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My Overkill Home Network

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Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by tw04 »

jolux wrote: post #3

I 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 would take Ruckus Unleashed over unifi all day long. Ubiquiti, unfortunately, feels like everything is constantly in beta, both hardware and software. Wait until they release a UDM SE v2 and abandon firmware on the UDM SE.

The UDM in particular is a masterclass in how to upset all your customers. (coming from a previous all-in UBNT customer that had a first gen UDM Pro).

Ebay Ruckus + OPNsense and my network has never been more stable and performant.

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by godman_8 »

Nice setup! I have a very similar Homelab minus the Generac (I regret not getting one before inflation kicked in, especially since I already have LNG to the home.)

My only recommendation would be switching your virtualization over to Proxmox (LXC / KVM) and setting up an HA cluster with Ceph and MLAG. It's relatively easy and free and will give you a lot more features than plain ESXi and even free vSphere/vCenter.

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Post by hqsolomo »

m463 wrote: post #24
LouisvilleGeek wrote: post #22

Really nice setup! the pfSense part made me smile!

as long as you're good that pfsense is not open and phones home.

I'm sorry- when did they start doing this? I've been mulling making the switch to OPNSense. If pfSense is phoning home aside from the update check I might have a busy weekend ahead of me

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by m463 »

Dagger2 wrote: post #10

All that and no mention of IPv6? At least get the basics down first.

Do you need ipv6 on a home network?

Honestly I just use ipv4 and turn off ipv6 everywhere. Then I have just one configuration and one set of firewall rules (in and out).

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by tdfirth »

bazmattaz wrote: post #6

This 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 (Oxfordshire) and have a 1gb symmetrical connection at home. It's provided by Gigaclear - there's a handful of other similar operators that do fibre in more "rural" areas. It costs £79 a month, so it's not cheap to be honest, but I love it.

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by toast0 »

bazmattaz wrote: post #6

This 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 had 1g symmetric in the bay area (thanks at&t) and it was nice, but am now around your speeds (85m/13m) and it's clearly worse, but not really terrible. Certainly not terrible enough to pay $50k+ install to get munifiber, even though I'd enjoy it a lot. Maybe if one of the ISPs on munifiber starts offering 10g to residences. Not that I need it, but it'd be fun.

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by f-securus »

whalesalad wrote: post #2

I keep meaning to produce a post like this. My setup is not nearly as pretty though. Love to see the cannabis grow operation exhaust fan, haha. Very well done!

I didn’t see a filter on the exhaust fan. He is so thorough I’m sure he thought of it but I think he needs a filter to keep the fan running long term unless he is filtering the air into the room and that is good enough?
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