Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA the Foot Accounting. Welcome back to the channel. EA just did literally the craziest thing they could have done for footies. They chopped a 99 rated footies, Ronaldo, SBC. We have a lot to talk about with that because not only does that mean we have a crazy SBC to craft, it is a really expensive price as well, but we also have the potential for more SBCs like this to come throughout the remainder of the preseason promo. So we're gonna talk about that today, the new cards and packs and the crazy FC 24 packs that you have to be doing right now in this game. If you're not doing anything else, get on and do these objectives because you will thank yourself if you're playing EA FC 24, these packs are crazy. So a lot to talk about today. If you're excited for it, drop a thumbs up, subscribe if you're new. Let's go over all that we got yesterday. There was actually a lot of content yesterday, especially in the SBC section starting off really quickly. We did have the 90 plus Todd Shape Shifter or Fuddy's player pick back once again. Some of you guys I know may be trying to pack like Shape Shifter's VVD. He's no longer in packs anymore. His gold card is in packs with the change of the preseason re-release. So this is kind of your only chance to get him really, which is a little unfortunate. So I don't know if EA is gonna drop player SBCs for any of those types of players or if they're only doing Fuddy's cards throughout the rest of the game here, but that's kind of an SBC that was dropped yesterday. I don't think too many people are doing it. Now also yesterday, I've already got this SBC done because it was so good. We had another dynamic duo and this one's a must do guys. We have a 99 rated Enkunku and a 99 rated Musa Diaby. The French dynamic duo, both five star, five star and 99 rated both cards are absolutely cracked of course, no dynamic images, but for a 92 rated squad, which is what you play into an 86 times 10 SBC anyway and you're doing the 16 92 rated squads for the Ronaldo SBC, it's a must do. If you're not doing a Ronaldo, at least do Diaby and at least do Enkunku. This Diaby card is gonna be like unreal in game. I know it's the end game. I know everything's 99 right now anyway, but that's a crazy card, a W upgrade and just a W price, right? Those are players that we wanted to see Enkunku, Diaby specifically, we wanted to see transfer cards for them with their new links for their new clubs and we get that. So I absolutely love it, 98% up voted as it should be. So that's a must do with extra fodder and now we gotta talk about the other big players SBC. It's Christiane Ronaldo, Footies guys. We were talking about a cover star icon. We're talking about, oh, what other players could EA drop? Nobody was imagining that EA was gonna do this. 99 Ronaldo who just left packs and was still nine, 10 million coins, EA drop him as an SBC. They redeemed themselves here guys. Remember back to the beginning of Footies when we first had Footies come out and we saw this Ronaldo card, it was leaked.   They've kind of redeemed themselves because they put this card actually back in SBCs. Now, is the price good? Technically it is, like if you think about it from how he was on the market, way overpriced to begin with. He was 10 million coins, literally still yesterday when the SBC dropped. He's now about five million coins on the market, probably gonna drop a bit more. But he's basically halved in price and the SBC is coming in at about four and a half million coins. It's really tough to try to price this SBC out because yes, there are 42 freaking squads that you have to get done to do this SBC. And you know, there's a lot of 93 ratings in there. There's a lot of 92 ratings. But of course the price of this SBC is literally, it is free technically because of all of the 85, 10, 84, 10, 86 times 10 grind that you can do. But it's crazy to see 93 rated squads inside of this, all the 92 and the 91 rated squads are in here. It's more of a, do you wanna spend the time? The cost is free in terms of coins. It's just gonna take you hours to get this Ronaldo done with 85 times 10s and stuff like that. Some people have said that this Ronaldo is not even as good in game as like 99 Thierry Henry, 99 Erling Holland. But still, if you're grinding this game right now, you're putting some time into it and you wanna just collect this card, 42 squads, if you put the time in is doable. But that's kind of the conversation right now. Are you gonna spend a lot of time doing this SBC for a card that was extinct at 15 million coins, basically until a week ago when it was re-released, impacts during pre-season team number one? Or are you just gonna say, nah man, it is what it is? It's up to you, right? That's the big decision right now. It's just, it's a lot, right? I know SBC here at 4.2 seems a crazy amount, but considering he was 10 mil, you know, it is Ronaldo, Saudi League links premium as well for the chemistry. You kind of have to make up that decision there. Fodder prices are going up guys because people are doing this and maybe you need some super-duper high-rated to get the SBC done. If you actually take a look at the market, like 97 rated cards, especially the ones that have gone out of packs, like Anthony Martial was in packs. I packed him multiple times during batch number one. In this past couple weeks or this past week of the pre-season promo, he was like, I think 40,000 coins, now he's 50K. Of course, there are a lot of 97 rated cards that are in packs as well, so you don't have to spend coins on all of those. Like Oblac is in packs, he's 19K. Modric is back in, Mousiala's dirt cheap, Busquets. You can use a lot of these really high-rated cards. And during 85 times 10s, like I'm packing a lot of those really high-rated. I mean, the batch you would say of cards in packs is maybe a little bit worse technically because you don't have the Ronaldo and the Messi and the Neymar in there, but you do have an Mbappe and you've got four 99 rated cards including then Mbappe, Donoruma, Benzema and Lewandowski. And as you saw right there, I had a duplicate Fred and Donoruma to craft in to another SBC. So the 85 times 10s right now, they actually, they seem okay. You do get a good amount of fodder for them. Now let's see what I get right here because earlier when we first opened them on stream, they were looking terrible, no way, Messi. Oh my gosh. The Acardi troll is back. I forgot about that. But team of the season Messi is in packs. I got a trophy Titans Ferdinand and a Ferdinand Torres. So, you know, that's decent, right? The 85 times 10s, they still give out good fodder and high-rateds are in packs. So you can definitely craft Ronaldo. It's just gonna take a lot of time. But the real big thing that I'm just gonna talk about a little bit later is this Ronaldo SBC actually opens the door for what we think will bring more 99 rated footies. Look at that, 96 Grealish and 98 Allison in that pack right there. That would be a great one to go craft into Ronaldo. I don't think I'm gonna do him just because I don't wanna spend the time on it. And I'm like, 42 squads for me to maybe play 10 games with him. Not worth it for me. You're gonna spend a lot more time doing that SBC thing. You might actually use him in the game. So, that decision is completely up to you. But regardless, it is crazy that we got that content in September. So Gigi's to EA. Now we have a moment's Arthur as well. Not bad, few games, get him done. Nice card, transfer card there. But this is the real objective content guys. Of course, we have the new era SBC that is back. Make sure you do that. It takes five seconds to put a bronze team into the SBC, get a player pick back, get a couple packs in FC24. But the 82 times 10, it's true.  I forgot about that 50K pack. That was the craziest pack that we had ever had. To me guys, an 82 times 10 is even more crazy than the 50K pack on tradable that we had last year. This is the 100% most must do thing right now in FIFA 23. You gotta do this guys. You can combine some of them together as well. All you need are five Netherlands or five Portugal players and then six French, Spain or English players. You can combine one of these top three. If you have six French players and you also have five Portuguese or Dutch players, you can combine those and get them done a little bit faster. I'm still working on join the club objective number one, which you can combine with this as well. Like I'm gonna use seven league one, but also I have six French players in that squad. So I'll get both of those done when I'm playing squad battles. I'm just gonna play squad battles on semi pro difficulty score a goal and let it run out. It's so easy, but guys it is a must do because an 82 times 10, literally that early on in the game, which once again, EA is giving us these packs on October 12th, which is three weeks after the game drops when we get on the game. That is insane. I know it doesn't seem like that crazy because we're used to 85, 86 times 10, but when the game resets and when we're all using 80 rated cards again, that is insane. Trust me guys.  