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Brendan's lame quite on Sat oh we're terrible is this supposed to be on so I'm not quite started yet Brendan sucks okay quiet on set last time we showed you how to quadruple your network speed for $100 and you complained now some of your complaints were misinformed in applicable or otherwise completely ridiculous the technology I demoed as I mentioned in the video only works on Windows 8 and up I mean come on and who the devil invited this guy to my comment section but some of the complaints were very fair and even went as far as to ask why it is that we're talking about an admittedly flaky and proprietary solution when there's a more broadly applicable one also available on the cheap so this video then is about how to 10x your network speed and yes thank you iron cut that is internal network speed not internet speed between two systems on a budget the mastercase 5 by Coolermaster gives you the freedom to truly make your mid-tower pc case your own with a variety of modular parts and accessories check out the link in the video description to learn more first order of business there is no magic peanut butter that you can smear in your network port to turn it from a 1 gigabit to a 10 gigabit port so we will need new faster network cards for our two systems and while I could say alright then let's head over to Amazon and grab a couple of Intel X 540 10 gig cards with rj45 jacks and then pick up a net gear 10 gig switch which would work great and scale well for the future by the way that would cost 1500 US dollars which is like a million Canadian roubles so no no we won't be doing that instead as with most of my budget guides we will begin by shopping on eBay so let's find those network cards we can save a lot of money by buying retired server cards these Emulex dealies have served us very well cut it served us up that's a joke but all the cheap ones out there have SFP+ connectors instead of the standard rj45 connectors that consumers are used to so what do you do easy you'll need a direct attached copper cable I've had good experiences with the passive ones from cables on demand comm and I've bought from them a couple of times they cost anywhere from 40 to 140 dollars and go up to 10 meters so get a cable that is long enough to go between the two systems that you want to talk to each other more quickly so probably your personal desktop and your network storage machine next we'll need to actually that's about it we're going to skip the network switch requirement by attaching our computers to each other directly so let's get to it step one is to leave your onboard network card plugged in to the rest of your networked devices and your internet connection pop those Knicks you bought into the two machines run your cable between the bed boom windows will automatically detect the faster link whenever those two machines talk to each other which oh I'm just kidding Network crap is never that easy step two with it still plugged in that part of the first step was real configure the IP addresses of your ten gig cards manually you can follow the guide that we have on the screen and if you're not sure what to enter here check your existing connection via IP config then leave the first and second values the same and add some amount so we're going to put 50 in here to the third value this will be the same for both of your machines then you need to pick a unique number from 1 to 254 for the 4th these need to be different between the two machines you're connecting 255.255.255.0 is good for the subnet mask and everything else is left auto or blank step 3 for testing disable other network interfaces and disable Windows Firewall don't forget to turn those back on when you're done or you'll have no internet or unprotected internet step 4 ping so we can see if these two machines can see each other properly by pinning the network addresses that we manually entered for the other machine then we can see if they'll pick up each other's host names with a slightly different command like so step 5 is to set up Ram disks using soft perfect Ram disk a free tool on each machine a small Ram disk is fine this is just to do a real-world test of how quickly we can transfer files step 6 is to create test shares on both sides on the RAM disks with read and write permissions in both the sharing and security tabs on both machines and then you can change these to the permissions that you want later on over there on ram disk so they're going to disappear anyhow step 7 is to test the transfer using a large file and you'll either be saying holy shmow or WTF if it worked great if you're in the WTF camp then or it stops working later move on to step number 8 while in theory Microsoft should prioritize the faster link between the two computers in practice we found that even manually changing the priorities of our interfaces wouldn't stick so we needed to alter the hosts file in order to statically assign that host name of the PCs to their IP addresses that are on the 10 gig network cards to prevent these computers from talking over the 1 gigabit network that they are also connected to for access to the Internet and to your other devices so do it like so substituting in whatever IP addresses you're using for the ones that we've entered and at that point step 9 it's a Christmas miracle unless step 10 your wife or brother or sister or whatever is like how come Jeffery gets faster network speeds and I don't well if you had the foresight to buy a dual interface that is 2 port card for the file server then you can actually do the same thing again by just buying another cable and another NIC or network interface card so all you've got to do then is change the third value in the manual IP address that you're setting again so the server machine will actually have three separate interfaces on three separate subnets alter the hosts files like so and step thirteen test access between these computers so you should see one gigabyte per second between the two clients and the file server and about 100 megabytes per second between the two clients to each other unless you want to take it one step further with another cable and another subnet if they all have dual interface cards but I mean at that point you might want to start thinking about a network switch because you're basically back to token ring speaking of which tunnel bear is the easy to use VPN app for mobile and desktop tunnel bear lets you tunnel to up to 16 different countries allowing you to browse the Internet and use online services as if you are in that different country they have apps for iOS Android the PC and Mack and they also have a Chrome extension the apps are super easy to use even if you're not a networking person you don't have to do any of that port forwarding nonsense or anything you just turn the little dial it actually looks like a little little dial you pick the country that you want to browse the Internet as though you're in and then two things happen your connection gets encrypted with AES 256-bit encryption and boom your public IP address gets switched so you show up as if you are somewhere else and if you do have any trouble even though they've tried to make it as simple as they possibly can their friendly support Bears will be there to help you they'll even give you five hundred megabytes of data for free to try it out with no credit card required all you got to do is go to tunnel bear comm /l TT and then if you want to upgrade to unlimited you can actually save 10% at our link as well so check it out at the link in the video description all right so thanks for watching guys if this video sucked you know what to do but if it was awesome get subscribed hit that like button or even consider supporting us directly by using our affiliate code to shop at Amazon instructions for which are up here buying a cool shirt like this one or with a direct monthly contribution through our community forum which gets you a little 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