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As a core Network Engineer at an ISP I have to say out of the dozens of tech KZfaqrs I watch, I have to hand it out to you for putting effort into your network videos. Sure some points/info are off, but still contain a lot of good information for non-networking viewers. If you continue these I'd be glad to offer some perspective. Some things to add: 1. In your list of equipment you forgot the most important, a router able to handle 10gig. Switching ASICs have been able to handle 10gig for some time but many routers (non-enterprise) still route in CPU instead of the ASIC. This makes routing and also firewalling very expensive at 10gig and above. 2. Latency through a medium, copper is actually lower latency theoretically, but there is an interference mechanism that purposely introduces latency to prioritize a stable connect vs a low latency connect that might suffer loss. 3. The actual nodes introduce ns of latency enough to the point where the number of nodes is ignored vs the path taken. 4. Traceroute off a customer connection in not the end all be all result. MPLS is the primary transport within ISP domains. You will not get replies from hops that are traversing MPLS nodes. This can mean a user is seeing 5 hops but in reality it can be 5-10 more hops than displayed. This can skew the perceived results. 5. Latency is TCPs Achilles heal. Due to ACKs and windowing is what determines the throughput you will get. The more latency, means the longer the sender has to wait before sending the next window. If you ran a 10gig test with UDP you would see closer to expected results at expense of possible loss.

Fun fact: NASA and the US weather service actually helped pay for the fiber from Norway to Svalbard

When your *NVME sustained write speed* is slower than your internet...

And here I am using a router that only has 10/100 ethernet to run my minecraft server...

My gigabit internet was fast enough for me to get here first though...

"Negotiate with your ISP" *Laughs in xfinity*

133 ms around the earth would be for speed of light in a vacuum. Speed of light in glass fibre is 2/3 the speed

"You could theoretically download warzone in 20 seconds" yeah except the Battlenet downloader would crash halfway through

Do you know you can change the speedtest settings to just display MB/s instead of Mbit/s? That way you don’t have to do the conversion

To be precise: Svalbard is not only home to 3000 people, but also to the world seed vault, where samples of nearly every fruit, vegetable, etc are stored, to keep humanity able to grow food in case of a Desaster. So this small Island is ptettty important to be connected

Honestly, at 4:26 I expected the dam to break after seeing the house getting wrecked...

Quin: 10gb ethernet is slow af! Me: has 5mbps wifi

Reading the title, my first thought was from Spaceballs: “NO NO LIGHTSPEED’S TOO SLOW! Lightspeed’s too slow?! WE NEED TO GO... LUDICROUS SPEED!”

I’m from Norway. It was cool to see that you used a clip from the show «Ikke gjør dette hjemme» by NRK. Cool to see people use stuff made in Norway. Puts us on the map a little bit more. Keep up the good work, Quinn!☺️

This video demonstrates how important it's a good ISP. these days. Good interconnections with cloud providers and CDNs, great transit providers to the broader internet, and, most importantly, upgrading the core and the edge networks in order to sell faster speeds are, together, a key factor for selling very high speeds. It's quite easy to provide one gig, two gigs, or even more with the access gear we have today. XGS-PON is coming, and "10 gig" is the next big step. But, in practice, it's not 10 gigs if you can't use 20% of your bandwidth to download a game from Steam of from Xbox servers, nether can you retrieve a file from Google Drive at anything near the speeds you pay for. Of course, it's not all about the ISP, because the global internet operators need to work on this together on this issue. It's definitively possible and, frankly, quite easy. The challenge is, of course, money. And we are not good to go thought this by selling crazy-fast speeds for everyone. Fine, most people don't care about it. Paying $70 for 1-Gig and only receiving 200-Meg most of the time is miles better than paying $70 for a line capped at 200-Meg. However, if we want to take full advantage of theses speeds and not just experiencing a small improvement over slower ones, choosing a good ISP, with a fast backbone, vast interconnections running on fast interfaces (10G for less relevant traffic and 100G for relevant peers), and other points I sad is very necessary. Anyway, loved your video. The only KZfaqr I saw talking about the challenges of today's "ultra-fast" broadband.

*Me sitting here with my 12 mbps download/1 mbps upload speeds*

Really a great video. Keep posting more. Can't wait for your next video on your new home network setup. Congrats by the way!

Great video, Quinn! I love how you have an obsession to get the most out of everything! Like a Mac computers, audio, internet...