It's gonna be so fun and it's gonna impact a market a lot too when we see that happen. So that's one thing you gotta get done right now on this game. And then we have to talk about the cards in packs a little bit too. We have a new batch of cards and they're out for 14 days guys. This is the last batch of pre-season. Once these cards go away, pre-season is over. We will be into FC 24 by the time that these cards go out of packs later in September. And this is once again the link. I'll put it down below in the description. Footdive GG are absolute legends for having this list available because nobody else has it, not even EA themselves have posted a list of what's in packs right now. Trophy Titans, R9s in packs, DiBala, Lucio people are hitting. Finally, they're able to pack him. Mbappe's barely dropped. I mean, he's nine mil. He's dropped a little bit, but he's still so hard to pack. I think some people are still doing the 94 plus player picks right now in this game because they feel like they at least have a shot still at packing the Mbappe from that. And it's tough to hit and very, very, very, very tough as always. But those are the cards that are in packs and there are a lot of high rated. So it does make the 85 times 10 grind decent. So that's kind of what's going on in this game. It was a crazy content day yesterday. Just the fact that they dropped the Ronaldo is just freaking nuts. Like honestly, it is freaking nuts how they dropped this card as an SBC. And of course we didn't talk about this right away, but it affected his price because he was 10 million coins and he went all the way down to about four mil and then he bounced back up to about five where he is now. So yeah, just absolutely crazy. But here's the bigger question and the bigger thing I wanna pose to you guys is if you're like, not Nate, I'm not doing this Ronaldo. It's not for me. Well, hold on a minute because that's why I've been still grinding the 85 times 10s. Why you see me just still opening them because Ronaldo is one of the 99 rated cards that just went out of packs yesterday with team two of the re-release coming in and team one going away. Which means if they're giving Ronaldo an SBC and he's not gonna come back into packs ever again because he's not a part of this re-release which is taking us to the end of the game, messy and potentially Neymar could also be getting 99 rated footies player SBCs and maybe even some of the other cards like we mentioned, Virgil van Dyke maybe he ends up getting a player SBC. EA might be taking this opportunity to say hey, you weren't able to pack those guys when they were out and now we'll just give you a chance at crafting their SBCs in the end game go have fun, go get the cards that you guys want to use the big time 99s but specifically for the messy and for the Neymar but for messy for sure if they're dropping a 99 Ronaldo they're definitely gonna drop a 99 messy in an SBC guys right come on now like whatever EA do with Ronaldo they gave him the 99 footies first then they gave messy the 99 footies it happened last year during shapeshifters in the end game whatever they do to one goat they do for the other as well they know the goat debate is heated and they don't want to put themselves in the middle of it put both cards out as 99s and they're probably gonna put messy out as an SBC as well so that's kind of why I'm saving a little bit of my fodder because I have been wanting to get this messy card for forever not that I don't want the Ronaldo card I just think that messy's SBC is gonna be a lot cheaper and I consider myself a little bit more of a messy fan than Ronaldo but Ronaldo is still a go to my opinion this messy SBC is gonna be cheaper guys for one reason and one reason alone he's already five million the market that's what Ronaldo's price is and he dropped 50% because he got an SBC and he's 42 squads, right? For this Ronaldo if messy's getting an SBC how much would it cost would it be worth doing? I would have to imagine that messy's SBC would probably be like maybe around half of the squads of Ronaldo I would throw a guess out there that it would be similarly priced or at least somewhat similar to maybe like the Dinho who's 33 squads I would even hope that a messy would be less than that and maybe be like 28 or 29 different squads for an SBC it's not gonna be that easy to do but we're used to doing a lot of segments for Zidane, for Dinho we've been crafting it with 85 times 10 and 84 times 10 now for weeks if they drop a messy for an SBC that is let's say the SBC in itself is like three million coins because this card is like 5.2 or whatever we just looked at let's say the SBC is like two and a half to three mil and they just do a nice half undercut of his price like they did with Ronaldo it's very possible that he could be like 25 squads and that would seem a lot more bearable than 42 squads for Ronaldo which is a lot of time to put into that SBC so I would prepare a little bit for that if that interests you now the problem is when would it drop that we don't know it could drop any time between today EA could it be really nice if EA was like hey we're gonna have these 99 rated SBCs that we're gonna be dropping let's drop them early so that you have time to craft them and use them a little bit until the end of the game if EA were to wait another week for next Friday to drop a 99 messy or a 99 Neymar and an SBC that would kill half the fun because you would be able to use those players and get them done so much later and then you know we're on the doorstep of FC24 anyway so my fingers are crossed that today today we could maybe get that messy SBC or maybe tomorrow on Sunday in the next couple of days that would seem like the best time for EA to drop it because if they're dropping a Ronaldo they're allowing us to have fun and if they're gonna drop a mess of your Neymar I think it should be pretty soon as well so that's one thing that I really really really wanna watch out for you guys today because that could be really really hype and I think there's actually a good chance that it's happening now for other 99s like Mbappe for Benzema for Lewandowski that are in packs right now I think for the fact of that they're in packs I think that really solidifies them as not getting SBCs maybe EA would drop an Mbappe SBC as well as him being in packs that would be kinda crazy but it could happen so maybe we're just gonna see a bunch of SBCs for the footies 99s here in the next couple of weeks as we end footies I don't know how many they're gonna give out and bring but I'm here for all of them and I just love the potential that there is with this now again I just don't see EA releasing Ronaldo and then stopping there's gotta be more coming guys and that's why I am very confident that something is gonna happen alongside of that now SBCs today on Saturday besides a potential Messi or Neymar 99 rated we do have a couple SBCs expiring 93 plus player pick and a 90 plus I would imagine that this 93 plus comes back I'd be fine if I never see the 90 plus player pick again this SBCs shouldn't even be here it's cluttering up the menus get it out of here all right EA you can take that one away that would be nice I think there might be a couple other SBCs that are expiring today in terms of upgrades the 82 times 100s going away today have we even seen the 83 times 100 why not just drop that EA that'd be great so today might be a day where we get some upgrade packs and then maybe another 99 rated 40s player SBC that's kind of what I'm looking out for and what I'm hoping for as a part of the game today and then of course the rest of the menu grind at the moment is just getting on the 85 times 10 grind getting that fodder that you need to craft SBCs you wanna do and get those games in man whether you're doing it through champs rivals or just playing squad battles get those games in honestly for those objectives because I'm not gonna I can't stress this enough guys an 82 times 10 that is gonna be such a hype day on October 12th mark your calendars already bro mark the calendars for the beginning of the ultimate team year but October 12th is a Thursday that Thursday is gonna be one of the most lit Thursdays on the game when they're giving out 82 times 10s maybe we'll save them for the promo whatever happens on the 13th that Friday but that's gonna be a big day on this game and a very very high time so make sure you get that done you got time to do it though you have a couple of days to do it same thing with the join the club one objective you got six days you got a week if you're not around maybe like have somebody a remote play on your account or something and get those done because that is 100% worth it and there's still more packs that are gonna be coming next week as well that basically confirms that the 83 five and the 84 three would also be coming out next week which again those packs plus the 82 times 10 on this October October 12th date it's gonna be wild man it's gonna be wild so make sure you get those done unfortunate thing is we don't have any store packs to refill the club I'm turning in silvers into the 85 times 10 upgrade so if you're running out on fodder I would just say play the game a little bit do a few objectives and then just try to grind all of the like the daily gold upgrade that you get 11 players from this as well try to grind as many of these you possibly can it's just bronzes and silvers and kind of do that ground up grind which is a little bit annoying at this stage but it's worth doing and if you need bronzes and silvers you can still do the daily bronze and silver upgrade those are there for you which I should probably do a few of those so I'm not turning in 72 ratings into an 85 times 10, 88 rated squat but it is the end game and that's how it goes so that's a video for today guys get excited for more 99 footies SBCs because I feel like that's really gonna happen here soon and yeah, hopefully the Ronaldo is the most expensive out of all those unless we get in Mbappe because that is just very expensive but I got my fingers crossed from Essie my club is ready for that fodder wise and yeah, I'm excited to grind a little bit and get those packs for FC 24 sorted as well so I will see you guys in a video tomorrow and get ready for some more EA FC 24 content we might have some double uploads here coming up in the few days and it's probably gonna start to become a mix of one day we do a FIFA 23 stuff of whatever happens whatever's going on like if we get a messy we'll talk about that and stuff but there's a lot of FC 24 things that I gotta cover for you guys to get us ready for the game that's coming out soon so get ready for double uploads and more videos related to that coming here very, very soon if you enjoyed this video today though, drop a thumbs up on it comment below if you have any questions and of course subscribe if you're new it's been Nate The Foot Account and I'll see you guys in a video tomorrow peace out.


