**A Day in the Life: Setting Up Our Network**

We used to have to make cable six uphill both ways in the snow, oh all that to do to plug it into the back of the panel. Yes, I know I could have gotten the 110 type, but I just don't like that one. Oh, cause Jay likes this one so much better. Well, I mean you're trying new things right? Never know, that's why.

We do have a switch that's going to go in here. The switch will then plug into that which will go out to the studio. The Nighthawk will be out into the studio, and then we'll have to run off the Nighthawk switch to like probably another switch in the studio. So it's gonna be like switch to switch to switch, but that's okay. It'll still work perfectly fine. It's because it's solid. You can like straighten out the strands pretty easy. Easy.

We have this much more cable that we can make uh ends with or uh cables with if we need to. So let me move my tools and plug in the Nighthawk and see if it works. Oh, wait, we don't have an internet light a five a five and a two. Yeah, we don't have internet. Why all the connectors? Everything is there.

Well, okay, Phil happened to point out I was using the coaxial stripper and not the actual RJ stripper. So we think I may have accidentally cut through a cable or a wire or two or a pair or something. So we're just going to redo both ends now. All right, try this again. Alright, well, I redid the ends on both now. We have internet. Here we go, nice. All right, let's test it on the laptop. Fastest staying in the sixes and sevens a lot more. I don't think we need to deploy Wi-Fi six in our environment, so we need to finish now.

By tacking down the wire, all right here's the test. Do we get an activity light? And yes, this is a Cat5 cable. I know I still have to make the other ones, but I'm not doing that today because I'm tired. I'm fat and I'm hungry. All right, so we're going to be using 100 feet of cable to go from here to here, because I don't have a short cable yet. I don't want to make another one yet, because this is all just temporary.

The point of this video is so that we can make sure everything works that our cables work that our Wi-Fi works that our switch works and all that stuff works before we go and waste any time setting up our desks and stuff. Because obviously we just set up our office here, okay? Everything's set up with that stupid hundred foot cable but it all works. The wireless works, the wired works, we are good to go.

So all that's left to do now is to go in and reset the SSID and make sure everything's configured. Do some channel uh searching to make sure everything is uh like there's no interference and stuff nearby, but we have now got the foundation for our network setup set here now. I know one of the common questions here is going to be, "But Jay, what about your server? What about your server room? Your server rack?" This isn't Linus Tech Tips; I don't have a server room, I don't have a server rack. We'll probably have literally a server machine kind of sitting over there on the floor.

I know we will probably end up being in the room with Phil in the office, um hooked up to that 10g that 10 gig so we'll have 10 gig all local right there to each other and then what we'll have over here or somewhere is just an ingest station. So if we're working on something, you take the card out, let it ingest into the server, and he'll be working off the server moving forward.

Thanks for watching this video again, these work vlogs are about getting work done and experiencing doing it ourselves, obviously, and you guys might learn something along the way like us. Misusing that stripper was causing me a problem I misused I mistreated that stripper man, that's so bad. That's so terrible. Phil, I kept thinking that was you send your angry letters to Phil all right, I'm gonna go, guys. Thanks for watching and we will we'll see you in the next one by the time you see this, I'm probably in the Bahamas. Wow, humble brag much. Hey, I've never taken a vacation like that, so

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhere we go um it's funny i did back when i moved into my old house um it was a rental and it had it had a like a an access panel for the networking in the house because it had uh plugs and stuff throughout the house and i did a video showing how i set all that up and how i wired a switch and everything in there and since then anytime we move one of the most common comments we get is hey jay are you gonna do another networking setup video well it's time welcome to jay's two cents studio networking featuring cat6 because if we went cat5 you'd never let me hear the end of it video is brought to you by nordvpn a vpn service i have been using for years now look you wouldn't walk around with a with your precious expensive cell phone without a case on it would you okay i guess plenty of you do but i digress put a case around your internet experience why let the isp slow you down and control your data and control your packets slowing down your streaming services youtube netflix and all that sort of stuff with article 13 and the constant up in the air no one knows what's happening net neutrality here in the us you can stop people from spying on your internet connection and your data and slowing down your internet by connecting to a secure vpn now nordvpn has more than 5000 servers in 60 countries using military-grade encryption meaning nobody can keep an eye or spy on your data besides you you can get 75 off a three-year membership and if you use my offer code js2 cents at