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[@HenrikDanielsson]

"We've had 100% uptime!" *Pulls plug out for demonstration*

[@SaberusTerras]

I think commercially you can still claim 100% uptime if you only take services down during planned maintenance periods.

[@sudocatsda1guy390]

The sacrifices this guy makes for us

[@willierants5880]

@@SaberusTerras Depends on how the SLA's are defined. I've seen it written many different ways. In some cases all maintenance was considered an outage in particular if a segment or service was unreachable during that time period. An SLA of this nature mandates tight maintenance schedules with a lot of planning and testing prior to implementation. The idea here is when you go to roll out the patch, upgrade, expansion, etc. it goes very smoothly with no issues or need to rollback. One and done with minimal down time. If you didn't do your work ahead of time you aren't going to make your maintenance window and your SLA may be in jeopardy. Most SLA's have punitive clauses in them so if you don't meet an SLA instead of your customer paying you, you get to pay your customer.

[@VectraQS]

Well, it might still be five nines.

[@moosemaimer]

@@SaberusTerras The company that bought the ISP I used to work for guaranteed 100% uptime. Not five nines. Their response to "then how do you do intrusive maintenance?" was "we don't."

[@drjoephd]

Sorry to hear your dad passed. My condolences.

[@pfdtx4633]

Also sad to hear of David's loss. Especially now with the COVID-19 situation, I think a lot of people are concerned with their parent's health. As a side note, found his channel after moving away from DFW. Could have shown him some cool views if I had known before.

[@jacksonmuszynski9217]

Yeah, he said it so casually that I rewinded to see if I heard him correctly.

[@djray369]

I used to work with his mom. His dad would come in frequently with his mom. Never met David but heard lots of stories. 😀

[@CommanderZx2]

That story about the lightning strike was pretty crazy.

[@TheUglyGnome]

Indeed. I have had the same arrangement with my parents from mid-1990s. Fortunately never had lightning strike like this. Knocking on wood.

[@lcdrugo]

I had the same thing happen to me years ago in Virginia. Took out the NIC in my PC, my old TV, even the controller for my sprinkler system.

[@CommodoreFan64]

I had it happen here in S. Carolina back in 08 when N-Draft Wireless networking was still the big thing, and a cheaper Belkin router was over $300, and the lightening came in over the cable lines as everyone here has copper cable internet, and it friend my entire network setup, modem, router, Vonage box, and the Ethernet port of the one desktop computer attached to the router(thankfully that computer worked for years afterwards with only a USB 2.0 to Ethernet adapter). my aunt in the house to the left of me had a tube TV blown up, and her cable modem, our neighbor next to her had his network blown up similar to mine, along with a cable box, and a TV, as our provider Atlantic BroadBand at that time was still using analog cable, so you did not need a cable box unless you wanted extra features like PPV, and premium channels. Lightning strikes are a strange thing indeed, and it taught me a costly reminder to put everything I own plugged into a wall, and/or connected to a cable line on decent surge protectors.

[@dizzym9554]

I had something similar-ish happen in the 90s (dialup days) except it was the telephone pole near the house that got hit and the phone lines were what pulled current in and destroyed half our computers and all of our modems.

[@VAX1970]

Lightning does strike twice after all

[@maciekzbik413]

You literally have a better server room than the IT technical college I graduated from

[@Gomekor]

our country's a bitch, huh?

[@JoshLeRose]

what College did u graduate from?

[@Nunya58294]

@@Gomekor Yep lmao

[@philixer6769]

@@Gomekor Dokładnie. Zróbmy tu polską strefę i pogadajmy jak beznadziejne są technika informatyczne (o studiach za dużo nie wiem) w Polsce xD

[@danielrdrigues]

@@philixer6769 I think Poland and Brazil have something in common other than being major Tibia players

[@JohnnnyJohn]

My version of this would be way shorter. "This is my router. This is my laptop. Thanks for watching!"

[@IanC14]

Mines not as short,, 4 ports on router, 1 to my PC, 1 to TV set top box, 1 to 5 port switch behind TV, 1 to 8 port switch in my bedroom. 5 port switch has Xbox One and PS4 plugged into it with 2 spare ports, 8 port switch has TV, Xbox 360, Nvidia Shield TV and Playstation TV plugged into it with 3 spare ports. Everything else is WiFi, with an extender in the upstairs hallway.

[@jonorgames9880]

@@IanC14 Weird flex, but ok.

[@mzs112000]

Mine would be "This is my modem, this is my WiFi router, this is my UPS, this is my NAS, and this is my laptop"

[@steaker-gi9uw]

And I thought I was cool because I ran 2 ethernet cables like 20 feet into my basement. Which of course haven't been used in years.

[@JohnSmith-xq1pz]

Same here. My desktop/ consoles are the only Ethernet connections everything else is Wi-Fi. Tour This is our router This is the cat 6 cable I found thrifting. It runs through this hole in the floor to the basement and to my room. (Through a hole in the floor/rug) This is the plug and play gigabyte switch the cat 6 cable connects too This is the cat 6 patch cable to my desktops gigabyte LAN port This is the cat 5e cables to my game consoles The end

[@expansionpack4485]

The man just broke a DVD in his hand and nobody is talking about it.

[@conroypawgmail]

He electrically wires the room additions to his home, LIKE A BOSS, and nobody is talking about it.

[@chromacat2487]

They're easier to break than you might think

[@benm8316]

its not that hard to do that

[@quarantinecompute]

*cd

[@Uzedrname]

1:34

[@pineappleandolives]

Okay please, for April Fool’s Day, give us a taste of the Mad Scientist!

[@Nicmadis]

Seconded. Scrap footage without context will do just as well.

[@luha628]

@@Nicmadis it is still on KZbin. The channel is Cranial Pasta

[@chartle1]

@@luha628 just came back from there. How do I insert the george takei "Oh My" meme here. :)

[@Ace411275]

or make the mad scientist a Halloween episode

[@GreenNekoProductions]

here you go kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZrOkIeZgrBoppY

[@gbux07]

His daughter’s pc is on the gigabit switch but his wife’s is only on the 100 megabit switch.

[@mineturte]

LUL

[@ph0n1xz]

So?

[@mrkatse]

😅👌🏾

[@thesunandtheground1167]

lllllllllllllllllllllllooooooooooolllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

[@defencebangladesh4068]

lol

[@psychodad1961]

"This has 100% up time". *Unplugs Mom right in the middle of "The Bachelor".

[@UnderEu]

The equipment wasn't pulled off from the outlet, so... 🙃

[@autex.lewis06]

lol

[@Bandicoot803]

And William who was playing Fortnite on his XBOX yelled his head off next door!

[@pistool1]

In my country, the general minimun standard for the internet connection is 100M with fibre cable in the 2020s. With money you can easily upgrade to a 200-600M connection in the city areas mostly :) With mobile devices, you can hit 100-1000M speeds, too, but they are not so stable always and can be slower every now and then. Thanks for the informative and nicely executed video. Greetings from Finland!

[@larrygall5831]

@@pistool1 Yeah, smaller countries are easier to get high speed systems in place. The U.S. is many, many times larger with some areas being too sparsely populated to warrant this investment. There are a lot of people here in the cities, so that brings a fast system down pretty significantly compared to a smaller population on a fast system. That said, we can get connections of several Gbps in many places here.

[@camd8451]

Not gonna lie, I shut my eyes instinctively when you crushed that CD!

