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Tour of my home network.
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- Опубліковано 25 січ 2013
- As requested by several viewers, I've made a little walk through of my home network. You get to see some other parts of my house that aren't particularly tidy or clean.
I was deadass watching this for at least a minute being like why does everything he own look like its from 2012 before realizing when this was uploaded.
That network is basically managed like a professional network on a small scale. I like that idea.
Unsurprising seeing as he's an IT network administrator.
+RealityFacade oh that makes sense
+RealityFacade its cabled and labeled well but an IT admin would never use the equipment he has chosen. netgear switches are insanely unreliable as are the western digital "my books" that he has as his NAS. an IT admin would have used an old 10/100/1000 switch from work for his switches (prob cisco or hp, i use hp) and built a file server for his NAS which would run RAID 10, 5 or 1 at the very least.
+Steve Simonds Considering he bought most of the stuff already used, it is no wonder. He bought it cheap without worries plus he seems like an Apple user with the i and all :P
+Helveteshit he instantly runs everything into switches.. and IT guy would first run everything to a patchpanel.. much better.
While I'm sure WiFi in 2013 wasn't as reliable as it has been in the past few years, I don't think it was _that_ bad back then. I do like this setup as it's clean and has a clear purpose and is kept neat (cable management). Nicely done, and I will keep checking for a 2019 revisit of this to see what's changed.
Yeah, reliably moving you towards cancer every passing hour.
1:43 "i didn't clean anything up for you"
my friends whenever we go to their house
I recommend filming an update of your home network.
I'd imagine he's simply added for storage, and he's also gotten rid of Firewire for USB. Not much to say, really.
Antone Alpha it looks like he nearly took up all those ports and probably got another switch
Haha no shit. I'm a eth0 fanboy too but you cannot still be moving like this in 2018
He lives in a mansion now. He has almost 1 million Subs and average view is 1,5 million each video. 40,000 dollars a month. He has his full time network and backup guy now probably.
@@S0NOSMANLl probably at the end ya no lol
"We have no cable or satellite"
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Also, this comment section is so full of cancer it is untrue. I'm a Windows guy but the amount of people complaining about his use of Macs and not rack mounting anything is so stupid.
That comment made me laugh my ass off
Dude, SPEAK UP!
I agree 1000% about this comment section. The Apple bashing is very uneeded, it's what it is but not bad, just not the same. And the Windows bashing is so outdated, incorrect and quite dumb in some cases too.
@FinalEvilElpis dick...
Also everyone is like "yeah, I do prefer wired over wireless..."
Like no shit of course wired is better.
This video is in 60fps, and it looks great.
Funny enough, this isn't the first 60fos video on UA-cam, way back in 2008, we have Cartfrog, the oldest youtube video to have 60fps. Back in 2008, that was actually impressive, since UA-cam didn't implement 60fps uploads to UA-cam until 2014, so seeing something uploaded earlier than 2014 that is in 60fps was unheard of.
Nice and neatly organized setup 8-bit Guy. It made me smile when I heard your preference of wired LAN over WiFi. Same here, including laser over inkjet. This is usually a logical/practical choice for those looking for the best cost/performance solution. Obviously wireless is convenient, but it has lots of variables which degrades the connection speed/quality (connection protocol, interference, latency, overhead, placement, etc). Even the highest practical speed of WiFi is no match to a consistent/stable ethernet connection, especially when transferring large files. Both technologies are pretty mature by now, so they can be used concurrently in most network setups.
Agreed
***** Agree with you that wireless has come a log way, but if you wanna squeeze out the very last drop of speed, wired will always do better. Wireless inherently has more overhead, that's just the ways it was and always will be my friend. :)
>watches video on networking
>buffering
Not with a switched gigabit connection over ethernet
+xXx_Ted_Cruz_xXx VoteForMe I love the news you carry on fire department's lacy Dillon
+Lacy Dillon '
mfw
"complicated mess of wireless" is one of the best things I've heard in a while :)
I love the 'preciseness' of your videos. You talk 'to-the-point' and thats awesome. Stay in good health buddy :)
Film Maker I‘m german and I don’t think he is precise.
Film Maker I'm precise and I don't think he is german.
I love your desk setups. Just what I was looking for for my limited space. Thank you for sharing!