checkout you get an extra month for free so put a case around your internet stop screwing around and letting people control your data i'm serious get an extra month for free and 75 off a three-year membership by using js2 cents at checkout so what we're going to do today is uh because we work off of wi-fi a lot out here like with our phones and stuff when we're doing things like in a pinch we're like crap we got to download this 20 gig game upload or update and stuff even though we can get a good solid 600-ish megabits per second download on wi-fi here on wi-fi ac nonetheless which is amazing that we can get 600 down their router and their wireless that they gave us really sucks so we're going to try and improve that situation today by mounting my nighthawk out here running wire out of the office back out to here and having a switch and all sorts of stuff because not only are we preparing for obviously having our shops stuff hooked up to wired internet we are also going to be setting up ingest stations and all that sort of stuff and a server and all of that but a server doesn't serve too good if it don't have internet to serve through or even a connection for a lamp so that's what we're getting on wi-fi right now on fast.com this is actually netflix's server this isn't bad but i mean we pay for we pay for a thousand right so we should at least be getting our eight or 900 up am i really complaining about this yes because because their hardware sucks because we're dealing with dropouts and we're dealing with restarts and i don't know if it's just getting overworked but if phil is downloading big files or something and i'm trying to do something out here or i was on a conference call actually the other day and it dropped out on me like four times so obviously we we haven't done anything with our quote-unquote editing then yet we got a fan and air compressor in the white and gold build all right so my idea here was that i could just shove this thing back up through there i had to i'd have to make that it doesn't make that hole bigger because the end's not going to fit through right yeah he did exactly what i thought he did he just screwed it into the drywall see just like yeah oh man they charge you premium for these installs and then they do this i technically could have just gone up here too okay oh no no that's not a problem the problem is that he drilled that hole you don't know the honest truth because he could have just used that one what the hell man oh my god and i'm and i'm the idiot i didn't even think about that too when i was watching him installing i kind of just was like oh yeah and who drills it straight to the drywall using a freaking wood screws this is the wrong kind of box for this there's different types of boxes you can get for these sorts of things and what you should be putting in a drywall box like this are the ones that when you tighten it up the arms go bloop and they open up so then it can't pull out let's go to home depot because now i can get the stripper the wire stripper and the other one too right yeah why not i got some ones all right so we just went and got the correct box so this is what they use and i mean it just makes me feel bad that an amateur like myself can do a better job than somebody that was paid to do this so this is the box you would put in something like this if you're only anchoring it to the drywall these little tabs go down like this and then as you tighten up these screws the tabs come out and then they will pinch like that so that's how it's gonna end up being in the wall and then what i did was i got a blank plate cover to cover up the ugly hole that the cable installer did so let's go ahead and get this set up now i also have this fish tape i have to get the coaxial another coaxial but the cat sticks up through the ceiling and then throw it over the restroom through the um drop ceiling that's what it's called drop ceiling phil don't step on any of this we're going back to home depot for the third time today no well that's two ladders in one ah okay there you go internet right here in the video that's what anytime snapchat try not to cut myself on any of the sharp metal up here i don't know where it's going it could be like going sideways okay we clearly hit something there's so much fiberglass right here hey yeah teamwork after you put the camera down and you came out here it worked well so here's the end of the fish tape coming up through the wall and now i'm going to take this coil and i'm just going to throw it over the other they're good we're fine phil relax they got a little tangle yeah i did it all right so now i'm just going to tape this to our fish tape and then we can pull this end back through neato there see what happens when you do it the right way so i want to talk about something real quick in this build series where we've worked on our own stuff there's been a couple of comments of like jay why are you doing this yourself um jay you can afford a contractor why why are you why are you wasting your time you could be making content so the irony about those comments being made on a video you're watching saying that we're not making content while doing the thing that we were making content while doing i'm a diy-er if you haven't noticed by now i diy everything that i can so that's why we do this and plus some people learn some things along the way and i've had some people comment that hey this video is really helpful you actually taught me something i've always kind of wondered so that's why we do it it takes longer but we make