[@TheAdatto]

I sometimes have it with welding video's too

[@SenileOtaku]

That's often exactly what I do with failed burn disks too. In fact, a multimedia software company I was at, we had a disk mastering setup in an office way in the back. Whenever a disk failed, I wouldn't even get up from the desk, but would just snap the disk across the room (they used to shatter far easier those 20+ years ago).

[@UndeadFreak]

beta male

[@jeffr3736]

I cut my hand one time when I broke one like that after being mad cause it didn't burn right.

[@grotekleum]

I didn't; still picking bits out of my eye - and I have a cut on my hand and my screen is cracked.

[@PHT07UK]

Just got this in my recommendations and what started off as, “Why would this guy need anywhere near this much comms at home”, to “Holy shit I need to upgrade my home network”. Subbed.

[@Zeric1]

I thought his setup was fairly simple. When one starts doing things with home automation and security cameras, all the connections start adding up and one often wants the separation of multiple subnets and VLANs. I also use wired connections for everything stationary and only use wifi for phones/tablets/laptops, the latter being the minority. Running network cable is like many things, with a little practice and the right tools it's not that hard in most homes.

[@Zeric1]

@@AB-mu6fz Not sure what part of my response this pertains to, but that is correct.

[@Zeric1]

@@AB-mu6fz I didn't say "on most homes, this would be an easy job", I did say with "practice and the right tools it's not that hard in most homes". My comment applies to single family homes constructed in the last 40 years that are owner occupied. Areas that use concrete (or concrete blocks) for walls are more difficult to run any type of cabling (or pipes) after construction, however this type of construction is rather uncommon in the last few decades here. What type of home construction is typical where you live?

[@Zeric1]

@@AB-mu6fz If only the exterior walls are concrete, that limits one, but a lot of cabling is still possible. If both the exterior and interior walls are concrete AND there are no sub-walls, that makes a very tough situation. Personally I would avoid any house that doesn't allow future cabling in at least the interior walls. I've made enough modifications to to the homes I've lived in to appreciate flexibility for future upgrades, not only for networking cable, but for all sorts of things.

[@Zeric1]

@@AB-mu6fz That makes doing any kind of modification to the home very difficult and expensive. I suppose to even bring in internet or TV service into the home in the first place they just ran wires along the outside of the house which is ugly. I've seen buildings in other countries where the plumbing pipes and electrical wires are just attached to the interior walls, it looks terrible.

[@mrkatse]

Me age 8: I wanna be a Super hero when I grow up!... Me age 36(now): I wanna be The 8-Bit Guy when I grow up!!

[@JoedeLange]

Ek stem 100% saam :)

[@deadchannel7267]

B

[@Mailmartinviljoen]

@@JoedeLange Ja nee

[@oli1658]

Same im 17. I want to be as cool as him someday!

[@derpythecate6842]

Aye, but the IT equipment gets expensive. Start slow by replacing crappy ISP routers with your own devices (ISP routers are a router, a switch and a WAP in one) and learning basic networking. Try routers that stray away from standard proprietary implementations, such as OpenWRT and PfSense. Then pick up hardware knowledge along the way together with IT knowledge, by setting up servers, programming etc. We have the advantage in modern times to be able to learn a lot of things with some google-fu, which is handy to be a jedi of IT by his age.

[@raymitchell9736]

So wait a second... you said that you were going to be an "evil mad scientist" debunking bad science in movies and media? That's hilarious -- too bad it was difficult to make, it would have been entertaining! So I like the 8-bit theme and I like the network tour and stories: it gave me a few good ideas. Thank you and thank your side-kick Dr. Morpheus too. Dr. Evil... Bwahaha...

[@The8BitGuy]

Indeed.. It took nearly twice as long to film one of those episodes and the viewership was lower as well, so I stuck with the 8-Bit stuff.

[@simonstergaard]

...and thats when he gave birth to thunderf00t..

[@willierants5880]

I believe some of these are still on KZbin. I found them some time ago.

[@makaronilaatikko1780]

Cranial pasta

[@wmtrader]

I envision that the Bad Science Show's them song would have been a play on Oingo Boingo's Weird Science.

[@RogueShadowTCN]

It's okay, you'll always be our mad scientist anyway.

[@privatethor724]

It’s Alive

[@Rokios]

Shit, David's house seems lit for LAN parties

[@ConvictJ96]

He could probably earn some green hosting tournaments

[@sadettinyildirim8480]

Not nice, not nice

[@ade2382]

He could have Duke Nuckem 3D LAN parties with his nucs

[@mr.potato5647]

this

[@richrich981]

One team in each house!

[@gopinaths2502]

Let's just appreciate this man how he organised the cables

[@nilleftw]

But almost everything is a mess, besides the ceiling drop? He has so many cables on the walls for some reason. I know he said he hated racks, but that entire wall is filled with cables and devices. Adding anything more would be a nightmare.

[@DarkTails256]

​@@nilleftwlooks organised to me. Besides everything is just fine as it is

[@adamspgoot]

@@nilleftw Its not a mess its art. Call me crazy but racks are noisy and hot. Racks just suck.

[@Bleats_Sinodai]

YOU FINALLY MENTIONED THAT CHANNEL! Man, I love the 8-bit Guy Cinematic Universe!

[@eduardoADSL]

Patching up those old computers and bringing them back to life still makes you a mad scientist.

[@leon_De_Grelle]

my old office building had legacy tv antennas on the roof and the cabling ran down and terminated a few inches away from our coax cabling. I advised the landlord to remove them several times to no avail. one night during a tornado (I'm in Missouri) lightning struck an antenna, conducted down the cable into the coax , ran up the coax and jumped from the cable modems coax to Ethernet to routers/switches plugged into it and then into computers plugged into the switch! it destroyed probably 1/4 of computing equipment in the building.

[@joshuaeppinga9706]

That mustve been a very big toldyouso moment

[@AmyraCarter]

That must of been a big settlement from the landlord...

[@joeyhillers9460]

deGrelle's Ghost Hello fellow Missourian.

[@windows10person30]

r/ToldYouSo

[@XzTS-Roostro]

Was that antenna even properly grounded though?

[@luiss428]

me: **tapes my ethernet cables in the ceiling corners** *"enjiniring"*

[@PhantomHavok]

*I’m something of a scientist myself*

[@vemcomachines9634]

I just run mine along the floor

[@danielhetrick3435]

*Meet the Engineer*

[@itepk0522]

I zip tie them to the gas pipes

[@OpiZoid]

if it works it works

[@zedramer]

9:00 "100% up-time" Unplugs connection

[@donaldklopper]

Hahaha yup.

[@pkaulf]

Probably the worst thing you could do on any hardware that's been running for that long. When we do power downs on network kit that's been up for 10+ years, it's highly likely that something will have failed when it comes back on.

[@berthold64]

LMAo, that's like shootng in the foot

[@Minecraftminer3000]

It's an optical cable connection. It's not like the whole system will shut down and catch fire if you unplug it for a couple of seconds.

[@pkaulf]

@@Minecraftminer3000 No, but the transceivers and other electronic components are more likely to fail when power cycling or connecting/disconnecting cables. Especially after running continuously for years.

[@italobrettmusic]

I've watched you since you were "Adric22" and though my interests in technology have shifted since then, I still come back and watch you! - I also tend to go on binge watches of all your videos, you're extremely entertaining!

