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My Overkill Home Network

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Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by qwerty456127 »

jamespo wrote: post #319
qwerty456127 wrote: post #306

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Looks great but I woud prefer to avoid Ubiquiti because I don't want to involve a 3-rd party cloud to manage it. But I really appreciate your suggestion, perhaps I am going stick to it as I've seen no alternative so far and my previous experience with Ubiquiti makes me confident it will do the actual job great.

How about MikroTik hEX S 5 Port Router ?

This one seems suiting my preferences perfectly. I even wonder how did I overlook it. Now I'm looking for a WiFi6 access point which would work on the passive PoE it would feed.

You really helped me a lot! I wish you could feel how my mood has improved. Now I feel empowered to implement the set-up I wanted. This is a minor home improvement task but it sitted in my to-do list (after numerous attempts) for over a year.

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by djhn »

Karrot_Kream wrote: post #314
djhn wrote: post #296

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Hold on a second - how large of a household are we talking? House or apartment? What consumes all that power? Electric vehicle? Work from home? I'm environmentally conscious (0 cars, 0 pets) but I haven't spent any time measuring and optimising electricity usage. I've had a look at my own electricity usage every once in a while, now averaging 48 kWh/month (between 38 and 68) for a larger than average apartment for tw…

48 kWh / month is amazing! That's 4 kWh / day. Just cooking on our induction burner and instant pot can use up 1 kWh on a day with lots of meal prep.

Interesting. Maybe our brand new kitchen appliances are more energy efficient?

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by matrss »

8fingerlouie wrote: post #312
wasksrhh wrote: post #283

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I recommend you checkout Rclone ( https://github.com/rclone/rclone ) instead of Cryptomater, much more robust and powerful software. I used to use Cryptomator as well, but after my data exceeded certain size, it became slow and difficult to operate. Plus, once I went to pull my data out of it, I realised that it had reset file metadata on all my files (I didn't know what picture was taken when anymore, for example)

I do use Rclone as well, but Cryptomator has one feature that rclone does not, it allows me to access my data "on the go" from my phone. Personally i have never experienced any of the issues you mention, but my Cryptomator vaults are also mostly below 1TB in size.

If you are using android there is RCX (https://github.com/x0b/rcx) as a frontend to rclone. Rclone can also be used in termux. Not sure about apple.

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by trustingtrust »

Karrot_Kream wrote: post #288
trustingtrust wrote: post #212

Biggest problems I have faced for home networks : ISPs are poorly configured and do very shady things sometimes like DNS hijacking. More often than not poor ONU firmware or hardware means you will see weird things like latency spikes or straight up packet drops. Sometimes IPv6 won't work if the ONU is in bridge mode etc. etc. This post is overkill but what mostly works for home networks: SQM - like cake sqm in openwr…

Why would you use a local DNS resolver instead of using a remote well-known resolver like 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8 in a home networking situation? Your systems will cache DNS entries to paper over unavailability issues, and as long as you use one as your primary and the other as a secondary, there's a very low likelihood (probably < 0.0001%) that you'll ever have issues resolving DNS.

If you look at systems like Deco (and a bunch of others I've noticed recently like linksys) the devices have stopped being dns forwarders themselves to clients and instead they assign your ISP (or the ones you've set for your ISP) DNS directly to clients. This means your device now resolves dns over wifi directly. This means each device is now relying directly on google and cloudflare instead of relying on the gateway (which being wired will experience the lowest latency especially when it comes to redirects and should ideally have a robust DNS server).

A local network resolver instead of forwarder on a client seems to work a lot better in my experience especially when I use root DNS on unbound. Yes a root DNS is a lot slower than something like 8.8.8.8 but you could use an upstream dns with unbound if you really want something faster. Either way, a local DNS will be lot less problematic compared to if you devices has to handle all dns over wifi including the redirects (which happen a lot).

Almost every time I see a network problem, it's always a DNS problem. In a typical home network setup these days:

client DNS cache -> upstream DNS -> root DNS. client DNS cache -> local DNS - > upstream DNS -> root DNS.

My setup:

client DNS cache -> local DNS -> root DNS.

The first one works better if the network is wired. Second and third one works better on wireless.

One alternative that works 'okay' is if the client directly uses DoT or DoH for DNS. TCP works little more reliably than UDP (wink) but neither Google nor Cloudflare offer signed profiles for iOS and macOS (third party is there). Stubby works good on linux and android and windows have a built in solution.

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by mattlondon »

8fingerlouie wrote: post #274

I used to have an overkill home network, complete with self hosting everything and 10G backbone. These days i'm more pragmatic. I have exactly 2 wired machines, and everything else runs Wifi. The network "rack" is simply a firewall and a 16 port POE switch, everything else network related has been retired to the closet. My NAS is gone. With electricity frequently going above €1/kWh last winter, it seemed like a bad i…

Amen to this.

I moved house recently and the only things I did were running CAT6 from where the internet enters the house, up to a PoE switch in the loft that then has a few Wifi6 APs connected to that.

Everything is wifi (all cameras, smart switches etc, office laptop, a single RPi4 for "projects" and so on) and all seems fine. The only device that is directly connected via ethernet is a headless gaming desktop that lives in the loft that I occasionally use for streaming games to a laptop.

But kudos for this guy if that is what he wants to do. Personally I did not enjoy doing the cable runs (especially for external-grade CAT6).

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by zoom6628 »

Ok seriously jealous of the setup. Have always wanted a rack - just because.

I have way too many power cords under the desk but use fused plugs and boards. Want a small cabinet just to keep cables and devices away from small curious people.

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by larschdk »

NKosmatos wrote: post #293

Come on, let's admit it fellow HNers... Most of us are jealous/envious of this network setup and would love to have the money and time needed in order to own something similar. Extra points for powering all these from solar panels and also for all the "little" gizmos (ADB, NTP, LoRa, TinyPilot, MQTT and temp/humidity/power monitoring). @monstermunch You're living the dream :-)

I'm not, even though I also DIY. A multi-2.5GBe port fanless N6005 mini-PC (plus a cheap barebones WiFi AP) does it for router, switch, storage, game server (Valheim & Satisfactory), timeserver (chrony), DNS (unbound with blocklist), InfluxDB, MQTT, and it doesn't even sweat, and consumes less than 20W combined.

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by true_religion »

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…

My entire region runs on hydro, so even if I had a home lab x10 the size of this it wouldn't have the same environmental impact as someone who ran a laptop with power from a coal plant.

You can't tell from a blog post if what he's doing is good or bad for the environment. And further more, its unfair to tell people that they shouldn't improve their niche skills when those same skills are what they use for employment.

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