PS: I personally wish I could do wired, but I just have an apartment. Currently, my high-end TP-link AC router actually works really well with few issues.
Bless his wife for letting him do that.
2:37 Rip headphone users
Overmodulation is nothing without clipping.
Rýán Túçk xD
+Ryan Zhu I am using headphones...I missed the warning.
+TheEighthCow i feel you brother
+Ryan Zhu he actually scared me, I was on another window
Love this guy. Fun to watch and easy to listen to.
This is the best home network setup I have seen on UA-cam so far. Very neat and clean setup. Awesome to have Ethernet jacks on every wall.
Guys... he's Lester From GTA V
+Fellipe Oliveira wouldn't mind having this dude on some mission impossible heist shit.
He look like my muti media teacher
😂
lol wow... this comment made my day...
Crap, now I can never get that image out of my head... CURSE YOU INTERNET!!!!
Thumbs up for 60fps, IN 2013.
He recorded it in 60fps (59.98 huehuehue), but youtube doesn't encode in 60fps until 2015
Heck YT supported 4K, *IN 2010!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
@Hand Grabbing Fruits Yes! Just google it.
I really applaud your setup for many reasons, things I've always believed also: A) wired ethernet beats wireless all of the time. wireless is subject to interference and flaky, and honestly for things that don't move why bother? just run a cable to it. It's easy. B) Laser printers, never inkjet, waste of money, totally absolutely agree. I advise all of my clients the same way. C) I love the mac minis! Seriously, for browsing the web or looking at PDFs around the house, you don't need anything more powerful than that, nice compact form factor too. Kudos on still using the PPC macs, i was so fond of them. Anyway, thanks for this!
Great video! Very well organized!
Oh wow, hi Jarrett
the fuck are you doing here?
Time for a 2017-2018 update?
@kyle Micallef yep. Need new video
Or 2019 update?
2020 update
@@TheKingArabia Maybe he's waiting until 2023 to make it 10 years!
NotSleepy He mentionned that he might do one on Patreon!
I finally found the channel i always been looking for. Thank you.
I completely agree about using a wired network in the house. I have a fanless 24 port Netgear switch that I got on eBay three years ago for $8. It has worked flawlessly since then. Great video - good work.
Part of my Air Force career involved me climbing above drop ceilings and running twisted-pair for the base network! I was very proud of our efforts as we would run the cables in the wall with fishtape and just like your installation were very professional!! Cheers!
inspiration for when i finally close on a house. thanks for sharing!
this guy is truly well organized
Sometimes, I watch this to fall asleep💤😴
And then at 2:37 you're rudely awakened again XD
I have a similar setup but my gear is all gigabit Ethernet. I have 14 Ethernet jacks around my apartment with Category 6A cabling (should have gone with optical fiber on some links) but since there are quite a few mobile devices floating around I have to make sure my Wi-Fi coverage is satisfactory. My network is centered around several repurposed old PCs and Raspberry Pi's running Linux as routers, so I have a very enterprise-y network with advanced network tricks deployed.
+陈北宗 Interesting use of the Raspberry Pi's! I've been wanting to buy some myself.
Raspberry Pi 2 serves as a pretty solid router with a couple of USB Ethernet and Wi-Fi adapters (I usually go with one Ethernet and one Wi-Fi adapter, together with the onboard Ethernet I have a wired uplink, a wired downlink and a wireless downlink.)
Since Raspberry Pi runs a full blown Linux distribution just like those used in enterprise environments all network tricks available on those Jupiter or Cisco Linux-powered routers or other enterprise-grade gear are also available on this tiny box. My home network currently uses a repurposed old PC as the router (also powered by Linux) and I can play with tricks like WPA2 Enterprise.
That's really awesome! Kudos to you for implementing innovative solutions!
+陈北宗 teach me obi1
+陈北宗 that's not "enterprise-y"
with Cat 6a you should get 10GbE switches, no fibre needed. Cat 6a can handle 10GbE upto 100 meters.
Haha just saw this. 48 Ethernet jacks is pretty sweet... It's all the apple products where you start to loose me.
Accuracy158 if I had 48 Ethernet jacks even the iPhones would have Ethernet
WiFi isn't complicated, but wired is still the best way to go. Not many people know how WiFi actually works behind the scenes.
