Home Network Setup
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@MrMazda The real question ... does your family know that your side of the house is porn central?? LOL
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@rnd256 exactly you nailed it ... LOL
Let's turn him in, hes hogging all networking ...
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Thank you for telling us about your l-a-r-g-e home network setup, smart-home hacks, etc. I felt like a guest -- where is the hummus?
The picture with that wall of wires caused my testicles to briefly retract into my body cavity, but I took a deep breath, pushed them back out, and all's well.
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@MrMazda
Absolute NoNo to put a wireless router in a basement. The router should be as high as you can get it close to where the outside connection comes in. That will dramatically change your wifi reception.Have you ever considered a seedbox? Apart from first immediate upload the seedbox will do all the subsequent downloading at the rest using huge bandwidth. Using a seedbox you will capture a high proportion of the download volume of those leeching though I suspect you have a high ratio anyway. Even if you are only bothered as to how fast you seed to the first leechers a seedbox will get your torrent off to an immediate (immediate) start.
The seedbox will of course download almost immediately any well seeded torrent. Using a downloader from the seedbox will improve your download speeds - though unless your brother is on the computer playing games and streaming TV at the same time that shouldn't really be an issue.
Also, of course, a seedbox is the best way to secure your privacy.
I know that you must know all this. But that is an awful lot of money to be spending on equipment and additional DSL lines that you don't need.
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@raphjd You should see the pictures of what it used to look like before I started cleaning it up.... That is actually rather neat compared to what it was when I started cleaning it up.
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@nix54 My brother and I shouldn't be able to affect each other. No part of either of our networks are joined in any way. Not even the backbone provider. He's on a 50/10 VDSL line and I'm on a 940/50 cable line with completely separate internal networks.
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I should also mention that I have an elaborate setup for my trailer. The house that my trailer piggybacks off of is in the middle of nowhere with literally no neighbours at the very end of the line. The trailer is some 200 feet behind the house in the bush under a bunch of walnut trees.
And yes... I know... I still have some cleaning up to do. I was more concerned with getting everything working initially than I was about making it all pretty.
Simply put, I could only get legacy copper ADSL in the house, but because of the extreme distance from where the CO/SLAM are to where the modems are, I in theory didn't qualify to be able to get anything more than 1.5m/512k on a single line. This is just on the other side of the wall from where the lines run to the NID on the side of the house. I pimped up all the wiring to CAT5e all the way to the modems so that I could get each line up to 4m/800k.
I then got not one, but FOUR ADSL lines and put them together into a single line with 4x the speed. The big black box strapped to the wall is the DSL bonder. It's what connects through each of the 4 DSL modems into my provider, then puts the lines together into a single line. The little box to the right of it is the router/firewall/NAT for my network. The DSL bonder feeds the single line into this box, where it then connects out to all my equipment.
Below the bonder are 4 switches so that I can connect both the bonder and the router to each modem so that I have full remote access of everything across the network, even out in the trailer. The white boxes on the shelf below the switches are the modems for the 4 DSL lines. On the shadow board to the left of the internet equipment are the four POTS splitters for the four DSL lines, and the black box at the bottom to the left of that is the VoIP adapter, which makes the phone line out to the trailer work.
All of this then funnels down into a single cable that runs to the opposite corner of the basement to a switch that joins all the internal equipment together. There is a line that connects to this switch, runs out the outside wall, then disappears down into the ground and runs the 200 foot distance to my trailer while underground. It comes back out of the ground at the back of the trailer, where it then comes into the trailer and ends at a network jack on the wall inside the trailer where my WiFi router for the trailer connects to it so that everything from where the internet begins, all the way to the trailer itself is either underground or indoors, and it does not become wireless until it's inside the trailer.
For the record, this setup manages to get me able to pull 13mbit/3mbit at any time, in any weather, even in the trailer. It's not the fastest connection out there, but it's at least fast enough to watch scary movies (among other things) in 1080p HD and a glorious 5.1ch surround sound. This setup was originally inspired by all the people who told me that I would never be able to do such a thing in a trailer some 200 feet into the bush in the middle of nowhere, especially when that trailer acts as a giant Faraday cage for ALL radio signals. The WiFi works GREAT inside the trailer, as it does not become wireless at any point, in any way, until it is already inside the trailer.
Does this setup look as intimidating as some people tell me that it looks? It's super custom.
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@flozen To be fair, much work has been done to the wiring in the house at the trailer to clean it up and make it proper, though it is on a home brewed battery backup that will fun for about 7 days without power and still never lose power, and that system also powers the WAP in the house, so in the house you NEVER don't have WiFi.
In the trailer, there is no battery backup for anything, however I do have and old car I have modified to effectively serve as a small generator powerful enough to run my entire trailer in the event of a power outage, and since the network wiring all the way into the trailer is on battery backup, I'm never without internet or WiFi there either. A full tank of gas lasts about 49 hours.
Needless to say, when I'm at the trailer, I don't camp, I glamp. I have power for all my electronics one way or another, I have heat, a way to cook (propane stovetop/oven), and a way to keep stuff cold (propane fridge), working internet fast enough to stream video content in HD, good WiFi, and a decent sound system I can crank full blast until an ungodly hour of the morning without anyone hearing it. It also comes with an 8 foot wide fire pit big enough to have everything from small campfires, to giant bonfires of furniture (which I have pictures of to prove). Last summer the trailer got an upgrade of a well, well pump, and septic tank with weeping bed. What more does one need to glamp properly? Haha
On a side note, the well pump for the trailer won't work if the hydro (electric) service to the trailer is out, but everything else inside the trailer will. No power means no running water for the trailer, but not the end to my ability to drop a deuce without having to walk through the tundra to the house anymore.
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@MrMazda said in Home Network Setup:
@flozen In the trailer, there is no battery backup for anything, however I do have an old car I have modified to effectively serve as a small generator
Please, please let it be a Mazda.
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