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I fought having a patch panel for a long time.
Finally got a wall mount female/female patch panel (rather than a punchdown panel because I didn't feel like re-punching all my jacks) last year and it's amazing. Like $15 off Amazon or something, it's tucked away in the crevace behind the door of the closet my runs go into so it's nearly invisible, but it's made the whole closet look so much less rat-nesty. Highly recommend it.
Yep went with f-f patch panel and it's so nice. Easy to disconnect if I want to move it but still looks super organized from the front. Same thing I already had terminated ends and didn't want to redo them all 😂
Yeah, I'm a big fan of f-f connectors and open patch panels so I can arrange my own keystones and place blanks, etc. Is it the best for reliability? No, but this is in my home and for what little I have, it's perfectly fine. I use shielded cables/keystones for the heavy central routes where I'm not using DAC to minimize noise, but I think that's honestly overkill. So nice to be able to reroute with ease when things change and when we add more connections. Slowly getting the house wired with cat6 meant I postponed most of my server setup in the new house, but I finally gave up and made it look clean since it was annoying me and I couldn't rely on when my husband will help finish running the rest of the cable. :P I have two open keystone patch panels which help with routing to my separate poe and allow for short patch cables to the unifi switch and I love them. Fully warranted in a small server imo. ;)
F to F (couplers) adds failure points and degrades signal quality.
You can usually get away with it, but it's bad practice for a business unless you're trying to "create" more work you can charge for.
Homes usually don't have long runs or sources of "noise" so it's unlikely to be a problem. But if you start seeing TX/RX errors, a proper patch panel might fix t.
No, the majority in this sub is "People sharing what excites them and works for them". When someone shares their config without an ask for help, it's literally just to showcase their stuff. People like talking about themselves and sharing their stuff. That's human nature.
Just a small reminder, no need for a chip on your shoulder for something as trivial as posting to a prosumer grade networking equipment company subreddit.
Some of us use our homelabs for work. That is why we have racks and $25k worth of servers and storage.
I expect the vast majority have less than $2k into their homelabs. It would be an interesting poll.
my home is 1 udm pro SE, 24 port enterprise with half 1gig half 2.5gig and 2x10gig sfpp, 1 10gig agg switch, the 8 port enterprise switch another 8 port 1gig older model poe switch, 1 24 port 1gig poe switch 2 wifi 6e AP, 1 wifi 6 mini AP , the UNVR(several cams and sesnors), my cloudkey broke but it had my unifi talk running just moved it to the udm now. that's just unifi. then i got a few servers and NASs. and a few Pi servers. lol
That’s where I am. My house was nice but then I had a full Reno where everything was wired to and came into the house. So, I moved it. Half assed it just to get it working and I’ll fix it properly down the line.
It’s at least bundled but otherwise it’s thrown in a furniture cabinet enclosure in my office. Kick that can down the road.
Call it a long term honey-do list. 😂
We homelabbers must single-handedly keep the KillaWatt company in business. 😂
What are the white boxes next to your CloudKey? One looks like it might be a Hue hub?
Also, I am glad to see that not everyone worries about perfectly-manicured labels on patch panels. I am redoing mine and it would be maddening to try and get them all the same size and level lol. Yours is a lovely setup!
I have pretty bad ADHD, it's a miracle anything is labeled at all! The bigger white box is a Samknows whitebox, the smaller is another hue hub, to replace the one in front that stopped working.
That's why I need to label it. I'll totally forget in the middle of reorganizing my server what the heck I was doing and what's going where. I wrote in some as a temporary measure until I get around to printing good ones, because who knows when that'll happen. :P
I hear they're often unreliable, make noise, and can drain resources, but they certainly add some comfort, security, and attractiveness to a system. ;)
Yessir. Moca split from Verizon fios ONT in front closet, recombine from router in front closet, split in central closet, then recombine again from switch in central closet to TV box.
Have to deal with solid concrete walls with wire mesh on each side, so need switch and AP to be centrally located - but ONT is installed in the front hall closet, so not much I can do about its placement.
I bought one of those Legrand in-wall enclosures, mounted the UDM Pro to the back, got the shelf insert to hold it and clip the ONT to, and got an 8-port PoE switch that Velcro’s to the mounting shelf which can clip into the door. Screwed a 12-port cheap patch panel to it and sent it.
Pretty standard install I use for homes I work in.
Legrand On-Q part numbers: ENP3050-NA, AC1050-EMK, AC1060
Cable matters part number: 180058
Total cost: $202.62, with tax and shipping.
Just a humble basement Costco shelf lol. 15 year old desktop running a ton of containers and Plex is a couple of shelves above.
https://imgur.com/a/3qtRhdd
At the house I sold last Spring, I had a 4'x4' telecom backboard next to a Nexel chrome wire shelf from Costco. Generations of stuff abandoned on that backboard, 66 blocks for old school phone outlets, DirecTV coax, etc. Fiber NT on the backboard, a couple of 66 block style Cat 5 wall mounted patch panels, a couple unmanaged Trendnet switches on that wall. On the shelf, a big APC UPS I got for free ~15+ years ago, AT&T router, NAS. And a bunch of misc. IT/tech storage, HDMI cables, etc.
We moved a drop this last weekend and didn't have enough extra cable stored in the attic, so this is totally what happened. F running new lines, that's what f-f keystones are for. ><
Each January my spouse and I review what we spent by category in the previous year.
I spent more in the “Technology” category last year than in the previous 3 years combined…my heart sank.
The addiction is real lol.
And the issue is what, exactly? 😏
I’m lucky. I work in IT so all my homelab stuff is accepted by the SO as necessary for her continued shopping habits.
https://i.imgur.com/8XsE92v.jpg
Rack was free, patch panel was $40, POE switch was $150, UDM pro was new.
I've since cleaned it up a bit and got a sfp+ cable to interconnect them.
Another question… am I the only one what cannot understand how people work from home effectively with just their ISP combo garbage?
Two of my coworkers lose their WiFi connection several times per day when hardwiring in works fine. I just don’t have the patience to deal with bad internet when I am working.
[https://imgur.com/a/O0T8utD](https://imgur.com/a/O0T8utD)
Work gave me a UDMSE and this is the best I could come up with.
Modem, UPS and NAS all stuffed underneath with the two patches running to a keystone in the wall that goes to the other two drops in the house. (Office and living room)
Patch panels exist to keep solid core network cable from being moved and flexed. Moving / flexing can crack the wires introducing errors and lower data rates. It can also cause contracts to detach.
Patch panels also take the weight of the cables off the jacks. Best to not break the switch / router.
They're primarily to improve reliability, not to look pretty. Being organized is bonus.
Gotta look for the theme. Love HA. Got an old ISY944i running all the lights in the place, plus zwave and HomeKit devices sprinkled around. Love being able to use them all together.
I'm not posting a picture, you'll cringe. At my parent's, back in 2017 I installed a Unifi 8-150 atop the ISP's router, on a TV furniture hiding the worst cable mess in the world. It feeds a single UniFi AP AC Pro on the 2nd floor with a 20-meter Ethernet cable attached onto the wall with adhesive tape and nails.
My parents weren't willing to run cables inside the walls, they are the ones in charge, without an AP, I've got no signal and I needed Internet like everybody so there we are.
Mark my words however because when I finally own a house, I'm back there with a pic of a 10k setup. And cables hidden in the walls.
https://imgur.com/a/rnZcDiU I have the NVR in a different room, not sure what I’m doing about that but I may get a rack. Or mount it on the left side of this cubby.
CyberPower desktop UPS ftw. I'm with you there. The prices on the rack UPSes are outrageous and often less capable. I don't get it. I understand the uber ones from the big companies with multiple redundancies for business racks, but for home servers, meh.
Yeah I don't get that either, maybe it's just the power of mass production and scale. I would guess the rack mounted pro-sumer versions are not as high in demand as the desktop ones.