Okay, so let me set the stage a little bit. So we have two experts in different parts of the energy sector. The 800 pound gorilla in the room is if we're gonna ever get close to two or even three degrees global warming, we essentially have to, in the next half century, make a transition not only in electricity, but in transportation and process heat and everything cement steel, you name it. And this is non-trivial. This is a very, very big challenge. You are experts, both of you, in both the technology and how to supply it, but also in how to manage this transition and how real can it be. And so let me just begin with you as well. It's just your views on what you see of the challenges when people talk about going to 80% renewable, 90% renewable, whatever. But that's only electricity. How do you make the entire transition, not only for the United States and the EU, but also the developing world? Your thoughts? I would like to turn on to everybody that's a pleasure to be here. First of all, let's clear that the world of energy is moving fast, not fast enough, but nevertheless moving fast. Let's start with this first observation. In my view, the main good news is that the ONS is now there. The pressure from consumers in particular is huge on everybody, on states, on cities, on players, on corporate. And probably the idea that 100% renewable is the new norm is now something that is fully accepted. I see a lot of companies committing for that. More than 100 companies in the world decided to move to 100% green energy. That's the case of states. California is a good example of that. France also, I don't know if you know that, but France decided to target 100% renewable energy, not only power, renewable energy 100% for 2050. So the bad news is the pace, in fact. And if the question is where are the bottom legs, what do we need to solve, I would say first, competitiveness. Because very often we compare things that are not comparable. We compare the price of solar with the price of gas plants, for example, but there is a big difference. Solar is intermittent, gas not. So if we just compare megawater of intermittent power coming from solar with megawater coming from gas, yes, solar is competitive. Now, if we compare base load renewable energy with, for example, thermal energy, renewable is not yet competitive. It's probably between the double and the triple with some exceptions regarding the regions, but at the other of magnitude, so there is something that is critical to accelerate, which is price. You know, I came here with a driver who complained telling me, well, I spent more than 50% of my salaries in the apartment I rent. Can you imagine if we ask people or industries to pay for the additional cost for energy? I mean, I consider that it is not doable, in fact, at least not at the right to pay so price. And probably the only way to do so is to first of all, work on energy usages. Our experience at NG, NG is a group that is a specialist of energy. We are present in 70 countries, we have 150,000 people. Two-third of them, that is to say 100,000 people, work on energy savings. So we start having some experience on that, large scale. And our experience that we can easily, very often save 30, 40% sometimes more when we start really screening energy usages in a building like this one or even in a plant, in an industrial plant. So starting with that, putting IoT everywhere, optimizing usages, decreasing the level of consumption, re-profiling consumption, although it is easier to fit with renewable profiles. That's the key, in my view. So that's really a change. I mean, for us, the energy players, we were used to, in fact, produce megawatt hours and to install big production capacities without working a lot on usages. We start doing exactly the opposite. That is to say, first of all, screening usages, saving a lot of energy consumption and then providing what is needed in terms of supply with 24, 7 renewable solutions. And that it is affordable. It is competitive. In my view, that's the only way to go at the right pace. There is another obstacle we absolutely need to tackle is that if we target 100% renewable, not only for power, but for transportation, for cooling, for heating, for everybody and everywhere and every kind of usages, if we only bet on power, if we imagine that we can transfer to power all the energy consumptions, in fact, it would be extremely expensive and difficult to manage. So the name of the game is yes to probably transfer and translate in power consumption, some energy consumption, for example, transportation is probably a good client for that, a good case, at least partially, for light vehicles. But we also have to find a renewable fuel that is by definition decarbonized, but something we could store. And our bet is that hydrogen is probably the missing piece of the system. So we are spending a lot of effort to push the development of hydrogen technologies in order to effectively at the very end, and as soon as we can, in fact, we have renewable power, affordable 24 seven, plus something that is probably H2, or a mix of H2 and biogas, any way, something we can store that could be, by the way, a good solution for part of the transportation usages, in particular, for trucks. So it means that we both have to work on business models, again, starting with energy usages, and that's something which is more about the ability to propose integrated solutions, not only producing energy and the right one, but also working on a holistic way on the site, screening energy savings, proposing the energy that is needed to, of course, fuel the usages. That's something we started, really, and to continue to push for technological developments and H2, biogas, of course, battery. I didn't mention battery because that's obvious. And we have to work on the two elements at the same time. Well, first, I couldn't agree with you more about energy conservation using energy wisely as the number one lowest hanging fruit. In fact, one of my heroes, Art Rosenfeld, who was a physicist, changed careers in the first of the oil shocks in 1973 and beyond, really pushed energy efficiency and he called it, no, it's not low hanging fruit, it's fruit on the ground. And I also agree with you, you have to make this transition in the lowest possible way. The end of Germany, perhaps, not as wisely done, but going to price, going to technologies. So is you, as the chair and CEO of Global Energy and Managing Board of Directors of Siemens AG, which is a company that supplies wind turbines, gas turbines for electricity generation, high voltage transmission distribution, digital factories, many of the components of the technologies that will help drive down price as well as not squandering the energy. And so where do you see Siemens in this transition and how, what can Siemens do to accelerate this transition? Well, thank you, it's great to be here. Well, I should not say that because I'm a Berkeley graduate and being in a Stanford auditorium is a little unnerving. So no, it is great to be here because we're talking about energy and the transition that we see happening throughout the world. I kind of look at it as there's four key aspects of what is critical for the transition, transformation to happen faster and to get us to that world of decarbonized, et cetera. Technology is a big part of that. Obviously from a Siemens perspective, our role is, and our passion is about bringing new technology and innovation to the market. And we see the influx and the benefit that that technology has had in the price point of many new forms of energy, for example, renewables coming in, at least improving. I mean, as Isabel said, there's still room to go there to truly be competitive, but technology plays a key role and it's not just new technologies in traditional areas like power generation, et cetera. It's also looking at new technologies and how we look at the energy system as truly a system and how we can optimize. If you think about moving to decarbonization in an energy system, we end up with a system that is much, much more complex, much more decentralized and through that, a lot new consumers, a lot of new producers, and through that creates a much more complex system. And so technology is also about how do we manage that complexity? Maybe I touch on just the other key areas of the energy transformation that I think are critical, besides technology. Technology, very important. But also if you look at what all the countries around, we do, for Siemens, we do business around the world. 