Show me your home networks

bulletv1 · 20 Apr 2016 at 11:12

Had my house renovated and took the opportunity to add 4 network sockets behind my tv and 2 by my pc and have space for expansion upstairs.
All these link to under my stairs where I have a small 8u cab with a 16 port TP-Link Gigabit switch, the bridge for my smart heating system and then some network cables out the back to link into my HP Gen8 server running synology and plex.

What do other people have in the cabinets, if they have any and what should i look to add?

Twirlywoos · 20 Apr 2016 at 12:21

24 Port Patch Panel
24 Port HP Gigabit Switch
1U Power strip
- Would love to add 10Gbe when the prices come down for switches and NICS.
- Also If the switch has PoE that will be a bonus for AP's and PoE CCTV.

Loft is fitted with CAT6a (Never want to go down that route again, cable is too damn thick lol)
Rest of the house has CAT6.
Centralized NAS with WHS
BT Openreach modem
AC68U Access Point in the loft
AC87U Router in the downstairs living room

bledd · 20 Apr 2016 at 12:25

Twirlywoos said:
Loft is fitted with CAT6a (Never want to go down that route again, cable is too damn thick lol)
Rest of the house has CAT6.

I'm terminating cable in a friend's new build, he's decided to put in ~48x shielded cat6. Such a pain to work with compared to Cat6 / 5e.

bulletv1 · 20 Apr 2016 at 12:48

bledd. said:
I'm terminating cable in a friend's new build, he's decided to put in ~48x shielded cat6. Such a pain to work with compared to Cat6 / 5e.

Yeah i used shielded cat6. Took me soo much longer than i expected. And my fingers ached for ages.

randal · 20 Apr 2016 at 13:01

It changes quite a bit, but at the moment I'm running:

24U rack with surge protected power strips, supplied by dedicated spur off consumer.
VM Superhub 200mb
Meraki Z1 Teleworker Gateway (flashed with OpenWRT)
Meraki MR12 (flashed with OpenWRT)
Wireless roaming between APs on above 2 devices.
3Com 24 Port PoE Layer 3 Switch
16 port CAT6 patch
4 ports in office, 4 ports in bedroom. Plans for 4 ports in garage, and installation of PoE cameras at some point in the summer.

Previous to the OpenWRT setup I had a pFSense F/W with a single AP, but wanted to play with roaming to improve wireless coverage across the homestead.

skyripper · 20 Apr 2016 at 13:16

Cat 6 to a wallport in each bedroom and living room. Terminated in cupboard understairs. Builders did it as part of the new-built house. Sales people were "Wossat?" to which I replied "Ask the guy who runs your phonelines, satellite TV and speaker cables"

3 PCs, smart TV and a laptop all running off gigabit.

Wireless AP top floor, wireless AP ground floor (there's 3 floors). These are just repurposed wireless routers.

HP N54L Server running VMWare hosting ClearOS, pfSense and Nas4FREE. Its got multiple NICs to have a "clean side" and a "dirty side".

ClearOS and pfSense between the LAN and a cheap as chips ADSL router from my provider. Why? I have a teenager who likes to ignore limits on internet usage. And I can limit him to times of the day and still have Netflix on the TV. I can also filter by DNS, IP or traffic type. Not that its come to that.

Switching is some Netgear gigabit switches, the ones with the metal cases
that seem to be bombproof. Had them for years 10 or more.

Thinking of putting a wireless AP in the garage, as the car can connect to Wifi for the headunit and satnav updates.

: )

pjbelf · 20 Apr 2016 at 16:05

18U floor standing rack
24 port patch panel - House flood wired with Cat5e when built
Draytek 2830 router
Netgear Gs108Pe for POE
netgear S3300-28X 24Gbe, 2 10Gbe copper, 2 10Gbe SFP+
Raspberry Pi running FreePBX
HP N54L
Home built 4U Xeon E3 1245 v5 32Gb Ram, 4x1Gbe, 1x10Gbe
1u power strip

faxfan · 20 Apr 2016 at 17:37

Draytek 2920n
Cisco 3560 CX 12 port Layer 3 switch
Cisco 2960 8 port switch
Ubiquiti AC LR access point
ESXi server (4970k, 24GB, LSI raid controller, 8 x 4TB drives, some SSD's)
- Full AD environment with Lync 2010
- Full AD environment with Skype for Business
- Ubuntu (NAS, PLEX, Teamspeak services)
Various UC phones (Polycom, SNOM) including a CX5500 :O
Cisco 2911 voice router with SRE module
Sonos environment
Powerline adapters to Sky, XBOX one etc.
3 x VG202

Duke · 20 Apr 2016 at 17:50

Nothing too fancy as it's just me

VM SH3 (for wireless and connecting to switch)
HP Prosafe 8 Port Switch (connects to TV, Freesat HD, NAS, PS4, PC)
HP Microserver as NAS (hosting DLNA)

Meddling-Monk · 20 Apr 2016 at 19:18

Only recently installed the home network up here. Fairly basic as unfortunately the household is a little smaller now of late, and don't see much of a need for high speed access other than for myself really.

