB

[@parallaxggyt]

+alexplieu 8megabits=1megabyte

[@zenithrebel]

ermmmm is there a TL:DR for this? :3

[@arduria538]

+Eos Zenith 6:26

[@JanBartnik]

+Eos Zenith Sure: buy two cheap 4 port 1 Gbit PCI-E card, at least 8 port Gbit router, two i7 processors with 8 threads, 32 GB of RAM for two ramdrives, and 4 SSDs... all for under $100... [extra part not in the movie: or just go with Fibre Channel; two 10 Gb cards under $100].

[@TCWordz]

"Under $100" ... only if you have a couple hundred worth of spare hardware laying around ...

[@xdamage1975x]

Takes me back to my tinker days, good work guys

[@starwarsnerd95]

I have actually been doing this on my main desktop for years using the onboard ethernet ports on the motherboard, vastly improved my ability to use the internet and do local transfers at the same time

[@ironkot01]

Meanwhile i have 5.7Mbps download speed and 0.97Mbps upload speed...

[@johnthegreek7356]

lucky bastard I get mbs

[@ironkot01]

xd

[@astromec6303]

Terocer Same

[@astromec6303]

Terocer As long as you don't download, it's fine. When you upload though, drama begins.

[@ironkot01]

mate i don't need to download / upload for drama to begin

[@souravzzz]

Great effort, but kinda disappointing results. Couple of cheapo InfiniBand NICs and a switch can easily beat that. It won't work with windows though, the drivers are Linux only. There is a reason almost all the supercomputers use InfiniBand and not Ethernet.

[@stefanl5183]

Not sure about this but I think the Mellanox infiniband cards support widows and IPoIB. Not sure whether RDMA would work or not, as that probably requires support by the operating system.

[@huberthans4312]

LoL. Infiniband is Linux only... Windows Networks stack supports all modern features. And Infiniband is no problem at all...

[@amshermansen]

"quadruple YOUR network for 100$" ... and then fail to do so.

[@padrello]

Very intresting video Linus, please continue to investigate futher!!!

[@LinearSeven]

Your Enthusiasm is Awesome....!

[@ravicz2821]

i am sitting here with 1,5MB/s .. :'(

[@MoistPocket]

if i didn't change my ISP last year i'd be saying "lucky bastard" like everyone else's replies, because i was getting 500Kbps with my previous ISP but i'm sitting here with 170Mbps on my laptop and 50-60 on other devices

[@whynott_4438]

and?lol im sitting here with 230kb/s

[@berkeguzel5979]

So. Be happy with it because in Turkey. You got 50 gb AKK(I don't know english) and if you download more than it. They limit your download speed to 3mbps.

[@n00blamer]

This video is about LAN speeds not WAN speeds..

[@Bungee75]

Well as a network guy... if you'd create trunk/aggregate link on switch and corresponding setup on OS you'd have 4Gb connection. And I saw pretty nice managed switch on ebay page you were showing.

[@TanGuven]

I like your style Linus keep going like that...

[@issaciams]

Dang dude I never noticed how much you move your arms around in your videos until now! By the end of the video I had no idea what you said or why my neck was hurting. I thought you were performing a magic trick or something! No I'm just kidding (I did have to watch your video twice though :-P) I still love your videos. Very informative and entertaining stuff man :-)

[@jammrock9286]

Answer: SMB Multichannel is tied to RSS queues. You need to use PowerShell and Set-NetAdapterRss to configure the number of RSS queues to match the number of physical cores. Hyperthreaded cores do NOT count, as RSS queues can only attach to actual, real, physical cores. Once setup SMB will, during negotiation, tell each other that you have 4 NICs, each with 4 RSS queues, and viola! Assuming you have no storage bottlenecks. By switching from a 2 core proc to a 4 core proc you allowed more RSS queues across more cores, which allowed you to reach 4x1Gb speeds. technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj130863(v=wps.630).aspx blogs.technet.microsoft.com/josebda/2012/06/28/the-basics-of-smb-multichannel-a-feature-of-windows-server-2012-and-smb-3-0/ PS - If you want to go super fast, check out RDMA and SMB Direct. I've seen speeds upwards of 2.2 GB/s using a single RoCE RDMA 10Gb NIC. Enjoy!

