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My Overkill Home Network

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Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by stwr »

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 Spain and get 10Gbit symmetric which comes down to about 7000mbps up and down on speedtests to my airbnb (in a small town 30min away from a touristic hotspot) for 30 euro’s. My home in Barcelona gets 1gbit symmetric for 25 euro.

Competition here has gotten pretty good with lots of virtual carrier being allowed by law to use telefonicas ftth which has driven prices down.

I’m the opposite to you where I’m always surprised when I hear people in fairly big towns/cities in US/UK etc are still on less then 100mbit symmetric!

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by cjdell »

ivolimmen wrote: post #227

I find this really disturbing. On the one hand this looks really nerdy and cool but then I see the immense amount of hardware that also relies on power... so much power. This is completely unnecessary but then I also see the pictures of an F150.. so yeah it makes sense. I have to categorize this as a (un)typical American person that does not care about the environment. Do like the fact that he runs a RIPE probe thoug…

I also have mixed feelings. I stopped home labing because of the energy costs. I now have everything I need (HomeAssistant / NAS / Router) running on an old Dell Precision laptop. Laptops make great servers because they are optimised for low power consumption + you get a free console and UPS built-in!

I'm tempted by the new Alder Lake N100 mini PCs that are available on Chinese websites. But I need to wait until the laptop dies before I can justify it. It's not just about power consumption but the (hidden) cost of manufacturing. Make use of the stuff you already have before buying new stuff.

At least he had a big solar array...

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by Fabricio20 »

This is a pretty cool setup! I'm personally working on getting a backup ISP connection going this week as well (two different isps with wildly different upstreams), since poorly configured ISP network issues have been plaguing me (random packet loss out of nowhere, PPPoE issues, scenic routing to companies that have POPs on my city, etc..) and I've pretty much exhausted all ISPs in my area and they all have some manner of weird issue. So two ISPs it is!

My setup currently consists of a single server with an i3-12100F, which does all of nas + hosting (9TB array for windows image backup of all local machines over smb + Home Assistant + AgentDVR) and networking (dual ISP in, single gigabit out, all handled by systemd-networkd and ip + firewall), and several 1G-CAT6 runs connected to an unmanaged switch. Wireless as several random brand APs scattered around the house, all running on low power mode and being pretty much room-confined, 5GHz everywhere, had mesh before and my experience is it just sucks!

Your post made me interested in those RIPE Atlas boxes.. I might see if they are willing to send one down here for me.. with two different ISPs on different upstreams I might have some interesting data.. and maybe use that raspberry-pi I have for a stratum gps server like you did as well... and maybe a weather station too.. down the rabbit hole I go again!

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by m463 »

bmitc wrote: post #58

Is 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…

Setting up a home network, especially with cisco gear, can easily pay for itself 1000x in sysadmin or network engineer employment opportunities.

This is exactly the kind of nuts and bolts guy that is indispensable when keeping a cloud running.

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by rsecora »

Cool

but is astonishing how expensive is the connectivity in other countries.

>>> Verizon Gateway sitting on top of the rack. I get pretty good signal here and get the rated speed, of around 300Mb/s down and 20Mb/s up. This costs $50/mo.

There are offers [0] in the EU of 10Gbps / 25 Euros/mo.

[0] https://www.digimobil.es/fibra-optica/

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by miked85 »

ivolimmen wrote: post #227

I find this really disturbing. On the one hand this looks really nerdy and cool but then I see the immense amount of hardware that also relies on power... so much power. This is completely unnecessary but then I also see the pictures of an F150.. so yeah it makes sense. I have to categorize this as a (un)typical American person that does not care about the environment. Do like the fact that he runs a RIPE probe thoug…

Funny, just seems like a hobby to me.

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by snerbles »

kriops wrote: post #230
ivolimmen wrote: post #227

I find this really disturbing. On the one hand this looks really nerdy and cool but then I see the immense amount of hardware that also relies on power... so much power. This is completely unnecessary but then I also see the pictures of an F150.. so yeah it makes sense. I have to categorize this as a (un)typical American person that does not care about the environment. Do like the fact that he runs a RIPE probe thoug…

I find your comment to be at the absolute peak of sanctimony. Who are you to decide if it is necessary or not? Furthermore, why are you justified in negatively stereotyping Americans – a diverse group of individuals?

The satisfaction from serving up self-righteous condemnation is one hell of a drug.

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by m463 »

ivolimmen wrote: post #227

I find this really disturbing. On the one hand this looks really nerdy and cool but then I see the immense amount of hardware that also relies on power... so much power. This is completely unnecessary but then I also see the pictures of an F150.. so yeah it makes sense. I have to categorize this as a (un)typical American person that does not care about the environment. Do like the fact that he runs a RIPE probe thoug…

He said in another post he has 17kw of solar, so...

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by kristjank »

ivolimmen wrote: post #227

I find this really disturbing. On the one hand this looks really nerdy and cool but then I see the immense amount of hardware that also relies on power... so much power. This is completely unnecessary but then I also see the pictures of an F150.. so yeah it makes sense. I have to categorize this as a (un)typical American person that does not care about the environment. Do like the fact that he runs a RIPE probe thoug…

I hope you're trolling. Power can be generated without an environmental impact. There are companies (and F150s) dumping kgbjillions more CO2 than this person's homelab is. Let people learn something and have some fun.

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by ur-whale »

ivolimmen wrote: post #227

I find this really disturbing. On the one hand this looks really nerdy and cool but then I see the immense amount of hardware that also relies on power... so much power. This is completely unnecessary but then I also see the pictures of an F150.. so yeah it makes sense. I have to categorize this as a (un)typical American person that does not care about the environment. Do like the fact that he runs a RIPE probe thoug…

> I have to categorize this as a (un)typical American person

Holier-than-thou much?

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