We got 10 GIGABIT Internet!!#Helpful Post

so it's finally the day we are going

from gigabit fiber Internet to 10

gigabit internet on our own dedicated

wavelength so behind this door is my

friends Danny and Chad from I tell who

are gonna be helping me with this little

upgrade by the end of which we will have

literally ten times the bandwidth that

we have currently to the main harbour

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okay so step one collect Underpants step

two we need to look at these two

electrical rooms this one is building a

is that correct and then we also need to

take a look inside the electrical room

of building F because my understanding

is that maybe you could help find it for

me the main fiber connection to tellus

is coming into this building is that

right so here we found it this is the

Telus fiber optic cable that is coming

in from the street this is it's a beefy

it's a beefy boy but you can actually

see there's a reason for that

here we are so that right there is all

of the fiber strands that are protected

not just by this orange and blue

sheathing but then also by this thick

black sheathing around the outside so we

can tell three pairs so each one of

these is a send and receive pair but

that doesn't necessarily mean that you

can only have three fiber optic

connections running into this entire

complex of business units so one of the

pair's here has actually been there we

go run into this guy so this is a CWDM

and this takes a single ten gigabit

wavelength and then it is splitting it

out into ten one gigabit connection so

our old connection actually runs off of

this puppy right here and then we just

had two entire pairs that that's what I

would call dark fiber is that correct

just not doing not doing anything at all

so now aha you can see here the Linus

media group gets its own so we're

running off of three and four that are

dedicated just to us now we are going to

take this right here and we're gonna

plug in the one that's sitting up on the

top and instead of going into our

gigabit gear it's now gonna go into our

ten gig ear now you guys said this was

some kind of switch what was the brand

of it

so what this sienna switch does is it

allows I tell to constantly monitor the

speed that we're getting make sure that

nothing's going down there's no hiccups

or anything like that and then it's

basically just going to pass through

over to building F where it will then

carry over to our server room so to ISP

or data center guys who work with this

kind of stuff all the time I might as

well be making a video about a

screwdriver I suppose but for those of

you who don't I want to take this

opportunity because we're not ready to

cut over to this yet we've got to make

sure that the transceiver on the other

end in our server room matches this one

before we can go ahead and just pop the

fibers in I wanted to show you guys

exactly what kind of gear we're looking

at so this is a long haul 10 gigabit

transceiver so our fibers go in here and

then they are converted to copper

signals that your computer or your

router or your switch in this case can

understand and there's all kinds of

different types of these things

everything from 10 kilometer long range

to 40 kilometer long range to short

range ones to ones that are designed to

carry a single wavelengths the ones that

are designed to carry multiple

wavelengths and the main difference for

this one is that it's going to be laser

rather than LED which is what you'd

normally use for just like one of the

cheapo ones you get off eBay just you

know running from your server room to

your you know editing room or whatever

else and the strength of the signal so

it's super bright because it's designed

to go over very long distances you want

to make sure they're not mismatched

because even if you have two long-range

ones if you've got a very long range one

and it's too bright for the distance of

the cable you can actually get

attenuation so it's all dark magic to me

but it's pretty freakin cool okay so now

we're headed over to the electrical room

of our building where honestly nothing

really happens other than that it's just

like spliced together basically is that

right yeah okay so this is a good

opportunity though to explain the

difference between having your own

dedicated wavelength and having your own

dedicated fiber run so even though that

fiber that's over in building a is going

to go all the way out to the road

and to tell us his nearest like like

what would what would that be called a

splice point it's going to be combined

with other pairs over there it is only

that light wavelength that is actually

dedicated to us along that path and that

path is dynamic like if if someone's you

know digging a post and cut something or

whatever it's gonna get automatically

routed around but it's still pretty much

a direct path tens of kilometers away to

harbour center and what we're expecting

to see is somewhere in the neighborhood

of ten gigabit per second in about one

millisecond of latency so you guys

actually had one of your texts did I

overhear someone around a benchmark and

what are we looking at from your switch

nine point eight gig well where's my

other point to you bastards

yeah can you can you okay all right you

want to explain it no you don't want to

explain on camera all right all right

some something about TCP test see this

is the thing about Internet service

providers you know there's always an

excuse there's no there's overhead okay

so now we're over in our building so

building a was the first one of this

complex so that's where everything comes

in from the street that makes sense so

we've got one black cable here we go

that comes all the way up here and then

into little bits be like a splicer box

like what would you call this

sure I'm calling it a splicer box but

he's a splicing cabinet maybe anyway so

you can see here all our fiber strands

are separated here and this would

normally be closed for protection and

then it's going right there we're the

only ones in this building with fiber

internet obviously and then our yellow

one goes into this orange sheath and

then all the way back down here to unit

102 so 101 102 103 and 104 are all linus

media group but that's where our server

room is so now we're gonna go over there

so now we're in our server room where

that orange sheath that we saw in the

other building comes in from the top and

then it comes in the back of our cabinet

and plugs into this guy just a patch

panel okay cool so then we're actually

going to continue to use this exactly

the same way we used to is that right

now the one extra piece of equipment

that we had before that we will no

longer need actually is this MRV right

here which was essentially a media

converter so we were taking this fiber

out of our fiber patch panel and then we

reconfigured this guy so that we could