[@I_ammm_mojojojo]

Serious question (noob here).. With all of the retired Server grade equipment floating around, what about using an older 10GB server switch + NICS with 12GB SAS drives?

[@xD3VILxJINx]

Great solution for backing up all data to combat a server failure.

[@infernalGotYou]

HAHAH! he got my spraying water when just taking a sip on 6:00 funniest shit ever BOOM!

[@jorelplay8738]

I like how in the end, horus phone was „surprisingly” ok :))

[@charliebrownau]

5:40 - I havent used Windows 10 , but in XP and 2003 days, if you used a proper INTEL PRO gigabit nic (single/duel/quad) the processing of the nic, was ON THE NIC ITSELF not your computers cpu

[@xaosikk]

I like these types of videos because we get to these the "pull your hair out moments" so we can't either avoid them or know we aren't crazy when it doesn't "magically work, no problems"

[@LifeofAedan]

Thanks so much it gave me the idea of using my motherboard ethernet port and my usb hub ethernet port!

[@charliebrownau]

2:55 - Its been years since Ive used Intel PRO software and multiple TEAMING nics together , but would you not have to first , install nic software , install pro software, setup team link towards the switch and setup the switch to support it aswell , back in the day of socket 774 you had 10/100 cards doing 11MB/sec and gigabit cards maxing out at 60 MB/sec

[@robertholland1664]

Proof of the pudding is in the eating. Glad you figured out how to get your speeds.

[@fordcinco]

I did not understand the purpose of this video but I still hit the "like" button.

[@barspinsallday]

your videos are so helpful lol! keep up the good honest work!

[@seranfall]

In your previous attempt you were using LACP often called NIC Teaming (PC/Server) or Etherchannel (Switch). When using LACP a single conversation uses the same link. Meaning if you are using 1Gbit links that is the max speed of any one conversation. LACP is only an advantage when you have a lot of conversations going on at the same time. What dictates what a conversation is depends on the switch. It can be source/dest mac address on lower end switches or be source/dest IP on others. The main reason for all of this is because you don't want Ethernet frames out of order and Ethernet doesn't have anything in it to deal with out of order frames. Multipath I/O is a better technique and is used to provide redundant, load balanced paths between a server and a storage array. The balancing is done with IP and routing instead of LACP and allows for conversations to get more bandwidth than what one link can provide. It has also a much wider range of load balancing options than LACP does.

Hola, today's video has earn the subscription with out a doubt. amazing. thanks for the tips.

[@charliebrownau]

3:55 it makes sense that it caps out on a SINGLE nic at 122MB/sec, since it is using ONE GIGABIT NIC

[@roberttucker7042]

Thanks Linus... Great info as usual.... Keep up the Great work!

[@DanNicolaeServerHost]

Use GNU/Linux and bonding on those network interfaces. Works without any headache.

[@Metal-Possum]

My network is fine thanks. Since I'm renting a house, it's multiple Fritzboxes all working as repeaters/bridges on a 5ghz AC channel. Anything stationary wired into these, and anything mobile (laptops, phones) running on a different 2.4ghz channel at 802.11n.

[@velocity37]

If your machines are close together, just pick up a couple 10gb Mellanox cards with passive SFP+ cables for $20 each on eBay, connect the two together (a crossover configuration), configure static IPs and you're done. That way you're also not dependent on SMB 3.0 multichannel to achieve high LAN throughput. 10gb gets expensive quickly though, with longer active SFP+ cables and switches. You can get away with a small number of computers by having one or more machines with two Mellanox NICs and configuring static routes to link 3+ computers together without an expensive 10gb switch (though a fair number of the near-free bulk decommissioned 1gb switches have 10gb SFP+ uplink ports).

[@joebonsaipoland]

get it to work on a FREENAS running on a RIverBed 1050 system and you are golden! Good luck

[@dinovandermerwe2750]

Woah guys. Much respect. Great upload

[@jammersplace]

We found out in our environment. Most network traffic works off of a single core. Core 1. We run server 2012 r2 and our transfer speeds are very good we have seen over 1GBs using the Nimble Storage. We still notice that the first core does handle most of the network processing.

[@qlbeansbelgrade2279]

+James Hyatt Hi James, ...did you set LACP team or not? How does your NIC setup looks like, since you have it working. Let me know. Thanks!