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Rizilia

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Networking Gear Recommendations? (starting from scratch)

Hi, I hope its appropriate to ask this here, considering this is the most active community closest to this topic (Networking). I am moving places shortly and will need to start from scratch will all networking equipment. Including router and wifi-extenders. Am wondering what the general consencus is around networking gear, what...

Rizilia ,

I've had the same question when I wanted to seperate my homelab network from my normal network that is also used by my girlfriend.

I tested a MikroTik router from a friend, but it was too deep for me.
Ubiquity was too expensive since I was on a budget, so I got a TP-Link Omada Router and PoE Switch, which has a more user friendly UI than MikroTik. Maybe not as nice as Ubiquity but good enough for my needs and some more features than my ISP router.

What's your server wattage?

I'm in the process of wiring a home before moving in and getting excited about running 10g from my server to the computer. Then I see 25g gear isn't that much more expensive so I might was well run at least one fiber line. But what kind of three node ceph monster will it take to make use of any of this bandwidth (plus run all my...

Rizilia ,

Around 100 Watts for

  • NAS with 4x3.5" HDD,
  • Minisforum HM90 for Proxmox with 2x2.5" HDDs,
  • 16 Port TP Link PoE Switch,
  • TP Link router
  • 2x Raspberry Pi 4b

But everything with gigabit speed. Doesnt need more at home

Rizilia ,

Inside the bottom tray you have two cutouts in order to put two 2.5" HDDs/SSDs in

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