[@kbhasi]

I've also watched him since those days! I can't believe I've been subscribed to him for years…

[@mahna_mahna]

What's funny is that The Algorithm (Blessed Be the Algorithm) only surfaced him for me in the last month or so, during which I've watched SO MANY of his videos. It really makes me wonder just how many other awesome channels there are that I'm missing, and when The Algorithm (Long May It Reign) will get around to letting me know.

[@Josiahsutton1]

I've been here since he was Adric22 as well. Its crazy how far he has come. I've been watching since before he hit 1000 subs and never though he would blow up that quick. Good for him though he puts alot of effort into his video and goes for quality over quantity and it's clear he cares about making the best videos over making as much money as possible.

[@mikcnmvedmsfonoteka]

@@mahna_mahna Retro Recepies, Retro man's cave, LGR, Techmoan, Technology connections, Ben Heck show while ago was really good, Adam Savage tested, Luk mom no computer etc

[@mahna_mahna]

@@mikcnmvedmsfonoteka :👍 I've been watching TC, and know about LGR and Techmoan through hearing them mentioned here (though I haven't watched them).

[@Amarganeitor]

"... And then the fans are gonna go WOOOO". -The 8-bit Guy, 2020.

[@machinedgod]

Rewinded it 5 times, can't stop laughing :-D

[@alexanderm8892]

The whistles go WOOOOO

[@clemire83]

@Augie Chapin Its just for decoration man. Its just for decoration. Thats it, Thats all.

[@mishasawangwan6652]

LOL

[@itsdad0c]

5:37

[@A2L112]

I have this "Intel Nuke" (Nuc) You have an Intel *What*

[@snp..]

He has the world's shittiest CPU- *coughs* I mean.. nuclear bomb

[@Bucking_Fastard]

It could be The Simpsons reference. You know, le bombe neutron!!

[@desertrunner7749]

bum, bum bum, BAM

[@qwertykeyboard5901]

Im Duke Nukem!

[@tonyfremont]

You guys are too hard on the NUC, they have their own niche in the world. Great in offices, attached to the vesa mount on the back of a monitor. Also awesome in a car, on a road trip. I use one to serve up media to my family on the road. I run MythTV on it and they run kodi/osmc on their devices. It works great. I have a startup/shutdown board that sensed the ignition on and boots it up. About an hour after key off, it shuts itself down. This keeps it going during gas/pit stops and when grabbing a quick bite at a fast food place.

[@calvinthedestroyer]

8:55 "This a 100% up time.." unplug fiber cable.... HAHAHAHA

[@josephmoccia2369]

100% uptime until then, I guess lmao.

[@NeilRoy]

LMAO, nice catch. XD

[@aetherheart1954]

calvinthedestroyer I dont follow can someone explain?

[@DarkVeilGaming]

@@aetherheart1954 He said the connection was 100% up time (aka being active 100% of the time) then proceeded to unplug the cable, therefore taking it offline for the duration until he plugged it back in

[@mohamedb737]

Is it a bad thing to unplug after years of uptime?

[@moosemaimer]

I knew a guy who lost a stereo and two TVs to lightning, because Comcast said the signal coming into his house was so weak he couldn't have a surge protector on the line. Lightning can do crazy stuff... I was driving to school one day when a tree just ahead of me was hit, and there were yellow flames coming out of the ground when I drove by; on my way home the road was closed, and the cop told me a gas line was ruptured.

[@windhelmguard5295]

surge protectors are really just as effective as a night light anyway. when lightning strikes a house, a puny little surge protector isn't gonna do shit. three houses up and down from the one that is hit will still suffer power surges strong enough to make the outlets explode out the wall. really the only sure way to prevent lightning damage to electronics is to unplug everything.

[@rdxdt]

@@windhelmguard5295 As far as i know the best protection available for home is online UPS units, cause the load is connected to battery power always and not to mains.

[@wiziek]

That's why you don't run copper, coaxial or utp/stp. Run fiber or use some kind of wireless bridge.

[@AlanTwoRings]

@@windhelmguard5295 Do people not have lightning rods on their houses over there?

[@jonnycando]

AlanTwoRings I do but my house is more than a hundred years old....over here it’s seen as an anachronism....but heck it does the job!

[@chromacat2487]

5:37 great fan impression

[@roberternest7289]

Whzhooo

[@casualf2p850]

Fdkwowpe

[@Kapin05]

I absolutely love the way you arrange your switches. Like a physical flow chart. Those rack-mount systems are always so convoluted and messy; by contrast, the idea of directly laying things out like this is very appealing. The idea of labelling every port is also very well executed. You could probably teach a monkey how everything connects what with how well-labelled it all is. On the whole, very impressive stuff. If I ever get the chance to arrange a network of similar scale, I'll be sure to take a page from your book!

[@utubekullanicisi]

I appreciate the functionality behind his setup, but I admit I would still go for a rackmounted setup, just because it looks cleaner.

[@stellviahohenheim]

On the hole?

[@denniswoycheshen]

@@utubekullanicisi racks allow for proper termination, complaint bonding, adequate airflow (dust protection if needed) and neat and tidy operation. Crystals are for cameras and gas stations. My main complaint is the difference between riser cable and patch cable. Riser cable is solid, and is susceptible to stress breakage. If you move your patches around a lot the wires will eventually break. They won't move in a patch panel. Patch cable is braided so it will not break over time due to movement (or at least less so).

[@Fantastika]

Rackmount looks a hundred times better and its easier to manage

[@Mtheydy.Gwennan]

8:53 -- check the serial number of the surge protector below the fiber converter. That model has a recall for years ~97-02.

[@voxeltek6624]

O wow

[@therealb888]

Omg

[@wesleymays1931]

@@bouncypear_net And from 1999, no less.

[@sprouting_plant9551]

It is sad to hear about your dad again 😭😭

[@matguy1000]

^same :( this dude's a trooper

[@drowningin]

Love your parents, and grandparents. You never know when they'll be gone. With the corona virus having the worst effect on the elderly; now is a time you should reach out to talk with them. Let your loved ones know you love them!

[@CDRiley]

Sorry for your loss, David 😢

[@NeilRoy]

But good to know he's looking out for his parents like he does.

[@CDRiley]

@@NeilRoy 100% agree.

[@IncandescentDaD]

Be careful, the copy of your data next door may not truly be "off-site". Another lightning strike could simultaneously kill both your 4-bay Synology NAS as well as the 2-bay next door. Similarly, a big enough fire at one house could damage or destroy the other. Hopefully, you have another copy of the data "in the cloud". Regardless, an excellent video. In fact, inspiring!

[@bigjawed]

Lightning: where should I strike? I’ll just pick that tree. Cable: Why did I deserve this?

[@joemann7971]

More like: Cable: If I'm going down, I'm taking all of you with me! (Destroys everything connected to the cable)

[@kaeden7570]

The lightning just wanted to deliver some power over Ethernet

[@Lol5967]

Lightning: What should I strike? A tree wouldn’t do any harm. *Destroys literally everything connected to a cable running underneath.*

[@m1n0g]

and I turned sad when I heard about your dad. My condolences for you and your mom :/ thanks for the video, I work with IT infrastructure and don't know half of your equipaments - here in Brazil, some of the companies has bad networks infrastructure :/

[@imperia777]

Few years ago I was amazed by virtualization. I saw one guy that had only one server in basement with several video cards. You pass through video cards to separate virtual machines and send them to the rooms in the house via HDMI over Ethernet and USB over Ethernet (for mice and keyboards). Everything is in the basement on one server.