190 countries. And we see so many different approaches to countries trying to achieve their goals around decarbonizing and improving, delivering on their commitment in Paris. And for us, what's critical is that all of those countries have the ability to not only analyze their own systems, but develop a roadmap that gets them to where they're going. And this is a struggle for many countries. And if you think about maybe looking at countries from a developed and a developing perspective, developed countries, we see a lot more growth, obviously in renewables and a lot more new technologies coming into not just power systems, but transportation and other areas of energy consumption. But what we also see is a lot of this, if you look at renewals, for example, these renewables, we need to find ways in developed countries to integrate those renewables more into the systems of today. A lot of these renewables are becoming decoupled from energy systems. If you think about the power system, for example, renewables are typically produced in more distant areas, areas distant from the consumption centers, also very volatile in there in, or can be volatile in their production. And as we grow renewables, we need to make sure that they're not decoupled from the energy system up today. So even developed markets have a challenge in terms of being able to bring new technologies, lower carbon energy sources to their markets and do it in a way that's truly complementary and helpful in their energy systems. If you look at developing markets, developing markets have a whole different challenge. I mean, there you have developing markets where you've got markets that are truly just energy hungry. Markets like China, which are growing so fast, they just need more energy. And they have a bit the same challenge as a developed market, but obviously they need to approach this challenge in a much more comprehensive fashion. Looking at different types of energies, how do we bring even more complexity together in a faster fashion? And then if you look at other developing countries, those that are, I guess you could describe as unelectrified, they have an entirely different challenge because they're having to change their energy through very local solutions because they don't have the infrastructure that allows them to do this in a more efficient, more holistic, larger impact fashion, countries like in Africa. So the geography, the country challenges are very distinct, which creates a difficulty in terms of managing the transformation. The need for new technology is obviously important for the transformation. Also in other areas, just the need for regulatory support. How can we get regulations, government support to also help accelerate the adoption, the development of innovation of technology and make it faster to bring this into, into the business that we have. So those are a number of key areas that I think are a challenge for our making the energy transformation to a cleaner world faster and more effectively than we do today. So it kind of adds to what Isabel is saying as well in terms of challenges, but maybe from a bit of a different perspective. So when you talk about regulatory support, I see forces where you have reverse auctions for wind that have really, and for solar, they've really driven the price down, but then the suppliers of wind and solar are being driven towards razor thin margins. And many of the regulators are thinking, no, we just want to lower the price. How do you, both from both of your perspectives, how do you see you don't want to be driven out of business? And what is the balance if you could be, you know, really in charge of everything? What would your wish be to, how do you balance driving the price down as quickly as possible if it has any, quickening the transition and yet, yet both Angie Siemens and all the other players have to remain in business as well.  What is critical when you manage a company is to understand where you can make a difference. So clearly at Angie, we are not a technology producer. We are not, for example, a battery producer. We are an integrator. So what we are doing is that, as I said, we try to analyze the situation of a client being an industry, for example, to understand the needs for energy, to optimize them, to assemble a lot of pieces, to upgrade the, for example, the cooling system or the air treatment system to manage to make it much more efficient and consuming less energy, fully equipped with IoT software now AI and able to continuously improve. So we are doing that. We are assembling that. We develop ourselves the softwares, which is in fact the integration piece, but we don't produce the device. We buy them and we assemble a solution. And then, again, we manage to supply the energy that is needed. And again, we assemble. Our goal and where we can bring value is more that, that just, quote unquote, produce simple solar farms. We do that, yes, but, I mean, the main part of, or the main space in which we invest is more to assemble this kind of holistic solution. One example, we, here in this country, by the way, in the US, we signed a very important contract with the University of the State of OIO, which is in fact a city with 100,000 people living there with 400 buildings, with schools, with et cetera. And that's exactly the approach we develop, is to say screening everything, trying to assess where are the room for optimization, investing ourselves. Because very often our clients, they keep their money to invest in their core business, or university, the core businesses, of course, to develop all the tools to propose the courses and to their students and to increase the level of quality for their students. So they don't want to invest in cooling system, heating system, et cetera. So we take that into account, we invest for them. We define a roadmap to decrease energy consumption, to in fact, concretely reduce energy bill. And we have skin in the game, that is to say that we are paid only if we effectively are able to do so. So we really behave as an integrator of the complexity you mentioned. And that's clear that we are moving from something that was relatively simple, with big plans, fueling networks, and clients very far, to something that is in fact fully distributed, where we look at the studies that's impressive. The assumptions are that in a few decades from now, 50% of the energy will be produced no longer in big plans, but locally on client side. So it means effectively a lot of energy sources, a lot of storages everywhere, and a very complex integration system that is able to optimize the wall. So here is the way we contribute. At NG we have decided to really push that a lot to fully align our profile of our company with energy transition. But an energy transition that is again competitive, our belief is that that's competitive energy transition in order to scale. Because if you're not able to come with something that is better for clients, not only from a CO2 point of view, but from a price and competition point of view, in fact, difficult to really scale up and to develop these systems at the right pace. So integration, that's in my view the key element, and managing to implement these integrated solutions, not only in developed countries like here, where in fact we improve the energy usage is yes, we go to zero CO2 yes, but also in regions where there is no access to energy today, and you all know that, there are a lot of people in Africa, Southeast Asia that have no access to energy. When you look at the studies, you see that's very interesting. You see that Southeast Asia probably is able to bridge the gap in the years to come. That's less true for Africa, where the growth of population is more rapid than the development of new energy infrastructures. So there is really a problem, even in 2050. So we need to propose some integrated systems allowing us to bridge that gap as soon as we can. Microgrid, decentralized solutions, in my view, are systems that are very efficient. In probably, so microgrid is a system where the scale of a village, for example, you install power production, solar, very often storage, and you collect everything around, and you don't need to have any big grid coming here. So, and that's a way to accelerate a lot, and probably what will happen in the energy space is what happened for telecom systems, that is to say that for some of these countries, they moved directly to a new generation of solutions. And in the case of energy, they will probably, I mean, not build the big national grids at the scale of a country, but go directly to decentralized systems that are, I mean, much more flexible and much more rapid to implement. So that's also something, I believe, we all have to have in mind. Energy transition is good for CO2, good for environment, but in fact can bring much more, I believe, in terms of development, and in terms also of independence for a lot of developing countries who, in fact, are very dependent on a few countries providing oil and gas. And these countries now, they have the ability to become more and more independent from an energy point of