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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the WD - which this one's gonna go pretty fast because other than just the general news that WD does networking stuff now it's pretty much a switch so let's get this up let's say the WD has to say for themselves eight gigabit ports okay port based quality of service that's cool energy-efficient okay so it probably turns off ports that you're not using and whatnot and turns down the transmission power for shorter cable runs these kinds of energy efficiency features full HD okay any gigabit switch it's capable HD Auto power-down for any sports cable like the detection for transmit power conservation called that one more flexibility well now to design an auto sensing ports on a duplex detection port based quality service okay so connect to your router power up expand your network yes switches are good for all those things and let's open it up and have a look at the my net switch great packaging what's that black internals my net switch plug the thing into the thing and then plug the other thing into the other 10 3 steps very simple if you can't hook up a switch then you probably don't have any business running networking so don't worry about it these are not smart switches these are just plain old switches I mean don't feel bad if you couldn't hook up the switch my mom can't do it she just calls me and then I deal with it for her so you know if you have like a nephew or a son or a you know creepy uncle or something who knows how to do networking then you can get them to do it for you if you if you don't know any good let's go ahead and have a close look at the - which I'm just gonna put down on the table and the diesel kind of do is camera thing as he sort of looks at it you get some you know as much yeah he's giving me the shrug here as much as you can do glamour shots of a network switch see look at that look at that shiny and then like not shiny so there's a matte finish here and a glossy finish here yeah if we have like a lazy susan we could like put it on it and be like not my arms are twisting see I'm stuck I tried okay so on the back you've got your eight gigabit ports look at that oh this is actually cool okay five five big do a unique feature so what they meant by port-based quality of service is you actually plug in physically so it's like completely dummy proof your higher priority devices into the ports labeled high your mid priority devices into the ports labeled creatively mid and your low your low priority devices into the port's labeled cow low low its low nightcap they weren't going for the confuse I know I knew it said no I'm just kidding on the front you got your indicator LEDs power in and it's a switch about cooling Finn's my net switch from WD thanks for watching my unboxing don't forget to subscribe for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos from your favorite professional unboxer me on Linus tech tips subscribe now