+BlueBetaPro My rule is: If Ethernet is feasible, do Ethernet. The less radio traffic, the better.
Apart from hacking issues, why is Ethernet preferred?
Redwave trance Ethernet is preferred because:
1. it is more reliable. You plug in the wire and it instantly works. Wi-Fi is a lot more bothersome to set up, there are SSIDs and passwords and encryption to worry about...It's a pain.
2. It is faster. On Ethernet, every Cat6 cable carries data at 100 or 1000 Mb/s. Each and every device on an Ethernet network gets it's own 100 or 1000 meg duplex pipe and they can all transmit at the same time. On Wi-Fi, all devices on a hot spot share about 50 Mb/s, and only one can send or receive at a time.
3. It is faster II. There are two allocations of spectrum for Wi-Fi: the 2.4GHz band and the 5 GHz band. The 2.4 GHz band is devided between 11 channels. They overlap. Channels 1 and 2 will interfere with each other; you should only ever use channels 1, 6 and 11. That means only three networks can share space without overlapping. Once you have more than three, they start interfering with each other. 5 GHz is larger and less busy, but fewer devices are made for it. If I can, I use 5 GHz instead of 2.4.
4. It is more secure. I'm not worried about my data being safe here; it's all going out over the internet, and no internet connection is really secure. But it's a lot harder for my neighbors to steal my Ethernet bandwidth.
5. PoE. Ethernet is capable of transmitting power for devices like Wi-Fi hot spots, cameras, home automation and IoT devices. Wi-Fi can't do that.
+rlrsk8r1 thanks for the reply! One more question: what if a router shares a WiFi and Ethernet connection? Will that impact the Ethernet speed?
That's hard to answer. If you're using your network to attach all of your devices to the internet, ultimately yes. The connection out to the internet is much slower than Ethernet or Wi-Fi in almost all cases, so each device that is pulling traffic simultaneously slows things down for everyone.
On the other hand, if you're like me and you use your network to talk between devices--I have a file server with Network Area Storage, a networked printer, and I use SSH to access my Raspberry Pis--that traffic never hits my router, it all goes through my switch, completely unaffected by wireless traffic.
I like that setup. It is so satisfying to decipher big systems in my opinion.
Great attention to detail such as adding an extra bracket on the side of your shelf as well as fixing everything neatly and tightly! Really professional and rarely seen in a home setup!
Directions unclear, Mask set to 255.255.255.192
is of no use with his equipment ... his switches are dumb switched hubs, not real switches with full gbit per port available (it's a gb for the whole switch, considering it's a gbit switch) when he's doing multiple high bandwith tasks on his network, the speed of those tasks will plummet, and only one task will really run fast;... consider upgrading those switches to a single 48port gbit switch that is managed (cisco/hp/... even netgear has them i believe)
@@BoGy1980 For cost I'd say Netgear. I'm sure he can get some Cisco or HP stuff on "ebay" or similar, but I've not really seen them in person outside places where Cisco equipment was the entire point of me being there. Ubiquiti might be an option depending on the price.
@@xnamkcor i'm using hp Aruba switches here at home, wanted security and better performance than my smc unmanaged switches. even ubiquity are mostly unmanaged stuff and switches are actually switched hubs that will drop in speed if you're using maxspeeds with more than 2 devices.
@@BoGy1980 I'm using a semi-managed 24 port netgear. Barely use the management. Got a Ubiquiti router I got for 5 USD, but I've only played with it. I'll probably never use it.
No patch panel, using the the modem from your ISP, everything is mac and running externals instead of a actual NAS box..... an impressive home network if you don't know much about network hardware.
I suppose the point then was that he should have a rack as well.... or at least organize the devices in a better way than just taping them to his office wall....
Being 'fine' wasn't the point. And you thinking it looks good is just your opinion.
Wow you are way too focused on the rack thing. My original point was that it's telling when someone who wants to appear to be knowledgeable owns mostly cheap or the 'for dummies' version of everything.
Back to the rack thing, I think if you are going to spend this much on a home network you should do it correctly and also make it look nice and yes I believe a rack would be required for that. You obviously don't and that's fine.
I already said its fine you don't share my view. Everything after this will be ignored feel free to continue arguing with yourself though.
