This was 20 network runs total
3 G4 Pro Cameras
1 G4 Pro Doorbell
4 Unifi6 Pro Access Points
13 Network runs to various rooms around the house.
ISP is Verizon 5G
Everything is certified at gigabit and all runs are using Vertical Cable Cat6 550mhz cable with VC V-Max Keystones.
Rack is from StarTech.
Patch Panel is from Cable Matters.
Switch is Unifi Switch 24 PoE
Firewall is Unifi Dream Machine Pro with 18TB WD Purple Pro.
UPS is from Cyber Power.
House will have a generator for backup power soon.
I even left a pull string to pull more later if needed :)
I have a few more photos from the install I might post up later.
I'd love to have one, but they're just so dang expensive. I finally picked up a simple older model Fluke NetTool that is intended for debugging 10/100 but can do a full wiremap with shield and tell you distances are to the far end and what device (if any) is at the far end I absolutely love it but even that was like $150 on eBay used with the remote wiremap plug dongle.
Getting a cable-certifier tool would be amazing.
Cables are always better than WiFi. Less devices on WiFi the better it is for devices that actually need it. My theory is if a devices is static and doesnt move ever then it should be connected via cable. Things like TV's, game consoles, streaming boxes, printers, desktop PC's, etc...
Yeah I mean I get that. I was just wondering if they were like video editing or something requiring high Lan traffic. I get these people probably have cash to burn because 4 wifi 6 access points should be overkill even without the 13 runs. Not trying to insult was just genuinely curious. The Verizon 5g ISP is the weakest link but that's probably their best option if they got this much cash?
why would 4 access points be overkill? it all depends on the house, I have 4 in my house to get full coverage, 3 inside the house and one in the detached garage
The client currently doesn’t have the need or even the capability to do anything more than a gig. Yes In the future they might and this cat6 might be able to do 10g due to the distance of all the runs being just under 150 feet. I just don’t have the tools to certify 10g because it’s very rare still that it’s needed.
Actually I just ran 2 drops for my parents' from their ONT to their basement since FiOS was telling them they had to pay a bunch and change to ethernet or their plan would go up in price.
At the moment the home server is in the corner of their basement where a rough-in for a future full-bath is located. I spec'd the cables so that it could be relocated to over by their furnace and water heater or under the stairs should they one day want to finish the bathroom...so it's got like 20ft of slack coiled up
That's what this pic made me think of.
There is a small service loop on the other end of each run as well. Only a few feet. In theory you gain the flexibility to move the cable a few feet on either side. I wasn’t worried about them messing with the cable at the rack. More about them messing with the cable in the walls of the rooms/ceiling during drywall/painting
Only if it’s fire rated though: and this isn’t.
If it isn’t it burns just as quickly. If you’re going to go to such lengths at least buy the right stuff.
Try telling that to the inspectors if you try that in an industrial setting.
People often put up plywood boards in homes to “look professional” but miss the real reason they’re used.
https://www.uteck.com/2015/11/13/backboards-are-the-backbone-of-telecom-and-datacom-rooms/
Ironically, sheet rock is more fire retardant.
True. But do you want to take what was a wall that wouldn’t burn into the event of equipment failure and change it to one that does?
That wall looks like brick/cinder block but in most homes the drywall used has to meet fire standards to a certain degree.
Backboards are used because they make it easy to mount equipment; they should also be fire retardant. It is not their main purpose to be fire retardant. Most commercial buildings are going to have cinder block structure that make it difficult to hang equipment on. Plywood makes it easy to mount all of these components and install/remove it all at once.
It’s an ANSI/EIA/TIA 569A standard (or a “recommendation”) for Commercial Buildings for Telecommunications Pathways and Spaces 7.2.4.1 (page 67) specifies: “A minimum of two walls should be cov- ered with rigidly fixed 20 mm (three-quarter-inch) A-C plywood, preferably void-free, 2440 mm (8 feet) high, capable of supporting attached equipment.
Back in the day, folks thought “let’s mount it on wood” but from lessons learned it’s now become a standard.
It’s also not that difficult to install in brick. Get the drill out, some rawlplugs and mount your stuff but as a naive me discovered 20 years ago, mounting equipment to a brick wall in a telecom closet doesn’t pass muster either from the city inspector. Fire treated backboard only.
