I'm curious what the total cost of all this is. My reservation of rack mounted setup has been cost of hardware.
My Overkill Home Network
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#12All that and no mention of IPv6? At least get the basics down first.
Lol I get sym 1G/1G from my ISP and a free static IP address for less than Comcrash offers for their 25/10 service in my area...
The catch? _No IPv6 support whatsoever_
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#13This is incredible. I still can’t believe some people get 1gb symmetrical in their home. In the UK I’m stuck with 70mbs down and 6mbps up. Pitiful
I'm in the UK, getting 500MB symmetrical installed tomorrow, could have ordered 900MB for £2 per month more.
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#14Wow, and my wife says my network is complicated! :) In all seriousness, thanks for sharing, this is really incredible. I see a few similarities (fellow Harbor Freight shopper, ADS-B receiver)... but I took the mostly lazy way out and just use the TP Link Omada router, controller and access points. Works great for well over 50 wireless clients that we had at a recent BBQ. I particularly love your note about encrypted…
Exactly. Those 50 wireless clients must be fed Internet while their 50 subjugated humans eat BBQ and prioritize device interactions over human ones. (I’m exaggerating of course! At least you are having gatherings — better than many of us!)
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#15I'm curious what the total cost of all this is. My reservation of rack mounted setup has been cost of hardware.
Cost of electricity is an other factor to consider
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#16I'll take that Lenovo M73 Tiny off your hands ;)
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#17I'm curious what the total cost of all this is. My reservation of rack mounted setup has been cost of hardware.
It’s a black hole for your wallet. Once you start. You can’t stop.
But I also now have a bunch of electrician tools for running wires, some private cameras that aren’t google or Amazon spying on everyone that walks by, and a network that isn’t bogged down by a couple people watching Netflix.
And I have plans for MORE.
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#18I just bought a Ubiquiti Dream Machine SE along with a U6 Enterprise a few weeks ago and so far it’s my favorite tech purchase ever. The management interface is years if not decades ahead of everything else I’ve used before. My only complaint is that there’s no public API and thus no official Terraform providers.
I actually moved away from ubiquiti stuff to OPNsense + TP link AP. The firewalls rules on OPNsense makes a ton more sense and the plugins are pretty awesome.
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#19I'm curious what the total cost of all this is. My reservation of rack mounted setup has been cost of hardware.
If you're crafty you can work around this- three of my servers (2 NAS boxes and a Proxmox box) were custom built from commodity hardware. I literally bought plain ol uATX and ITX decommed business gear from my local uni surplus store and a P-Link chassis for each used from eBay. I spent more on drives than I did machines (Y'ALL WANNA KNOW HOW MUCH IT COSTS TO BUY
16TB WORTH OF SSDS FOR ZFS MIRRORS? TOO. DAMN. MUCH.)
You really gotta do some due diligence to make sure you're not buying lemon parts but it's very possible to get a beefy homelab at fair prices!
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#20Reading this post makes me happy we are in the world of cloud providers, but realize they don’t magically work. People build them. I’m glad I don’t.