***** I'm actually with Abestar here, but I absolutely see your point when it comes to does everything he owns work and was it affordable. But here is the other side. Firstly, he's using rack mount network switches. While his cable running is extremely clean, a lot of it is clearly visible. A rack would hide much of the cabling, and a simple PVC pipe at the back could cover the wires so none would be visible. If you've ever built your own computer, you know all about cable management and how to run wires behind the board to hide cables. Secondly, he's using the modem his ISP provided him, so he's likely paying more each month, as most ISPs charge a rental fee, vs owning your own modem you don't get charged. Many ISPs do not support custom configurations so if he wanted to turn off certain features, change the DNS, he may not be able to. Everything running Mac...everything Mac is overpriced garbage. You could get much more out of a simple computer if you bought it for specs (Ram, CPU, Hard drive space) and then installed Mac if you wanted to run it so badly. That right there is how you know people buy Mac to be a part of a group or a trend. If you do not believe me, look at the tech specs on this laptop www.amazon.com/MSI-GE70-Apache-Pro-012-17-3-Inch/dp/B00IMTQ5I2/ref=psdc1_t3_B00IKF2H12_B00IMTQ5I2 and this mac www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs-retina/
The most expensive mac doesn't even TOUCH the MSI. So for HALF THE PRICE, if you wanted to so bad, because you must use the Mac OS, why wouldn't you get something that will provide amazing performance, install the Mac OS, and save some money? The Mac is nearly double. Double. You could get two and install the OS! Then, you'd have TWO new Mac laptops!
Exactly. No one does that, right? Apple is a fad. That's why Apple was mentioned.
And lastly the NAS box is an amazing idea. NAS boxes have their own processor much like in a laptop and their own ram and motherboard. They're basically computers. External drives die much faster and don't provide the read/write speeds of a NAS box. Ontop of that, the guy has external hard drives as network drives. External hard drives do not provide nearly as much of the data throughput that could be seen when the same amount of data storage was kept in a single location via NAS. So now he's got a bunch of storage on a really slow connection, and those drives will be the bottleneck of his network. Your network is only as fast as your slowest connection, and those networked externals are probably it.
Abestar is absolutely right. This is the beginner's approach to things, and while it works, he spent much more than he needed to for very low performance.
I like my wired network as well. It is up 99.9 percent of the time and I never have a problem. Fun besides seeing what I can add to it. 3 printers, 4 computers, 1 server, 1 nas server, and wireless access for when my friend and his wife come over. Real nice tour of your network. I bet you had fun installing it. Thank you.
Your home network is friggen sweet. Nice, tidy, organized, and wired. Very well planned and implemented.
Thanks for the mini tour. Was fun to see.
I greatly respect your choice to go Ethernet over wireless, and I agree that it's, genuinely, the best way to go. Physical data, physical connection.
Congratulations to the very tidy installation.
Like some mentioned you might consider getting a proper NAS with RAID capability, it will greatly improve backup speeds between drives. If you are concerned about power consumption get something like a Intel Atom, they have low power consumption. And If you have some linux knowledge you could easily use that server as fileserver and firewall.
I feel you pain about rearranging stuff. I've had my computer all over my apartment - and it takes hours to unplug and re-route all those friggin' cables. Enough to make a grown man cry. I applaud you heavy use of ethernet cables. It's far more secure nowadays to employ hard wiring versus going wireless. It substantially reduces the ability to hack your network doing this. Good job!
How it was cool. And yes I watched it in Nov 2016, just because I love your stuff. Its COOL that u have separate computer for all of housemates. All of your stuff is not fancy, just gets the job done. Its nice to see that, that even with normal stuff you make such good videos. #respect.
We share similarity of spending time in technology not money.
2:02
For a second I thought you were gonna say "I even have a computer in my CAR!"
Well it wouldn't suprise me at this point
UA-cam: okay, I guess 2019 will be the year of random recommendations.
Karlo Josip Kardum or 2020
@@dlol. and 2021
I was so confused until I looked at the upload date. Great history video!
Hello,
My name is Ricardo and I'm studying networks and I received the link to see a domestic network.
I really like the way you implemented it.
I gained more knowledge.
Congratulations on the built network.