Home Hub 5 (VDSL, 80/20) - Living Room
> Netgeart 8 Port Gigabit Switch - Living Room
>> 2x Gigabit port to for TV and Media - Living Room
>> 1x Gigabit port - Bedroom 1
>> 1x Gigabit port - Bedroom 2
>> Workstation (Where I'm typing this from) - Living Room
> Synology DS215J - Living Room

All connected up using Cat6.

nutcase · 20 Apr 2016 at 21:15

In the rack:

2x 1500 APC UPSs for the severs and tape library
Dell TL4000 tape library, currently with 2x HH LTO4 and 1x HH LTO 5
HP DL380 G7 with E5620 and 18GB RAM - Hyper-V server 2012 R2. Currrently running 2 VMs - VEEAM server and Monitoring software server. 2x 300 GB drives internally.
HP DL380 Gen8 with 2x E5-2620 V2 and 64GB RAM - Windows Server 2012 R2. Currently running 6 VMs (DC, File server, etc.) 8x 1.2TB drives internally.
Blade G8124 10Gbe switch
1x 1500 APC UPS for ancillaries
HP D2700 disk shelf - currently 10x 1TB WD RED for the backup server's storage.
BT Modem thing and Sonicwall TZ205 on a shelf
HP 1920 16 Port switch

CCTV server hidden in the house.
Laptops, HCPC etc. as required

Deathwish · 21 Apr 2016 at 00:11

nutcase_1uk said:
In the rack:

2x 1500 APC UPSs for the severs and tape library
Dell TL4000 tape library, currently with 2x HH LTO4 and 1x HH LTO 5
HP DL380 G7 with E5620 and 18GB RAM - Hyper-V server 2012 R2. Currrently running 2 VMs - VEEAM server and Monitoring software server. 2x 300 GB drives internally.
HP DL380 Gen8 with 2x E5-2620 V2 and 64GB RAM - Windows Server 2012 R2. Currently running 6 VMs (DC, File server, etc.) 8x 1.2TB drives internally.
Blade G8124 10Gbe switch
1x 1500 APC UPS for ancillaries
HP D2700 disk shelf - currently 10x 1TB WD RED for the backup server's storage.
BT Modem thing and Sonicwall TZ205 on a shelf
HP 1920 16 Port switch

CCTV server hidden in the house.
Laptops, HCPC etc. as required

Impressive, but you must be deaf surely :eek:

We have lots of HP DL servers at work, I'm aware of how loud they are. lol

nutcase · 21 Apr 2016 at 08:12

The loudest thing is the Blade switch. The G7 recently replaced a P4000 1u unit - that was noisy!

It's all in the garage so can't hear it

Twirlywoos · 21 Apr 2016 at 08:22

bledd. said:
I'm terminating cable in a friend's new build, he's decided to put in ~48x shielded cat6. Such a pain to work with compared to Cat6 / 5e.

Less of a pain than cat6a where each pair is shielded but still cat6 shielded will be equally a pita. Have fun

lixxus · 21 Apr 2016 at 09:17

custom matx server build
i5-3470t, 16gb ram running esxi 6.0
x2 120gb SSD for Datastores
NC365T ( wan, lan, dmz, VM MGMT)
HP NC360T ( Wlan, Spare)

HG612 modem (SKy fibre) (WAN)
HP procurve 8 port gigabit (LAN)(DMZ)
TP-Link Archer C5 v1 running openwrt with 2 radios 2.4ghz and 5ghz(WLAN)

esxi running 4vms

+ Pfsense (my firewall and routing, openvpn server)
+ Freenas with 2tb in mirror ( does my fileserver and webdav,ftp)
+ ubuntu server ( running my webserver with webmin dashboard)
+ windows 10 vm

this is all housed in a small micro atx case which lives inside an ikea tv stand. also connected to madcatz mojo for streaming which i have a custom android firmware with kodi installed.
most laptops devices around the house are connected wireless. Though living pc is connected via ethernet cable

silent and scalabity is great.

bledd · 21 Apr 2016 at 10:14

24 port gigabit smart switch
Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite
Ubiquiti AP-AC-Pro

Opted for keystone jacks, so I can leisurely add more ports to the patch panel without having to move things around too much. -colour coded by room

All housed in a modified Ikea Lack table.

Twirlywoos · 21 Apr 2016 at 10:36

bledd. said:
Opted for keystone jacks, so I can leisurely add more ports to the patch panel without having to move things around too much. -colour coded by room

Great idea, didn't even know those things came in various colours and that you could buy blank patch panels.

bledd · 21 Apr 2016 at 11:42

Twirlywoos said:
Great idea, didn't even know those things came in various colours and that you could buy blank patch panels.

http://cpc.farnell.com/tuk/ffk24mtpt/keystone-panel-24-port-empty/dp/CS29692

http://cpc.farnell.com/tuk/skfbk/module-keystone-6-black/dp/CS25965
http://cpc.farnell.com/tuk/skfrd/module-keystone-6-red/dp/CS25968
http://cpc.farnell.com/tuk/skfor/module-keystone-6-orange/dp/CS25967
http://cpc.farnell.com/tuk/skfbl/module-keystone-6-blue/dp/CS27798
http://cpc.farnell.com/tuk/skfgn/module-keystone-6-green/dp/CS25966
http://cpc.farnell.com/tuk/skfyw/module-keystone-6-yellow/dp/CS25969
http://cpc.farnell.com/unbranded/keystone-6/module-keystone-cat6-white/dp/CS19535

I wouldn't use them in a business setup, as they're a tad fiddlier than simply punching down 24x cables into a patch panel. They have their uses at home though.

All linked up to CCS modules
Cat5e

or

Cat6

bulletv1 · 21 Apr 2016 at 11:58

Here's a pic of my lil setup

DJMK4 · 21 Apr 2016 at 13:47

Have a network diagram but would rather not show in its current state, needs sanitising

Anyway - Where I live now there is not much there, as its a shared house

Where all my kit is, is back at my rents garage where I host my kit, and have a FTTC circuit

Needs a bit of a going over, as I have a Cisco ASA 5505, and 2960 Switch that needs configuring and going in soon

But at the moment

80/20 Grade FTTC
BT VDSL Modem
TP-Link WAN router (being replaced by the 5505 soon)
Cisco 800 Series Router with 4 eth ports
Dell Optiplex SFF - Server (running ESX5.1)