content while we're doing it we save money while we're doing it and it's fun i'll be honest it's fun all right let's go ahead and pull up a schematic for cat 6 because i don't know it off the top of my head and let's put some ends and you can see where the cable comes down this is where i threw it over and you can see that this is where they just kind of stapled into the wall we'll sort of be doing the same thing the only cable they had for cat6 was blue i would have gotten white but they had blue so yeah let's do it so we should just be able to go like boop boop boop boo doo hey but that's okay because we need to actually go farther because we've got feed through plugs oh that's why there's a little finger hole oh is cat6 two cables or eight these are going through the granite core so since network cable is twisted pair and it's the even whether it be cat 5 or cat 6 the colors are pretty much all right so it doesn't matter if it's a cat 6 or cat 5e they're all twisted pair so you've got obviously you've got a color and then a colored stripe that matches and so the order of these pairs does indeed matter now we're going to be doing the uh was it 56b t5c specification it doesn't really matter i don't believe on either end at least the way i've always done these is as long as it's the same on both ends hell these strippers are taking all my money i was just saying it doesn't the way i've always done it in the past is long they're the same on both ends there's different types of plug-ins that you can get too and the ones that are the most difficult in my opinion to work with are the ones that you have to cut off like just have a quarter inch showing because then you have to have them all flattened in the right angle and push it all the way in hope it's seated all the way and crimp it down well these are feed through which means that the wires are going to feed right through the connector and stick out the other end and i can put it down as far as i need and then when i crimp it it'll cut off the excess so that's the way i'm doing it my first time trying feed through i've always i've always seen it i never used it because i it's been a while since i've had to make any cables we got a hundred foot of cat six and it's funny we could have gotten away with cat 5 just fine because the difference between cat 6 and cat 5 is signal loss over distance and both are capable of 10 gigabit in these distances at which our cable runs are so we could have gotten away with cat5 just fine i swear to god i only spent more money to do cat six to fend off some of the comments i guarantee we would get if we didn't do cat six like i swear to god i caved and i hate myself for it i hate myself as much as i hate the person out there that would comment when did you get used what do you want you to get ticks so anyway i guess we both lose right the fourth of july did you're not helping phil just like i said in our like our electric wiring video some electricians out there is like man you guys are dumb this is so easy and some network guy is out there just like dog do this in my sleep all right there's our orange stripe next to that it's all bent there's our orange yeah now that network engineer is commenting yeah oh my god we used to have to make cap six uphill both ways in the snow oh all that to do to plug it into the back of the panel yes i know i could have gotten the 110 type i just don't like that one oh cause jay likes this one so much better well i mean you're trying new things right never know that's why yeah that's it all right so we do have a switch that's going to go in here the switch will then plug into that which will go out to the studio the nighthawk will be out into the studio and then we'll have to run off the nighthawk switch to like probably another switch in the studio so it's gonna be like switch to switch to switch but that's okay it'll still work perfectly fine it's because it's solid you can like straighten out the strands pretty easy easy so we have this much more cable that we can make uh ends with or uh cables with if we need to so let me move my tools plug in the nighthawk and see if it works oh wait we don't have an internet light a five a five and a two yeah we don't have internet why all the connectors everything is there well okay phil happened to point out i was using the coaxial stripper and not the actual rj stripper so we think i may have accidentally cut through a cable or a wire or two or a pair or something so we're just going to redo both ends now all right try this again all right well i redid the ends on both now we have internet so here we go nice all right let's test it on the laptop well fastest staying in the sixes and sevens a lot more i don't think we need to deploy wi-fi six in our environment so we need to finish now by tacking down the wire all right here's the test do we get an activity light and yes this is a cat5 cable i know i still have to make the other ones but i'm not doing that today because i'm tired i'm fat and i'm hungry all right so we're going to be using 100 feet of cable to go from here to here because i don't have a short cable yet i don't want to make another one yet because this is all just temporary that cable's too hot man there's too much there's too much dimension on the line do you know what this does to my cable management brain um the point of this video is so that we can make sure everything works that our cables work that our wi-fi works that our switch works and all that stuff works before we go and waste any time setting up our desks