Honestly I couldn't agree more with you on the ethernet vs. wireless. Anytime you choose to use ethernet besides wireless you just free up that much more bandwidth for wireless devices, especially when the device is stationary; Thats how I run my network, the phones and tablets use the wireless, while the computers, IPTV, and gaming console all use ethernet. Key note on wireless printers... Never understood the point of having a wireless printer. I mean the thing is stationary, why not run an ethernet cable right from the wall. Otherwise the thing goes into sleep mode and the router can't find it or there is a lack of signal or what ever else. I'd rather have the luxury of having the connectivity to the device and knowing it's going to work the first time, other than pulling my hair out going oh that's cute it's in sleep mode again. Not seeing a logical point on why we're trying so hard to make everything wireless... even on appliances now, but still a strong believer on wireless.
Gage Foltyn amen... the number of callouts I've been to where the Wireless printer suddenly stopped working... or couldn't be set up to begin with... the things are just not reliable
Oh man it drives me crazy. The crazy thing of it is with wireless printers; it's not just my network where this is happening, it's almost every network I have worked on that has had the similar problem over and over again. I just... I don't get the concept.
consumer grade printers are already bad enough.. having them use wifi just makes the situation that much worse.
over five years have passed since this video was published now, and consumer grade printers still haven’t gotten any significant improvements
at least update the monitors, the square ones make it look like a school
Eliah Hughes like he said most of his stuff are cheap from ebay, guy uses mac mini, i doubt he cares about monitors
***** those resolutions you are taking about, are ok but for 2015 they are just outdated, i personally prefer
20:10 ratio 1920x1200 but very difficult to find that ratio now above that resolution, i have a dell U2412m 1920x1200 and a Asus 4k 28in which is 16:9 standard UHD. I don't see the point you make about your 26'' TV i used have a 37'' tv with that resolution 10 years ago now you can get 24inch 4k monitors, and soon 5.5inch 4k phones
Eliah Hughes In one video, he said he prefers the square monitors because you can get more monitor for the same money. See his video "Dell Ultrasharp Monitors - the best choice for a Mac or PC?"
This vid was from 2013......
Our school has Samsung curved monitors
That's pretty cool that you stick to wired connections and that you stated in brief the reasons why you prefer it over wireless.
This guy is like a retro LinusTechTips.
DangerousPie03 sorta but he needs everything to be nice and neat Linus just has everything scattered
Except he doesn't screw things up in his how-to videos.
Wired is love, wired is life :)
Watching after 2020 update
Great setup! I have just bought my first house and I plan on doing the same thing... Run cables to every room and patch it all into a switch in the cupboard... Bit more work in setup, but I enjoy it, and the reliability and speed of ethernet is unbeatable with Wi-Fi!
I wish I had this setup. I recently wired my computer to my router thru my basement and I thought THAT was genius. You completely blew my understanding of home tech setup out of the water.
I actually have a full wired house too, but here's a tip: Check rj11 (phone line) jacks in the wall. In my case they where using Ethernet cables! So, I moved my router to the basement, where all the wires converged to a box, cut a couple, wired the Ethernet male connectors and changed out the rj11 jacks to rj45. Boom full house-wide ethernet. Cost me less then 50$.
this guy is great, i love his channel because he makes me feel like less of a nerd..
also he makes me feel challenged to become more of a nerd ;)
Holy crap!! That's epic!
Yeah!, Here in my house we do not use Cable nor Satellite. THIS in the Future. I Loved your videos and your work office. Thanks for the ideas. Oh yes, nice car!
This is 100% the best video on his entire channel.
While I agree with you 100% that wired is better and *more* reliable, to say that "wireless is complicated and unreliable" isn't exactly true nowadays. Maybe like, 8 years ago that was the case. For the most part, wireless is pretty solid these days.
Anyways, nice setup.
wireless radiation causes cancer insomnia and other conditions
I'm with you all the way in regards to ethernet.
Just would like to tell You that I think Your Studio is Very Professional looking. Very neat & clean; Exemplary! Love your videos. Great job on Everything Man. Love the Desk. I Lived in Texas before; I LOVE Texas! GOD Bless Houston since Im on the subject (used to live there too).
I have a similar setup except I run the CAT5e cables under the house and use wall mounted rj45 jacks as it is much easier to just drill a hole in the floor than it is to try and thread cables into the walls. I use a router that is running tomato so I can run services such as asterisk on it, raspberry pi plugged into every TV, gigabit fibre, wireless AP at each end of the house for full coverage and a old laptop for servers. I still need to label everything and get a UPS.