view, developing their own renewable energy resources. Okay, so I want some time left to address some of the questions, but Lisa, can I, I want to ask you first a very specific question. So here you have a system integrator and you want to move towards renewables. Siemens makes arguably the most efficient gas turbines in the world from thermodynamic efficiency, but yet those gas turbines are very expensive. High capex. When you are turning on those turbines, 80, 90, 100% of the time, every percentage can. If they're only going to be on 30%, 50% of the time, then capex is a huge problem. And so how do you see Siemens, which went all out to develop these wonderful technology but more expensive, and then your customers are saying, well, we might not only use them a third of the time. But I think what Isabelle highlights and your question is that if you look at the energy system of today, and it's getting progressively more and more this way, the energy system today is a combination of different solutions. So yes, the gas turbine is a piece of that and how much you want to invest in that piece depends on the balance of the system. And what we're seeing more and more, and you asked a moment ago, your question was about how do you balance the declining costs and the viability of companies in today's energy environment? And what we've seen, not just in our Siemens system, but broadly through all of our customers and business partners, is the more stress you put in the system, for example, the lowering of price points that we see in the market over the course of the last, really a few, maybe two to three years, the more you create the need for innovation. And innovation comes in place in equipment, the innovation we put in our gas turbines to be more and more efficient, to be able to ramp up and ramp down in a very flexible fashion so that we can accommodate the volatility and the intermittency of the energy system. But it's also innovation in business models, it's innovation in how we put systems together. So as Isabel said on integration, there's so much flexibility now that you can implement in an energy system that allows you to get the cost per kilowatt hour down, whether it be gas turbines, whether it's inverters, whether it's virtual power plants, the ability to put storage in, different types of energy generation, whether it's gas, renewables, et cetera. The ability to put all of this with some intelligence in the system that allows you to optimize and feed in and feed out. This is all the innovation that's come just in the last few years that is now allowing companies around the world to respond to an environment that's very different in terms of competitive drivers and price points. And just as an analogy, we saw this also in the oil and gas business. Several years ago, when the oil price of oil dropped from $100 a barrel to 40, oil and gas companies around the world have had to change in a dramatic fashion because they've had a shock to their market. And for Siemens perspective, we work with oil and gas companies everywhere as well. And these companies are bringing more and more innovation just to be able to respond now to a new environment. And we see that with energy globally. Everybody's more willing to adapt, more creative. Technology is allowing us to do new things and putting systems together. So it's a new world with respect to energy and it's only going to get more and more innovative, creative, competitive, complex as well. And we need to be able to manage that complexity which we typically do through the ability to leverage digitalization and digital twins and all of this optimization, visualization capability that we have now. So it's an exciting time within energy actually. So I'm going to go to some questions from the audience. There are two things that many people see as something in the near-term future we can do. One is to be electrifying vehicles for personal transportation, delivery trucks, short-haul. That could do a lot. The other thing is about you mentioned that we seem beginning to see hydrogen as an energy storage mechanism with the prospect of very inexpensive renewable energy. All of a sudden, electrolysis may become a reality. It is a reality. And well, I would say large-scale hydrogen production. Large-scale hydrogen production where the competition is steam reforming of natural gas. We're at the price of $1.50 a kilogram, $1.25 a kilogram. At four cents a kilowatt hour, impossible. Two cents a kilowatt hour, very possible. And so first, we're usually at least a seaman's role in that and then as a system integrator, how do you see, Isabel, how you can take this hydrogen, store it somewhere and then use it because that is a really good battery. Well, and we, I mean, for seaman's, we're in the same position as Isabel and Angie. I mean, we see hydrogen as being very important for the future, very flexible means of storing energy. We have a process and capability within seaman's to do hydrolysis now. It's not competitive yet, but as you go to larger and larger scales, 100 megawatt, 1,000 megawatt, gigawatt, it does become more competitive. So this is really going to be the future and we see it's being so much more flexible with respect to not just storage, but then the ability to convert excess energy, power, into other forms as being a way to combine these energy systems and provide more flexibility across different types of energy. So it meets both needs, storage, but also flexibility and is becoming cost competitive. But you have to store the hydrogen. You have excess renewable energy in wind, especially in solar and many other parts of the world, perhaps not in Northern Europe, but then you have to store the hydrogen. And So Isabel, where do you see, what are the other challenges you see in actually using hydrogen? Let's assume we get to two cents a kilowatt hour in a decade. Let's assume that the engineers and scientists have figured out how to lower the cap-secs by a lot. So it really is a cheap way to store energy. What do you see are the other challenges? We have to remember where we were 10 years ago with solar for example, right? Remember. Yeah, good point. I remember very well the terrorist for solar energy in France, which is effectively not one of the most, I mean, sunny country. We were at 700 Euro per megawatt hour. So I don't know if you are familiar with the prices of energy, but it's just extremely high compared to cost for nuclear energy, which is between 30 and 40. And it costs for thermal energy, which is a 40, 50. So we were there. Now we are at 60 Euro per megawatt hour in France. So we underestimated massively the room for improvement. So now hydrogen, so we have to decrease the cost by between two and three or less, that the order of magnitude, so you see this works a lot on that and energy, energy, too. But I really believe that it is, it is reachable. The question is to scale up and that's always the same. That's a chicken leg problem. So nevertheless, we see first big project in Chile where solar power is very, very cheap in Australia, the same, and even in Europe, you would be surprised. A country like Netherlands that decided to fully exit from gas natural and is currently building an ecosystem for hydrogen. So it is coming. It's not something that is just in a, I mean, in a dream of a few people. That's something that is really starting. So price has to be effectively strongly pushed down. Not only you're right, this is an ecosystem we have to build, so if we imagine that we will produce large scale hydrogen in Chile, for example, so of course there are needs for hydrogen in Chile, but the dream would be to be able to transport that hydrogen, maybe to liquefy it, some studies on that, and then to fuel some energy needs in the other regions of the world. So this ecosystem is absolutely not ready, but what we see is that on each part of this system, a lot of people are working, you have maybe seen what Japan is doing for hydrogen that is impressive. So this is something that is probably coming for the next decade, probably by piece by piece for big, large hydrogen systems, but also as for solar, by the way, solar, you have big solar farms, one gigawatt, nuclear tranche or the equivalent of that, but you also have very decentralized solar systems. For H2 it would be the same. So we are trying to work at the same time on very large systems, like the one I mentioned in Chile, for example, but also on very decentralized solutions, producing hydrogen on site, fueling stations, for example, for trucks. So we have to combine in these very complex systems we are now facing in the energy world, the different way we can leverage these new technologies that are coming. There is no unique answer to your questions. There is a lot of different use cases and for each one, we need to develop the right integrated solution with partners, of course. We are very complementary in fact. You're right. And what I hope is that we'll see in different regions, new initiatives regarding hydrogen. US is very active. There are already different initiatives, in particular in the transportation for trucks, which is probably one of the first large scale hydrogen usage we will see. So Lisa, I wanted to let you have the last word, but before I do, I just want to say that the prospect of storing hydrogen in a liquid form is more in liquid organic carriers. It's not to liquefy hydrogen to 20 degrees Kelvin, but to actually