Black Box CAT6PC-010-OR Box CAT6 Value Line Patch Cable, Stranded, Orange, 10-ft. (3.0-m) - Category 6 for Network Device - 10 ft - 1 x RJ-45 Male Net

[Music] hey i'm dave welcome to my shop today in dave's garage we're going to continue our adventures in 10 gigabit networking by answering one of the most basic fundamental questions you likely have what are the various ways you can connect two computers together at 10 gigabits i'll show you how to connect both with and without a switch and i'll show you how to do it using direct attached copper cables that's these fancy pants units right here that look like they should be really expensive but aren't that bad at all as well as with fiber optics and good old rj45 twisted pair cable in our last installment we talked about rj45 twisted pair cables and the various category levels such as cat5 6 and cat 7. it's quite possible that you've never done any networking at all outside a twisted pair ethernet cable since it debuted for ethernet way back in 1984. when i was an intern in college i sp