Network Wiring in the Homelab

Your video quality keeps getting better.. it's like watching Dave's Garage and the way he grew his channel in a really short time

loving your content, and love to see a fellow PDX friend doing it. keep it up, and thank you!!

Really enjoying your videos. I've been doing IT for decades and I appreciate your level of explanation that allows both novices and experts to follow along and stay engaged.

EXCELLENT! I've used the exact same keystones and setup on a smaller server room setup. I agree with you, the probability of failure of the keystones is soo small, besides if you run your cables correctly...if one fails, simply pop it out, fix it and re-run the cable back into the bundle. I've actually separated my cable at the keystone backside using cable ties to create spacing. Many think I'm way to anal but EVERYONE say how damn good and organized it looks. Thanks for creating fabulous content!

I have a suggestion for future videos, the RODE GO microphones are known to be really peaky out of the box, I'd recommend reducing the gain on them so the audio doesn't do that unpleasant clipping. I'd also recommend normalizing/compressing your audio before uploading to YouTube in your editing software, YouTube expects audio normalized to -14 LUFS. If you right click on the player and click stats for nerds the content loudness should be about -10 dB for most videos. Very neat wiring, certainly some good tips there! And only just noticed now you've got some LTO stuff on top of the rack!

Fantastic stuff! Love that you’ve decided to share your knowledge and love your passion for this stuff! 💪🙏

Hello from Tokyo and love the content!

Came for your integra video, stayed for your low voltage videos.

I am going to be making a NAS of some sort in the near future, this video will be really useful for me. Thanks in advance Jeff!! I'll be back 😁

Amazing content, thank you Jeff.

14:37 It would be nice to add a horizontal organizer for optical patch cords.

12:45

I would hate to see your energy bill lol... but nice setup good sir!

Any advice for software engineers to make it big like you did?

IMO the keystones are so much more reliable. A shorted patch panel is a pain to troubleshoot.

What are your thoughts on using POE for low power devices in a home? You can get LV power and control in a single cable. Most households devices ultimately convert AC down to some flavor of 3.3V or 5V. Are there large efficiency gains to be made from keeping it all DC from the solar panel to the device? I never ran the numbers, but I'm wondering if you did. Similar in philosophy to Facebook data centers piping 480V straight to bare metal and doing a single conversion down.

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May I know the scale at which you're serving applications? Your home lab looks like a full blown data center serving tens of thousands of users?

What model is that first switch? Does it have 48x 10GBASE-T ports? I'm looking for a switch that can do at least 2.5GBASE-T with a decent CLI.

Top of your network rack are two Vyatta boxes made by Lanner. Why that over pfSense or OPNsense?