hydrogenate an organic solvent. And it turns out that you can store it at room temperature and the density of hydrogen stored in this form at room temperatures equal to that of liquid hydrogen. And so that technology is being pursued by a number of laboratories around the world. And this is one way of really getting very high energy density hydrogen that you can put in a super tanker, shipped to another country and stored on tank farms in that other country. So you have energy security and then generate the hydrogen when you need it, ship the organic carrier back to where there's lots of solar that's very inexpensive or lots of wind and both. Okay, so, but Lisa, I'm gonna give you the last word on where you see the prospects or what excites you the most of what Siemens can do in this energy transition in either the technology space or whatever you choose. I think, I mean, what I'm most excited about and predominantly from a Siemens perspective, but is if you look at where the energy system is going, the importance of digitalization. And if you look at where, I mean, it's amazing. We work obviously with different industries, not just energy, but other areas of the other sectors in a sense around what digital can bring to their business. And it is amazing the advancements that are being made in terms of being able to collect data, convert that data truly to information and then leverage that information in optimizing systems, providing more transparency, more visibility, greater economic gain, more stability. And that applies in the energy system more than anywhere. And that's what I'm most excited about because we've only just tapped the surface. If you look at, and I mentioned earlier that an energy system of today and tomorrow becomes much, much more complex. And if you look at in the past, for example, we've talked about gas turbines. The role that a gas turbine played in an energy system was a very significant role. And now that role is becoming less and less because you have new technologies, other technologies like storage, like inverters. You also have the ability to leverage digitalization to create virtual power plants. All of this allows us to do so much more in today's energy system that we're just now learning how to do. And I think as we grow in that space much more so, and that's an area obviously that Siemens were very focused on, how do we leverage software? How do we make, collect data through different processes and develop applications to drive change in energy systems? That's where the future is. And that's what's going to allow us to continue to manage the complexity that we're putting in energy systems and do it in a way that continues to drive better and better results from an efficiency, from an environmental and from a cost perspective. So that to me is the future. So actually I should mention that if you go to the showcase outside, there are a number of startup companies, including several, what I would call department of energy alumni. Arun and I were in the department of energy who are actually part of these startup companies that are really trying to exploit this information, the internet of things, all this thing. So you can use what we have much more efficiently. So time is up, the old red dot is blinking. So I would say to Lisa Davis, you see Berkeley alum as I am as Arun Majumdar is. So you're among friends here. To Isabel Kochert, am I pronouncing this right? Who started life in the Colonial Mount Superior as a physicist in quantum physics. So also very, very good taste. That's the best liberal arts education you can possibly have. And both have gone on to achieve great high studies. But also great responsibility to actually nurture and propel this transition. So I thank you both very much. Thank you. Thank you very much.


Welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosell here. I want to do a video today. I'm running through my whole series of videos about backup internet connectivity I'm gonna call this one how to get really reliable home internet. The reason I'm doing that is I'm trying to target people or help people with this information who may not even have heard of back over internet or fail over internet They might not be familiar with those keywords. But that is what I'm gonna be talking about in today's video Now I did a whole series of videos about this in the summer and surprisingly those got a relatively decent amount of views and comments and emails and alongside that. I've just been seeing a lot of talk on Social media mostly on Facebook groups people Frustrated with their home internet and you know, how can I do better with my home internet? Which makes sense because I guess the work from home workforce has just mushroomed Since the pandemic it used to be something that the few people with remote jobs And maybe freelancers were working from home. I've been doing this this lifestyle for Four years now there are bites and now it's like everybody now. It's like who's not working from home It's probably the people with hybrid jobs in their in-office day are and not at home and the rest of us are so Dramatic dramatic shift and that definitely poses a challenge on the internet infrastructure because no one really envisioned this Including in places like where I live Paradoxically in Israel the high-tech capital of the Middle East the internet infrastructure is still kind of somewhat old-school In Jerusalem relatively central the best internet connection I can get at the moment for my money is VDSL with the like three megabit per second upload speed So fiber isn't even widely available. Yes, even though they're supposedly working on that quickly. So when you're dealing with internet being Delivered over the last mile by these technologies and that's an important thing to know about the internet that these kind of technologies DSL coaxial, they're really last mile technologies the backbone of the internet Runs on fiber and it runs even through national switches all the way It's going being carried on fiber until it gets really close to to the actual subscriber Slightly different in in commercial internet connectivity But for the kind of residential internet that you or I might have and we're struggling with oftentimes the reason as well There is more demand on the network and in many cases. We're dealing with also Infrastructure that is just not that great and that combination can pose a lot of problems in terms of Throttling and slow speeds etc. So alongside all these chats about internet connectivity I've been seeing somewhat I would consider to be pretty lousy advice being a battered about on Facebook You know people say oh my my internet goes down for 30 minutes a day What should I do and people say? Oh, you know just just get rid of the internet. Just use use a use a hotspot for your phone and internet connectivity cellular internet connectivity Does have a role in home connectivity or can have a role and actually in the setup. I'm going to talk about here It leverages the power of or the power the existence of cellular connectivity If you live somewhere out in the sticks like, you know, somewhere really far out in the Australian outback It might be your only option or satellite might be your only option But if you live in an urban center, there's a general, you know as a general rule in Technology, it's better to get stuff over a wire than it is through the air So that applies to ethernet versus Wi-Fi it apply it applies even in the world of microphones wired microphones versus wireless microphones If you want reliability, it's generally best up for a wired connectivity source So my the connection I've designed or the network architecture. I've designed Leverages both a wired internet which is DSL and it requires and it leverages cellular But only is a backup and I'm going to talk in this video about how anyone can set that up for themselves at generally pretty low cost And I'm going to be just overlaying some Diagrams throughout this video. So you won't have to watch me talking here in my home office for 40 minutes But I'm going to try go through everything in this video that somebody interested in setting this up in their house Might want to know so basically what we're going to be doing or talking about is something called internet failover and what that means is that We're going to have one internet connection a Primary and if that goes down or is interrupted it's going to fail over Hence the name failover to a secondary internet connection It is not the same thing as Connection bonding and this is a common source of confusion even among the home networking world and YouTube for that matter where people will think they're doing connection bonding But they're not actually bonding connections Connection bonding is a more advanced you could say perhaps It involves the similarity is that you're going to be using multiple connections But it requires some infrastructure in the cloud outside of your home network in order to Bind together the packets as they go out to the internet and then split them off to the different Wide area networks to the different internet sources. So there is a software called speedify and I've reviewed speedify on this channel and That's that's that's good. It's basically it kind of looks like a VPN from the outside But what it actually is doing is the speedify provides the infrastructure To do that combination of packets So in other words, let's just