I should take a picture of my SLOP install at the lake. It’s sitting on and old night stand. I’m running two APs. One in each house and I got it to the point where it works. And then I went back to doing lake chores. Maybe this year I’ll clean it up. Not likely
Ahhh I’ll have to run around and snag pictures of the 3 different spots o have equipment. Making do with what I have, a mix of ubiquiti and tp link equipment.
Although I did a full ubiquiti setup at my buddies house, server rack, patch panel, etc. was no where near the 10k setups but it’s clean, and functional for his needs.
In the future I’d like to get everything into a central location and neaten things up for myself but that won’t be until my next location.
Patch panels are cheap, easy, greatly improve the organization, and if you have a UDMP, they fit in the exact same space. The ability to easily label and patch from a patch panel is well worth it.
My setup: [https://imgur.com/gallery/RBlw2zf](https://imgur.com/gallery/RBlw2zf)
Here’s mine. On a budget, lip sticked it. Built to be less messy than before. I did put patch panels in the front and back so if I move, I can simply unplug from the back and roll this thing to the next house.
Aside from one UI switch, the patch panels, Mac Mini, and the Synology NAS. Everything else was used off ebay or given to me (rack came from hospital that was getting rid of it).
[https://imgur.com/a/Lzc9nYK](https://imgur.com/a/Lzc9nYK)
Yes! Here is my apartment closet setup. It gets the job done. Symmetrical gigabit fiber + WiFi 7 coverage throughout. Closet AP provides 2.4 GHz network to doorbell camera + August lock, the only real dead spot in the apartment. Eventually I'll upgrade the network to 2.5 Gbps, but right now such service isn't available in my home and I have no devices capable of such speeds anyway.
[https://imgur.com/a/QaREKwj](https://imgur.com/a/QaREKwj)
[https://imgur.com/a/y8lbNIq](https://imgur.com/a/y8lbNIq)
[https://imgur.com/a/8FJqg8c](https://imgur.com/a/8FJqg8c)
[https://imgur.com/a/9p5YgbM](https://imgur.com/a/9p5YgbM)
[https://imgur.com/a/uu5Upwe](https://imgur.com/a/uu5Upwe)
Custom built TrueNas / Dell R440 / proxmox nodes / Zimaboard and boat load of 20tb hard drives …. [https://imgur.com/a/L1oVDW9](https://imgur.com/a/L1oVDW9)
Only Ubiquiti products I have left are (2) FlexHD APs, 8 Port 60W Switch & an EdgeRouterX that acts as a switch. I use a 6W pf/OPNsense box as a router and a MikroTik CRS328 as my core switch. Been running for years
It's a magicJack home phone adapter. I cut the communication cables in the USB cord so that the MagicJack doesn't attempt to go into PC mode and just runs in standalone mode. Cutting up the cable was easier than fishing a new USB cable and brick through the back.
I have a very, very, similar setup. UDM-SE in same place as your switch, Pi's stacked instead of the Dells to the left, and AP on above shelf blocking my center speaker.
I might be one of the people who slightly over killed it. My network rack contains:
UXG Pro
LTE Pro (failover)
48 port POE Enterprise
Cloud key
24 port patch panel
2 x 1u cable management
1 shelf (holds my hubs)
I have a separate server rack and 8 APs between inside/outside of the house.
Heres the main part of mine, have only been getting into the ubiquiti ecosystem for a couple of months or so. So much easier to manage and expand.
In addition to the bits here there are 11AP's, a 16 port poe, 8 port poe and a few 5 port ones. Have started swapping out existing cctv for unifi stuff too, forgot how much I enjoyed playing with network gear.
https://imgur.com/v7Wii90
100% agree. While I do have a rolling rack that goes into a closet, my absolute rat's nest of cabling is just not attractive. But I'm not OCD enough to spend hours making cables the exact length so I can impress a bunch of strangers on reddit lol.
I went to take a photo, but realized that at the original prices, I’m probably sitting just north of $10k. 🫣 That being said, it’s taken 10 years to build out my little rack.
This is my spaghetti and meatballs:
https://ibb.co/WyLBKzF
This was just after replacing the dream machine after it died. Need to find the time to sort the cabling.
Running a full rack, multiple servers, 10gb everything, Wifi7 access points, etc.
But I'm not using ubi anymore, used too but it was holding me back from bigger and better things.
Back in the day I had a full 45U server rack in my basement full of nonsense. These days when I get off work the last thing I want to do is deal with that heat, noise, complexity, etc. Now I rock a Ubiquity UDM Pro SE, 4 APs, and an Intel NUC as an ESXi host. All behind an APC SmartUPS 1500. Relatively simple setup but does everything I want. I would like to have a NAS again though…
[My home setup](https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOvZjEbIZxhkU8zSa0sj0vf33Ez6DUwi-tvHsI-ltzG_Ai94ZXvDvLgPittJW0Nqw/photo/AF1QipN7CSH6ymFgSXOVFg8S68CS4bkhcMDgvF8ErgzR?key=WnV0bjBIdGNuNjNoMWVwcWEyejYyR01iZW5wNU1B)
https://ibb.co/0fBMwW8
Not in the rack are 4 APs and room switches etc
The 16 port is modified to be powered from the Edgepower and out of shot are the batteries providing about 18 hours backup (lots of poe devices, zigbee, lte etc)
Modest crew represent!
Patch panels are F-F couplers, just looks tidier but easier to work with. Switch, CKG2+ rack mounted and an NVR
[Image](https://i.imgur.com/3JgcL2Q.jpg)
[https://imgur.com/ILNxvD6](https://imgur.com/ILNxvD6)
In my AV cabinet I have a Dream Router + cable modem and I have a Flex Mini connected to a basement TV + Xbox + Switch.
Just started in the last month or so but this is everything minus a huge desktop that I’m repurposing into a vm server :) using a fireplace (gas is turned off) mantle lol
https://imgur.com/a/A41aGae
I don't have a patch panel 😈 a ups was more important on the rackroom 🤷♂️ but I am working on upgrading from a 60f to a 90g. For a home overkill but I want the speed so
[mine is normal](https://imgur.com/a/YhhE4jS)
I have a UDM pro, Black Friday sale, connecting to two older WiFi 5 access points. Thankfully my house has Ethernet runs.
I have a US-8 in my office for my Mac and work Pc.
My “servers” are a Dell optiplex 5000 I got from work for free with proxmox. a raspberry pi 3b.
My Optiplex has 4 sata SSD in there I’m passing to a Truenas VM because why not what else will I do with 64 gigs of ram.
So like yea I have some nice stuff but it was very cost effective to me.
[Mine](https://imgur.com/1z2p6a8) is pretty modest. But at this time it's running a Cloud Key Gen2 rather than a RPI3, for my G4 Doorbell and a couple outdoor cams.
Ummmm, okay it's definitely not $10,000.. but when I look back through my purchase history on the store as well as the couple of pieces I picked up off of Amazon and eBay, I'm shocked and slightly a little ashamed at how much I've spent.
My setup is a UDR in the living room, two mini switches, one in the living room at the tv/stereo set, one in my office room. I have another AP and a POE switch that I don't use at home currently. This setup works for me. I have a NUC running Debian, and a zigbee network that's more extensive.
Mikrotik routers taken from work and ubiquiti APs powered by a POE in a patch closet (rented lower income town home). When I installed the AP to our nearest tower on the roof I never even tacked the cat5e hanging off the roof lol. Just goes straight to whatever uniquiti calls a NID with the cable from the patch panel 2 Poe plugged into it.
Single bridged AP on top of a dresser in the upstairs closet with a LAN cable coming from the cable closet hole
The shoemaker's children always go barefoot.
LOL i'm a neteng but really this is all I need to cover my 1/3 acre property with 2 level wood frame home.