13:39 Can I make a suggestion? It's not always better to change DNS servers, you should benchmark them to get a baseline. You can use tools like namebench or GRCs DNS Benchmark to do exactly that :D You also have to consider the fact that DNS is very important for CDN delivery and load balancing/geolocation, if the DNS servers you are using don't support ECS you might get contents from the "wrong" (far away/more congested/not customized by your ISP) location

"Cat. 6a cables are expensive" What?, they are the standard when building or upgrading a building. Most people even go cat 7 or even cat 8 and just crimp on rj45 (cat.6)

If you would like to see full details of a webpage load. Open up the developer tools / console of your web browser and navigate to the "Network" section. Load a web page and view the resulting waterfall chart. It will give you a detailed breakdown of the time it takes for establishing the initial connection, DNS lookup, SSL handshakes, content download etc etc. Will also tell you which items were found in your browsers cache (local cache) or downloaded from a CDN service (remote cache).

Please more, this was a great piece of content. Clear, digestible, and thorough.

TCP overhead takes away from your overall upload speed. In addition providers along the path can rate-limit youtube very easily and KZfaq rate limits uploads as well. Also, "pathping" is a better tester built into Windows.

Might be a good idea to disable the remote config UI on your edgerouter if you're not going to blur more than that. :)

That's the first video I see of yours and you impressed me. Great job!

Love the fact that you used a clip from "Ikke gjør dette hjemme" from from the norwegian NRK to demonstrate throughput. Good stuff, buddy!

I have Google Fiber and I've begun to notice what servers are slower than others- I don't even know if I'd move to the 2Gbps service when it comes out.

2:19 Can we just appreciate the elite acting involved here?

Excellent video! Great presentation, informative, and very accurate. I work for an ISP. You got it all right!

This was actually a GOOD networking explainatory video. A lot of tech youtubers don't really understand half of this.

10 Gbps is too slow? hold my 10/2 Mbps network bandwidth

6:32 what’s happening there?

Love this types of videos. Thanks!

You are very good at explaining, subbed.

Set your dns to googles dns server. It will direct your upload to a local server instead of the standard upload distribution server. Make sure to flush dns cache and local cookies before testing the upload.

Good legal torrents to try are linux distros, some of them are seeded by properly fast connections like universities and other subjects serving as mirrors

got PIA like a month ago after watchung your channel, didn't even know about the kill switch until today. thank you

I’m so pumped for your home networking project video! Also this one was good too. :P

The video was great, but that thumbnail was on another level!

Me: _Cries in 56kbps dial up_

Lots of great information. Explained this great. Hope there’s more content like this. Also love the Apple exclusive content.

Background color on video is lit! Keep up the nice work quinn!

You're not a network guy... ;-) You're info is a little off, but I still enjoyed it. The biggest thing you misunderstood is that those "traceroutes" aka. hops are not necessarily real in today's world. When you see 10 hops, their could be a dozen more behind the scenes due to technologies like PPPoE, MPLS, etc that can make those hops invisible.

_"I HATE my 10 Gigabit connection"_ *Me ironically actually trying to watch this at 144p with my 0.1 Mbps data!* _cries_

Svalbard is not only home to 3000 people, it also houses the Arctic Web Archive, the offline backup of the internet. A fast connection seems like a great investment.

Great video guys! Lots of good info and suggestions for improving a sluggish home or office network. Just a suggestion for testing 10Gb performance, you can pick up something like a Viavi T-BERD 6000/8000 these days for just a couple of thousand or so on eBay, and SFP's are getting ridiculously cheap. Just need to make sure it is optioned out for the services you need (most are). Then you can do all sorts of testing and get consistent results. Its great for finding crappy switches and Ethernet cables, and other bottle necks. I've had some compatibility issues with the 10 Gb copper Ethernet SFP's (the Viavi thinks they are optical devices) and I haven't really dug down to see what works best since most of the stuff I deal with is optical so you will have to do a little experimenting to find a good 10Gb SFP that will work since I have no idea. By the way, higher data rate communications typically will result in slightly lower latency than existing networks since the higher speed packets take less time to get decoded/processed so they can be acknowledged/replied to faster, but as you suggested, they don't travel any faster through the medium (fiber/copper) so the improvement is only marginal.

Alternative title: How to flex on people.

Snazzy: « my 10 gigabit internet is too slow » Me: *vibes on 60 mbps* Edit: my school’s wifi is 0.95 mbps

Your camera charisma is improving! Good video. I learned nothing, only because I'm already highly versed in all of this, but I enjoyed watching nonetheless and that's even more impressive. 😁

@8:00 It also depends on whether the user's ISP peers with an Internet exchange point to actually benefit from Cloudflare's CDN.

