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Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by missjellyfish »

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…

I still have my local NAS and will in fact be upgrading it sometime this or next year. I don't trust cloud computing with my data, even tough I'd rather forgo the complexity and electricity cost.

But that's my price of freedom.

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by gwbrooks »

Karrot_Kream wrote: post #321
Gareth321 wrote: post #310

Earlier 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…

It's not about the energy for me. A lot of these posts make networking and homelabs seem like a dark art that only folks with tons of space, capital, and time can get into. Networking is anything but, it's about sending a packet of data over a wire! But when we glorify these elaborate, expensive setups, we not only lose focus on what the goal of a network should be (to satisfy needs for its users), we also discourage…

Or -- hear me out -- you entice newcomers who want a big ol' rack of boxes and wires.

Like me.

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by [deleted] »

missjellyfish wrote: post #381
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…

I still have my local NAS and will in fact be upgrading it sometime this or next year. I don't trust cloud computing with my data, even tough I'd rather forgo the complexity and electricity cost. But that's my price of freedom.

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Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by tristor »

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

True. That said, fiber can be painful to deal with. Electrical isolation is one big benefit, as is power savings, and of course forward-compatibility. I still prefer running copper for residential, especially because you don’t have to be as careful about bend radius and such.

Within my rack I use DACs to connect all the gear, which works well since it allows maximum performance over short runs with minimal effort.

Nice setup though, my comment wasn’t meant to criticize, I think having a proper network at home is a big boost to quality of life that most folks don’t realize because they’ve never experienced it.

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by wil421 »

saberience wrote: post #343
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 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...

I wouldn’t want to read a blog about your setup.

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by jolux »

tw04 wrote: post #21
jolux wrote: post #3

I just bought a Ubiquiti Dream Machine SE along with a U6 Enterprise a few weeks ago and so far it’s my favorite tech purchase ever. The management interface is years if not decades ahead of everything else I’ve used before. My only complaint is that there’s no public API and thus no official Terraform providers.

I would take Ruckus Unleashed over unifi all day long. Ubiquiti, unfortunately, feels like everything is constantly in beta, both hardware and software. Wait until they release a UDM SE v2 and abandon firmware on the UDM SE. The UDM in particular is a masterclass in how to upset all your customers. (coming from a previous all-in UBNT customer that had a first gen UDM Pro). Ebay Ruckus + OPNsense and my network has ne…

Yeah I've heard a lot of mixed things about their software support but I did a lot of research and people seem to say it's gotten a lot better over the past couple years. I certainly wouldn't say any of it feels like a beta, it's currently been up since I bought it two weeks ago with no issues.

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by ElectricalUnion »

snoman wrote: post #377
saberience wrote: post #343

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

You’re running faster than 10Gbps on wireless? How’s that?

It's probably running several aggregated 60GHz links, or it's own private 5G millimeter wave deployment.

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Post by abwizz »

patmorgan23 wrote: post #364
abwizz wrote: post #280

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tbf a lot of murricans live in rural environments where a truck does indeed make sense because of the lots of unpaved roads. city dwellers not so much

Not really, American is pretty urbanized. Less than 20% of the population lives in rural areas. Yet the most popular vehicle for the past few years has been the ford F150. It's not being bought by rural or working class people, it's a luxury status symbol now.

> American is pretty urbanized. Less than 20% of the population lives in rural areas

i'd like that number put into perspective, but it does not feel like on the low end.

> Yet the most popular vehicle for the past few years has been the ford F150. It's not being bought by rural or working class people, it's a luxury status symbol now.

thanks for the insight! but i struggle with the combination of "most popular" and "luxury status symbol"

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