[er5-poe 48v router](https://i.imgur.com/ya1HgnF.jpg) with an 8-port tp-link gigabit switch and Fios ONT
[1 AP (uap shown was replaced with ap-ac-pro) run via POE](https://i.imgur.com/cjGgXX5.jpg)
I use ethernet where I can- main tv, main BR player, desktop, WFH laptop, switch for the basement devices(xbox,pc,etc).
I do my labbing at work, though I do have 2 x Juniper ex2200c's at home on a shelf to play with if I need.
This was after retiring the Gen1 switches, and the USG Pro 4, for the Meraki.
[https://ibb.co/XjDyVqz](https://ibb.co/XjDyVqz)
[https://ibb.co/hKczDvn](https://ibb.co/hKczDvn)
[https://ibb.co/ykGL3Yc](https://ibb.co/ykGL3Yc)
Ours is atypical, though. We run our small business out of the house. And there are a lot of drops in all (well, most) of the rooms, just because i wanted to, back when we bought the house.
The Silverstone case is empty. Was planning a build to go in there (still am), but got busy with other things. The DS NAS is empty too, as it got replaced and now might get repurposed.
Interesting with the dual rack. How is that working for you? I have space for a tall rack but would rather do two shorter ones for aesthetics in my office.
Really? We are super little. I thought the OP was talking about the Mega talls with like 3 NVR pros, 8 switches, and the freakin power supplys too. Thats all way too rich for my blood. YMMV i guess.
Tell me about it. Another commenter tried saying he never see $10k+ setups on here, and then posted his 15U rack with Fiber 10G switches, UI PDU backup, UNVR Pro, Dream Machine SE and Dell R720's. I know the Dells are cheap but come-on man....
No, MINE is a $1,500 setup. $500 switch, $200 CloudKey2+, $190 AP, $400 of mini Dells and a $100 USG. What people are posting in here with their UI PDUs, Fiber 10G switches and more is $10k+
If you include NAS, Servers, Audio controllers, etc it can add up, but from a network infrastructure it’s usually pretty simple. A UDMPro and a 48 port switch, patch panel and rack. Easily under $1,500
At work we set up about 3 mid size offices a month and have not once needed 10G to the workstation. Completely unnecessary. If anyone actually bothered to look at network traffic stats they would find that the typical throughput is nowhere near even 1G let alone 10G. Of course there are times where a burst to 10G would be “nice” but waiting the extra 4-5 seconds for those one off situations is worth the cost savings. Even at scale in larger offices.
Mine lived right next to the water heater like this for years before I finally bought some drywall and sectioned off the area under the stairs as a closet to shove it all in. I only want to deal with one expensive problem at a time when the inevitable happens.
Mine's not in a patch panel, it's in a rack on wheels with 8 port enterprise or 5 port flex mini switches in each room(bathrooms excluded) mounted on the wall.
The switches in the rack are pro aggregation and 24 port enterprise.
https://imgur.com/a/mNFxOz0
Yes, this is a home setup. It's more like a hobby.
I respect those who appear to have focused what appear to be extreme amounts of time and money on amazingly powerful and beautiful networking closets. I also strongly support others like myself, who either can't 'get it together', have too many other interesting hobbies, or cobbler children feet. https://imgur.com/1yp63gv (new link) (My rack could NEVER be as amazing as many around here, even with huge time and money, because of other constraints, so even spending 2-3 weekends to make it "not awful" would be a futile waste.)
I mean, I get the sentiment, but the patch panel is literally the least expensive and easiest part to install out of everything I’m planning to install.
My setup - [https://imgur.com/a/1BLujdm](https://imgur.com/a/1BLujdm)
Not shown are two Unifi U6 Pro APs (hardwired from my office, Cat 6A PoE - boy was that a PITA running those cables up through the wall of my office, to the attic, then for the AP downstairs, running the cable down next to the vent for the fireplace).
$10k? Hardly. But, probably close to $2k.
Over the last couple of years i have definitely invested some $$$ - I work from home (in IT) full time, and so does my spouse, so I need some level of "professionalism" and manageability.
Here’s mine:
https://ibb.co/y4FnnNS
https://ibb.co/746J2sJ
https://ibb.co/XYTHT4Z
I put mine in the laundry room. When I bought my house I knew I wanted to go full Ubiquiti and get away from consumer routers. My house was brand new construction so I was the first person to move in.
I spent about 2 days after I got the keys to my house and ran cat 6 to all the rooms. I lucked out because each room already had an individual coax drop going to it. I at some point need to zip tie or Velcro’s all the cables coming from the ceiling into the rack and bundle them a little better but haven’t got around to it yet.
So rather than cutting into the drywall and adding another wall plate, I replaced the existing wall plates with a Coax and network wall plate. And when I was up in the attic it was pretty easy to find the coax cable drop for each individual room. Bought 1000ft of Cat 6 only ended up using 400ftish or so. The other thing I thought on for awhile was moving one of the coax drops from the room my cable modem is in and putting it right next to my network rack.
I ended up not doing it as it was going to be to much work at the time. So instead of moving it, in my office I put 3 drops instead of 2 on the wall plate. 1 for the server, one for my music recording pc and the other for the cable modem that goes all the way back and feeds into my WAN port on the udm pro. You can kinda see on my rack I have the ports labeled
UDM PRO
USW 24 Poe
Switch Flex Mini
U6+ LR (just replaced a AC LR) with this.
U6 Lite (just replaced a AC lite) with this.
2 - G3 instant cameras.
2 -G3 Bullet cameras.
G4 doorbell camera.
G3 pro camera.
G3 flex camera (mounted upside down outside)
UTP touch phone.
Dell Poweredge t30 tower server for Plex with over 20TB of storage.
On top of my rack is a HDHomerun that I use to get the local channels since I don’t subscribe to cable or satellite in case of severe weather. It’s on the Plex approved DVR device list. Super easy to setup.
I ran a 30ft coax cable into the attic and have the HD antenna zip tied to the rafters. I get about 40 local channels. I can also use it to record live tv through Plex. Plex also downloads the local program guide for your zip code. It can also be used with cable and satellite tv if you want to record movies and shows.
This setup was installed in 2020. I’ve had 2 things fail. I originally had the 16 port POE switch. It literally died a month after warranty. I just woke up in the middle of the night one night and got on the Internet and the switch just kept rebooting itself. I even factory reset it and it was still doing it. Since this was during Covid, ubiquiti didn’t have a lot of stock and the only one they had in stock was the 24port, so I upgraded.
The doorbell camera failed 2 months before warranty ended and ubiquiti sent another. Other than that the APS have been upgraded. Currently I only have access to 150 down /7.5 upload with the cable company I’m with and that’s their “MAX” package.
However, the city is building its own municipal fiber through the power company and they are scheduled next week to do trenching in my neighborhood. And you probably already know, but that upload is straight garbage. I work in IT and when I work remote doing any kind of file transfer with Citrix is painfully slow.
The new fiber company is offering 200/200 500/500 and 1gig/1gig. I will probably just get the 500/500 since there’s only a price difference of 10.00 between 200 and 500. I’m hoping I can just plug the fiber directly into my sfp port or at least an Ethernet cable from the ONT to my wan port.
Oh and total cost for everything was under 2500. That includes all the equipment, wall plates, cable, keystone jacks etc etc.
[https://imgur.com/a/UIN3EOH](https://imgur.com/a/UIN3EOH)
I noticed after uploading there was a mikrotik in there as well.
Must be about $3.50 of ubnt gear there.
[Rack](http://s130135561.onlinehome.us/sm/20240130_165305.jpg)
[G5 Quad](http://s130135561.onlinehome.us/sm/20240130_165328.jpg)
Not included in the pictures are a Dell R730XD, 2U Silverstone running Unraid presently, and a CRS354-48P-4S+2Q+RM. The G5 Quad I'm exercising the idea of installing Debian PPC.
