Wheres do you keep your Routers, Ubiquiti boxes, smart hubs, Pi's etc

Eliot

Eliot

Eliot

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At the moment I have so many of these little things connected up i'm starting to think about how to tidy it up.

Looking for a wall mounted solution, at the moment i was thinking an ike shelving unit with a door but wondered if there were some decent smallish shelving units with a easy way to rout in the network cabling etc.

Only needs to be able hold all of those devices, at the moment they are on the floor so very untidy...
 
VM router is on the floor hidden by furniture, the switch is behind the TV cabinet and HP Microserver is under the stairs so can't hear the fan. I think at my next place I'll spend longer running cables better but its fine for now.
 
HG612 modem is wall mounted to the inside of my window frame and PoE'd from the switch in my loft.
6U rack in my loft does the main router (dell 1U unit running ESXi), fibre switch, PoE switch and patch panels.
29U rack in my cave does my 3 servers, 3 switches and 2 routers.

House AP is mounted in my loft pointing downwards and the one in my cave is ceiling mounted in the corner above my rack (small room).
 
Steveocee said:
...the one in my cave...
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Ignoring the fact you’ve just reminded me the HG612 can apparently be powered by PoE and that’s a project for later in the week, what I take away from this is you live* in a cave ;)


*May not be totally factually accurate and taken compleatly out of context.
 
Avalon said:
Ignoring the fact you’ve just reminded me the HG612 can apparently be powered by PoE and that’s a project for later in the week, what I take away from this is you live* in a cave ;)


*May not be totally factually accurate and taken compleatly out of context.
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It cant, he will be using a passive injector and splitter with the correct power supply at the source end.
 
Just run less than 30m of high quality cable to where you actually want to put the thing - there's no need to get the modem as close as physically possible to the incoming line.
 
Avalon said:
Ignoring the fact you’ve just reminded me the HG612 can apparently be powered by PoE and that’s a project for later in the week, what I take away from this is you live* in a cave ;)


*May not be totally factually accurate and taken compleatly out of context.
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Mancave :cool: Link in my signature.
Yep PoE splitter being used to power the modem, works a treat and powered from UniFi switch in my loft.
 
Caged said:
Just run less than 30m of high quality cable to where you actually want to put the thing - there's no need to get the modem as close as physically possible to the incoming line.
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Strictly from a technical perspective the shorter the run of RJ11, the better. In practical terms I already get maximum sync anyway and use 5e with RJ11’s crimped on, even if I did add an extension, it’s not going to change that in any meaningful way. What adding passive injectors will do is allow me to do away with a power point, in turn that requires an extension cable fed into the expansion gap on flooring I need to replace, getting rid of that normally would either need a power feed dropped from upstairs (technically a bad idea as it leaves power on downstairs when the breaker board would tell you sockets are off) or cutting a channel in solid concrete, laying armoured cable and then filling it.

Passive injectors are a technically superior solution in my specific application and at 99p, you can’t really go wrong.
 
Found some pictures.

Modem in window;
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Mancave Rack/Cab;
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Most up to date photo I have of attic but it's changed a bit since then (ie a real rack not a lack and my router is in there now, patches have been tidied up to allow patchable fibre as well);
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Hub is on the PC desk downstairs and all the networking bits are screwed onto the rear of the same desk out of the way.
 
@Steveocee is that a PoE splitter to power your modem and provide LAN2 it's connection cable?

Also, how useful is the screen on the Mikrotik? Personally I'd put a space between that and the Ubiquti switch, they aren't designed to be stacked :)
 
bledd said:
@Steveocee is that a PoE splitter to power your modem and provide LAN2 it's connection cable?

Also, how useful is the screen on the Mikrotik? Personally I'd put a space between that and the Ubiquti switch, they aren't designed to be stacked :)
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Yes Poe splitter running from UniFi switch. Great combo. Lan2 so I can see the starts at I've unlocked the

That switch had been swapped now for an 8p/4sfp crs112 .The screen I normally turn off as it causes latency on low end models. In general its only good to show off of you have a lot of traffic going through.

Stacking is no problem as the 2 patches are only an inch deep so there is loads of room. The new switch is only half with as well which helps.
 
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