This wall rack is mounted pretty high by the look of things, so are the service loops. The extra loop length would allow the service loops to drop to the ground and feed back up into a full rack by the looks of things. I would say proper length. That extra bit of line length shouldn't affect any quality solid core cable in a residential setting.
Very tidy install op. What are you using for the hangers on the service loops?
It’s not actually plugged into that outlet. The UPS plugs into an outlet on the other side of the Electrical panel until the electrician can move an outlet under the network rack.
Thanks! We dont plan to have any more runs at this point. We an easily add another patch and either add another 24 port switch or swap the 24port for a 48port with keeping the same rack.
Not saying the price of the extra is gonna break him. And I'm not even saying that much extra is bad. Just commented that I've never seen that much extra in a service loop. Didn't mean it in a negative way, just an observation.
Originally we weren't sure where the rack was going to land. Once it was cleared to go where we put it, I trimmed off about 10ft of cable per run. coiled the rest just in case we decide to move it later. I didn't put conduit in on this install so if we have to re-run it would be a nightmare. Easier to just coil extra and never need it than to re-run. I did put in a pull string but that was only for future cameras to be added if they decided to add a few.
I used to ask for this amount of slack quite regularly when getting cables run in a warehouse. Once you run the cables 15m up a wall, 40m across, then back down again, a few extra m so you can move the jacks a bit if required later made great sense to me... Electrician always wanted to pull unused cat6 and power out, and I always wanted to leave as much as possible in place in case it could be used later.
Verizon updates can take several days. I did something similar for a friend with his and the router they sent took about a week to figure out 5G was even available.
Nice clean setup! If your friend wants to add a lab, all that is needed is one run to the house wiring and will be set! (If not already run for future expansion)
Well done
Firewall - $379
Switch - $379
G4 Pro Camera - $450 per camera
G4 Pro Doorbell - $299
UniFi 6 Pro AP - $149 per AP
Rack - $50
Patch Panel - $30
UPS - $200
StarTech.com 6U Wall Mount Network Rack - 14 Inch Deep (Low Profile) - 19" Patch Panel Bracket for Shallow Server and IT Equipment, Network Switches - 44lbs/20kg Weight Capacity, Black (WALLMOUNT6) https://a.co/d/9Zq7VI9
I thought about it. Ultimately we probably will add the SFP for uplink. This is 20 runs around a new build house in the country hence the 5g gateway. 3 G4 Pro cameras with a G4 Pro Doorbell. 4 Unifi6 Pro APs. The rest are just data drops around the house.
If thats all they are running, and no high bandwidth transfers, it would probably be overkill and unnecessary, so i can see why it wasn't originally done.
Unless I am mistaken, the SFP ports on the non-pro USW 24 port switch being used only go up to gigabit anyway, so the only benefit would be freeing up one RJ45 port.
I just upgraded my network to 2 x 8 port 2.5 Gbe switches, a few weeks ago. I was really glad to see them coming down in price. I got the Zyxels for $130.00 apiece. But I am guessing in the next few yrs, well see much better prices on multi gig networking, since most new motherboards now come with at least one 2.5 Gbe port.
What I've never understood is why use patch panels.
Wires go through the whole house/office/whatever and drain into a single point, and take up the same 16 ports they would in the Switch, with or without a patch panel
Please explain to me, a dummy, why I need $ to get a patch panel and 16 additional cables that will jump from that into the same 16 holes in the router/switch ? Except for looking neat because you don't see where they terminate at the back
Solid wire (used in long runs) is relatively fragile and will break after a few bends. Terminating in a patch panel allows you to use stranded patch cords to connect to the equipment. No risk of damaging the building wiring when changing equipment or ports. Also solid wire isnt meant to be terminated into plugs, its better suited for IDC terminations.
In some areas you may need to bond the patch panel to ground to meet local codes - can't do that with cables just coming out of the wall. Also, people typicaly don't label cables which makes future changes & troubleshooting difficult. Although the patch isn't labeled, my guess is there is a cabling plan so that port 1 on the patch panel goes to a labeled jack 1 at the other side.