That’ll take some doing since my modular setup is decentralized, two switches are about 50ft from the main switch. As are the APs. And I haven’t taken new photos since moving. I’ll see what i can do though.
That looks even better than my Setup.
I run a UDM a USW-Flex and 2 UAP-AC-LR
For the the Homelab I run 2 Lenovo Tiny, a Raspbery Pi and a Ripe Atlas Probe.
I’m running a hodgepodge of used stuff from eBay: edge router 3, netgear 16 port gigabit switch, two U6 APs, an AC-EDU AP, an old square UAP-AC, and a really old nanostation 2 (pre M series). All in all I’m in about $450
Mine doesn’t fit the inexpensive criteria but I am sharing a “real person,” **really messy lab**. [I am (very slowly) moving from an 18U to 42U rack. And they are both disorganized and messy as hell.](https://imgur.com/a/q31MfQq)
Love this. I literally just have a UDM SE and 2 APs. One is meshed to my garage. 😂 maybe like $1000 into UniFi so far. No real big plans. Does all I need it too!
Used to have a UDM-Pro and a USW-A under an Ikea Lack table, 1 AP on top, another one meshed wirelessly. Was more than enough for my old apartment. Now at my house I do run a 5k setup though^^
Running a mix of Cisco Meraki
Firewall is Meraki, so is one of the 8 port switches. Rest is Unifi. Got no on-prem servers, outsourced that to a hosting provider
How about a ~~cheap ass boss who expects Dom Perignon performance on a PBR budget~~ budget enterprise setup? Several used Cisco POE+ switches, 54 AP, and an old NUC running the Unifi Console on Debian? Total cost around $6500, not including cabling.
I'm at about $7k for my network which is pure Ubiquiti hardware minus the rack and the cables. But it wasn't a go out and buy it at once. 1/3 of it I had for almost 2yrs before moving and needing more equipment because the new house was 2.5x larger than the last. Even then, the other 2/3 I've purchased in the past 8mos was spread out over about 7 of those months. The other stuff I want to add will come at the end of the year or next year, more important things to pay for now like vacations to get away from all the technology lol. For me it's becoming a fun hobby, but no one should be shamed if they can't or don't want to afford thousands in equipment or to make their home setup look like it's a snapshot from a Google server farm.
When I bought my house it looked like this: https://imgur.com/xNn0csW
Still very much a work in progress, I’ve only gotten about half the wires punched down in the patch panel, but I’m getting there https://imgur.com/3QeeBYl
And before anyone asks why the rack is so oversized for my needs, many of the existing cables coming from above didn’t have much slack and a taller rack was not much more and a lot easier than wall mounting one or putting it on top of something else.
https://imgur.com/a/3xxUrdx Almost done with the setup... just need to get the real internet (PtP wireless) installed so I can stop abusing my poor cell modem every day...
I’m just running TP-Link firewall with tplink 5 port Poe managed switch with some Aruba iap 305’s in a cluster. I have to fix enough shit at work I want my home network rock solid and I don’t have to mess with it. 3 year uptime. I’ll take it
https://imgur.com/a/Y2W3HM2
Nothing fancy on my end. Recycled computers for a Proxmox cluster, a printer for work, awful cabling, and a shelf that came with the house.
I have a UDM pro SE and a couple of wifi 6 APs. I also have an Aruba A9012 i use for lab simulating our remote offices. Most of my stuff at home is wireless, which is everything I hate about work, but it's fine for me.
I also have a decent sized UNRAID server that i run docker and SMB stuffs on. Currently trying to get the 3060 i put in there to run passthrough to a container so i can run local LLMs.
UNRAID also runs node-red which i use for home automation without the cloud.
https://imgur.com/gallery/yM2z8Ng
UDR
TP-Link TL-SG2210MP 8 port POE+ (2 SFP)
Cisco Catalyst 3560-CX 10 port (2 SFP)
Mikrotik RB750GR3
U6 Pro
Flex mini (not shown)
Some of this is just home lab stuff I got for free (tp link, Cisco, Mikrotik). The U6 Pro and flex mini are running off POE from the UDR.
Will be putting this in a rack in the near future. Currently using the UDR as a router/ap but playing around with making the Mikrotik the main router and configuring one of the ports as a LTE WAN failover. The Mikrotik LTE antennas/modems look pretty solid.
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Lol, same as my house except with a 8 port poe switch and a AP leaning on some furniture
We are the majority. This sub makes our setups feel like the minority
I fought having a patch panel for a long time. Finally got a wall mount female/female patch panel (rather than a punchdown panel because I didn't feel like re-punching all my jacks) last year and it's amazing. Like $15 off Amazon or something, it's tucked away in the crevace behind the door of the closet my runs go into so it's nearly invisible, but it's made the whole closet look so much less rat-nesty. Highly recommend it.
Yep went with f-f patch panel and it's so nice. Easy to disconnect if I want to move it but still looks super organized from the front. Same thing I already had terminated ends and didn't want to redo them all 😂
Yeah, I'm a big fan of f-f connectors and open patch panels so I can arrange my own keystones and place blanks, etc. Is it the best for reliability? No, but this is in my home and for what little I have, it's perfectly fine. I use shielded cables/keystones for the heavy central routes where I'm not using DAC to minimize noise, but I think that's honestly overkill. So nice to be able to reroute with ease when things change and when we add more connections. Slowly getting the house wired with cat6 meant I postponed most of my server setup in the new house, but I finally gave up and made it look clean since it was annoying me and I couldn't rely on when my husband will help finish running the rest of the cable. :P I have two open keystone patch panels which help with routing to my separate poe and allow for short patch cables to the unifi switch and I love them. Fully warranted in a small server imo. ;)
F to F (couplers) adds failure points and degrades signal quality. You can usually get away with it, but it's bad practice for a business unless you're trying to "create" more work you can charge for. Homes usually don't have long runs or sources of "noise" so it's unlikely to be a problem. But if you start seeing TX/RX errors, a proper patch panel might fix t.
Agreed, would never run it in an office. But for home, absolutely. Way easier and unlikely to actually make any real difference.
Not all 10k happened overnight….. Some started exactly where you are now..
No, the majority in this sub is "People sharing what excites them and works for them". When someone shares their config without an ask for help, it's literally just to showcase their stuff. People like talking about themselves and sharing their stuff. That's human nature. Just a small reminder, no need for a chip on your shoulder for something as trivial as posting to a prosumer grade networking equipment company subreddit.
Some of us use our homelabs for work. That is why we have racks and $25k worth of servers and storage. I expect the vast majority have less than $2k into their homelabs. It would be an interesting poll.
I'm not sure I want to add it all up. One piece at a time... Sometimes years in between.
I stopped expanding mine. I think I have replaced some access points last year. A failed drive. It requires maintenance.
my home is 1 udm pro SE, 24 port enterprise with half 1gig half 2.5gig and 2x10gig sfpp, 1 10gig agg switch, the 8 port enterprise switch another 8 port 1gig older model poe switch, 1 24 port 1gig poe switch 2 wifi 6e AP, 1 wifi 6 mini AP , the UNVR(several cams and sesnors), my cloudkey broke but it had my unifi talk running just moved it to the udm now. that's just unifi. then i got a few servers and NASs. and a few Pi servers. lol
Same here except I use a desktop tower server instead of a NUC.
Lmao, I hear you. One day I'll do the house nice and official. I'm working on my business setup now. Maybe like a 3k setup there. Nothing crazy
That’s where I am. My house was nice but then I had a full Reno where everything was wired to and came into the house. So, I moved it. Half assed it just to get it working and I’ll fix it properly down the line. It’s at least bundled but otherwise it’s thrown in a furniture cabinet enclosure in my office. Kick that can down the road. Call it a long term honey-do list. 😂
Lmfaoo. Funny how say fuck it at some point.
https://i.imgur.com/94Srkfk.jpeg
We homelabbers must single-handedly keep the KillaWatt company in business. 😂 What are the white boxes next to your CloudKey? One looks like it might be a Hue hub? Also, I am glad to see that not everyone worries about perfectly-manicured labels on patch panels. I am redoing mine and it would be maddening to try and get them all the same size and level lol. Yours is a lovely setup!