Thumbs up to hard wired vs wireless.
I found this extremely interesting as someone who is currently studying IT and networking.
me too. I have a passion for this stuff some people will just never understand us lol.
31musick93 Haha, I don't even understand us half of the time :p
Great set up,your kids are going to be smart.
Ethernet is the way to go for desktop computers / gaming consoles. -- You're never going to run into weird interference issues, or over saturation of the Wi-Fi -- plus it keeps the Wi-Fi free for all your mobile crap. -- This is the right way to do it. Good job. :-)
Also a believer in Ethernet. but they are a pain to install nice. Especially in my case were my apartment is made from concrete walls.
"I didn't clean anything up for you..." XD
He says from an office that makes mine look like a disaster zone, LOL.
nice job on that installation everything sorted out very well
You have inspired me to get my act together and improve my home set-up.
He must throw a geek fit when the power goes down hahahah
***** ha ! a UPS for his car charger.. LOLOLOL
The switch and cabel management is realy nice. Why you dont get _one_ NAS-machine with RAID5/6 HDD-Setup instead of 4 external HDDs? And why the heck are you using only Macs? Also why the port tags are on the switches and not on the cables?
Ohhh, im not allowed here to ask some questions...
Torkaly Melden And he did say tell him what you think ...
Torkaly Melden why
This guy definitely is the master of old tech, all those old computers and monitors and crap....
thanks for the video. i've seen it some long time ago, and was inspired to do a bad job of copying your setup. i have the cable modem mounted to the wall, and it goes into a custom firewall/router. from there to a 24-port switch. i haven't labeled any ports even though i really should. i have the wireless router in AP mode, and mounted to the wall, up high and only use it for my mobile devices. again, thanks for the inspiration.
i kinda like it , even though i think its more like a data center not a home
What kind of datacenter do you think it looks like?
Maybe a small/medium corporate network but not a datacenter at all! Far from looking like one!
Yeah, he took care about a lot of details from the ISO norm like naming everything and measurements etc..
well , you might be right
His file-server is a bunch of Western Digital consumer NAS devices. 0_o
reddyuda might be a little too much for an ordinary home user , may be not much for a geek though
Where is the C64 modem connection? Gotta access those BBSs.
You kinda look like Agent Smith. On a another note, I found this video very informational. It is great to see that a good home networking setup doesn't have to cost an arm and a leg.
wow, how i wish i could do the cable management like you did in your home. awesome vid
the 8 bit guy stop stealing the i book guys vids
he changed his channel name from the IBook guy to the 8bit guy because there was no recent Apple related videos
+Xbox355 Lol
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Samuel Escopin
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"...and yes, it stays that messy most of the time."
You are a hero! XD
Another awesome video. i have a wireless setup in my home with some of my computer running windows xp and some of the wireless adapters were "too old" and "werent supported" with my new router given to me by my cable provider(quotes by my provider). I ran a cable from my router to my furthest room away from the router and no more trouble gaining a connection. Definitely thinking about starting a wired network somewhere in my home.
Wow, this would be my dream home, amazing!
60 frames per second. Sweet.
awesome setup man, really cool!
very good, in the Ethernet house, everything without cable, wifi only for equipment without a lan port, it has a server with debian where it stores files and equipment on the bus network or content on it. inside the server I monitor the equipment on the network checking who consumes the most bandwidth ... cell phone I use the vlc that runs the contents very well either on the internet or on the local server via streaming.
Very clean installation. Nice job.
1 Gigabit home network is awesome. Trust me !
+JakesDen Gaming Most Standard connections are only a gigabit. You would have to go looking specifically for a 10 in order to find stuff that works. Plus you would have to pay a premium for it.
Ethernet is God!!
Steve Simonds CAT5e ethernet is still god for most users and the purpose they use it for.
CAT6 is complete overkill for nearly all domestic users. It's like using a V8 engine for 'Sunday driving' or a nuclear bomb to fry an egg.
It's all down to RELIABILITY in the end. A wired connection (with decent cables) ensures you're getting the full speed/service your modem/router is capable of, where as wi-fi is susceptible to interference and deteriorates over distance.
