Post Your Network! (56K = Possibly)

[Teece]

Some great post here - a shame it's been so quiet of late.

Our house is relatively new, and when we viewed it, I was sold as soon as I saw it was wired with Cat5

The patch panel is located in a big cupboard on the landing. The switch that came with the house was only 100Mbps, so that was upgraded pretty switfly to a Netgear GS724Tv4. I wanted a NAS, and since there was a wall-mounted cabinet, a Synology RS815 seemed a good choice - that's now full with 4x 3TB WD Reds. The server also resides in the cupboard, a XEON E3 with 32GB, currently running Server 2012 primarily as a Hyper-V host, with 5 VMs performing different roles - domain controller, mail server, media server, WSUS server and certificate/ADFS/management server. The router is also in the cupboard, a BiPAC 8900AX2400 connected to the ONT for the FTTP internet connection. The FTTP install was really neat, since we had a spare Cat5 socket right next to where the fibre enters the house (village has overhead cables!) so we avoided a massive run of fibre around the outside of the house. All the kit in the cupboard is protected by a UPS.

Elsewhere we have a couple of desktops and a couple of Surface Pro 6s for regular work & gaming, three Squeezeboxes of various flavours for music, and the PS4 and Samsung TV mostly all on wired connections (apart from the laptops) leaving the Wifi network relatively uncongested.

Next project is a server upgrade...

[mod1fied]

I'm always tinkering and changing my network, though the current setup I'm happy with.

Main Server
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i7 4770k with Under-volt
32GB RAM
~ 18TB storage for Apps/Games/Media
Windows Server 2019 with Hyper-V
Runs Plex mostly and media management in VMs (Sonarr etc)

NAS
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I3 3220T
16GB RAM
~3TB storage with upcycled 2.5" drives
Runs Proxmox for Nextcloud, file level backups, print server, S3 bucket, Gitea and VM backups of the main server

Use a work provided Fortigate 60F for firewall etc

[adamg]

Recently moved into a new build property and it had an Openreach FTTP modem pre-installed, ended up going with BT and getting 150/30 for £30/month, I did try the 930/120 plan but changed it before the 14 day cooling off period, downloading from sites using https hammers the CPU and my laptop couldn't really handle more than 450Mbit/s, anything over http was fine and could get the full 930 day and night, the upload was nice too. Ping times are around 4-5 ms higher than the previous FTTC we had.

[Scryder]

Wow! A thread from 2003??

Oldest necro I've seen to date. Guess this gets revived by new users once in a while! It's hilarious that one page back is a post from 10 years ago. Oh, and just noticed it's a Sticky thread. probably the reason.

[loztech]

I can't resist!

VM Hub 3 into pfSense router into Ubiquiti Unifi 24 port switch. Numerous Unifi access points. i5 6600 server running WS2016 for media. Slowly migrating this into a low power rack mounted VM.

To come: new NAS and network air bridge.

Thanks.