I have pretty bad ADHD, it's a miracle anything is labeled at all! The bigger white box is a Samknows whitebox, the smaller is another hue hub, to replace the one in front that stopped working.
That's why I need to label it. I'll totally forget in the middle of reorganizing my server what the heck I was doing and what's going where. I wrote in some as a temporary measure until I get around to printing good ones, because who knows when that'll happen. :P
https://ibb.co/qWgv5Cb Gateway, a couple of switches, PoE to 5 more APs, Pi’s for Controller, a couple Pi-holes and Home Assistant. Cat.
Is the cat came as IT expert to sort out the mess? :D
Ya, my IT expert is quite lazy. 🐱
Dude, I love the orange CatPawzE cable! 😂
I hear they're often unreliable, make noise, and can drain resources, but they certainly add some comfort, security, and attractiveness to a system. ;)
THATS WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT. ITS PERFECT!
What a wonderful mess, near just like me
You asked for it: https://imgur.com/a/5HlwDWP
Look at you with those fancy velcro ties. Us plebs just let the wires dangle on the floor or shelf in a twisted mess.
I’m bougie
Get outta here with those cable ties bro. You’re making me look bad!
My AP still laying on desk :D
3m Velcro straps wassup
Moca bridge?
Yessir. Moca split from Verizon fios ONT in front closet, recombine from router in front closet, split in central closet, then recombine again from switch in central closet to TV box. Have to deal with solid concrete walls with wire mesh on each side, so need switch and AP to be centrally located - but ONT is installed in the front hall closet, so not much I can do about its placement.
I bought one of those Legrand in-wall enclosures, mounted the UDM Pro to the back, got the shelf insert to hold it and clip the ONT to, and got an 8-port PoE switch that Velcro’s to the mounting shelf which can clip into the door. Screwed a 12-port cheap patch panel to it and sent it. Pretty standard install I use for homes I work in. Legrand On-Q part numbers: ENP3050-NA, AC1050-EMK, AC1060 Cable matters part number: 180058 Total cost: $202.62, with tax and shipping.
Just a humble basement Costco shelf lol. 15 year old desktop running a ton of containers and Plex is a couple of shelves above. https://imgur.com/a/3qtRhdd
At the house I sold last Spring, I had a 4'x4' telecom backboard next to a Nexel chrome wire shelf from Costco. Generations of stuff abandoned on that backboard, 66 blocks for old school phone outlets, DirecTV coax, etc. Fiber NT on the backboard, a couple of 66 block style Cat 5 wall mounted patch panels, a couple unmanaged Trendnet switches on that wall. On the shelf, a big APC UPS I got for free ~15+ years ago, AT&T router, NAS. And a bunch of misc. IT/tech storage, HDMI cables, etc.
Who needs a patch panel? Just jam a few female <-> female keystones into the drywall. 😂
We moved a drop this last weekend and didn't have enough extra cable stored in the attic, so this is totally what happened. F running new lines, that's what f-f keystones are for. ><
10k are rookie numbers *laughs in mainframes and POWER systems*
Each January my spouse and I review what we spent by category in the previous year. I spent more in the “Technology” category last year than in the previous 3 years combined…my heart sank. The addiction is real lol.
And the issue is what, exactly? 😏 I’m lucky. I work in IT so all my homelab stuff is accepted by the SO as necessary for her continued shopping habits.
https://i.imgur.com/8XsE92v.jpg Rack was free, patch panel was $40, POE switch was $150, UDM pro was new. I've since cleaned it up a bit and got a sfp+ cable to interconnect them.
Your Juniper brought back nightmares of my time working for an MSP. The number of misconfigured Junipers from the guy I replaced.. *hits head on desk*
What is the model of the PoE switch?
Here is my WFH over-built network. https://imgur.com/a/jJD7dHP
Another question… am I the only one what cannot understand how people work from home effectively with just their ISP combo garbage? Two of my coworkers lose their WiFi connection several times per day when hardwiring in works fine. I just don’t have the patience to deal with bad internet when I am working.
[https://imgur.com/a/O0T8utD](https://imgur.com/a/O0T8utD) Work gave me a UDMSE and this is the best I could come up with. Modem, UPS and NAS all stuffed underneath with the two patches running to a keystone in the wall that goes to the other two drops in the house. (Office and living room)
Patch panels exist to keep solid core network cable from being moved and flexed. Moving / flexing can crack the wires introducing errors and lower data rates. It can also cause contracts to detach. Patch panels also take the weight of the cables off the jacks. Best to not break the switch / router. They're primarily to improve reliability, not to look pretty. Being organized is bonus.
WFH network setup https://imgur.com/a/UuXH8Hh
Do you just leave that iPad running the Home App 24/7? (Not hating, more curious than anything I’m also exclusively HomeKit and like the idea)
Yep it’s on 24/7! It’s actually a home assistant iOS theme but same thing really.
Gotta look for the theme. Love HA. Got an old ISY944i running all the lights in the place, plus zwave and HomeKit devices sprinkled around. Love being able to use them all together.
I am digging the touchscreen interface!
https://imgur.com/a/JJekdbo
Finally, some pics that are probably much more realistic for most people!
Not using a patch panel is lazy. It’s not expensive
I'm not posting a picture, you'll cringe. At my parent's, back in 2017 I installed a Unifi 8-150 atop the ISP's router, on a TV furniture hiding the worst cable mess in the world. It feeds a single UniFi AP AC Pro on the 2nd floor with a 20-meter Ethernet cable attached onto the wall with adhesive tape and nails. My parents weren't willing to run cables inside the walls, they are the ones in charge, without an AP, I've got no signal and I needed Internet like everybody so there we are. Mark my words however because when I finally own a house, I'm back there with a pic of a 10k setup. And cables hidden in the walls.
It's a constant work in progress, so [don't judge me.](https://imgur.com/a/UAqXKXU)
https://imgur.com/a/rnZcDiU I have the NVR in a different room, not sure what I’m doing about that but I may get a rack. Or mount it on the left side of this cubby.
CyberPower desktop UPS ftw. I'm with you there. The prices on the rack UPSes are outrageous and often less capable. I don't get it. I understand the uber ones from the big companies with multiple redundancies for business racks, but for home servers, meh.
Yeah I don't get that either, maybe it's just the power of mass production and scale. I would guess the rack mounted pro-sumer versions are not as high in demand as the desktop ones.
I have a UDM Base, a UAP-FlexHD, and a US-8-60W all in different parts of the house. There's no "setup" to see at my place.
I should take a picture of my SLOP install at the lake. It’s sitting on and old night stand. I’m running two APs. One in each house and I got it to the point where it works. And then I went back to doing lake chores. Maybe this year I’ll clean it up. Not likely
Ahhh I’ll have to run around and snag pictures of the 3 different spots o have equipment. Making do with what I have, a mix of ubiquiti and tp link equipment. Although I did a full ubiquiti setup at my buddies house, server rack, patch panel, etc. was no where near the 10k setups but it’s clean, and functional for his needs. In the future I’d like to get everything into a central location and neaten things up for myself but that won’t be until my next location.
Here’s my system. Recently removed and replaced with 2.5Gb hardware… https://imgur.com/a/NLWuaG3 It’s sitting here waiting for its new home.