+Steve Simonds I feel like suggesting one future proofs themselves by running CAT6 and then calling 10GbE overkill is contradictory. You still only need 10 Mbps for 4K video streaming, so by your logic you might say 'needing CAT6 for 1GbE over distance', that being 100 times more than is needed for the next generation TV format, is overkill.
+Steve Simonds 7 Gbps? not even close, a 4 stream ruckus wave 2 ap running AC using a 160mhz channel width which is insane tops out at 3.5 Gbps, It is the fastest ac device on the market if I am not mistaken, plus most devices can't even utilize more than 3 streams so you go back down to 2.6 Gbps. Wifi will never replace hardwired connections, 5ghz doesn't travel that far at all, plus you can run cat 6/6+ which prices are much cheaper now and run 10Gig. for most people the ~125MB/s on Gig is more than enough unless you have fast SSD Raids
+Steve Simonds troll
I agree 100% when it comes to wired networking in the house. My house is wired throughout and I'll always keep it that way.
We put an Ethernet jack in our bedroom. Mainly because the WiFi signal is weaker, but we have a lot of internet connected devices in it (TV, XBOX, TV, etc..). There is one line that connects to a switch, which has all our devices plugged into it. It’s a great setup! I wish I could put more lines in other rooms.
This is amazing... my house (in Europe) is made with reinforced concrete and do this is impossible
Same
Hah, editing videos on a mac mini, didn't even know that worked...
FlightSupreme I used to edit UA-cam videos on a Pentium 4 Prescott 2.8 GHz with Windows 7, 1.25 GB of memory, and an NVidia GeForce FX5200 AGP 8x 256MB. Think of how you would have felt.
Hehe, still better than this mac mini! ;-)
Nah, Core i5/i7, or even Core 2 Duo based machines would smoke a Pentium 4 and keep the room cooler at the same time.
Jordan Woolery ya but you can buy a pc thats still cheaper than that mac mini
Tomdad 4 ...that has a Pentium or Core i3, maybe a low-end i5 if you're lucky
Dorkgasm! Truly an inspiration
Excellent philosophy. We are currently renting, but still, wherever I can - I run CATs. Well done you!
Props to you for avoiding cable/satellite tv. Stick with netflix and the like, cable tv anymore is essentially "reality" show trash or artificial talk show personalities with inflated ego's. Network's have refused to adapt with the times and instead treat their viewers like idiots by airing stuff like The Real Housewives, or bitching about ratings and thus putting a shows future in question when they happen upon actual quality, i.e., Constantine & Hannibal.
Don't get me wrong, there are still good programs on tv, like Black Sails, Mad Men and the aforementioned. But I believe programs of their quality would have a much wider audience on Netflix or Hulu.
Oh yea, sweet network setup. Smart labeling.
Your country must suck ass. Our cable TV is very enjoyable, many movies and a LOT of great series. It costs you nearly nothing as well.
You need a FreeNAS box.
Nice set up... Thanks for sharing this...
I agree with your wired verses wireless implementation and have installed a wired network in my home for all the same reasons.
Some good equipment you have there,NETGEAR,very reliable.Your choice of ethernet hard-wiring is the best way to expand your internet access.I'm a Communications Network Technician,mostly involved with outdoor to indoor service provision from the CO(exchange). I like your indoor set-up.
хааа... как без палевно салфеточки у компа стоят ))) не хватает еще крема какого нить )))) настоящий IT с крепким рукопожатием, если Вы понимаете о чем я )))
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A very interesting setup, very neat but I would run ethernet to each room then split from there. I guess this guy was trying to cut down on long lengths of cat5 from a specific point . . I don't know , i'm just guessing. In saying that should something go wrong its easier to suss out with the network pinned to the wall. Nothing wrong with Mac, Windows or Linux based products, it's what ever suits you best. I currently use the best of both worlds a have a custom built Windows PC a iMac and Macbook Pro, they all have their difference uses. People really need to stop hating on macs cause at the end of the day they are better at some things than other OS. It's all about personal preference some people get sucked into apple products cause they look good. I would agree though I would definitely not use that amount of apple products in a network. Why?
I know I just watched this eight years after the fact, but that was pretty neat! Similar to how I imagine my own home network "when I get the time to run all those cables" (but never have).
I totally agree. Greetings from Argentina.