Networking on Broderic Duncan

Small Brain Moment

Wed, 24 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

So I recently had fiber installed for our house. I have symmetric speeds now of 400 down and 400 up! Everything is great, except for one little mistake I made. With this new fiber installation, the ISP needed to install an ONT, and originally I was hoping they could possibly give me some kind of rack mountable ONT, but yeah, they don’t give that to residential customers. So the plan was to mount it to the wall behind the network rack. And when they asked me where exactly I wanted it mounted, I didn’t really think much of it, and said to put it right next to the power outlet.

Installing a Network Rack in My House

Tue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

After about a month of work I’ve finally finished installing my new network, all contained in an actual network rack. If you want to see what my network was like before this, here is the post

Here is a quick before and after:

(Router and modem are upstairs. I have cable that runs directly to the switch here.)

(I’ve moved the router down here, while the modem stays upstairs, since that is where the source is. Don’t feel like tracing coax)

Networking My Parents' House

Wed, 01 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

So before I began this project, it was clear that the network closet was a mess:

Wires and cables everywhere. The patch panel is unorganized. There’s so much crap everywhere you can’t even tell what’s going on. I do want to say that most of this was not me. This was the previous owner. When we moved into the house the previous owner had already wired every inch of it with cat5e and coaxial. When installing Unifi AP’s around the house I traced them down to here and connected them all to a switch. The reason you don’t see a router or modem is because those are in a totally different room. For whatever reason the demarc doesn’t lead to the network closet. I’m sure there’s a way I can trace it to the network closet, but then I’d have to invest in a multimeter, which I don’t want to do just to trace coaxial.