But why? I looked at the page but could find no understanding of what he gained from doing all this? I have a single wifi router and power everything through that and still have much faster bandwidth than the author does. It seems like a lot of energy, time, and effort (especially for maintenance) for something with minimal gains. I get 1 Gbit down and 500 mbit up and even in the worst signal rooms it only drops to 600 mbit down and 93 mbit up). Printers etc all work through wifi and backups are done to several redundant cloud services. No wires required, no expensive and energy guzzling servers needed, no patching or maintenance needed.
My Overkill Home Network
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#342Earlier quoted context omitted.
In many U.S. states, their primary energy generation is nuclear. This is extremely environmentally friendly, meaning no issues with OP using a bunch of power. We really need to stop demonising the use of energy. Energy is amazing. It is the reason we have seen to much prosperity in so little time. It's the backbone of our economies. Of medicine and the internet and EVs and well insulated homes. We should be doing eve…
I looked it up, 5 US states get the majority of their electricity from nuclear power, 4 from wind, 3 from hydro. The other states use coal, natural gas and petroleum. Source: https://www.nei.org/resources/statistics/state-electricity-g...
Post apocalypse, that Biomass & Other column is going to mean something completely different.
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#343Come 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 definitely not jealous, it just looks like an annoying pain in the ass. I have a faster network than the OP and it's cheaper and wireless and I don't have any servers or cable everywhere nor maintenance to do...
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#344But why? I looked at the page but could find no understanding of what he gained from doing all this? I have a single wifi router and power everything through that and still have much faster bandwidth than the author does. It seems like a lot of energy, time, and effort (especially for maintenance) for something with minimal gains. I get 1 Gbit down and 500 mbit up and even in the worst signal rooms it only drops to 6…
And now add the noise question to the equation.
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#345Earlier quoted context omitted.
He said in another post he has 17kw of solar, so...
It's never about how green is the source of energy. It's about people doing things with their energy in which they don't approve. I mean... just read their xenophobic remarks about a giant country of diverse people. Don't bother appeasing climate hystericals.
There’s nothing hysterical about the OP’s argument that the setup is overkill and power hungry. It’s important to note here that OP is merely criticising the setup. It’s their right to speak freely about it just as you have the right to call them a climate hysterical. Stop shaming people for speaking their minds.
And my opinion is that the setup is indeed overkill. The author(s) literally admit so themselves.
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#346I 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…
Could you share how you set up the cloud backup? Also, what cloud providers you use
My cloud backup is rather simple, i use Arq backup with Family365. Fits nicely that each user has 1TB space in their personal OneDrive, and nobody here uses OneDrive.
My local backup is also done with Arq backup to a local USB drive, though i have a long time test running with Kopia backing up to Minio on a Raspberry Pi.
Re: My Overkill Home Network
#347I 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…
My cameras are still POE (UniFi Protect), but i had already run the cables for it, so not much point i replacing them just for the sake of moving to WiFi.
My "server" is also wired, as is my Hue Bridge, Tado Bridge and other "IoT" devices that doesn't support wifi, but when it comes to user accessible machines there is exactly one, which is my "go to" machine in case the router/switch dies and i can't get on the WiFi.
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#348But why? I looked at the page but could find no understanding of what he gained from doing all this? I have a single wifi router and power everything through that and still have much faster bandwidth than the author does. It seems like a lot of energy, time, and effort (especially for maintenance) for something with minimal gains. I get 1 Gbit down and 500 mbit up and even in the worst signal rooms it only drops to 6…
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#349Come 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 more interested in my colocation setup than my home setup. I have 2x1u in two different data centres.
Just built one of my new servers (Cisco UCS 220 M5) with 2x 4TB Enterprise NVMe drives, 4x 2TB enterprise SAS SSD drives and 4x 2TB SSD drives, 256GB of ram and 2x Intel Gold 6230 (20cores). I don't even need this, I just want it.
Just deciding on if to keep with FreeBSD and bHyve which I love, or go with VMware.
If owning an IP block wasn't €LOL, I'd complete my monopoly set.
(Sorry, had to brag somewhere)
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#350I 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…
Yeah pics did make it look like he could use a smaller truck