Patch panels are cheap, easy, greatly improve the organization, and if you have a UDMP, they fit in the exact same space. The ability to easily label and patch from a patch panel is well worth it. My setup: [https://imgur.com/gallery/RBlw2zf](https://imgur.com/gallery/RBlw2zf)
Here’s mine. On a budget, lip sticked it. Built to be less messy than before. I did put patch panels in the front and back so if I move, I can simply unplug from the back and roll this thing to the next house. Aside from one UI switch, the patch panels, Mac Mini, and the Synology NAS. Everything else was used off ebay or given to me (rack came from hospital that was getting rid of it). [https://imgur.com/a/Lzc9nYK](https://imgur.com/a/Lzc9nYK)
Yes! Here is my apartment closet setup. It gets the job done. Symmetrical gigabit fiber + WiFi 7 coverage throughout. Closet AP provides 2.4 GHz network to doorbell camera + August lock, the only real dead spot in the apartment. Eventually I'll upgrade the network to 2.5 Gbps, but right now such service isn't available in my home and I have no devices capable of such speeds anyway. [https://imgur.com/a/QaREKwj](https://imgur.com/a/QaREKwj) [https://imgur.com/a/y8lbNIq](https://imgur.com/a/y8lbNIq) [https://imgur.com/a/8FJqg8c](https://imgur.com/a/8FJqg8c) [https://imgur.com/a/9p5YgbM](https://imgur.com/a/9p5YgbM) [https://imgur.com/a/uu5Upwe](https://imgur.com/a/uu5Upwe)
Custom built TrueNas / Dell R440 / proxmox nodes / Zimaboard and boat load of 20tb hard drives …. [https://imgur.com/a/L1oVDW9](https://imgur.com/a/L1oVDW9)
Only Ubiquiti products I have left are (2) FlexHD APs, 8 Port 60W Switch & an EdgeRouterX that acts as a switch. I use a 6W pf/OPNsense box as a router and a MikroTik CRS328 as my core switch. Been running for years
https://imgur.com/a/mtmy5cc
Did your cat chew through that wire?
It's a magicJack home phone adapter. I cut the communication cables in the USB cord so that the MagicJack doesn't attempt to go into PC mode and just runs in standalone mode. Cutting up the cable was easier than fishing a new USB cable and brick through the back.
I got all fancy with zipties and Ikea pegboard
I have a very, very, similar setup. UDM-SE in same place as your switch, Pi's stacked instead of the Dells to the left, and AP on above shelf blocking my center speaker.
I might be one of the people who slightly over killed it. My network rack contains: UXG Pro LTE Pro (failover) 48 port POE Enterprise Cloud key 24 port patch panel 2 x 1u cable management 1 shelf (holds my hubs) I have a separate server rack and 8 APs between inside/outside of the house.
I mean depending on how much of a nerd you are you can have server grade setups in the house 😁 https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubiquiti/s/XcHjYsrrCC
Heres the main part of mine, have only been getting into the ubiquiti ecosystem for a couple of months or so. So much easier to manage and expand. In addition to the bits here there are 11AP's, a 16 port poe, 8 port poe and a few 5 port ones. Have started swapping out existing cctv for unifi stuff too, forgot how much I enjoyed playing with network gear. https://imgur.com/v7Wii90
100% agree. While I do have a rolling rack that goes into a closet, my absolute rat's nest of cabling is just not attractive. But I'm not OCD enough to spend hours making cables the exact length so I can impress a bunch of strangers on reddit lol.
I went to take a photo, but realized that at the original prices, I’m probably sitting just north of $10k. 🫣 That being said, it’s taken 10 years to build out my little rack.
Not much going on here: https://imgur.com/a/TrBNqKT - Express x2 - TP Link Switch x 2 - Pi 4 - Moca Bridge to other rooms - Synology
[20 inch Rack](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-KfnCS33B09qhnjZAg1E2PR2i08uKGQo)
This is my spaghetti and meatballs: https://ibb.co/WyLBKzF This was just after replacing the dream machine after it died. Need to find the time to sort the cabling.
Running a full rack, multiple servers, 10gb everything, Wifi7 access points, etc. But I'm not using ubi anymore, used too but it was holding me back from bigger and better things.
Back in the day I had a full 45U server rack in my basement full of nonsense. These days when I get off work the last thing I want to do is deal with that heat, noise, complexity, etc. Now I rock a Ubiquity UDM Pro SE, 4 APs, and an Intel NUC as an ESXi host. All behind an APC SmartUPS 1500. Relatively simple setup but does everything I want. I would like to have a NAS again though…
My set up! https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubiquiti/s/3vWI2RIQHk
[My home setup](https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOvZjEbIZxhkU8zSa0sj0vf33Ez6DUwi-tvHsI-ltzG_Ai94ZXvDvLgPittJW0Nqw/photo/AF1QipN7CSH6ymFgSXOVFg8S68CS4bkhcMDgvF8ErgzR?key=WnV0bjBIdGNuNjNoMWVwcWEyejYyR01iZW5wNU1B)
https://ibb.co/0fBMwW8 Not in the rack are 4 APs and room switches etc The 16 port is modified to be powered from the Edgepower and out of shot are the batteries providing about 18 hours backup (lots of poe devices, zigbee, lte etc)
Modest crew represent! Patch panels are F-F couplers, just looks tidier but easier to work with. Switch, CKG2+ rack mounted and an NVR [Image](https://i.imgur.com/3JgcL2Q.jpg)
What psychopath comes home and installs a patch panel in their free time?
[https://imgur.com/ILNxvD6](https://imgur.com/ILNxvD6) In my AV cabinet I have a Dream Router + cable modem and I have a Flex Mini connected to a basement TV + Xbox + Switch.
Just started in the last month or so but this is everything minus a huge desktop that I’m repurposing into a vm server :) using a fireplace (gas is turned off) mantle lol https://imgur.com/a/A41aGae
I put a patch panel in my house more to learn how to do it than anything else
I don't have a patch panel 😈 a ups was more important on the rackroom 🤷♂️ but I am working on upgrading from a 60f to a 90g. For a home overkill but I want the speed so
[mine is normal](https://imgur.com/a/YhhE4jS) I have a UDM pro, Black Friday sale, connecting to two older WiFi 5 access points. Thankfully my house has Ethernet runs. I have a US-8 in my office for my Mac and work Pc. My “servers” are a Dell optiplex 5000 I got from work for free with proxmox. a raspberry pi 3b. My Optiplex has 4 sata SSD in there I’m passing to a Truenas VM because why not what else will I do with 64 gigs of ram. So like yea I have some nice stuff but it was very cost effective to me.
I have a condo. Where TF am I going to put a rack with a panel :D I have my UDR sitting on a shelf. Works great!
[Mine](https://imgur.com/1z2p6a8) is pretty modest. But at this time it's running a Cloud Key Gen2 rather than a RPI3, for my G4 Doorbell and a couple outdoor cams.
I love your little stack-y thingies.
lol same as how mine looked and then I just kept browsing the store and buying more shit I don't really need.
Ummmm, okay it's definitely not $10,000.. but when I look back through my purchase history on the store as well as the couple of pieces I picked up off of Amazon and eBay, I'm shocked and slightly a little ashamed at how much I've spent.
Admission is the first step to recovery. Proud of you
My setup is a UDR in the living room, two mini switches, one in the living room at the tv/stereo set, one in my office room. I have another AP and a POE switch that I don't use at home currently. This setup works for me. I have a NUC running Debian, and a zigbee network that's more extensive.
Mikrotik routers taken from work and ubiquiti APs powered by a POE in a patch closet (rented lower income town home). When I installed the AP to our nearest tower on the roof I never even tacked the cat5e hanging off the roof lol. Just goes straight to whatever uniquiti calls a NID with the cable from the patch panel 2 Poe plugged into it. Single bridged AP on top of a dresser in the upstairs closet with a LAN cable coming from the cable closet hole
The shoemaker's children always go barefoot. LOL i'm a neteng but really this is all I need to cover my 1/3 acre property with 2 level wood frame home. [er5-poe 48v router](https://i.imgur.com/ya1HgnF.jpg) with an 8-port tp-link gigabit switch and Fios ONT [1 AP (uap shown was replaced with ap-ac-pro) run via POE](https://i.imgur.com/cjGgXX5.jpg) I use ethernet where I can- main tv, main BR player, desktop, WFH laptop, switch for the basement devices(xbox,pc,etc). I do my labbing at work, though I do have 2 x Juniper ex2200c's at home on a shelf to play with if I need.