[@bdbgh]

6:09 my condolences

[@markm0000]

Same here. It’s a sad part of life.

[@joeltyler3427]

Yes. We can't escape it. We just need to remember that we have limited time here. Heck I had to move my grandparents into aged care.

[@MrKersey]

Accept my condolences, it is a great loss.

[@MoonDeLaAxel]

Same here

[@JasontheFolf]

Big F in the chat.

[@spikeworks]

i love how this dude can just crush a cd in his hands without getting hurt

[@katsumikougen8351]

1:34 He broke the Nyko Worm Cam He dissected a toy keyboard He destroyed a boombox And now he's broken a disc by squeezing it :3 He's...the 8-Bit Guy~

[@TheRogueMaverick]

I was thinking the Break-Bit Guy. (It sounds similar to his channel name)

[@horusreloaded6387]

@@TheRogueMaverick i didnt know his channel's name was brexit

[@adventureoflinkmk2]

Don't forget.. back in the 2000s David's stuff got to Thunder, feel the thunder... lightning, then the thunder, thunder.. thunder, thunder-thun, thunder, tha-tha-thunder....

[@KofolaDealer]

He also destroyed a washing machine

[@Browningate]

Is that meant to be read to the tune of the Angry Videogame Nerd theme?

[@10p6]

This video was surprisingly more interesting than I thought it was going to be.

[@user-rr8xj3ed4u]

David, having worked at TV stations for a number of years I can tell you from experience that a lightning strike will screw up a lot of things. I've experienced 2 major strikes at my current job. The first took out a lot of production gear including our prompter system. The second strike was on a satellite dish that back fed through our coax lines into our plant and fried the back plane on one for our TV network receive racks. It also caused issues with our POTS lines connected to our caption encoders and all of those (12 in total) had to be power cycled and even after that we had to replace 4 POTS lines due to damage and it also took out one of our security camera network switches on the other side of the building. All in all we spent probably 3-4 days recovering from the last strike. I can't stress enough that anything and everything should be grounded (including gas lines) and it is also a good idea if your home has a surge suppression system. Edit: I meant coax lines not fiber. Some of our dishes have fiber lines.

[@cxk7127]

I knew a HAM radio operator that had a pretty bad strike. Fried all the equipment on his rig and melted the cables.

[@navcop031]

Grounding won’t help a bit with a true strike. And it will only mitigate damage from a power surge.

[@DanTDMJace]

ohhhhhhh nooooooooooooo... I feel bad for the TV station you work for

[@YeOldeTraveller]

Induced voltage is what got the Ethernet gear. That fibre is the recommended practice for connecting separate buildings, then you don't have to deal with the different ground reference. When I wired my house, I did not have enough switch gear for all the drops, so I used patch panels for the termination. I have a surplus rack which is a good thing as I don't have the wall space available. Most of my rack gear is passive, so noise has not been an issue. I have over 20 years on the main switch, but I have recently upgraded the core to use Gigabit. I also have a dedicated router running pfSense that connects the cable modem to the rest of network.

[@saifal-badri]

8:54 Mom is on the phone saying my Netflix froze lol

[@ferencreszegi1669]

As someone who also works as an IT guy at a large company, I can see why you hate patch panels.

[@edwardc4453]

guess your not the network guy then.

[@ferencreszegi1669]

Edward C4 I deal with a lot of them, what i hate most is that the others don,t care about cable management, so it’s a pain. And I can’t tidy it up because if I pull the wrong cable, the factory can stop.

[@drowningin]

@@ferencreszegi1669 pull those cables baby! If the factory stops then go out, and apologize by saying "I ACCIDENTALLY THE WHOLE THING!"

[@SonicBoone56]

@@markj2093 yeah I cringed at the unmanaged switches.

[@edwardc4453]

@@ferencreszegi1669 patch panels won't stop the factory. it'll stop one connection but if you're pulling cables that hit's the whole building your def. the network engineer working on core switches/routers. idk, it's way nicer for us to just switch a patch panel when people move offices or hardware studios (yes, we have mini-studios here) so instead of re-labeling and moving things i just simple move a few patch panels and done. i don't have to edit any config's or anything. Both work, both have pro's and con's it's just yes buy a bunch of like 6 inch cables is bad and it looks crazy at first but i'll never go back.

[@UnderEu]

Your whole infrastructure, that REALLY fascinates me - I'm an IT professional and I'm A LOT into networking and server stuff. I lost the count how many times I watched your first video and will probably watch this one many times in the future. I hope, one day, I can do a similar thing on my place - well... I have some Ubiquiti UniFi APs running along with 2 or 3 network cables laying around but not on the same scale as yours. And I agree: even using really good Wi-FI equipment, nothing compares to "good-old" ethernet wiring.

[@kaitlyn__L]

the instant reconnect on wired if you ever have to restart networking equipment is worth it by myself

[@slughead]

If you do cable up your place. Think about if you actually want all those bare wires visible, not taught, different colours etc. That looks awful to me. Future proof it too - Don't go with just works today. I nearly split my drink when he was trying to justify having 100mb switches. Spend a little more, on the backend, get a switch that provides both 2.5gb and PoE. Even if it's just a bank of 8. Fish the wires through cavities, use conduit and terminate them properly, even in the "network closet". Ethernet is always better than wireless

[@UnderEu]

​@@slughead Indeed. The labor I had for my existing Wi-FI APs and those 2-3 spare jacks was a huge one but no regrets at all - 1990s 3-floor brickwork construction, that's a challenge. All my network equipment is 1GbE already, including an 8-port PoE switch which powers my APs. It's still possible to run some additional wires to specific places but, as long as my current system handles our needs in terms of network load and bandwidth, going "Wireless-free" w/o ugly multi-colored wires laying around the house is a dream for now.

[@eio1971]

Watching this video is part of my Packet Tracer lab in my CCNA class to look at you home setup. I'm impressed.

[@vinceontheweb]

Same here, I was so shocked when I saw it!

[@GMMilambar]

I can't imagine sharing your internet with anyone breaks any laws or ordinances. However, it might be breaking your ISP's terms of service. Here in the UK, they are pretty anal about that, it's clearly in most ISP's TOS that you may not share your connection with neibhours, even if said neighbour is also family. And they will terminate our accounts for doing so, permanently, if we're caught.

[@TheJeremyHolloway]

Yes, and the BBC will throw you into debtor's prison if you don't pay your tv license fee even if you hate what Chibnall has done to Doctor Who... :)

[@mzs112000]

Comcast, although still sh!tty, does at least let you share WiFi with guests. And besides, if I have an Ethernet cable going from a network switch to a neighbor's house, how is Comcast going to know? Unless they come to my house and look at my network setup, all they know is that maybe I have a roommate who also uses the internet.

[@paraxicgaming5743]

guess they don't want monies, imagine being a business and saying you don't want money.

[@jorymil]

If they want to knock David for sharing a connection with his next-door _mother_, he can just switch ISPs. Worst-case, he sets up a 4G or 5G hotspot and grabs Internet wirelessly. The point is more to keep an entire block of people from using the same connection than to prevent family from doing so. No different than giving your neighbor your wifi password.

[@mzs112000]

@@jorymil 4G hotspot is limited. T-Mobile gives you 22GB max. Sprint has the best value at 100GB for $60, but even then, coverage and speed is bad. Now, Sprint hotspot is good if your only other option is Hughesnet or Viasat.

