Show me your home networks

This is the kit waiting to go into the new house once we finally exchange. I've had it all up and running (bar the internet connection, as I'm currently on VM and will be moving to a Zen FTTC offering).

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Yes, the phone system will manage all calls into and out of the building, preferring my SIP trunk over the PSTN network. The WLC will handle three SSIDs (Guest, Main and VoIP) across all three access points. I'd eventually like to upgrade my switches to 3750X PoEs (and thus ditch the need for the 3560), but at present that would be far too costly!

Likewise I'd also like wireless AC at some point, but APs are prohibitively expensive, and "N" will more than saturate my WAN connection anyway.

Unlisted on the diagram are my two 48-port patch panels (upstairs and downstairs), any PCs/Laptops/Tablets/TVs/Streaming Media/Printers, and my APC SmartUPS 1500 Rackmount.
 
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Speaking of which, here's my current "Cisco Lab" Lack, none of this kit gets used day-to-day, only when I'm messing about. Shame I'm going to have to migrate to a full-depth rack to house the UPS. :(

Mine was built out of two "Lacks", ditched the 2nd set of legs and fitted castors to the 2nd "base".

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Nice ... now we're getting some decent diagrams in here.

@paradigm nice network, maybe a bit overkill ?! .... but everyone to their own. Personally I'm going for energy efficiency. I'm currently trying to install ESXi on a machine that consums just 6W :D

@paradigm - if you do not mind - what app are you using to draw out your network. It's very nice Thanks
 
Nah, overkill would have been failover WLC4404s and ASA5520s! ;)

As with some of the users above, I used Visio 2013 with some Cisco stencils, although I made the ECi modem stencil myself.

I think you can still use LucidChart for free online with number of item limitations.

I'd be interested to know the spec of the 6w esxi rig!
 
Surprised you've not gone for a better router with LTE failover paradigm. It's all very well having VOIP phones and stuff over the place but the weakest link in your setup is a BT connection which as a common single point of failure is quite the oversight surely?
 
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paradigm said:
I've got a 3G/4G router, but it's that cack (edimax) it doesn't deserve to feature on my diagram :p

I might work it into a failover route map, we'll see ;)
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Not that I really needed it, but I had a Sierra Wireless (Netgear) Aircard with docking station until recently which worked really well for LTE fallback. It was nice to be able to take the actual Aircard out and about as well while not affecting the home network.
 
Can the Openreach modem be configured in that way? Seems like complete overkill but if you have the gear then you might as well use it.

I am amazed you have a 7920 that hasn't been smashed up or launched through a window in a fit of rage.

You've used the HP definition of trunk as well :p
 
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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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How do you find the RT-AC87U?

I have the VM Superhub but I'm having issues with wifi coverage in our house and also the internet dropping so looking at options for boosting the network performance for wifi and the cabled devices such as my PS4, NAS and Fire box etc.
 
markwilliams82 said:
How do you find the RT-AC87U?

I have the VM Superhub but I'm having issues with wifi coverage in our house and also the internet dropping so looking at options for boosting the network performance for wifi and the cabled devices such as my PS4, NAS and Fire box etc.
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Much better than the old superhub 2.ac that it replaced. The signal is stronger and goes a little bit further. In my use case, it just about reaches the car so I can use it to update apps on the headunit which is very handy :p The UI is also much better and it has many more features that are useful.
 
Study/Man-Cave:

ASUS RT-AC66U Router. Merlin Firmware. Runs an OpenVPN server. Connected to Sky Fibre via OpenReach modem.

Server, spec in my sig. This runs various dockers, including Plex Server, Couch Potato, Sonarr, NZBget, CrashPlan, Deluge, Headphones & Plex Requests. The server also acts as a NAS and VM Host. Only running one VM at the moment, Windows 10 with a passed through GTX1070. The server is connected to my network using 2 Gigabit connections and 802.3ad Dynamic link aggregation.

Samsung Blu Ray Home Theater system which I use for surround sound for gaming. It is connected to the network and can be used to access the Samsung Smart Hub on my monitor but I never use it.

Energy Note Geo Chorus Meter. This monitors my electricity usage and Solar Panel production and uploads all the stats to their website where I can view nice and graphs and stuff.

Solwise 1200AV2 HomePlug

All connected together using a TP-LINK TL-SG108 8-Port Switch.

Living Room:

5-port TP-LINK switch connected via an external Cat 5 cable to the switch in the Study.

Connected to the switch are...

Samsung PS64E8000 Plasma TV
Onkyo TX-NR414 AV Receiver
SkyHD+ Box
Raspberry Pi3 running RasPlex and fitted with RemotePi board.

All above controller with Logitech Harmony One.

Bedroom 1:

Solwise 1200AV2 HomePlug
Raspberry Pi3 running RasPlex

Bedroom 2:

Solwise 1200AV2 HomePlug
Raspberry Pi3 running RasPlex
XBOX 360

Bedroom 3:

Solwise 1200AV2 HomePlug
Raspberry Pi3 running RasPlex

Bedroom 4:

Solwise 1200AV2 HomePlug
Raspberry Pi3 running RasPlex
Nintendo Wii (connected via WiFi)

Garage:

Solwise 500AV Home Plug WiFi Adapter

Cupboard:

HP Laser Printer (connected via WiFi)
 
Mine is very basic:

BT Home Hub (4?) into TP-Link 8-port gigabit switch, connected with cat6 cables to:
TV, Freeview box, Xbox, and most importantly a cat6 cable running the length of my flat to my PC :)

The only "modification" I've done is to manually set the DNS servers on my PC to the fastest BT ones - before doing that it would sometimes be a bit slow loading websites.
 
Have you not set your wired devices to have fixed IPs? I do that because otherwise they can't communicate when the router is down (doesn't happen often but useful nonetheless).

Which DNS servers do you use? I've used OpenDNS for years but browsing is sometimes still a bit slow.
 
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