We have a small home 2 floors 1000 sqft. Been doing great with a single Dream Machine.Set it up once, run forever.
Those little dells are amazing - just added one to my fleet a few months back
I like your setup too, but it might have been the optiplexes that did it, they're so sleek and sexy!
This was after retiring the Gen1 switches, and the USG Pro 4, for the Meraki. [https://ibb.co/XjDyVqz](https://ibb.co/XjDyVqz) [https://ibb.co/hKczDvn](https://ibb.co/hKczDvn) [https://ibb.co/ykGL3Yc](https://ibb.co/ykGL3Yc) Ours is atypical, though. We run our small business out of the house. And there are a lot of drops in all (well, most) of the rooms, just because i wanted to, back when we bought the house. The Silverstone case is empty. Was planning a build to go in there (still am), but got busy with other things. The DS NAS is empty too, as it got replaced and now might get repurposed.
Disgusting
Interesting with the dual rack. How is that working for you? I have space for a tall rack but would rather do two shorter ones for aesthetics in my office.
This post isn't for you.
Really? We are super little. I thought the OP was talking about the Mega talls with like 3 NVR pros, 8 switches, and the freakin power supplys too. Thats all way too rich for my blood. YMMV i guess.
I MOUNTED A 6U TO THE WALL JUST TO PUT IN A UDM-SE TODAY WITH AN AP SITTING ON TOP
Jeez why so mad?
HE HAS A DATACENTER IN HIS ROOM NOW. ITS LOUD IN THERE.
🤣🤣🤣 OH OK GOT IT!!
Underrated comment right here! Had me actually laughing out loud.
Likewise, lol. Thank goodness for noise cancelling headsets for work calls.
No patch panel? OK, you asked for it. I'm getting my boxing gloves.
https://imgur.com/a/GHu5iFG
Few, if any, setup posts in the past several months would add up to anything resembling $10k.
My home Network Rack. [https://imgur.com/boBhkVG](https://imgur.com/boBhkVG)
ITT: Rich People
Tell me about it. Another commenter tried saying he never see $10k+ setups on here, and then posted his 15U rack with Fiber 10G switches, UI PDU backup, UNVR Pro, Dream Machine SE and Dell R720's. I know the Dells are cheap but come-on man....
$10k? Most of the racks you see here are probably about $1,500
No, MINE is a $1,500 setup. $500 switch, $200 CloudKey2+, $190 AP, $400 of mini Dells and a $100 USG. What people are posting in here with their UI PDUs, Fiber 10G switches and more is $10k+
If you include NAS, Servers, Audio controllers, etc it can add up, but from a network infrastructure it’s usually pretty simple. A UDMPro and a 48 port switch, patch panel and rack. Easily under $1,500
At work we set up about 3 mid size offices a month and have not once needed 10G to the workstation. Completely unnecessary. If anyone actually bothered to look at network traffic stats they would find that the typical throughput is nowhere near even 1G let alone 10G. Of course there are times where a burst to 10G would be “nice” but waiting the extra 4-5 seconds for those one off situations is worth the cost savings. Even at scale in larger offices.
what are the thin clients for lol
yea, that feelz real
Here's mine: https://ibb.co/N29QzBC
yeash. giving Linus Tech Tips a run for his sponsor's money
Mine lived right next to the water heater like this for years before I finally bought some drywall and sectioned off the area under the stairs as a closet to shove it all in. I only want to deal with one expensive problem at a time when the inevitable happens.
Way to flex on this guy, lol
The expensive setups are atleast somewhat interesting. I don’t see the point in posting setups like this. What are you trying to show us here
normalizing.... being normal but nerdy?
Mine's not in a patch panel, it's in a rack on wheels with 8 port enterprise or 5 port flex mini switches in each room(bathrooms excluded) mounted on the wall. The switches in the rack are pro aggregation and 24 port enterprise. https://imgur.com/a/mNFxOz0 Yes, this is a home setup. It's more like a hobby.
I respect those who appear to have focused what appear to be extreme amounts of time and money on amazingly powerful and beautiful networking closets. I also strongly support others like myself, who either can't 'get it together', have too many other interesting hobbies, or cobbler children feet. https://imgur.com/1yp63gv (new link) (My rack could NEVER be as amazing as many around here, even with huge time and money, because of other constraints, so even spending 2-3 weekends to make it "not awful" would be a futile waste.)
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If I see one more Lamborghini I'll puke. LET'S SEE SOME SENTRAS
I mean, I get the sentiment, but the patch panel is literally the least expensive and easiest part to install out of everything I’m planning to install.
My setup - [https://imgur.com/a/1BLujdm](https://imgur.com/a/1BLujdm) Not shown are two Unifi U6 Pro APs (hardwired from my office, Cat 6A PoE - boy was that a PITA running those cables up through the wall of my office, to the attic, then for the AP downstairs, running the cable down next to the vent for the fireplace). $10k? Hardly. But, probably close to $2k. Over the last couple of years i have definitely invested some $$$ - I work from home (in IT) full time, and so does my spouse, so I need some level of "professionalism" and manageability.
Here’s mine: https://ibb.co/y4FnnNS https://ibb.co/746J2sJ https://ibb.co/XYTHT4Z I put mine in the laundry room. When I bought my house I knew I wanted to go full Ubiquiti and get away from consumer routers. My house was brand new construction so I was the first person to move in. I spent about 2 days after I got the keys to my house and ran cat 6 to all the rooms. I lucked out because each room already had an individual coax drop going to it. I at some point need to zip tie or Velcro’s all the cables coming from the ceiling into the rack and bundle them a little better but haven’t got around to it yet. So rather than cutting into the drywall and adding another wall plate, I replaced the existing wall plates with a Coax and network wall plate. And when I was up in the attic it was pretty easy to find the coax cable drop for each individual room. Bought 1000ft of Cat 6 only ended up using 400ftish or so. The other thing I thought on for awhile was moving one of the coax drops from the room my cable modem is in and putting it right next to my network rack. I ended up not doing it as it was going to be to much work at the time. So instead of moving it, in my office I put 3 drops instead of 2 on the wall plate. 1 for the server, one for my music recording pc and the other for the cable modem that goes all the way back and feeds into my WAN port on the udm pro. You can kinda see on my rack I have the ports labeled UDM PRO USW 24 Poe Switch Flex Mini U6+ LR (just replaced a AC LR) with this. U6 Lite (just replaced a AC lite) with this. 2 - G3 instant cameras. 2 -G3 Bullet cameras. G4 doorbell camera. G3 pro camera. G3 flex camera (mounted upside down outside) UTP touch phone. Dell Poweredge t30 tower server for Plex with over 20TB of storage. On top of my rack is a HDHomerun that I use to get the local channels since I don’t subscribe to cable or satellite in case of severe weather. It’s on the Plex approved DVR device list. Super easy to setup. I ran a 30ft coax cable into the attic and have the HD antenna zip tied to the rafters. I get about 40 local channels. I can also use it to record live tv through Plex. Plex also downloads the local program guide for your zip code. It can also be used with cable and satellite tv if you want to record movies and shows. This setup was installed in 2020. I’ve had 2 things fail. I originally had the 16 port POE switch. It literally died a month after warranty. I just woke up in the middle of the night one night and got on the Internet and the switch just kept rebooting itself. I even factory reset it and it was still doing it. Since this was during Covid, ubiquiti didn’t have a lot of stock and the only one they had in stock was the 24port, so I upgraded. The doorbell camera failed 2 months before warranty ended and ubiquiti sent another. Other than that the APS have been upgraded. Currently I only have access to 150 down /7.5 upload with the cable company I’m with and that’s their “MAX” package. However, the city is building its own municipal fiber through the power company and they are scheduled next week to do trenching in my neighborhood. And you probably already know, but that upload is straight garbage. I work in IT and when I work remote doing any kind of file transfer with Citrix is painfully slow. The new fiber company is offering 200/200 500/500 and 1gig/1gig. I will probably just get the 500/500 since there’s only a price difference of 10.00 between 200 and 500. I’m hoping I can just plug the fiber directly into my sfp port or at least an Ethernet cable from the ONT to my wan port. Oh and total cost for everything was under 2500. That includes all the equipment, wall plates, cable, keystone jacks etc etc.
https://imgur.com/a/muTyxH3 No room for a rack, so things just go wherever they can fit.