[@coyote_den]

Lightning is like a small EMP. Nearby strikes can induce a current, especially in twisted pairs. Blows the ass end out of everything attached to them. The solution, if you have to run copper underground, is to use shielded twisted pair (STP). Not cheap or easy to work with tho, fiber is usually a better option.

[@LatitudeSky]

Just left a comment above saying the same thing. Had a very close lightning hit blow out all the usual stuff but it also killed a bunch of equipment that was totally unplugged and sitting on shelves. None of that stuff survived. The shelf was inside against a wall. The lighting hit about 10 beyond that wall out in my yard. CO and smoke alarms went nuts. Wall warts were smoking like grilled food. It was not a good day.

[@t.w.3]

Especially true with a bundle of TP cable up in the attic. Best to use STP for longer runs, and have safety. I've seen induced power in unshielded cables reach several thousands of volt while doing maintenance of remote installations in inclement weather.

[@bartbatenburg]

I run S-FTP cable from downstairs to upstairs, wasn't that expensive, about 30 euro's for 20 meters, and does full gigabit while running besides power cables and itself even.

[@progz5232]

wait, im confused... is the author of this video not using shielded ethernet cable? Was it even burial shielded ethernet cable? I ask because I just ran burial ethernet cable in the ground from my house to the garage.

[@BanCorporateOwnedHouses]

'Hey do you have wifi?" 8 Bit Guy - "Wi what?" You have a network system better than most offices and universities haha.

[@Flashbang_Time]

i have wifi.. but do u have a life

[@Prophet650]

Must be some pretty sad offices and even sadder universities. Most universities around here (Sydney, Aus) have network infrastructure that would rival some small Data Centers.

[@ACommenterOnYouTube]

When he sells his home and Millennials move in, they will look at that junk and say... WHAT IS THIS STUFF ..?? Where is the WiFi box..??

[@redblackfoxy]

"Better"

[@ACommenterOnYouTube]

@@redblackfoxy wtf ??

[@XOUL.]

his electricity bill be like ''HOW DID YOU DO THIS?!''

[@xliquidflames]

"..and I was going to dress up as a mad scientist with a talking brain in a jar but uh ...anyway. That's it. See ya." Wait. What? Hold on. You're ending on that? You can't just throw that in there at the end all nonchalant like and not expect me to have questions.

[@TheRestartPoint]

This is not the first time he's mentioned it. kzbin.infovideos

[@MrDDawson]

@@TheRestartPoint Nice, thanks!

[@sunchips18]

Liquid Flames I love how casually he just drops it. Very fitting though. XD

[@MichaelAStanhope]

You should hang the old Airport up again. It still looks cool even if it’s not very useful 🙂

[@TheEpicDiamondMiner]

But now it’s unreliable today.

[@nitroraptor5316]

@@TheEpicDiamondMiner Did you read his comment?

[@LeftJoystick]

Nitro Raptor 53 I wish KZbin showed downvotes in the comments

[@nitroraptor5316]

@@LeftJoystick for his reply or for mine?

[@LeftJoystick]

Nitro Raptor 53 his. Not yours haha!!

[@sachinkapur7569]

I can't imagine the huge amount of crazy fans who would want ur autograph and wanna meet u for coffee and conversation. U r such a blend of knowledge and pleasant personality... its a killer. And the workoholic/productivity aspect is just completely off the roof. I m from Mumbai, India and if I were to ever visit the US, I would hope u will allow me a 2 hr visit home for which I would even be happy to pay the museum entry/tour fee :) These kind words of appreciation just to communicate to u, that u r truly an inspiration !

[@goofygoobericecreampartyboat]

i feel like if a tornado hits your house and doesnt go 100 feet next door, i would be shocked

[@lukesmeby]

That’s what I thought 😂😂😂

[@dotta4981]

Government espionage lol

[@djp_video]

The network switches really ought to be replaced with something more modern and capable. I'm using a 48-port TP-Link managed switch at my house, and it's completely silent. It has fans, but they only come on during the boot-up sequence. Having the ability to segment networks into multiple VLANs is handy, and LAGs are awesome for giving additional bandwidth where it's needed, but the biggest advantage to a managed switch is being able to see exactly what devices are on your network and what they're doing. Features like being able to see the MAC addresses on individual ports, or mirroring traffic from one port to another are invaluable when you have a device which is malfunctioning. Many of these also have their own fiber SFP ports so you could eliminate the media converter too. Going with multiple individual switches means that the total bandwidth between devices is limited to the bandwidth between the switches they're connected to, so transferring data between two devices simultaneously across switches really cuts down on available bandwidth. I know it seems like 100 Mbps is fast enough, but you'd be surprised just how much more responsive devices are when they're on a single gigabit switch. Also, WiFi technologies have improved drastically since your Access Point came out. Newer devices provide far better reliability and performance to wireless clients, especially at any kind of a distance or through any walls. Again, another update you can't appreciate until you do it, and the difference can be staggering.

[@TheGeekPub]

Yep. I tried to get him to do this. No dice.

[@vasodestarbuks]

@@TheGeekPub any detail on the "custom router" at 11:13?

[@TheGeekPub]

@@vasodestarbuks pfSense.

[@vasodestarbuks]

@@TheGeekPub the hardware part 👀

[@TheGeekPub]

@@vasodestarbuks www.thegeekpub.com/14863/the-best-pfsense-box/

[@lshomedesign]

Your video is so impressive...

[@jemmabriggs9653]

Sarcy or sers

[@le-db6bc]

His vids always are

[@gator_productions]

Yea

[@jazzius]

The power of final cut pro made this video have REALLY clean editing.

[@tedlovejesus]

He has OCD… seriously

[@BIGMIKEGaming1]

I’m sorry to hear your dad passed. However I do agree with you on the WiFi thing. I only like to use it for portable devices. But a TV, console, or computer, I have it all connected to Ethernet. Ethernet is just way faster and more stable than WiFi.

[@ACommenterOnYouTube]

My entire house is also outfitted with CAT5 ... Everything that i buy that is connected to the internet i try my best to make sure it has a LAN port on it so that i can hardwire it ... FUCK WiFi ... Its so un-reliable and dangerous. But today's society .... Its all Wifi everywhere because people are too lazy to run wire let alone care about learning how to run wire. I am a field tech for a major ISP and i can tell you 1st hand that WiFi is the single most important thing is everyone's home ... Then when i tell them that they should run a cat5 from their modem to their equipment, they are like WHAT..?? Can't i just use Wifi ..?? Can't i just put in 10 extenders in my house ..?? I am thankful i know what i know ...

[@ACommenterOnYouTube]

So that TV is next to the router and you didn't bother to run a ~6 ft ethernet cable from it to the router..?? Is the TV WiFi only..??

[@danegerous24]

You Tube - at the same time , people such as myself wish we could but I’m in a rent house and can’t make drops. Tried powerline but the house is also older and the powerline network started was flaky.

[@ACommenterOnYouTube]

@@danegerous24 powerline works when there is little to no current flow on that circuit. The instructions specifically say to make sure the electrical outlets you use dont have anything else plugged in .. that circuit must be free of power usage, if you have any devices plugged in and powered up, that current flow will affect the internet signal ... I was also in a rental house and i run cat5 to all rooms .. i did it because i wanted stable internet

[@atherdos4431]

One of my friends has wifi on his pc, How can he use it? He also uses Wifi for his printer

[@Ilikeminecraft57]

I dunno why, but I’m just finding so much replay value on this video.

[@MattCooking]

What's wrong with Leslie's PC? Among those NON-IMPORTANT stuffs suffering 100M ancient connection speed. Poor Leslie.