run this copper connection into our

pfSense router which is actually over on

the back of our rack so this just goes

away and I get a you back yes good

fantastic

so then Danny basically what you need to

check is if these are long-haul

transceivers or short-range ones is that

right not these my new transceiver which

ones that

yeah it's just an SFP+ port so there's

no transceiver okay yay okay so I've

gone up the menu and I think I know

which ones there I think it's igb zero

or one I don't know which though so

we're just it's gonna be a little bit of

trial and error here so next step then

is message everyone and tell them the

Internet's going down

Internet going down warning and five

four three two one so I tell tells me

normally this is a two-person operation

so you can just like both move them at

the same time but we want it to film it

we only had one camera person available

so I guess everyone gets to sit inside

in the dock of no internet they're both

doing things look Danny's plugging in

the other one so there we go so what

have you moved over okay

so that old one gig hardware is

technically all still there the one gig

circuits still up in parallel then we

tear it down

got it theoretically over on the other

end we're ten gig okay so theoretically

I should see like some kind of LED

indicator on that if it's working I

guess right nothing so far so there's

six rj45 s and two SFP+

okay so worst-case scenario there is a

PC is PCI Express expansion slot on this

thing and we definitely have sfp+ cards

that is definitely showing iuck so did

they just die what is this

the ARP request cannot find matching

address what is that even five reboot

the system

yeah let's reboot normally so while it

was booting up IX 2 & 3 showed as all

the devices were initializing so they

exist they're just not showing up in the

list I think the problem might be that

for LAN interface I entered I Excel 0

instead of I Excel 0.1 shouldn't matter

well it's still freaking out about that

10.20 dot 0.74 nonsense I'm rebooting on

the bright side we have a link now

that's good Thank You Danny

let's thanks Danny no Pellow there's no

update holy crap I think it actually

kept the configuration from last time

look at this when is IXL 3 it has an IP

okay so when interface you guys want to

have a look at this it appears to be up

okay so we're not sure exactly what

happened but the latest update is that I

tells guys are seeing our MAC address

what is that Anthony why did you have

those why are those deprecated what our

Internet's up

God got lag killed today so let the

record show I actually did know what I

was doing I just didn't know that

someone had tampered with my spoon and

sort of knew what I was doing okay I

could have checked this before they got

here what was happening was two of our

eight interfaces just weren't showing up

in this list because there was a link

aggregation group setup that was showing

up but we didn't recognize because we

were looking for IX l3 so everything

that I thought was supposed to happen

with everyone arguing with me where I

was like no no a blob blob now it will

show up and all this stuff and Dada blah

blah blah the only thing I did wrong was

I bummed out plugging in the fiber so

that it wasn't lighting up since then

it's been I mean there's a there's an

element of user error you know what I'm

sure all the network admins in there the

ones that aren't telling us that pfSense

is totally unsuitable for 10-gig are

telling me why I'm wrong but anyway the

point is you know what Ben it's working

all right so what we want to do now is

ping our gateway and see if we're

getting the advertised one millisecond

ping times so you're at 50% here Danny

50% oh yeah oh you're blaming my router

now oh I see how it's gonna be so we can

actually see here whether we should

blame my my router or not it looks like

our send time is point three

milliseconds and then our round-trip

time is right in the neighborhood of two

milliseconds there so we can see that by

refreshing it here it's really

consistent dang so it's all working

we've got Internet but one of the

coolest things about our sub two

millisecond round-trip time to Harbour

Center is that we could basically have

direct layer two access to anything else

that's in there so if we want it to

connect directly to a CDN or if we

wanted to put our own servers in there I

mean I guess that's probably expensive

but theoretically we could do it right

we just have a 10 gigabit pipe to Harbor

Center

that happens to be bringing us Internet

now the way you explained it to me we

basically have five and a half gigabit

to the broader Internet

but ten gigabit to anything that's at

Vanek's is that right or harbour centers

okay five gigs of Internet five and a

half six with overhead so all that's

left now is to run a speed test but we

have a slight problem we're gonna press

go and we're gonna discover that speed

test relies on the server at the other

end having the amount of bandwidth that

you are testing for so we just maxed out

someone's gigabit server somewhere

because the reality of it is if anyone

had a multi-thousand dollar a month

internet connection a 10 gig connection

they'd be using it for something it's

not just sitting there waiting for me to

speed test I mean apparently it's got

more down than it does up which is

fascinating but poor urban fibers like

well what are you guys doing to me right

now

so now what how do we test this thing

what even do Danny multiple sources I

mean you know what Oh a torrent a

torrent could work well I wouldn't know

anything about torrenting Danny you know

what I'm gonna call two and a half gig

up ok for now and I'm just gonna do like

a fun test ok because technically Google

is in harbour center right so why don't

we upload something so slight correction

Google is peered there but either way we

should be looking at some pretty serious

speeds here 2.6 gigs

let's upload it to YouTube week week

YouTube your week all right we're gonna

have to find something else like what

can we what can we like hit with this

I perf test yeah I need that running on

the thing remotely so basically there's

nothing that we can do to test this

other than hand this connection over to

the floatplane guys and give them a

server here in our server room and then

do like a live stream or something so

maybe that's something that we'll do in

the near future and see how hard we can

hit this thing in the meantime though

massive thanks to Danny and the I tell

folks Chad coming out here and helping

us hook this up massive thanks for the

discount I guess it wasn't that

substantial still very expensive but

they claim they're not making any money

on it so you know you know it's the word

of an ISP so they're pretty nice guys

but yeah I don't know and a massive

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