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    My Customised SFF Home Server Build

    Build’s Name: My Customised SFF Home Server Build Full Spec: PartPicker Link Usage Profile: Unraid Server for Containers, VM's and Storage Server Time to upgrade my home server again, decided to down size from my current Fractal Design XL to something smaller and more power efficient...
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    Network plans for a new home

    Hi, In a few months I'll be moving to a new house and it's time to start planning the network layout/topology. The current state and equipment (nothing fancy): Hardware - all located in one single room (wired): Media Converter APU - pfsense NAS - Freenas AP - Unifi LR AP Switch - MikroTik...
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    looking for suggestion regarding 40Gbit home networking

    It's quite hard to believe, but I couldn't find any information about creating a 40 Gbit home network. My issue is simple: I live in a 3 room apartment. Since I need the 40 Gbit connection between the rooms, a DAC solution is out of the question - since the distance between the rooms is approx...
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    Simple Home Network Advice

    Hey all, I am looking for some guidance on my home network rebuild. Here are some details: I have a 400/20 mbit cable connection to the house My house is a ~1600sqft (i think) ranch with drywall and unfinished full basement All rooms are wired with cat5/6 I use a WNDR3700 with openwrt on it...
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    Home cabling Cat7/8 and or Fibre?

    Hi all, I recently purchased my first house and I am looking to cable the house with the latest and greatest cables I can find to make it some what future proof. I've never had to do any cabling of this scale before, so I am interested to here other peoples experiences. Has anyone tried this...
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    Help me understand IP addressing please

    Disclaimer: I am not an IT professional but I like messing/learning/building and making my wife mad as I spend $$$ on our home network. She thinks that having a huge rack server with tons of stuff is only for bussines environment. Well, not for me. So I will keep spending :) Currently, my...
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    New house = new switch - 24 ports, PoE, Gigabit, Fanless, Rackmount...

    I'm in the process of buying a new house. Normally I'd just move all my infrastructure from the old to the new. However, we can't move right away so the new house will sit vacant for a while. So I need to double up the core infrastructure. I'll have Internet in the new house for security...