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My Overkill Home Network

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Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Power cannot be generated without an environmental impact. Even solar panel and wind turbine generate a non negligible amount of pollution when produced, and a non negligible amount of waste when they have to be decommissioned. Also, it is highly unlikely that he is using his own grid, he probably pulling most of his power from the U.S grid, which (like most grid to be fair) contains a fair amount of CO2 heavy source…

There, it's in mind; what can we do now to stop the big companies from making things worse? Individual accountability is important, but self-flagellation or (vicarious) shame because forces bigger than us are causing problems is a waste of energy (ha!).

Big companies don't produce pollution in a vacuum. Almost all of their pollution is a indirect consequence of our own consumption. Buying a ford F-150 and having a oversized server rack full of expensive hardware that generate a lot of pollution to be produces is a sure way not to stop big companies. Responsible consumption is the first important step to stop big companies from making thing worse.

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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I don't really think 2x the power usage comes from AC. The US has plenty of areas that only need a bit of AC for only part of the year.

I don't either but certainly it's a big part of it since I rarely have seen a US household without some sort of cooling and of course heating. Add to that we have larger houses than Europe, like larger. A part time job of mine is helping a buddy's solar company and right now I'm working on a project, for an older couple who are building a 4200sqft house with 4 mini-splits, 2 electric boilers that switch to gas when i…

I agree with pretty much everything you said. I'm trying to convince my own aging parents to downsize. They're already running into physical issues getting around their house, let alone trying to keep it clean, organized, and maintained.

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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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?

He shows his Internet speed in one of the photos and it's slow. Not even Gigabit.

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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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…

> 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.

Really curious how you set this up, sounds like it could be the perfect solution for me.

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