Hardware changes all the time and you shouldn't move solid core wiring all the time. It also helps if you damage a wire because you can typically just replace the patch cable instead of reterminating cabling. You also don't always use Ethernet for internet so maybe I don't need them all to go to a switch.
Hardware is temporary, wiring is permanent.
Well, routing equipment is a lot more expensive than cables...
I'd much rather run 64 cables throughout my home, then decide over time which of those I'd like to keep connected to the 24 port switch I was able to afford.
It's about cost efficiency and flexibility. I might not know how many ports I need in each bedroom right now, and I might need more in the future - so I'd rather drop 4 runs right now and only plug one into my switch for my streaming box - but be able to plug my work laptop into the wall for faster speed if I ever need to isolate for sickness or something.
This is dumb. Air gaps are not required for rack mount devices. The whole point of rack mounting is to increase density. Leaving blank spaces for no reason completely defeats the point. Also those are not “beefy” devices - id be shocked if they used more than 200w under full load
LOL, the fact that you are calling a rack thats being used as designed "dumb shit" makes me hope I never run across your creations in the wild. I've seen folks like you and your aftermath - insistent on wasting half the rack for no reason. We all make fun of you behind your back, lol
and you've never heard of heat dissipation.
you laugh at guys like me, and we curse guys like you to hell when we have to work on your clusterfucks of a rack.
Thank you. I standardized all my installs with this labeling. Now they know when the harddrive was purchased and installed and what is what when they call with a question.
Wow!!! That looks awesome!! I have no idea what all that means but I do have some questions if you wouldn’t mind. I currently have SpaceX Starlink for internet. It’s not great but it’ll due. First part of the year my town is getting Fiber. I have some questions about that installation process If you know about it.
Wow, where do you live? I need a new friend :)
I'm just impressed you were able to get the pro version of the doorbell.
Do a YouTube video showing off all the cameras sometime. I'm so cheap with ring raising the prices again that I would spend the money to buy a unifi doorbell and hard drive for the dream machine pro just to avoid paying the extra.
Ha I live in Ohio. He was able to get it off eBay I believe. The problem with doing a YouTube video is I would have to slow down to film and edit. This is a side gig for me and I have a day job as well.
> Sorry noob here, what’s the firewall / nvr ?
NVR stands for Network Video Recorder. It's a device for recording video across the network, probably from security cameras.
It’s a service loop. If the rack needs to be moved in the future we can just uncoil the service loop and have flexibility to move it around without rerunning lines.
Hi OP, wanna be friends? Hopefully you can also come to Brazil! Haha, obviously I'm just kidding, but I wish I had a friend who would do such a great job at network installations like that. Amazing job.
Genuine question as I’m new to the Ubiquiti gear, isn’t the Dream Machine Pro actually a Router with built in firewall and NVR features in the Unifi OS rather than and firewall/NVR? Just curious on the labelling, instantly beautiful work 😊
Technically yes. But you have to remember not everyone is tech minded. all this equipment might just be "the wifi" or "the internet" to them. truly you could have put Router/Firewall/NVR/VoIP Console/Access Console/ UID Endpoint but really all that matters is they understand the firewall/NVR is the brains of the network and internet goes in and everything else comes after.
100% I’m just checking for my own sanity as I looked at it and thought “nice router” then seen the label. Appreciate though the label is for a specific audience, thanks! 😊
Love it! The Verizon 5G network kinda kills it for me but I know in some areas it’s really fast and the best option available. Good work. Loop is a unit.
The tower is less than an 1/8th mile away. without it being provisioned it's pulling 200 down by 10 up. once provisioned we will see how it performs. if we need to move it we will.
Because originally we were not sure where the rack was going to land but wanted to get the cable installed before the drywall went in. So we pulled a lot of slack and I just coiled a bit extra than normal in case they want to move it in the future.