take this down a technical level when you're going to have internet coming in from different sources And that's going to be speedify will pull them together and give you one internet connection now This might sound very esoteric But connection bonding is actually very very useful. It's used widely for years in broadcasting So if you're doing a video link up with a correspondent in Kabul or something You don't want to rely on one shaky cell phone signal. So There's been a market for this stuff for years these little hardware devices that will literally tether together Three or four mobile networks or one satellite plus two mobile networks, and they'll give you one really robust connection There's two separate benefits to to connection bonding that are actually different one is Speed connection bonding will give you Will generally aggregate is or is capable theoretically of aggregating connectivity So if you have a 10 megabit per second line and a 10 megabit per second line, it can give you 20 But there's actually another main Quite a significant benefit and that's that it's failover is typically instant Which means that if you're dealing with a hardware device, which is what we'll be talking about today for Putting together different internet connection sources that that process of failover itself of okay The hardware has to have some means of checking each connection So that when one line goes down it says hey, this line is down Let's go to line to that sometimes isn't instant instantaneous and even if it is instantaneous on the application layer on the On the network layer. Sorry on the application layer. It sometimes is not so that what that means again in simple language is that you might be braising Google Chrome watching a video and Your failover device might swap the connection But that might take 10 seconds before the video starts playing again Whereas with connection bonding theoretically it's instant and if you view speedify you can get that so speedify is a decent option and The reason I'm I'm use this set up personally is that It's kind of once you have it Deployed you own your own hardware you have to pay for an additional internet connection Which is a cellular connection, but once you've got all that stuff set up. You're kind of good with speedify. It is a proprietary Technology by a third party technically, I'm sure they will say the privacy policy is locked in but you know They are you are passing all your DNS queries and internet data through The through their system and from a privacy standpoint that would kind of make me uncomfortable take away the cost perspective So what I've done is set up a load balancing router on my network now It doesn't have to be a load balancing router, but that's the first thing you're going to need to set this up. So Just to step back again for a second What this system I'm going to describe is doing is called failover. It's not the same as as Connection bonding because we're not actually bonding the connections in the cloud We're just going to have a few redundant connections or actually if you're just using two you've got one redundant connection Bringing that into your home or business and that means that when connection one fails you can go over to Connection two so what you need to make this work failover, but we're not combining the connections. That's important You can do load balancing With these connections and that means that you know, you can say hey, I want all my Skype Traffic to go through this wide area network through this internet connection source I want all my internet traffic to go through this one But again, it does not equate to connection bonding for reasons that I hope are now a bit a bit more clear Okay, so failover and how I do fail over on my network. So the first thing that you need is a internet router and A router is actually a router and modem these days almost always That has multiple wan ports now when you look at the back of your average internet writer You're going to see usually they're color-coded And if they're not color-coded they have labels LAN local area network These are where you plug in ethernet cables for your local devices And you're going to have typically one port that says wan wide area network And that basically is if you have an upstream source of internet You're going to put the router into that and then you're going to connect your downstream appliances there now That's not going to work for a failover setup because you're we're going to need to put multiple Wans on the network. So I'll tell my network diagrams in a second. What I have done is I have my ISP router My ISP supplied router which I keep on my network because if they want to support Issues on their network, they are able to remotely log in and check out my settings But you technically that that steps optional You could actually skip your ISP router and you just would need to find a multi-wan writer That had a modem that was compatible with your ISP and to put in the settings for the sake of simplicity I've decided not to do that and I keep the ISP writer on my network the next thing that I Did was I added a 4g cellular writer to my network now here's Here's the thing. Here's why I've sort of given the theory if you will of failover internet And that's that that second connection doesn't have to be cellular that could be satellite that could be it could be another DSL connection or you could go DSL and coaxial essentially what we're trying to do here is orchestrate a situation in which you never don't have a viable internet connection so The best way to think about it is What combination of connections even if that's just two is going to make it as Least likely as possible that they're both connections will ever not be available. So I kind of actually like mobile and I Like mobile mobile and wired because of the fact that they're being delivered through different infrastructure one is coming from a being delivered over the air via a Broadcasting station the other ones coming in through the ground And the reason that is if I don't know some digger cut through the ground and Digged up a bunch of internet cables. They might guess both coax and DSL might be down So that's the reason I've done it like this. I would use satellite for the same reason, but it's just a lot more expensive And you know if you can get a 5g writer in your area or a 5g modem affordably Instead of 4g then by all means do that. The only reason I use 4g. It was just a ton cheaper to get it It was a difference between like a hundred dollars and five hundred dollars for the heart for the writer and The actual subscription would have been pretty similar. So I went for 4g Because the connection is barely in use And I do pay a monthly subscription for a 4g data sim card just for having backup connectivity So the next thing you're going to need after you've got your two routers is a multi-wan router now Here's where the terminology gets a bit confusing a load balancing router is Basically any router so you're gonna be using your routers including your ISP router and your 4g router as Bridges you're gonna be using them just as modems and the actual router for the network will be the next device you're putting on there so You you do have to know if you can get a 4g modem versus a 4g writer that's better if you can get a You know VDSL modem. It's just that it's harder to find modems than it is writer modems these days So it's actually often easier just to buy a router and work it as a modem And that's another that's something that you'll have to figure out so after you've done that So you get your two modems then the next thing is going to be your actual router now What this can be basically any any router that has multiple wan ports you have a few options here one You have a multi-wan router And they do make these for like gamers. They're basically consumer routers that broadcast Wi-Fi But they're gonna have multiple wands and they're gonna have a load balancing feature That's one product category next product category is going to be a load balancing router is and these are kind of business hardware Where you know businesses will use these actually in the cloud For balancing incoming connections to a data center But you can use them on your home network too and the final category is what's called a wired router or a VPN router and these are the same things They'll just be writers that can work as writers in your home network But they the difference between them and your average writer is that they've multiple wide area network ports so Get yourself one of those I bought mine for about a hundred bucks. It's a TP link Load balancing router and do I recommend TP link? Actually, I do not I have found this device finicky It seems to be working. Okay now The other options in the space Cisco make ones ubiquity make one Me Cree talk, I know I'm pronouncing that wrong. They do one as well. So you've got a few manufacturers and I think Mickey Mickey Mickey truck. I think it's called I think they're the more kind of customizable one and a lot of people really like ubiquity I've had TP trouble with TP link supports and I haven't found them that good So I can't really recommend TP link hardware personally, although it's what I have now It was what was easy for me to guess and it does work, but I wouldn't be buying it again So then what you need to do is basically connect your multiple internet modem routers Into the next piece of