Your videos are not Snazzy enough to warrant such a Network.

Spectrum is the worst here in So Cali. They keep raising my bill ever 3-4 months. Have called multiple times and they refuse to help. They just want to sign me up to a more expensive plan. Ugh

I have FIOS gigabit, and what I found to be the biggest issue is just latency. DNS is one place, the second and perhaps more important is just having the right router that shapes traffic well. Gigabit can feel like 50 Mbps if you have buffer bloat. Why, well that DNS request and other requests get held up in a buffer causing pages and actions to appear to be delayed, well and they are. Fix the bloat and it's amazing how fast even a slower connection can feel. Knowing this is one thing, making sure you ensure each setup is working as good as it can be is another. 10Gb, well shouldn't have any buffer issues.

I didn’t expect a Network+ training video on this channel today lol. Good stuff in all seriousness.

Snazzy Labs: "My 10 gigabit internet is too slow..." Me: Weird flex but ok.

"This is what most non-fiber homes have" Copper and that 40ms of lag!11!! my old dsl connection:150ms to 500ms your internet:5ms Me:If the ISPs actually did something with that money related to fiber.

I live in South OKC, and according to Ookla, the nearest SpeedTest server is in Richardson, TX, hosted by AT&T. However, there are several SpeedTest servers in OKC, hosted by OneNet, Dobson Technologies, and Cox Communications. Also, we have AT&T U-verse V-DSL, which would probably explain why the AT&T Richardson server is pinning as being closer than any of the ones in OKC served by their competitors. We've had the same ISP since early 2003, starting with SBC Yahoo! Dial, then upgrading to SBC Yahoo! A-DSL in late 2003 (which would become AT&T Yahoo! A-DSL after SBC Communications, Inc. acquired AT&T Corp. in 2004 to become AT&T, Inc.), followed by an upgrade to AT&T U-verse V-DSL in 2013. Also, Alphabet, Inc. has a Google data center in Mayes County, OK right near the northeast corner of the state.

You being a KZfaqr and recommending ad blockers for faster Internet says a lot about how much you care for your audience and the right info!

I pay for gigabit down / 35mbps upload... I am consistently bottlenecked at 5mbps upload. No idea why :(

It's a good day when we can get 25Mbps down and 10Mbps up. :-(

btw the calc has a data conversion submenu in the top left 3bar menu... its quite handy!

I had to try it out with the Tracert command. Nice video!

Cryin in 8 mbps up and 1 mbps down

Y’all are complaining about you 100-10000 mps internet while I’m lucky to get 30mps lol

Honestly didn't know what to expect with this video but I was glued to my screen the whole time I love your content

For delays in fiber (and other mediums) one of the biggest considerations is media converters. I'm surprised this wasn't mentioned.

First for the first time

*Weeps in 60MB Down, 6MB Up*

A lot has to do with internet routing. I do not live in a major metropolitan area and the nearest one is 300 miles away. I manage IT at my company and both offices have Fiber Internet and are only 70 miles apart. However, due to being two different ISP's and this not being a major metropolitan area, the data has to travel 1000+ miles round trip, putting the ping times for our site to site VPN at around 60ms. My house that is 7 miles from the main office has around a 40ms ping time due to a 600+ mile round trip. The "city" is a beach community and only has two data routes (regardless of ISP) and that is either east or west as there is nothing to our north. When Hurricane Michael took out Panama City Beach, it also took our all fiber optic lines to our east, leaving only the ones to our west. During the repairs, there were a couple fiber cuts to our west, cutting off our "city" entirely. AT&T had a fiber cut which took down all the cell phone towers in the city... all AT&T phones simply said "No Service" for 3-5 hours, same happened with AT&T U-Verse as well. The same thing happened with Mediacom... took out Cable Internet, VoIP, and Cable TV for nearly a week due to how severe the cut was. 100 Mbps Fiber for our primary office, located in the middle of downtown, is $450 a month on a 5 year contract. 100 Mbps Fiber for our remote office is $550 a month. The fastest internet AT&T offers at my house is 50 Mbps for $50 a month on a 2 year contract, but thankfully Cox offers Gigablast which is 940 Mbps down and 35 Mbps up for $69 a month with a 1 TB limit and $50 extra for unlimited data which is what I have. Thankfully I am able to get these speeds and since Steam has servers in Atlanta, where my ping time is around 25ms or so, I can nearly max out my connection downloading games from Steam. Needless to say, there is no data centers anywhere near us due to this being a small beach community and in the middle of Hurricane Alley.