[@ACommenterOnYouTube]

100M ancient connection speed ..?? LMAO Pathetic that someone says 100M is ancient speed when NO device today will stream ANYTHING at 100M ... 4K which is 2160p (1080P x 2) only requires 20M to flow smoothly ... Most don't know DICK SHIT about internet speed ....

[@supermaster2012]

@@ACommenterOnKZbin you must be American to be this ignorant.

[@ACommenterOnYouTube]

@@toranamunter i am not confused, you OBVIOUSLY are based on your comment. Dont try my skills, i will walk circles around you even on your best day.

[@ACommenterOnYouTube]

@@toranamunter when i am older and have a bit more $$, Do you know who i am ??

[@grkb]

You are named after KZbin, the website you are currently on right now.

[@angelorusso3219]

Yes, as an IT person for 37 years I know Cat5 buried or in a conduit not rated for direct burial is definitely a lightning magnet... or at least prone to failure from any near lightning strikes. There are 2 places at work I had not choice at the time, and every so often a few ports blow out on the HP switch. It's covered under lifetime warranty so I'm not too concerned with it. When enough ports fail, I call it in and they send me another. The fiber running between the houses and connected to the transceivers can easily be upgraded to gigabit with new transceivers and an adapter to go from SC-LC on the ends. As data storage increases, you'll want a higher bandwidth to transfer Terrabytes of data to the backup of the RAID NAS. Nice setup overall. Excessive for most, but always good to have wired vs wireless. Love your channel as 8-bit Guy and not Weird Mad Scientist Guy :)

[@nlk294]

He Doesn‘t Need more than 100 MBits because His Internet Connection is only slightly under 100mbits 😉

[@angelorusso3219]

@@nlk294 He said he backs up his computers to his RAID NAS... which is on his side of the network, not the cloud. So while what you say is true that gig speed won't matter connecting to the 100Mb internet, it does matter when he connects between pc's on HIS network.

[@nlk294]

@@angelorusso3219 Yeah but its a Backup and backups don't need to be fast. Plus I dont think it isn't really important for his mother to have fast internet And at 8:58 he even said by itself that 100mbits are enough for that purpose.

[@slughead]

The estate's manager we used to have at work tried telling senior management I'm wasting money connecting all of our buildings (around 60) with fibre in ducts underground.......

[@slughead]

@Fred Bloggs Believe it or not... Copper was his solution, overhead too! I promptly ignored that and just got on with it

[@MrTree1779]

It's very sweet that you not only live next to your Mom (and until recently, your Dad), but that you're willing to share your security features with her. :-) Lightning travels well through the ground, as the ground in non-arid climates is usually wet, and electricity loves water! That was a good move to replace the metal cables with fiber optics. Any plans for more Commodore/Amiga documentary videos?

[@DarthZackTheFirstI]

i actually thought he is living in his mothers basement :o

[@alakani]

@@DarthZackTheFirstI You would think that. He probably paid cash for both houses with money from the tech boom.

[@magoid]

Well, the pedant in me wants to share with you that what electricity loves is really the minerals in the water. Pure H²O actually has a insulation property.

[@amnottabs]

@@magoid in my head I can hear my physics teacher saying that

[@Martititi]

@@magoid Yeah, but given that the ground is loaded with tons of ions...

[@markcaetano]

Rule of thumb: never use underground copper Ethernet ever. Media converters and fiber cabling is so cheap, there's no reason not to.

[@greggorrell]

Or just use proper surge protection

[@jimaperkins]

Perhaps David already knows this, but the buried Ethernet cable was likely attracting the lightning. Fiber was the best solution. This is a lesson I learned myself when I tried to put a NAS in a gun safe on the top floor of my home. A few months later, a lightening strike on my safe taught me that I had basically created a make-shift Van de Graaff generator of sorts. The result smoked everything on my network too.

[@greggorrell]

@@jimaperkins Ethernet or any buried copper cable doesnt attract lightning. A lightning strike nearby most definitely could induce current in the copper, which is acting basically as an antenna, but the lightning is not attracted to and flowing into the copper. Again, common sense goes a long way and for every careless individual who has fried their gear by not taking proper precautions, 500 others have successfully deployed buried copper without issue. Also, if there is a grounding potential difference between the two buildings, you may have other errors with your data as well. Point is, fiber is costly compared to Ethernet and there are many ways to prevent damage from ESD and lightning.

[@123TeeMee]

@@greggorrell Lightning varies by location, you can google a world map of it, so like here in the UK it seems its much less frequent than Texas for example. That might affect whether or not its worth getting the surge protection.

[@greggorrell]

@@123TeeMee yes you're very right and I would get surge protection regardless off if I had frequent lightning or not. Transient surges can be caused by a number of other things aside from lightning, but my point is that copper cabling doesn't "attract" lightning. I don't need to Google a world map of lightning strikes to understand how electricity works (which lightning is an electrostatic discharge), I spent a lot of money on an education for that.

[@CheesySpeakeasy]

Hey 8-Bit Guy! Been watching for years and just found this specific video recommended to watch in the official Cisco CCNA1 curriculum!!! Congratulations!!!!

[@BTTFan]

William: "HEY! PLUG THAT BACK IN!! I'M ABOUT TO GET VICTORY ROYALE!!!!" Dave: "Hey man, I gotta do my job for a second. Can ya hold on for 2 seconds?!"

[@TacoCrisma]

Coming from the telco world, the way you mounted everything makes sense for an on premise demarcation. I’ve seen many telco closets that look like yours - albeit much sloppier and dustier. This was a fantastic video btw. Terminating fiber is fun - those fujikura fusion splicers work great if your strands are clean. Also, sorry to hear about your father.

[@XZenon]

"Which really doesn't matter cause I put all of the important stuff on the Gigabit Switch anyway, so.." [cries in Leslie's PC] Edit: Don't you think showing what areas are covered by your cameras might be a bad idea?

[@lsswappedcessna]

Relax, David's an IT wizard living in Texas. I bet one of those cables runs a secret pop-up machine gun! Someone trying to break into David or his mother's house and with a push of a button they win the room temperature challenge. He probably controls the hidden sentry gun with a CD-i trackball.

[@ACommenterOnYouTube]

Do you have 1Gbps coming IN from your ISP..??

[@TonyP9279]

@@ACommenterOnKZbin I think he said it was only 90Mbps, but you still want a Gbps router/hub between servers, drive stacks, and computers.

[@ACommenterOnYouTube]

@@TonyP9279 i dont see a point in spending the extra $$ in buying a gigabit router or switch if your not using more than 100M for the entire house. You would have to stream like six 2160p videos from like six TV's at the same time to even break into the 100M range. One single device cannot even exceed 20M alone .. so that port you are hooked up to is only at 20% capacity .. now when you have 6 devices all streaming 2160p at the same time, that one port going back to the main router is now at 100% capacity ... But how often does this happen ...??

[@Shawon66]

@@ACommenterOnKZbin The GBPS hub is used for inter communication. Like transferring data between pc, nas, and other important stuff.

[@larryhawkins3425]

I was introduced to your channel several years ago, I'm now retired and technically inclined, and yes you are selected as Teacher...thankfully expressing how joyful I am and deeply appreciate you, very very much, for taking the time to assist anyone willing to listen. I have a low based budget which has no effect on the usefulness of used (recycled ) devices....between the two of us we are currently having a ball. And yes, here in Chicago there are many individuals who really enjoy keeping the land field as empty as possible, THANK YOU AGAIN, very much. Now if someone can change lead into gold I could treat thousands to help over come the Digital Divide . Looking forward to seeing more joyous projects.

