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you've seen all the expensive Network crap that we're using around here to break the one gigabit network transfer speed barrier that we've been stuck with for the last decade well today is not about that it's about hitting your network at home with a much needed shot of adrenaline on the cheap the Scimitar RGB from coarser features 17 programmable buttons a 12000 DPI optical sensor and a shape design for comfort in MOBA and MMO games check out the link in the video description to learn more ok so the first time I tried to do something like this was way back in the NCIX tech tip days with this video here I had the right idea use a relatively inexpensive multi port network card with multiple cables attached to it to achieve faster transfer speeds than what would be possible with a single port and a single cable but the software implementation wasn't as mature yet and the only scenario where I saw a real benefit was with multiple clients hitting a single server connected in that way all at once today we're going to actually do what i theorize would be freaking awesome all those years ago and demonstrate a point-to-point transfer speed of more than one gigabit with about $100 worth of Hardware off of ebay assuming that you've already got a couple of decent Windows 10 pcs so it starts with the hardware shopping first you'll need a couple of quad port network interface cards or NICs I ended up with a couple of HP branded Intel Pro 1000 PT cards that I snagged for about $30 each next you'll need a network switch that can actually handle all of those plugs so the four port one built into your home router or even a standalone 8 port desktop switch won't cut it if you want to plug in anything else the good news is that for this functionality you don't need a fancy smart switch so any cheap 16 or 24 port will do we used a d-link one that Johnny the networked guy who helped us with this project had lying around the last thing that you're going to need is a teather net cables but if that comes as a surprise to you you probably shouldn't be taking on any networking projects so our initial testing actually didn't go very well we through the two cheapo quad Network cards into my usual test bench and my upgraded personal rig disabled Windows Firewall plugged in all the æther net cables without actually worrying about plugging into the main router for Internet and then we wanted to see what would happen the answer was nothing they transferred at exactly gigabit speeds a disheartening result given that Johnny had assured me that he had gotten it to work on his test machines with no hassle whatsoever so we put new fresh windows 10 installs on each and not a same thing what the heck time to bring out the big guns so Johnny ran home and got his custom z170 asrock board with an intel core i5 skylake chip in it and a random lenovo pre built with a core i3 4130 dual core we put his Nick's into those a couple of Intel i3 4 TT fours that are a bit more expensive than the ones I bought but still quite affordable and voila transfer speeds in excess of one gigabit not particularly impressive still and frequently dipping below gigabit even but the important thing that we're looking for here is activity on all four interfaces and we got it from there though it was time to keep tuning we wanted to eliminate the mechanical hard drive in the Lenovo machine as a bottleneck so we threw a secondary SSD in there big improvement but still not enough we needed to do more so we tore apart Johnny's Lenovo machine and put in 16 gigs of ram so we could make a ram disk and still not the result we needed I mean this should have been capable of over 400 megabytes per second so we started trying a lot of other random stuff we wanted to boot the lenovo hard drive off of my 8 core machine we tried installing fresh with Jonny's Windows 10 ISO to see if maybe that was the issue we were having when before when I was trying to do it and in either of those situations the multi channel transfers that we wanted didn't work at all both of us were tearing our hair out at this point getting SMB multi-channel to work seems to be as much about luck as anything else and certain combination of hardware with certain windows installs were working while others weren't so in the end we did manage to get Johnny's boot SSD from his skylake personal rig to run on my 99 testbench but we were stuck with that Lenovo box with the core i3 the good news is that making that change and we actually switched back to my cheap network cards at this point because the 340s didn't seem to be making a difference anyway resulted in a much faster and more consistent transfer just still not what it should be capable of and then we had the Eureka moment SMB multi-channel leverages multiple CPU threads for faster file transfers so I tried adjusting the number of cores in my Extreme Edition machine down to two to see if that would slow things down it actually didn't but it did help me observe the very high CPU usage on that machine so the answer then was actually the core i3 the equivalent that I had tried to create on the other side so we turned the extreme edition back up to four cores eight threads to be similar to what an enthusiast where the core i7 would have then we swapped out the core i3 in the Lenovo machine with a 4790k and boom just like that it worked the proof is in the pudding SMB multi-channel for under a hundred dollars can improve your network transfer speeds and this is great for editing HD or 4k video files over an as for improving the ability of a single file server to serve multiple clients or even just making impatient people who hate waiting for access to network resources happier and the more CPU threads you have with a core i7 being ideal on both sides of the transfer the faster it can go I do wish at this point in the video that I could explain some of the inconsistencies that I observed in getting SMB multi channel to work at all but maybe that's 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