Show me your home networks

Lounge
BT Fibre Modem (27Mb/s)
Linksys/Cisco WRT610n v2/E3000 Tomato DD-WRT
Sky Box (ethernet)
2 Bay RAID device connected to USB2.0 port of Router
Powerline Adapter
VOIP Phone (ethernet) DECT (2 handsets)

Bedroom 1
Powerline adapter
5 port 100Mb/s Switch
Netflix Hitachi TV (ethernet)
PlayOn Media Player (ethernet)
VU+ Zero (BLACK) HD Single Tuner Linux Enigma 2 Satellite Receiver (ethernet)

Powerline adapter
VOIP Phone (ethernet)

Bedroom 2
Powerline adapter
VOIP Phone (ethernet)

Bedroom 3 AKA PC Room
Powerline adapater
Netgear 8 port Gigabit switch
PC 1 (ethernet)
PC 2 (ethernet)
VOIP Phone (ethernet)
Wifi Epsom Printer
Amiga 1200 with Wifi Card (work in progress)

I would love to get that lot properly terminated with Cat6 cabling running through the walls.
 
bledd. said:
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
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Such a tropical selection :p

Thanks for the links but it's too late for me as everything was patched up years ago and not worth the cost changing over as I used traditional labels and jacks. If I was to do everything again I'd definitely buy them.
 
Hmm, we use Farnell at work. I found a fantastic website to buy all my gear from that had great reviews and saved me £40 compared to the other sites I was looking at. I'm not sure if I can mention it here though. I know the rules say no competitors but I have no idea whether a website dedicated to selling networking gear counts as a competitor.
 
DragonQ said:
Hmm, we use Farnell at work. I found a fantastic website to buy all my gear from that had great reviews and saved me £40 compared to the other sites I was looking at. I'm not sure if I can mention it here though. I know the rules say no competitors but I have no idea whether a website dedicated to selling networking gear counts as a competitor.
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If you search on the forum, you'll see whether it's been mentioned in the past. I think I know where you are referring to.
 
2nd Bedroom
Sky fibre (40/10) using BT modem which connects via an external cat5e and goes to the garage. I might crimp the cat5e to directly to the master socket in the future so I can move the modem into the garage.

Garage rafters
N40L with freenas. 6x2TB in RAIDZ2 so ~8TB usable. OS installed on USB flash drive and it also has a plugin for bittorrent sync installed.
TL-WR703N for extra wireless range
Netgear unmanaged gigabit switch
APC UPS
esxi 5.5 host (with almost a year uptime) cobbled together with spare parts, Q6600, 6.5GB of RAM, 120GB SSD for VM OS disks and 3 NICs which runs 3 VMs:

-pfsense for internet
-mint cinnamon as a landing pad to access internal stuff
-ubuntu server for plex, sabnzbd, couchpotato, sonarr, teamspeak, splunk etc. This VM hooks into the storage from the NAS but also has 3x1tb using mdadm in RAID5 which I use for macrium reflect backups of the PC/laptops OS drives.

The VMs backup to the NAS using ghettovcb

Lounge
Another cat5e link from the garage goes into my N56U located in the tv cabinet which is just being used as an access point and a switch.

In the cabinet I have:
-Raspberry pi 2 with rasplex
-chromecast
-humax box
-work access point for working from home
-another cat5e run which goes around the room to my gaming PC

All PCs/laptops in my house and my parent's have onedrive and bittorrent sync for backups to the cloud and my NAS respectively. The NAS keeps zfs snapshots in case of cryptolocker infection.

Kitchen
Raspberry pi with wireless link and interfaced from the GPIO pins to my boiler controller (via a buffer circuit) to allow remote access (over vpn) for heating/hot water on/off

Outside
Another raspberry pi in a hedgehog house with a camera/movement sensor (no visitors yet). This gets power using a PoE injector in the garage.

I also run a site to site VPN from pfsense to my parent's N56U which runs entware. This has a USB hard disk shared using SMB and used as a target for macrium reflect backups of my parent's pcs. These rsync over to my ubuntu box each night (because I can) :D

No fancy racks but I do like my little setup and it's all up out of the way so you wouldn't know any of it was there.
 
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Nice and simple for me:

Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite 3 (Also serves as an OpenVPN server)
TP-Link 24 Port Managed Switch
TP-Link AP
Synology 2xx Series NAS

All rooms cabled with Cat5e and terminated back in the leccy box where all the above lives.

New Samsung Smart TV does everything I need it to but I also have a Pi 2 with OpenElec running.

If the TP-Link AP ever dies I'll replace it with a Ubiquiti AP.
 
Office
BT Fibre Modem (ECI) - 80/20 connection. Will swap for a cisco EHWIC at some point.
Cisco 1921 ISR G2 router
HP 1910-8G switch (linked to main rooms in the house)
HP M452NW network laser printer
POE injector for access point
Office PC

Landing
D-Link DAP-2695 AC1750 access point - 2 separate lans for 5g & 2.4g. Covers the entire house and most of the way into the garden from a single unit. (If device has decent antennas)

Bedroom 1
Netgear GS108 switch
Main gaming PC
Humax PVR
Marantz Receiver

Loft
12 bay home made server / Nas (7x2TB disks in RAID 5 at present) OpenSUSE with samba, plex, sftp & handbrake.
 