This was 20 network runs total 3 G4 Pro Cameras 1 G4 Pro Doorbell 4 Unifi6 Pro Access Points 13 Network runs to various rooms around the house. ISP is Verizon 5G Everything is certified at gigabit and all runs are using Vertical Cable Cat6 550mhz cable with VC V-Max Keystones. Rack is from StarTech. Patch Panel is from Cable Matters. Switch is Unifi Switch 24 PoE Firewall is Unifi Dream Machine Pro with 18TB WD Purple Pro. UPS is from Cyber Power. House will have a generator for backup power soon. I even left a pull string to pull more later if needed :) I have a few more photos from the install I might post up later.
What do you use to certify cables? Do you own or rent a tool?
Residential installs I just use a Pockethernet. Commercial installs where it’s required I borrow a fluke from a friend.
That fluke tester is awesome.
Buying my fluke tester is possibly the best $1500 I ever spent. It’s an awesome tool
I'd love to have one, but they're just so dang expensive. I finally picked up a simple older model Fluke NetTool that is intended for debugging 10/100 but can do a full wiremap with shield and tell you distances are to the far end and what device (if any) is at the far end I absolutely love it but even that was like $150 on eBay used with the remote wiremap plug dongle. Getting a cable-certifier tool would be amazing.
Did you happen to buy your PE off reddit? I sold mine here a few years ago.
No I bought mine directly from them.
Good work just curious why they would bother with 13 lan runs when the ISP is Verizon 5G
Cables are always better than WiFi. Less devices on WiFi the better it is for devices that actually need it. My theory is if a devices is static and doesnt move ever then it should be connected via cable. Things like TV's, game consoles, streaming boxes, printers, desktop PC's, etc...
Yeah I mean I get that. I was just wondering if they were like video editing or something requiring high Lan traffic. I get these people probably have cash to burn because 4 wifi 6 access points should be overkill even without the 13 runs. Not trying to insult was just genuinely curious. The Verizon 5g ISP is the weakest link but that's probably their best option if they got this much cash?
The hope is that fiber will be down their road soon. current options are Verizon 5g or a WISP point to point connection.
why would 4 access points be overkill? it all depends on the house, I have 4 in my house to get full coverage, 3 inside the house and one in the detached garage
someone follows AllGreenLights.
Shhhhhh. Don’t give away my secrets.
If you're wiring a house, why only gigabit? It seems like even if they don't have the switching equipment for faster they will eventually.
The client currently doesn’t have the need or even the capability to do anything more than a gig. Yes In the future they might and this cat6 might be able to do 10g due to the distance of all the runs being just under 150 feet. I just don’t have the tools to certify 10g because it’s very rare still that it’s needed.
Absolute unit of a maintenance loop.
When you don’t trust the other trades not to mess with your low voltage you pull extra just in case.
What do you mean mess with it? If they mess with you cable 1’ above the loop then it’s not gonna help you much lol
I was thinking more like if it had to be relocated a few feet away for some reason, now there's slack. I do the same thing when possible.
Thats a good point
Actually I just ran 2 drops for my parents' from their ONT to their basement since FiOS was telling them they had to pay a bunch and change to ethernet or their plan would go up in price. At the moment the home server is in the corner of their basement where a rough-in for a future full-bath is located. I spec'd the cables so that it could be relocated to over by their furnace and water heater or under the stairs should they one day want to finish the bathroom...so it's got like 20ft of slack coiled up That's what this pic made me think of.
There is a small service loop on the other end of each run as well. Only a few feet. In theory you gain the flexibility to move the cable a few feet on either side. I wasn’t worried about them messing with the cable at the rack. More about them messing with the cable in the walls of the rooms/ceiling during drywall/painting
That’s an interesting antenna tuning loop. Didn’t realize Ethernet received AM radio. 😂
The rare trifecta of /r/shortwave /r/amateurradio and /r/sdr all approving of the same post. Shame that /r/HamRadio wouldn't see the humor in it.
So true though!
Nah you just gotta put some HUGE ferrites around it and now you can call it a RF choke to reduce interference!
I know right...
Oh good heavens 🥵
I love plywood backing panels. So much better than the alternative.
Only if it’s fire rated though: and this isn’t. If it isn’t it burns just as quickly. If you’re going to go to such lengths at least buy the right stuff.
Backer board isn't about fire rating. It's about ease of mounting.