and stuff because obviously we just set up our office here okay everything's set up with that stupid hundred foot cable but it all works the wireless works the wired works we are good to go so all that's left to do now is to go in and reset the ssid and and make sure everything's configured do some channel uh searching to make sure everything is uh like there's no interference and stuff nearby but we have now got the foundation for our network setup set here now i know one of the common questions here is going to be but but jay what about your server what about your server room your server rack this i'm not linus tech tips i don't have a server room i don't have a server rack i'll have a wanok server and all that stuff so we're a small operation we literally have two people right now that actually work on videos and 90 of it's done through phil and so we will probably have literally a server machine kind of probably sitting over there on the floor i don't know we'll figure that all out um when the time comes worst case scenario too it'd probably end up being in the room with phil in the office um hooked up to that 10g that 10 gig so we'll have 10 gig all local right there to each other and then what we'll have over here or somewhere is just an ingest station so if we're working on something we have a new project going you take the card out let it ingest into the server and he'll be working off the server moving forward thanks for watching this video again these work vlogs are about getting work done and experiencing doing it ourself obviously and you guys might learn something along the way like us misusing that stripper which was causing me a problem i misused i mistreated that stripper man that's so bad that's so terrible phil i kept i wasn't even thinking that that was you send your angry letters to phil all right i'm gonna go guys thanks for watching and we will we'll see you in the next one by the time you see this i'm probably in the bahamas so wow humble brag much hey i've never taken a vacation like that sohere we go um it's funny i did back when i moved into my old house um it was a rental and it had it had a like a an access panel for the networking in the house because it had uh plugs and stuff throughout the house and i did a video showing how i set all that up and how i wired a switch and everything in there and since then anytime we move one of the most common comments we get is hey jay are you gonna do another networking setup video well it's time welcome to jay's two cents studio networking featuring cat6 because if we went cat5 you'd never let me hear the end of it video is brought to you by nordvpn a vpn service i have been using for years now look you wouldn't walk around with a with your precious expensive cell phone without a case on it would you okay i guess plenty of you do but i digress put a case around your internet experience why let the isp slow you down and control your data and control your packets slowing down your streaming services youtube netflix and all that sort of stuff with article 13 and the constant up in the air no one knows what's happening net neutrality here in the us you can stop people from spying on your internet connection and your data and slowing down your internet by connecting to a secure vpn now nordvpn has more than 5000 servers in 60 countries using military-grade encryption meaning nobody can keep an eye or spy on your data besides you you can get 75 off a three-year membership and if you use my offer code js2 cents at checkout you get an extra month for free so put a case around your internet stop screwing around and letting people control your data i'm serious get an extra month for free and 75 off a three-year membership by using js2 cents at checkout so what we're going to do today is uh because we work off of wi-fi a lot out here like with our phones and stuff when we're doing things like in a pinch we're like crap we got to download this 20 gig game upload or update and stuff even though we can get a good solid 600-ish megabits per second download on wi-fi here on wi-fi ac nonetheless which is amazing that we can get 600 down their router and their wireless that they gave us really sucks so we're going to try and improve that situation today by mounting my nighthawk out here running wire out of the office back out to here and having a switch and all sorts of stuff because not only are we preparing for obviously having our shops stuff hooked up to wired internet we are also going to be setting up ingest stations and all that sort of stuff and a server and all of that but a server doesn't serve too good if it don't have internet to serve through or even a connection for a lamp so that's what we're getting on wi-fi right now on fast.com this is actually netflix's server this isn't bad but i mean we pay for we pay for a thousand right so we should at least be getting our eight or 900 up am i really complaining about this yes because because their hardware sucks because we're dealing with dropouts and we're dealing with restarts and i don't know if it's just getting overworked but if phil is downloading big files or something and i'm trying to do something out here or i was on a conference call actually the other day and it dropped out on me like four times so obviously we we haven't done anything with our quote-unquote editing then yet we got a fan and air compressor in the white and gold build all right so my idea here was that i could just shove this thing back up through there i had to i'd have to make that it doesn't make that