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Mine is pretty simple,

Lounge:
HG612 into a Draytek 2860 (60/15)
DS214Play - running standard DSM with Surveillance station, iTunes server and VPNserver
Apple Tv3
Sony AVR
Samsung TV
PS4
Sky Box
LightwaveRF Controller - Every light in the house and heating controlled via this.
8port Netgear Gigabit Switch
Lounge feeds up to Boiler Cupboard in bathroom

Boiler Cupboard
4 port POE switch
2 x Trendnet Ip310i 3mp CCTV cameras (Front and Rear of property)
8 port Netgear Gigabit switch connecting the rest of the wall ports up through the house

Master Bedroom
Apple Tv3

Loft
Draytek AP900 fed from POE in Boiler Cupboard

Each bedroom has 1 cat5e port in
 
I am going through a bit of a shake-up with my setup.

I have had an accident a few years ago, and because of that, I have been unable to go upstairs into my PC room, and so I am having my main bits moved around down here instead.

I have also been using a combination of homeplugs too, just for the kids for their game consoles, but the rest of the network in Gigabit.

The phoneline comes in and goes over to my Router.
The router then goes into my server. The server has 3 LAN ports.
Conected to the server is an 8 port switch.
Also Connected to this switch is
1 - Home plug
2 - My main PC
3 - Dlink NAS ( 2TB+2TB NON RAID)
4 - Dlink NAS ( 2TB+2TB JBOD)
5 - Netgear NAS ( 4x4TB )
6 - Printer
7 - Wall Ethernet port

The Wall Ethernet port is purely a basic CAT5 that follows along the ceiling hidden with trunking and around the door frame, in the corners etc etc etc, following up the stairs and then up into the attic. The attic has been converted int oa PC room about 15 years ago and the cable was supposed to be temporary while I was getting things done, but its stayed there because its never let me down.

My sons bedroom, my daiughters bedroom and the other side of the main living room, all have homeplugs in them.

My daughters is simply one wire to her PC.
My sons is connected to an old Modem and I am using that asa 4 port switch and wireless access point and its doing a great job so they can connect their XBOX one and PC to the ehternet ports on that, and their phones connect to the Wireless if needed

On the other side of the living room, another Homeplug is connected to another old Router, not usiong the WAN port so I have full two directional access, I have my Media PC, SkyBox, and xbox360.

I think this is it.

The server itself is NOT actually yet setup full as a server as such, I only bought it just before xmas purewly for a giggle but I decided to do it into a proper Server to justify spending so much on it and I will be buying new HDs etc so that I can come off the NAS Boxes and only use the one as actual backup, the other 2 are going to the community center for the PCs down there.

I am slowly working on it all cos I am disabled now and only have the use of one and a half hands and I am in a wheelchair so its going very very slowly.
 
80/20 fibre modem to Tplink AC gigabit router in master bedroom upstairs (one BT feed into house from pole outside [74/19] and feeds a four handset telephone system) . Cable to switch same room to feed 2x pc's roku, sky, Samsung smart tv and Amazon Fire HD and feed through to bedroom 3 for a Roku. Another feed from switch to downstairs lounge to switch for TV, Roku & Sky. Cable from main bedroom AC router 25 metre feed to back of house conservatory (poor WiFi with main AC wifi) and into gigabit switch. Conservatory gigabit switch feed a WiFi AC router/repeater and feed for pc, TV and feed to back master bedroom for TV, Sky Roku and radio. From conservatory switch a feed to mancave/garage to another switch to feed multiple pc's and house pc server and another AC repeater gigabit switch. Think that's it. Seems a right faff but been added and modded to a 1959 medium sized but large garden semi detached house.
 
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Hyperoptic hub router:
- TV in bedroom
- HDMI and ethernet extension cables outlet in bedroom under desk, ready for if I ever put a PC under there
- printer in storage room
- lounge 8-port switch:

Lounge 8-port switch:
- TV
- surround sound system
- LightwaveRF hub
- PC

Here's a run-through video of my ethernet cable run. Every cable from the router is Cat6/gigabit:
https://youtu.be/qwg3I1nAumM
 
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Got a cabinet in my utility room which is in need of some more cabling. Only cabling so far connects the openreach modem (hidden in a cupboard next to the phone socket) to my router in the cab. And there is a length of cable to my AP which is wall mounted in the dining room, which is near enough dead centre of the house. Everything is on wifi for now. My first priority is getting some cabling to the living room, I have the TV, Bluray, a Nuc with openelec and a Freesat box that would all be much improved if wired. Next job will be the office.

HP Procurve 1410-16G
Synology DS215j with 2x WD 2tb Red's
Ubiquiti UniFi UAP AC (Not pictured)
Dodgy Plusnet router + Openreach Modem (not pictured) On plusnet 80/20 fibre.

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I did have some lightwave RF stuff from my previous house however the minimum and maximum loadings of the dimmers with all the LED lights was more hassle that it was worth so I sold them.

Dave
 
MG42Maniac said:
Network Diagram in Spoiler:

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Everything seems to work well. Was worried about gaming on the i5 4590 but it's been faultless.
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What software did you use for that? Was it laid out for you automatically or did you have to drop and drag into place? Would love to be able to do something like that for work.
 
Any online tools where I can draw this out ? Need to put in ISP 2 which is on VLAN:200 linked to the routers

PHP: 
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| ISP 1 | (VLAN:100)                                    |      | Home Network (VLAN:1) | (Devices + multiple Wifi APs)
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    \__________ UNTANGLE (MASTER:PHYSICAL) ....................
                                                        |      .
    \__________ PFSENSE  (SLAVE:VIRTUAL ESXi) ................... <=== Heartbeat Failover ===> LAN (VLAN:1)
                                                        |      .
    \__________ OpenWRT  (SLAVE:PHYSICAL) .....................   (OpenWRT WiFI : VLAN:1)
                                                        |
                                                        |
                                                        |

http://pastebin.com/aag9hmpS
 
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