[@thatcarguy2002]

So fun fact, I've known about your channel for a good long while now, but I've started taking Cisco's intro to networking class through my community college and in the module over physical networks this video was specifically mentioned in the packet tracer lab

[@vinceontheweb]

I was looking for this comment. Was just coming here to say this. My course is the same curriculum but as a highschool class. When I saw his name I audibly squealed.

[@ZenYeti98]

2023 Update - He's still referenced in a packet tracer lab. I too knew about him beforehand, but it should speak to the quality of video's put out. Simple enough to understand, but enough complexity to be used in a college course. Keep it up!

[@adriirland5078]

@@ZenYeti98 Update! Summer semester 2023, he was mentioned as a video suggestion for Cisco Networks, I did not know him, I enjoyed his video, the organization is exceptional!!

[@keiramorano6376]

I'm doing that assignment rn lol

[@libertarian1637]

As a note regarding the lightning strike a couple good standard practices are the use of a whole home surge protector/suppressor as well as using a surge arrester for any exterior to interior data wiring as well as using a metal conduit which is bonded to ground on both ends to unify system grounds. Fiber is a good solution as it doesn’t work electronically. Similarly a cheaper solution is coaxial cable and MoCA as you can use a ground break and surge protector on both ends of coaxial which basically functions as a fuse and simply blows to protect downstream devices. I’m an electrician and wok on both high and low voltage systems as well as telecommunications and networking. The 2020 NEC actually mandates whole home surge protectors for all new electrical survives as well as service upgrades; while I’ve been doing this as a standard practice for over a decade I’ve never had any major losses regarding lightning strikes or transformer spikes despite neighboring houses losing a great deal of appliances and computers. Surge protection is an excellent standard practice and should be applied to all wires entering your home.

[@bullpup1337]

yeah lol imagine burrowing a lan cable between two houses without any protection and get all your computers fried in both houses…. awkward…..

[@dinkyflix]

5:35 R.I.P. white balance.

[@jacobreuter]

I've watched this video at least 10 times update: its been half a year and I still come back to this video

[@simple_networks]

same here!

[@timotheus2003]

I'm sorry to hear about your father passing away last year. That's great you're right next door to your mom!

[@MicMan2710]

Lightning literally just struck out our power for a few minutes. These videos are powerful! :>

[@doublea47]

we need a collab of The 8-Bit Guy and Linus Tech Tips

[@maxx8011]

no, ltt is annoying af

[@Gamerappa]

Linus only makes his videos for money, same thing for 8-Bit Guy but Linus' videos have nothing interesting in them.

[@sanmasi]

The networking job on your house its amazing, i worked on with networks and servers during 8 years. Watching this video gives me satisfaction. Great job!!!

[@darkstar1360]

12:36 Oh, so that's why you used to have the brain in a jar on there.

[@flashlightnoob]

Your home network more complicated than my office 😂

[@LalanDesai]

Damn true

[@TheKingTywinLannister]

This guy really loves to display meandering cables a lot. I would love straight perfectly aligned cables throu rack. If any his cables got damaged he must replace full new cable instead of just replacing short patch cable. There are also fanless switches for the rack. Also it's cool to use colored patches for different categories. Of course everyone love different things so cool man. Thanks for the tour.

[@klaasj7808]

so cables patched in a panel cant get damaged?

[@ryshask]

You're attention to detail is second to none. Probably why your electrical install was better than most "professionals".

[@christopherkeller742]

Something similar happened with lightning at my parents' house when I was in middle school. Lightning struck this landscape lighting wire that was running through a gutter on the roof and somehow it managed to travel through every circuit in the house, and even made it's way into our cable tv/internet lines. Every outlet sparked and anything plugged in to the wall was fried, including my new PS3 that I just gotten for Christmas!

[@BigBoss-sm9xj]

man that sucks smh

[@helmanfrow]

4:19 My preference is to label the runs, i.e. the cables, and not the ports. I'm usually happy to trade simplicity for flexibility, so patchbays are at worst a necessary evil in my view.

[@darrenmurphy6251]

ah i remember the wonderful days in the 2000,s of stacks of cdr and dvdr backups quietly rotting and peeling to death un-noticed till you needed to reinstall win 98/me because the install was 6 months old and therefore crashing every 10 minuites. felt good to smash those discs before binning them though. totally agree with your dislike of wifi , and server grade switches with all that noise and power consumption and i read up about manditory (usually command line) management too. consumer gear is far better for household use, regarding noise,power use, web page management( if needed at all) ,as they intended at design.

[@DavidVlas]

all this but i just have a router from xfinity with one cable, that has wifi and everything is wireless lol

[@mastercheems8482]

Sucks to be you then

[@ThomasFarquhar2]

WiFi is terrible compared to ethernet oof

[@mastercheems8482]

@@ThomasFarquhar2 thats quite obvious if you have more than 3 braincells

[@ThomasFarquhar2]

@@mastercheems8482 yeah but I only have 2

[@dustinjones5055]

Q I'm

[@neotheapplefan332]

When I Hear Your Intro My Soul Gets Filled With Happiness And Joy ❤️

[@Kylefassbinderful]

DVD RAM was awesome! Man this takes me back to the days of CompUSA and paying 10 bucks for 1 low speed DVD-RAM.

[@jonjohnson3027]

I appreciate your explanation of not using patch panels as a means of reducing complexity. In a configuration such as yours where there is likely to be little change, it's not unreasonable to eliminate the patch panel. In a business where changes are more likely, a patch panel makes sense (although patching every network drop into a switch port, and managing your "patching" virtually with VLANs and enabling/disabling ports in a managed switch makes more sense than physically repatching for changes!). There's a common idea that patch panels and wall jacks introduces additional points of failure versus simply terminating cables with plugs. While that seems empirically true ("more connections must mean more opportunities for failure"), in practice terminating solid-core cable with plugs tends to be far less reliable than terminating with jacks/panels and using stranded-core patch cables to connect jacks to devices. That's because plug terminations on solid core cable tend to be less reliable when handled. By terminating solid-core cable with jacks, you eliminate handling stress because the cable is solidly fixed. (Stranded-core patch cables are designed to resist handling stress at the plug terminations. Solid-core isn't.) That seems that I've just contradicted myself, because in the first paragraph I said it was OK to use plugs. But the difference is this: the way you are using the plug-terminated wiring, you've securely affixed the cabling so it's not subject to handling stress that will weaken the plug connections. So plug-terminated premises wiring is acceptable ONLY IF the cabling is not subject to handling stress. Otherwise, you'll have a more reliable network with panels and jacks. The "additional points of failure" meme is overrated.

[@jonjohnson3027]

More on the patching: my "ideal" network setup would alternate patch panels and switches in the rack, patching every network drop to a managed switch port 1:1 with a short (

[@SpartanMJO12]

"I really hate patch panels" You use macs so it makes sense

[@NathanShantz]

Oooooffff 😂

[@AIC69420]

7:36 So unexpected POE (Power Over Ethernet)?

[@vista9434]

🤣🤣🤣

[@MinecrafterPictures]

0:29 If you though this is interesting well your most popular video is "Apple Keyboard Evolution 1983-2015 Part 1" from 2015, having over 5 million views.

[@drowningin]

How do you know that information off hand?