hole bigger because the end's not going to fit through right yeah he did exactly what i thought he did he just screwed it into the drywall see just like yeah oh man they charge you premium for these installs and then they do this i technically could have just gone up here too okay oh no no that's not a problem the problem is that he drilled that hole you don't know the honest truth because he could have just used that one what the hell man oh my god and i'm and i'm the idiot i didn't even think about that too when i was watching him installing i kind of just was like oh yeah and who drills it straight to the drywall using a freaking wood screws this is the wrong kind of box for this there's different types of boxes you can get for these sorts of things and what you should be putting in a drywall box like this are the ones that when you tighten it up the arms go bloop and they open up so then it can't pull out let's go to home depot because now i can get the stripper the wire stripper and the other one too right yeah why not i got some ones all right so we just went and got the correct box so this is what they use and i mean it just makes me feel bad that an amateur like myself can do a better job than somebody that was paid to do this so this is the box you would put in something like this if you're only anchoring it to the drywall these little tabs go down like this and then as you tighten up these screws the tabs come out and then they will pinch like that so that's how it's gonna end up being in the wall and then what i did was i got a blank plate cover to cover up the ugly hole that the cable installer did so let's go ahead and get this set up now i also have this fish tape i have to get the coaxial another coaxial but the cat sticks up through the ceiling and then throw it over the restroom through the um drop ceiling that's what it's called drop ceiling phil don't step on any of this we're going back to home depot for the third time today no well that's two ladders in one ah okay there you go internet right here in the video that's what anytime snapchat try not to cut myself on any of the sharp metal up here i don't know where it's going it could be like going sideways okay we clearly hit something there's so much fiberglass right here hey yeah teamwork after you put the camera down and you came out here it worked well so here's the end of the fish tape coming up through the wall and now i'm going to take this coil and i'm just going to throw it over the other they're good we're fine phil relax they got a little tangle yeah i did it all right so now i'm just going to tape this to our fish tape and then we can pull this end back through neato there see what happens when you do it the right way so i want to talk about something real quick in this build series where we've worked on our own stuff there's been a couple of comments of like jay why are you doing this yourself um jay you can afford a contractor why why are you why are you wasting your time you could be making content so the irony about those comments being made on a video you're watching saying that we're not making content while doing the thing that we were making content while doing i'm a diy-er if you haven't noticed by now i diy everything that i can so that's why we do this and plus some people learn some things along the way and i've had some people comment that hey this video is really helpful you actually taught me something i've always kind of wondered so that's why we do it it takes longer but we make content while we're doing it we save money while we're doing it and it's fun i'll be honest it's fun all right let's go ahead and pull up a schematic for cat 6 because i don't know it off the top of my head and let's put some ends and you can see where the cable comes down this is where i threw it over and you can see that this is where they just kind of stapled into the wall we'll sort of be doing the same thing the only cable they had for cat6 was blue i would have gotten white but they had blue so yeah let's do it so we should just be able to go like boop boop boop boo doo hey but that's okay because we need to actually go farther because we've got feed through plugs oh that's why there's a little finger hole oh is cat6 two cables or eight these are going through the granite core so since network cable is twisted pair and it's the even whether it be cat 5 or cat 6 the colors are pretty much all right so it doesn't matter if it's a cat 6 or cat 5e they're all twisted pair so you've got obviously you've got a color and then a colored stripe that matches and so the order of these pairs does indeed matter now we're going to be doing the uh was it 56b t5c specification it doesn't really matter i don't believe on either end at least the way i've always done these is as long as it's the same on both ends hell these strippers are taking all my money i was just saying it doesn't the way i've always done it in the past is long they're the same on both ends there's different types of plug-ins that you can get too and the ones that are the most difficult in my opinion to work with are the ones that you have to cut off like just have a quarter inch showing because then you have to have them all flattened in the right angle and push it all the way in hope it's seated all the way and crimp it down well these are feed through which means that the wires are going to feed right through the connector and stick out the other end and i can put it down as far as i need and then when i crimp it it'll cut off the excess so that's the