gear, which is going to be your whatever whatever you've bought for this aspect So that can mean whether it's your your load balancer or it's a wired router or it's a VPN router or whatever It's called. It doesn't really matter. You'll find these in IT networking You'll find these you might find a load balancing router in your local computer store if you do not Go to an enterprise IT supplier and explain what you're trying to do and they will have them There's another company called Dre-Tec I should have mentioned and Dre-Tec do interesting products because they actually typically when you get into this world of multi-wan routers There's a few more manufacturers. I'm forgetting about but when you get into this world of or this product category People the manufacturers don't put Wi-Fi Into the router is the reason for that is these are typically used in businesses And businesses it's more typical to separate out the components So you're gonna have your modem then you're gonna have your router Then you might have your access points or access points downstream broadcasting Wi-Fi So in a business environment, it's more typical. So that's the only reason For that, but it's just important to know what you're buying if you if you want to minimize your hardware And I actually Recommend doing the opposite I actually think the approach of separating out the components like business networking do is actually a lot more smart The reason for that is it's more modular So if you if 5g writers come down in price and you decide hey Let's upgrade to 5g for the cellular So you just buy it by yourself a 5g writer and you take the 4g one off the network If you have something like a Dre-Tec that has built-in 4g and This built-in modem and that built-in modem and built-in Wi-Fi then you're stuck with whatever is in that product So although it was initially tempting to me to buy something like a Dre-Tec the more I thought about it I Realized it's actually better to separate out the components That's my opinion.  So let's just roll back to where we are so far We have our We have our ISP router. We have our cellular router. We have our load balancer and Now you just need to set this up. So because we're not talking about a specific product It's gonna be different for each product, but basically they make it fairly easy. I've done videos on how to set up load balancing on the on the TP-Link ER605 It's not super difficult. You basically get your 1-1 and 1-2 connections running and you've that sometimes is the tricky part to make sure you've got the Routers actually set up as modems and you know, there's no IP conflicts Once you're there, it's typically quite easy You just create a backup rule and my backup rule just says look if the primary is not available go to the secondary Know what I do is I periodically do spot checks Once every few months I go into the transmission log And I see how much the load balancer is pulling from each wide area network And what I'm looking for is a little bit from the backup if there's no pull from the backup whatsoever I would suspect that it's not working. There's a problem What I see typically is 1% or 2% usage from the backup internet connection and that tells me that everything is good so Now we can connect everything to the load balancer and that means Wired internet computers that means ethernet switches basically you build your network from Whatever hardware device we put in that's going to be doing the load balancing. That's the starting point Everything upstream is just modems and combining connections So if you're gonna invest anywhere probably invest in this piece get yourself like a big big wired Broadband writer with lots and lots of switches Etc that would be my advice And what I have in my network is I actually have oh it's get it gets complicated I have a Wi-Fi router on the end firstly. I have a couple of ethernet switches They're running into my computer my NAS my Whatever else is wired on my network Then I have a Wi-Fi Router to broadcast Wi-Fi, but that's only actually running as and that's running in access point mode So you're gonna need a writer that either you can configure as an access point or that has an access point mode TP links writer, which is what I'm using actually has access point functionality So that's bringing out a Wi-Fi network and connecting everything wireless so your wireless printers and your Smartphones connected the internet and your tablets all connect through the writer and the writer pulls connectivity from the load balancer and the load balancer pulls connectivity from Your various ones that's how this all works and I even have just to show you how far you can take this I have another access point off the router. So to extend the network. It's one of these You know TP link things obviously if you can do Actual APs wired APs that's preferable if you're a renter then you can do something like set up a mesh network or use APs right the house and You can keep going at infinite and basically you're just bringing your playing with networking You're you're taking it everything to the router and from the router You can either connect directly to the writer or you can put an AP Etc etc and carry your network out That's it And it works really well. I used to have daily internet outage There was like daily downtime from the ISP the other ISP was also sucky So I was like well if one is bad and two is bad and one and two of my only options. What can I do and I couldn't think of a solution and then I went on this rabbit hole And I'm honestly glad that I did because the internet now basically never goes out I don't watch what's going on in the network because I don't really care if it's coming from ISP one or ISP two I just go into the spot check thing periodically to make sure it's working and That's it. So I think this is I mean in terms of the costs of this setup We're talking total costs one time a cap X. Let's look at cap X capital expenditure by the hundred bucks for a 4g writer hundred dollars their give or take Your load balancer might be in other hundreds. This is all cheap. You get a core spend more But let's just look at it on the minimal end of things So by two hundred dollars worth of hardware there and then op-ex your operational or ongoing expenditure. You're talking about probably I'm paying like 15 bucks a month for a 4g data sim to just just for backup That's all it does literally it sits in the writer and is waiting for the main network to go down so that it can back up The primary connectivity so cap X of 200 and op X of about $15 per month recurring So not expensive and I think that if you are running a home-based business, which is what I'm doing Which is what my wife is currently doing for the most part? you know and you Internet connectivity is your It's everything if you don't have that you can't work you can't you can't do zoom meetings You can't collaborate with people. I think it's a really it's kind of a no-brainer in an ideal world You would need to do this We just have would have great internet connectivity from ISPs and maybe they'd be They'd already be sort of you know have this Failover built in and they'd never go down, but until we get to that point This is one way to work around that final thing to say is if your internet goes down It's one thing. What if your power goes down so Power backup is another thing you can do if you want to really take this to the ninth degree. So Typically writers are low draw devices can't say the same thing for computers, but if you want to keep your internet going in the event of long power outage, whatever So a UPS is the very obvious answer a uninterruptible power supply now Writers you can measure them by buying a kilowatt and you can see firsthand that they draw almost nothing So that's the first thing is you can probably run all your networking Hardware off one UPS. Now, maybe that's a bad idea if it is you can let me know in the comments I don't think it's a bad idea. That's I think if they're all co-located In one physical box, just go ahead and do it, but you could also do one UPS for each each Writer and that would mean Power drops. Well, you're gonna have now you're gonna have backup internet and the backup system is gonna run as long as all Two modems and one load balancer can keep powered and I forgot the Wi-Fi writer its own total for this setup I'm describing. I'm actually using four pieces of hardware. There's the ISP writer, there is the Load balancer There is the cellular writer and finally there's the writer and if there's the actual Wi-Fi writer And finally, there's the AP if you want to add that so really five So it kind of a lot of gear, but you know it does the trick So I think that's really all there is to say about us If you're really concerned with getting Internet that doesn't go down you could of course take this further you could you could have four internet connectivities coming into a you know a load balancer with four ones and Then you have no, you know but I think I think the diminishing returns is really gonna set in after two because the chances of your Wire network and your mobile Provider your MVNO going down at the exact same time already looking at a very very small percentage Over just having a single connection and I think adding three or four connections are gonna be adding more subscriptions more expense I don't think for most home users. 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