This person is pretty average over on /r/homelab.
I've stopped posting there as much, when my colo post got removed for not being "in my house" i knew it was going downhill
My Overkill Home Network
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#162I used to have a home network, until lightning hit nearby.
It came up the power connection and the copper phone connection. The modem/router/switch fried, then it spread out though the twisted pair Ethernet and fried every interface connected to the network.
These days I use WiFi unless I really need low latency / high reliability in a particular location. Optical would be nice, but WiFi is the poor man's lightning safe network.
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#163I used to have a home network, until lightning hit nearby. It came up the power connection and the copper phone connection. The modem/router/switch fried, then it spread out though the twisted pair Ethernet and fried every interface connected to the network. These days I use WiFi unless I really need low latency / high reliability in a particular location. Optical would be nice, but WiFi is the poor man's lightning s…
Yep, first thing I did was cut the phone line and Coax off the house!
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#164I used to have a home network, until lightning hit nearby. It came up the power connection and the copper phone connection. The modem/router/switch fried, then it spread out though the twisted pair Ethernet and fried every interface connected to the network. These days I use WiFi unless I really need low latency / high reliability in a particular location. Optical would be nice, but WiFi is the poor man's lightning s…
Yeah this is why I like fiber optic cables. Lightning can't surge the modem if there's no electrical connection.
And then standard power isolation and surge protection will handle all the power connections.
I've yet to loose equipment to lightning from the power cables but I literally can't count the amount of equipment that has been killed by lightning striking a copper data line and then surging through my network.
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#165I used to have a home network, until lightning hit nearby. It came up the power connection and the copper phone connection. The modem/router/switch fried, then it spread out though the twisted pair Ethernet and fried every interface connected to the network. These days I use WiFi unless I really need low latency / high reliability in a particular location. Optical would be nice, but WiFi is the poor man's lightning s…
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#166I used to have a home network, until lightning hit nearby. It came up the power connection and the copper phone connection. The modem/router/switch fried, then it spread out though the twisted pair Ethernet and fried every interface connected to the network. These days I use WiFi unless I really need low latency / high reliability in a particular location. Optical would be nice, but WiFi is the poor man's lightning s…
Is it not possible to surge protect the copper phone line?
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#167I don't know if it was just a lucky guess, but as soon as I saw that first pic of the house exterior with the BMW, I said "that looks like it is in Houston", and sure enough...
Can someone with more knowledge comment on whether that particular design is more common in Houston or was it really just a lucky guess? I kinda feel like that carport-style design is very Houston, haven't seen it as much in other cities.
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#168I knew this wasn't an overkill network when I saw an SG300 switch in the first pic.
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#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd start with something like this[0]. The only search term I used was "xeon-d". You can easily find other form factors and combinations. This line of CPUs is lower power (the linked one is rated at 45W), so should be trivially cool-able with a very quiet system. They support ECC RAM. You're likely to find mostly Mini-ITX and uATX boards, so they will fit in just about any case you want. [0] https://www.ebay.com/itm/…
I've done this a few times, and the killer has always been the RAM. By the time you're buying decommissioned enterprise hardware, it's hard (or just expensive) to source RAM from its QVL list - even harder so when you want ECC, which not all of the QVL'd SKUs will be... And, in my painful experience, if it's not QVL RAM there's a good chance it just won't post.
The top spec 32GB RAM on the qualified list for the specific board I linked earlier runs $40-$41 on ebay. The same speed and capacity for generic DDR4 runs in the mid $30s. The board has 4 RAM slots. So the premium for QVL RAM for that linked board is $20 over generic if you want to max out at 128GB.
Supermicro did have RAM issues in the early teens.
This sort of research is the non-dollar price of finding deals on server-class hardware.
If you want to get something pre-validated, and usually with a warranty, it can be worth it to look for resellers for the major OEMs that also offer refurbished hardware. It's more expensive than the typical options available on eBay, but still much cheaper than new hardware.
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#170Is there a post that covers the "why?" of all this? As someone researching maybe running some Ethernet for more stable WiFi and faster Internet access for general stuff, maybe some fiber for infotainment other purposes since it can lengthen various cables, and hooking up some security and nature cameras, I can't fathom why all of this is needed outside of it just being a hobby or running some sort of business (tradin…
I have been working remotely since about 2005-2006. I have always love a good Internet connection with backups (wherever possible). I remember befriending the local cable guy so I can get 1Mbps in 2000.
Now, I have three Internet connections bonded and balanced. It is not about the minutes of disconnection but more about the disconnection when I needed it most. I have ample non-internet time and personal/family downtime. However, when the time comes, I’m happy that the Internet is never a bottleneck in my work and play. I have had this setup since around the early days of the Pandemic and our home, per se, “never had an Internet Outage” since.
I'm not into servers, devops, networking or anything of that sorts, but I love tinkering with them. I would love to have an "overkill home network" one day.
Internet is super cheap in India and I can afford all three for a really decent price. https://www.instagram.com/p/CUWeopdPVOp/