way i'm doing it my first time trying feed through i've always i've always seen it i never used it because i it's been a while since i've had to make any cables we got a hundred foot of cat six and it's funny we could have gotten away with cat 5 just fine because the difference between cat 6 and cat 5 is signal loss over distance and both are capable of 10 gigabit in these distances at which our cable runs are so we could have gotten away with cat5 just fine i swear to god i only spent more money to do cat six to fend off some of the comments i guarantee we would get if we didn't do cat six like i swear to god i caved and i hate myself for it i hate myself as much as i hate the person out there that would comment when did you get used what do you want you to get ticks so anyway i guess we both lose right the fourth of july did you're not helping phil just like i said in our like our electric wiring video some electricians out there is like man you guys are dumb this is so easy and some network guy is out there just like dog do this in my sleep all right there's our orange stripe next to that it's all bent there's our orange yeah now that network engineer is commenting yeah oh my god we used to have to make cap six uphill both ways in the snow oh all that to do to plug it into the back of the panel yes i know i could have gotten the 110 type i just don't like that one oh cause jay likes this one so much better well i mean you're trying new things right never know that's why yeah that's it all right so we do have a switch that's going to go in here the switch will then plug into that which will go out to the studio the nighthawk will be out into the studio and then we'll have to run off the nighthawk switch to like probably another switch in the studio so it's gonna be like switch to switch to switch but that's okay it'll still work perfectly fine it's because it's solid you can like straighten out the strands pretty easy easy so we have this much more cable that we can make uh ends with or uh cables with if we need to so let me move my tools plug in the nighthawk and see if it works oh wait we don't have an internet light a five a five and a two yeah we don't have internet why all the connectors everything is there well okay phil happened to point out i was using the coaxial stripper and not the actual rj stripper so we think i may have accidentally cut through a cable or a wire or two or a pair or something so we're just going to redo both ends now all right try this again all right well i redid the ends on both now we have internet so here we go nice all right let's test it on the laptop well fastest staying in the sixes and sevens a lot more i don't think we need to deploy wi-fi six in our environment so we need to finish now by tacking down the wire all right here's the test do we get an activity light and yes this is a cat5 cable i know i still have to make the other ones but i'm not doing that today because i'm tired i'm fat and i'm hungry all right so we're going to be using 100 feet of cable to go from here to here because i don't have a short cable yet i don't want to make another one yet because this is all just temporary that cable's too hot man there's too much there's too much dimension on the line do you know what this does to my cable management brain um the point of this video is so that we can make sure everything works that our cables work that our wi-fi works that our switch works and all that stuff works before we go and waste any time setting up our desks and stuff because obviously we just set up our office here okay everything's set up with that stupid hundred foot cable but it all works the wireless works the wired works we are good to go so all that's left to do now is to go in and reset the ssid and and make sure everything's configured do some channel uh searching to make sure everything is uh like there's no interference and stuff nearby but we have now got the foundation for our network setup set here now i know one of the common questions here is going to be but but jay what about your server what about your server room your server rack this i'm not linus tech tips i don't have a server room i don't have a server rack i'll have a wanok server and all that stuff so we're a small operation we literally have two people right now that actually work on videos and 90 of it's done through phil and so we will probably have literally a server machine kind of probably sitting over there on the floor i don't know we'll figure that all out um when the time comes worst case scenario too it'd probably end up being in the room with phil in the office um hooked up to that 10g that 10 gig so we'll have 10 gig all local right there to each other and then what we'll have over here or somewhere is just an ingest station so if we're working on something we have a new project going you take the card out let it ingest into the server and he'll be working off the server moving forward thanks for watching this video again these work vlogs are about getting work done and experiencing doing it ourself obviously and you guys might learn something along the way like us misusing that stripper which was causing me a problem i misused i mistreated that stripper man that's so bad that's so terrible phil i kept i wasn't even thinking that that was you send your angry letters to phil all right i'm gonna go guys thanks for watching and we will we'll see you in the next one by the time you see this i'm probably in the bahamas so wow humble brag much hey i've never taken a vacation like that so\n"