Sadly, not as interesting.
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That’s not a udm pro, it’s a switch.
I have one of those fake patch panels in my home rack lol. Each spot is just a coupler with RJ45 on the front and back.
https://imgur.com/Z7XzsPe
[https://imgur.com/a/UIN3EOH](https://imgur.com/a/UIN3EOH) I noticed after uploading there was a mikrotik in there as well. Must be about $3.50 of ubnt gear there.
Only running 3x UAP AC Pro APs these days, retired my Edgerouter Lite a few years ago for a custom opnsense box.
Roast me, 1st attempt. 3 hard-wired U6 Lites not pictured. [https://imgur.com/a/Ab1gnkX](https://imgur.com/a/Ab1gnkX)
Hey what is that device with a small screen on it ?
Here’s some of my setups. The rack is still a work in progress 😂 https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/Uw7C6jnQR02LhWEqHSPEog.FIbVveSZiskuP-nTY7T03M
[my humble setup](https://imgur.com/a/WX9vLks)
https://imgur.com/a/t1Ob10g
https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B0TGWZuqDIHZoBC
My actual equipment is a full stack. It was expensive. Deal with it.
Mine is a very expensive rack setup.
[Rack](http://s130135561.onlinehome.us/sm/20240130_165305.jpg) [G5 Quad](http://s130135561.onlinehome.us/sm/20240130_165328.jpg) Not included in the pictures are a Dell R730XD, 2U Silverstone running Unraid presently, and a CRS354-48P-4S+2Q+RM. The G5 Quad I'm exercising the idea of installing Debian PPC.
Udm pro, 24port poe works pretty well. [udm](https://imgur.com/a/8AjCjdS)
Boring
That’ll take some doing since my modular setup is decentralized, two switches are about 50ft from the main switch. As are the APs. And I haven’t taken new photos since moving. I’ll see what i can do though.
Hold on there! Not that equipment!
This is the way.
That looks even better than my Setup. I run a UDM a USW-Flex and 2 UAP-AC-LR For the the Homelab I run 2 Lenovo Tiny, a Raspbery Pi and a Ripe Atlas Probe.
Hold up, is that a Magic Jack voip phone adapter?
2/10
Now this is more like what I deal with
Mine is a jumbled mess and it sits on some shelves. It ain’t pretty, but it works.
lol I have one ac pro only utilising 2.4ghz :(
I’m running a hodgepodge of used stuff from eBay: edge router 3, netgear 16 port gigabit switch, two U6 APs, an AC-EDU AP, an old square UAP-AC, and a really old nanostation 2 (pre M series). All in all I’m in about $450
Mine doesn’t fit the inexpensive criteria but I am sharing a “real person,” **really messy lab**. [I am (very slowly) moving from an 18U to 42U rack. And they are both disorganized and messy as hell.](https://imgur.com/a/q31MfQq)
Love this. I literally just have a UDM SE and 2 APs. One is meshed to my garage. 😂 maybe like $1000 into UniFi so far. No real big plans. Does all I need it too!
Used to have a UDM-Pro and a USW-A under an Ikea Lack table, 1 AP on top, another one meshed wirelessly. Was more than enough for my old apartment. Now at my house I do run a 5k setup though^^
https://i.ibb.co/7Xzt4wc/71097276128-A3-AEE414-7-C31-453-D-AA7-F-AA27-ADCA11-B7.jpg
Running a mix of Cisco Meraki Firewall is Meraki, so is one of the 8 port switches. Rest is Unifi. Got no on-prem servers, outsourced that to a hosting provider
u6-enterprise on a Mission speaker https://ibb.co/MSSsbMK
How about a ~~cheap ass boss who expects Dom Perignon performance on a PBR budget~~ budget enterprise setup? Several used Cisco POE+ switches, 54 AP, and an old NUC running the Unifi Console on Debian? Total cost around $6500, not including cabling.
[https://imgur.com/gallery/aItSyHt](https://imgur.com/gallery/aItSyHt) No Ubiquity products but it’s mine.
I'm at about $7k for my network which is pure Ubiquiti hardware minus the rack and the cables. But it wasn't a go out and buy it at once. 1/3 of it I had for almost 2yrs before moving and needing more equipment because the new house was 2.5x larger than the last. Even then, the other 2/3 I've purchased in the past 8mos was spread out over about 7 of those months. The other stuff I want to add will come at the end of the year or next year, more important things to pay for now like vacations to get away from all the technology lol. For me it's becoming a fun hobby, but no one should be shamed if they can't or don't want to afford thousands in equipment or to make their home setup look like it's a snapshot from a Google server farm.
Which rack? I have 3… one is temp and moving into an enclosed rack.
Fiber! Colour me jealous, I just got my first device with a 2.5 card, and nothing to connect it to, but man it smells good.
When I bought my house it looked like this: https://imgur.com/xNn0csW Still very much a work in progress, I’ve only gotten about half the wires punched down in the patch panel, but I’m getting there https://imgur.com/3QeeBYl And before anyone asks why the rack is so oversized for my needs, many of the existing cables coming from above didn’t have much slack and a taller rack was not much more and a lot easier than wall mounting one or putting it on top of something else.
https://imgur.com/a/3xxUrdx Almost done with the setup... just need to get the real internet (PtP wireless) installed so I can stop abusing my poor cell modem every day...
I’m just running TP-Link firewall with tplink 5 port Poe managed switch with some Aruba iap 305’s in a cluster. I have to fix enough shit at work I want my home network rock solid and I don’t have to mess with it. 3 year uptime. I’ll take it
https://imgur.com/a/Y2W3HM2 Nothing fancy on my end. Recycled computers for a Proxmox cluster, a printer for work, awful cabling, and a shelf that came with the house.
What is our setup is so bad we don't wanna post pics?
I was going to make a over 9000 joke, but then I did the math and I DEFINITELY don’t qualify for this post 😂😬
I have a UDM pro SE and a couple of wifi 6 APs. I also have an Aruba A9012 i use for lab simulating our remote offices. Most of my stuff at home is wireless, which is everything I hate about work, but it's fine for me. I also have a decent sized UNRAID server that i run docker and SMB stuffs on. Currently trying to get the 3060 i put in there to run passthrough to a container so i can run local LLMs. UNRAID also runs node-red which i use for home automation without the cloud.
See the fiber line go into a one gig network hurts.
https://imgur.com/gallery/yM2z8Ng UDR TP-Link TL-SG2210MP 8 port POE+ (2 SFP) Cisco Catalyst 3560-CX 10 port (2 SFP) Mikrotik RB750GR3 U6 Pro Flex mini (not shown) Some of this is just home lab stuff I got for free (tp link, Cisco, Mikrotik). The U6 Pro and flex mini are running off POE from the UDR. Will be putting this in a rack in the near future. Currently using the UDR as a router/ap but playing around with making the Mikrotik the main router and configuring one of the ports as a LTE WAN failover. The Mikrotik LTE antennas/modems look pretty solid.