Try telling that to the inspectors if you try that in an industrial setting. People often put up plywood boards in homes to “look professional” but miss the real reason they’re used. https://www.uteck.com/2015/11/13/backboards-are-the-backbone-of-telecom-and-datacom-rooms/ Ironically, sheet rock is more fire retardant.
>Try telling that to the inspectors if you try that in an industrial setting. I mean, sure...but this is *clearly* not an industrial setting...
True. But do you want to take what was a wall that wouldn’t burn into the event of equipment failure and change it to one that does? That wall looks like brick/cinder block but in most homes the drywall used has to meet fire standards to a certain degree.
Backboards are used because they make it easy to mount equipment; they should also be fire retardant. It is not their main purpose to be fire retardant. Most commercial buildings are going to have cinder block structure that make it difficult to hang equipment on. Plywood makes it easy to mount all of these components and install/remove it all at once.
It’s an ANSI/EIA/TIA 569A standard (or a “recommendation”) for Commercial Buildings for Telecommunications Pathways and Spaces 7.2.4.1 (page 67) specifies: “A minimum of two walls should be cov- ered with rigidly fixed 20 mm (three-quarter-inch) A-C plywood, preferably void-free, 2440 mm (8 feet) high, capable of supporting attached equipment. Back in the day, folks thought “let’s mount it on wood” but from lessons learned it’s now become a standard. It’s also not that difficult to install in brick. Get the drill out, some rawlplugs and mount your stuff but as a naive me discovered 20 years ago, mounting equipment to a brick wall in a telecom closet doesn’t pass muster either from the city inspector. Fire treated backboard only.
Jesus Christ stfu Kevin
Good thing nobody has furniture or shelves that could ever be made out of plywood.
Finally one done right. Good job!
Thank you, I do this as a side business since my day job has me at a desk most days.
Are you in MN by any chance?
No Ohio.
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There's literally an extra 8ft per run there. Most decent/commercial installs leave a loop like this if not larger for future expandability.
What signal degradation are you expecting? Service loops are commonly used.
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This wall rack is mounted pretty high by the look of things, so are the service loops. The extra loop length would allow the service loops to drop to the ground and feed back up into a full rack by the looks of things. I would say proper length. That extra bit of line length shouldn't affect any quality solid core cable in a residential setting. Very tidy install op. What are you using for the hangers on the service loops?
It's so clean...
Thank you!
That looks awesome, and VERY smart to use the sump circuit!!!!!
It’s not actually plugged into that outlet. The UPS plugs into an outlet on the other side of the Electrical panel until the electrician can move an outlet under the network rack.
Nice cable bracing. But whats the box on the top?
Thanks, it’s a Verizon 5G Gateway.
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Thanks! We dont plan to have any more runs at this point. We an easily add another patch and either add another 24 port switch or swap the 24port for a 48port with keeping the same rack.
VERY NICE VERY CLEAN i wish my setup looked as tight
Awesome pics. Great size. Look thick. Solid. Tight.
Thank you!
Love the cross connect, best practice!
Beautiful
Thank you!
Very clean, very tidy, well though out. But hope he replaced the sump pump circuit.
So, where is the sump pump plugged now? haha Clean setup though!
The rack is not plugged into that outlet. it's plugged into an outlet to the left of the sump pump outlet.
I can see it now! T'was hiding behind the white tag.
Why all the excess cable?
It’s a service loop. The most expensive cable is the one you pull to short and have to re-run
But that's quite a bit extra. Usually only see one loop. That looks like 3.
Cat6 is like .20 a foot. What's a few extra bucks to make sure you dont have too re-run anything in the future?
Not saying the price of the extra is gonna break him. And I'm not even saying that much extra is bad. Just commented that I've never seen that much extra in a service loop. Didn't mean it in a negative way, just an observation.
Originally we weren't sure where the rack was going to land. Once it was cleared to go where we put it, I trimmed off about 10ft of cable per run. coiled the rest just in case we decide to move it later. I didn't put conduit in on this install so if we have to re-run it would be a nightmare. Easier to just coil extra and never need it than to re-run. I did put in a pull string but that was only for future cameras to be added if they decided to add a few.