I miss the old speedtest site where you could select the server location manually.

everyone gangsta saying first until they refresh the comments

From Hawaii, I like to speed test to San Francisco to test my connection through the cables. I typically lose about 30-40 percent of my download speed when doing that.

Throughput and bandwdith also rings true for your broadband speed and what rate your router can up/download. Just because your router has gigabit ports does not mean it can upload or download at gigabit speeds. I remember some time ago I had to choose carefully my router as most would have a lower actual throughput than the actual broadband speed.

Hey @Snazzy Labs, nice video and explanation. Try “mtr” instead of traceroute. You gonna love it.

As an employee of an isp that offers high speed fiber internet I have to say this is the lords work you are doing

Thanks for this educational video!

here in Tucson, AZ you tell Cox you will switch to the one other provider and they literally say "good luck".

good info, i recommend testing dnsbenchmark myself.

Here in Jersey channel island, the telecoms company finished their rollout of fibre (ftth) to all 100k+ residents. During the pandemic they have given every single household 1Gbps symmetrical connection for free, as long as they are already paying for a standard service.

13:10 it's me, nobody!

Here in Egypt the internet is so expensive and they give a tiny amount of data cap, even after getting ftth in some places(not all of course) the fastest you can get is 200 mb/s but with 1024gb cap and the upload is not even close to half that for almost 70$.If you look it up in Egypt it's a monopoly. I don't think caps will disappear from Egypt anytime soon.

A few points. I have only once come across a 10 Gb connection. It was for a major bank's data centre. Canadian banks tend to be much larger than American banks. By comparison, back in the early 90s, I was working on a job for another major bank. They had one data centre in Toronto and another in a different city. This project was to provide 4 DS3 (45 Mb each) connections between the two sites, with two coming from my company and two from the phone company. That was a blazing 180 Mb/s between two bank data centres! On the other hand, when I first started working in telecom, some of the equipment I worked on ran at all of 45.4 bit/sec! Also, with my ISP, I'm paying for 500/20 Mb. However, according to speedtest I get around 940/31! So, no complaints there. And just this morning, I decided to check a 5G C band (3.5 GHz) cell connection and was getting around 436/78 with my Pixel 6 phone.

15:08 That looks a lot like my KZfaq Home screen! You have good taste in KZfaq videos my friend!

@1:24 - Windows tip: if you click the menu lines in the top left of the built-in calculator you can do pretty much any conversion you want right in the app, including data conversions; it even supports date calculation of either difference between dates or figuring out dates in the future/past by adding/subtracting days, weeks, or months. I know it's hard to imagine Windows having good built in features, but hey, stranger things have happened outside of Mac land ;)

It also looks like you are using the Speedtest app and using a browser to run the transfer (naturally). Try running your speedtest from the browser and see what slowdowns it introduces.

Can't wait for that video about the rewiring your house to get better internet 😂

Have you adjusted RWIN sizes for such a fast connection?

I have fiber to the home gig up/down in Phoenix with Century Link. Full Unifi setup and running Edge Router 4, fiber runs to the SFP port on the router from the curb... It is awesome... latency is stupid low....

Here in Romania a 10gbe fiber optic connections cost only 5 dollars/month (50 RON in romanian money)

Would love to have this “problem”

Don't forget that the application server at the other end must have the resources available to handle your 10 Gbps of throughput. Very few are provisioned that way, because it is extremely costly at scale and unnecessary for most application requirements.

Question. That was the cost to also deploy, drench, vessels, and workers? For that cable connecting that island? Or just the manufacturing

A Ookla Speedtest server is not only selected by physical location. The Ookla system determines the best server by using a geo-IP system to find the physically closest servers, then your client pings those servers and uses the one with the lowest latency, making the selected server the closest server from a network perspective. So not necessarily the physically closest, but the quickest to respond.

high quality content! thank you very much!

PIA is awesome! I've had them for 3 years now! Plus I feel ya on upload/download/throughput speeds

Officially, you're one of my favorite KZfaqrs out here!

Great video! Heads up: @9:06 you might want to blur the dns name too..

Just wanted to let you know I'm hearing some audio compression artifacts. Haven't noticed it in previous videos.