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Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by megraf »

I've been fascinated by home labbing for a while now, and maintain something with comical simplicity.

ESXI 8.0.1 worked out of the box with the 7090 I was given.

I'm migrating it from 6.7u3, which is running in 14 year old hardware (injecting the drivers was easy btw - finding the drivers was difficult).

ESXi is not managed with vCenter, it's a standalone host. I'm hosting a handful of VM's that do everything I need.

Critical items are never sorted solely on the server; they're stored on three remote sources, with integrity checks , and mock restorations.

Fortigate 140d PoE, which handles a phone system and all of the PoE I need.

Backups are simple. No RAID, again, critical stuff is not solely on the server.

I use enterprise disks, and SMART - I'll get a notification with ntfy if something gets wonky.

Server is consuming 60-160w. 16gb of RAM, non ECC, 5th gen i5, 12TB of storage.

Homebridge, home assistant, scrypted, Asterisk, Samba, Timemachine backups (all containers configured with compose, checked into Git) windows 10 and 7 VM's

All of the hardware is second hand, with exception to the disks. Ambient in the closet is 29, no dedicated cooling.

UPS with cyberpower.

Glad to see you're using solar, and that your hardware too is used. When I worked in the industry they'd toss stuff I could never afford...

FWIW: Proxmox seemed like something new to learn entirely, ESXi seemed similar for me; I don't mind the RAID stance, or the licensing...

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by NavinF »

fastball wrote: post #166
femto wrote: post #162

I 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?

It's pretty easy, but also unnecessary when everyone uses VoIP and fiber is cheaper per ft than copper

Re: My Overkill Home Network

#183

Post by cyounkins »

Anyone else have experiences with Ruckus APs? I have Unifi right now.

edit:

RUCKUS R760 - $1800 - Wi-Fi 6E 4x4:4

RUCKUS R560 - $950 - Wi-Fi 6E 2x2:2

RUCKUS R750 - $820 - Wi-Fi 6 4x4:4

RUCKUS R650 - $520 - Wi-Fi 6 4x4:4

Re: My Overkill Home Network

#185

Post by pottertheotter »

CuriousCosmic wrote: post #164
femto wrote: post #162

I 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.

All I can get is cable internet so this worries me.

What’s the best way to implement power isolation and surge protection?

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by toast0 »

monstermunch wrote: post #152
tristor wrote: post #126

This doesn't seem that overkill to me other than using fiber optics, although I've done that in the past, unless you're doing exceptionally long runs copper cabling is sufficient even at 10Gbit within a home scenario. Seems like a decent setup.

My main reason for using Fiber or DAC's is because of the power consumption. Running 10G-BaseT uses about 3x the amount of power Plus, I always think fiber is cool

Surplus 10G switches at good prices are likely to be sfp+ and not 10g-baseT at this point in time, too. DAC for same rack is a no brainer at that point. To the rest of your house depends on what you've got in the wall and how easy it is to put new stuff, I guess. I'm running 10G-baseT between my two network cabinets, because there's no economical way to pull anything else, and there's no reason to go for more than 1g other than fun.

Re: My Overkill Home Network

#187

Post by physhster »

monstermunch wrote: post #141
physhster wrote: post #37

...and I thought mine was overkill! Great job! You might however want to read about the grocer's apostrophe: https://www.grammar-monster.com/lessons/apostrophe_error_wit...

I'll have to go over the whole post, I'm terrible at writing! Quite a few errors have been pointed out. But I can just edit them and pretend they never happened

Basically, you don't want to pluralize acronyms with 's. The more you know :)

Re: My Overkill Home Network

#188

Post by dheera »

hqsolomo wrote: post #100
getwiththeprog wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

MiniITX boards are low idle power, 17 watts for idle with a Ryzen 5600 compared to a full size boards 50 watts. I would no longer buy anything larger, even for a gaming machine.

Amen on that. The past few rigs I built for myself were all ITX machines. I went through and undervolted my CPU, RAM, and GPU. Once my current gaming rig dies I'm just going to stick with the consoles for gaming until they goes to shit as well. In an era of abundance we seem to be trying to use more power to support what we already do, rather than rethinking what we do to use less power. It's a shame!

Honestly I could I could easily solar power all of my compute needs (and probably a lot more) from my apartment's roof.

But at last, I'm a renter and my property management isn't going to allow that.

We're literally wasting clean energy because of a bunch of rich turds hogging real estate with shitty rules about what you can't do. When my property changed management the new management even banned EV charging on the property and locked up all the outlets in the parking lot. These kind of management are not welcome in Silicon Valley but somehow they are here.

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by VTimofeenko »

cyounkins wrote: post #183

Anyone else have experiences with Ruckus APs? I have Unifi right now. edit: RUCKUS R760 - $1800 - Wi-Fi 6E 4x4:4 RUCKUS R560 - $950 - Wi-Fi 6E 2x2:2 RUCKUS R750 - $820 - Wi-Fi 6 4x4:4 RUCKUS R650 - $520 - Wi-Fi 6 4x4:4

I have been running Ruckus I got off ebay for quite a while now. Flashed it into unleashed mode and it has been rock solid. In fact I am typing this comment while being about 100 ft away from the AP.

Re: My Overkill Home Network

#190

Post by bonestamp2 »

deepsun wrote: post #53

SpeedTest.net tests are useless, as ISPs give higher priority to traffic to known speed checkers. They can legally do that as we don't have Net Neutrality anymore.

https://speed.cloudflare.com/

I like this one because your speed really depends on what you're downloading and this one tests some of those scenarios.

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