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):
Ideas:
Hope the situation is clear enough.
Suggestions/ideas/combination/questions are more than welcome!
Thanks,
M.
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 CSS 326-24G-2S+RM
- Clients:
- Personal computers/laptops/phones/tablets - wifi
- TV & Receiver - wired
- IoT devices - wifi
- More floors
- More rooms
- New NAS/Storage
- New VM host
- Garage - detached (!), 20m or so, from the house.
- Electricity/Fuse box, in a small closet where most if the above (see current state) won't fit.
- Fit the bare minimum in the electricity closet.
- New NAS, VM Host, Switch and maybe even pfsense and more, in the garage.
- Wiring all rooms (with at least one network line) would less than 24 ports,so the Mikrotik would be enough.
- PoE Switch for the extra AP (at least 2 more would be neded)
- PoE Security Cameras - much later.
Ideas:
- Bare minimum in house:
- ISP (fiber already in here) & Media Converter.
- All cables from all floors down to the electricity box and passthrough to the garage - sounds impractical and even impossible.
- Bare minimum in garage:
- NAS, VM host (a.k.a the noisy stuff) in the garage, with a small 10G switch to connect internally as well as to the Mikrotik SFP+ in the house.
- Everything all, squeezed in the very small closet - impractical cable mess
- Balanced (?):
- House (the closet):
- ISP (fiber already in here) & Media Converter
- Mikrotik 24 switch
- pfsense router/firewall
- Another PoE swtich
- Garage:
- The noisy stuff in a rack, with a new 10G switch
- House (the closet):
- The top floor is planned to become a work room + a guest room (that would be less frequently used). There is an option to host some/all network stuff in there, but working/sleeping with the noise/lights is probably not fun (to say the least).
- Also in the top floor, we have a 'hidden' storage area in the wall, that could potentially host some tech stuff (most likely *not* ventilated enough for the servers), but it would be less noisy than the other open rooms.
- Also in top floor (2), a big laundry area, that could host a rack, but most of it will be taken later for the work & guest room and even a shower.
Hope the situation is clear enough.
Suggestions/ideas/combination/questions are more than welcome!
Thanks,
M.