[@MinecrafterPictures]

Go to any KZbin channel, click on videos, click on sort by and click on most popular

[@DiskoUnkle]

Thanks for going over your setup. I had seen the previous video as well but this was good motivation. Ive just started putting desktops and consoles on ethernet. Im using an Asus Rog router with 5 Tp Link 8-port gigabit switches. So far its working out great! Im in Pakistan and im setting up at home. These devices and cable lengths depend on availability and are even more difficult to find in a pandemic. Im using the switches as bridges because we have cement walls here anyway so they cant really be concealed unless you break the wall. Im just 80% through my setup but I'll hopefully make a video one day as well. After watching this ive setup my macmini with external drives, connected to ethernet and on a 1KVa ups. Btw Pakistan has some insane power surges so I can feel your pain. Ive installed a ups with AVR to every electronic i could and its been running okay so far. Thanks again for the motivation!

[@jk743]

1:41 Interesting, I never saw DVD-RAM in a casing like this. I think here they only sold them like regular DVDs (so just the discs), or I missed that format back then.

[@SLLabsKamilion]

You sure you're not mixing DVD-R/DVD+R/DVD-RW up with DVD-RAM? I've never seen a DVD-RAM outside of it's caddy.

[@Valery0p5]

Both form factors existed, go watch Technology Connection's video on DVD-RAM

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@SLLabsKamilion I remember seeing DVD RAM in Dixon's in the UK, in a spindle like other blank optical media.

[@SLLabsKamilion]

@@kaitlyn__L Erasable discs with the funky permanent sparkly pattern on the disc surface? You *SURE* it was "RAM" and not -R, +R, -RW, or +RW, which were all over consumer retailers? They'd generally come in a five pack for about a hundred pounds, or you could get a spindle of 50 of the DVD+RWs for 40 pounds, or a spindle of 40 of the DVD-Rs for 15 pounds. I had an extremely hard time finding DVD-RAM media back in the early 2000s.

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@SLLabsKamilion yes, short spindles of 5 or 10 instead of a shrink wrapped cube of 5 or 10 jewel cases. I remember being in awe of them, and wondering how even a DVD could also be RAM. The price and the capacity was so amazing to me compared to my carrying floppy disks and a 32MB flash drive I saved up for. Also I remember reading about them being better and more reliable than RW in magazines at the time, and I also remember saving up for 5 DVD RWs a little later thinking it was so much storage, but they were soo slow to actually use like I did my floppy disks, like I'd hoped. So yeah, pretty sure.

[@eformance]

When my house was being built 18mo ago, I ran about 43 CAT6 drops throughout the house. I found an Xtreme Networks gigabit POE switch on eBay for $60. This is a $7000 managed switch with 48 gigabit PoE ports, routing, the whole shebang. So used enterprise hardware is the hot tip. I ran Netgear stuff in a SME environment and while it was reasonable, it had regular problems with ARP storms.

[@jordanhazen7761]

Have you ever measured the power consumption of that switch? Most models capable of doing PoE on all ports seem to have very high idle draw due to the very beefy PSUs necessary to meet full load on all. Along with fan noise, this is the main reason I don't like to use this class of equipment at home. Even having something like this from work in the house temporarily to test & configure can quickly become irritating... it's as much the spectral character of the noise as its volume.

[@abysspegasusgaming]

Dave: "I dislike rack mount equipment" Me: "I love me a big rack!"

[@6581punk]

I didn't see a greenhouse, so no idea if there's big (water) butts there.

[@ketas]

rack is what i aim for myself... instead of house next door, in my case it's house 10km away... so offsite backup will cover pretty much everything except nuclear war (in which case the backup is probably last issue to worry about anyway) the fact that rack equipment has fans which fail and are noisy is quite correct... noise issue part of that can be fixed if you can afford to build separate soundproof server room... failures you just have to fix, sadly but the benefits, at least for me are enormous... first, managed switch is such a godsend, i might as well hang myself if i have to go back to unmanaged network of anything larger than 2 devices i also start to understand why patch panels were invented and why i would want to wire any new network runs to patch panel and socket... as opposed to plug directly into switch and device... real benefits there, this isn't for annoyance only, quite opposite i'm not trying to say everyone should do it, i just say how i found out, after doing networking in home for 20 years, that, there is actual very real reason why you see big networks built like they are!

[@denniswoycheshen]

@@ketas it's like anything else in life. You can accomplish the same thing a million different ways, and if it works then awesome. I personally see a lot of inconvenience and eyesores the way it's done. A media cage is relatively cheap, and so is cat 5e or 6. Putting crystals on the ends of cable is old school, and in my experience, just causes nightmares for later on down the road. In this setup I see what he's done and I like it, but I would rather have it tucked away neatly, all matching patch cables, all terminated nicely. Dual switches, firewall and ISP. They have some really nice cages that can be closed and locked. Idk. Maybe I have seen too much to have an opinion. Mind you, out of damn near every house I have installed at, this is the most impressive network. He fished the cables and didn't run them down the hall... :)

[@garysnell47]

Sometimes it's tricky to mount the rack though

[@IBM_Museum]

I like big racks too - with an equipment room I need to air-condition. There isn't any way to quiet that, but I also have a 6U in the master bedroom closet. Between my gigabit switches, I use multi-mode fiber (orange-colored cladding, just like in the video, but with LC ends) that I pull through schedule-40 in the attic.

[@Gorilla_MTG]

"..yes yes... The gentleman next door is a computer wizard! Are you single? Perhaps he could... Show you his wares?" - Davids' mom in 1998

[@Rikkoshaye]

That's crazy unlucky with the two lightning strikes. Cool system you have set up now though!

[@wiziek]

It isn't unlucky. You don't even run ethernet cable between different buildings due to sharing ground, things like this can happen. Fiber doesn't carry electric signal so it would be safe.

[@TheUglyGnome]

@@wiziek I've had ethernet cable between my and my parents' house for almost 25 years. Haven't experienced a single problem.

[@dougnunleyjr]

One of the most useful (and entertaining!) videos I’ve ever run across! Quite impressive subject matter expertise as well. Love the piece about wiring your own home addition - totally relate! If you are going to do something, do it right. Promptly subscribed. Many thanks for sharing!

[@darklinggolem]

1:33 well, I wasn't expecting that to happen

[@Raphipod]

That escalated quickly.

[@shinyprisma6085]

imagine being so good with wiring that your better than most electricians

[@GriimLiin]

Damn when your city inspector says you said better than most electricians that's saying something

[@GzzLuiz]

I can just imagine how his mother has an will always call him to do "the computer things". Happens to me too sir. You're a good man.

[@TheLuigigunner]

Man, our water boiler at home connects to wifi, and one time it wasn't working. My mom called me to ask me why it wasn't working and if I could fix it. I literally was like "I have no idea. I don't work with boilers. I just connected it to our network."

[@Lively_1185]

@@TheLuigigunner Can you please answer me this question. Are we now living in a time where everything in your house is connected to wifi? Being born in 2000, I honestly hate this decade over everything with connectivity. Also, I've never heard of a water boiler that connects to wifi, that's a first for me.

[@TheLuigigunner]

@@Lively_1185 I prefer connecting hard wired if possible. I don't like connecting to wifi if I don't have to, especially those google homes or Alexa. And yes my mom didn't even know it connected to wifi until I told her. 😅

[@zeitgeist909]

someone: "Whose that on the phone?". me: "oh, just the 8-bit guy,"...