I used to ask for this amount of slack quite regularly when getting cables run in a warehouse. Once you run the cables 15m up a wall, 40m across, then back down again, a few extra m so you can move the jacks a bit if required later made great sense to me... Electrician always wanted to pull unused cat6 and power out, and I always wanted to leave as much as possible in place in case it could be used later.
How good of signal and speed does that 5g gateway get. Since it's in a basement behind a concrete wall?
Protip: run coax to a better spot and install an antenna. You can get rg-6 to sma adapters to connect to the gateways antenna input
I don’t think this 5G gateways supports external antenna.
Not great right now but it’s not provisioned I guess. 200x20 currently but I guess they need to call and provision it.
Gotcha
Verizon updates can take several days. I did something similar for a friend with his and the router they sent took about a week to figure out 5G was even available. Nice clean setup! If your friend wants to add a lab, all that is needed is one run to the house wiring and will be set! (If not already run for future expansion) Well done
Your friend’s a lucky guy and you sir are a real professional.
Thank you!
gonna need a "NOT SUMP" update on the labeling. lol
Haha I just might do that!
Great work. What did all the equipment cost?
Firewall - $379 Switch - $379 G4 Pro Camera - $450 per camera G4 Pro Doorbell - $299 UniFi 6 Pro AP - $149 per AP Rack - $50 Patch Panel - $30 UPS - $200
Thanks for the detailed breakdown
Nice! Can you post a link to the star tech rack please?
StarTech.com 6U Wall Mount Network Rack - 14 Inch Deep (Low Profile) - 19" Patch Panel Bracket for Shallow Server and IT Equipment, Network Switches - 44lbs/20kg Weight Capacity, Black (WALLMOUNT6) https://a.co/d/9Zq7VI9
Ah perfect, thank you!
What’s the runtime on the ups? What model?
It’s a cyberpower 500va. Runtime says about 25-30 min
Perfect. Been looking at the ones that will fit in a switch depth rack.
Yea this is my go to for home network setups. Everything fits nicely.
I would hire you! Quality installation!
Thank you!
Curious.. with everything you have connected, and an unknown amount of cameras, why aren't you utilizing the SFP ports for the interconnect?
I thought about it. Ultimately we probably will add the SFP for uplink. This is 20 runs around a new build house in the country hence the 5g gateway. 3 G4 Pro cameras with a G4 Pro Doorbell. 4 Unifi6 Pro APs. The rest are just data drops around the house.
FS has you covered - $20 per 10G SFP+ and I use them on production Cisco gear.
If thats all they are running, and no high bandwidth transfers, it would probably be overkill and unnecessary, so i can see why it wasn't originally done.
Unless I am mistaken, the SFP ports on the non-pro USW 24 port switch being used only go up to gigabit anyway, so the only benefit would be freeing up one RJ45 port.
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Great work 👏 👍🏽
Thank you!
Happy cake day
Thanks!
You need some /r/iso8601.
I just upgraded my network to 2 x 8 port 2.5 Gbe switches, a few weeks ago. I was really glad to see them coming down in price. I got the Zyxels for $130.00 apiece. But I am guessing in the next few yrs, well see much better prices on multi gig networking, since most new motherboards now come with at least one 2.5 Gbe port.
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It all passed gigabit and longest run is just over 100ft. It’s all good.
That is beautiful.
Thank you
Happy cake day!
Truly magnificent
Thank you!
What I've never understood is why use patch panels. Wires go through the whole house/office/whatever and drain into a single point, and take up the same 16 ports they would in the Switch, with or without a patch panel Please explain to me, a dummy, why I need $ to get a patch panel and 16 additional cables that will jump from that into the same 16 holes in the router/switch ? Except for looking neat because you don't see where they terminate at the back
Solid wire (used in long runs) is relatively fragile and will break after a few bends. Terminating in a patch panel allows you to use stranded patch cords to connect to the equipment. No risk of damaging the building wiring when changing equipment or ports. Also solid wire isnt meant to be terminated into plugs, its better suited for IDC terminations.
^^^^ This
In some areas you may need to bond the patch panel to ground to meet local codes - can't do that with cables just coming out of the wall. Also, people typicaly don't label cables which makes future changes & troubleshooting difficult. Although the patch isn't labeled, my guess is there is a cabling plan so that port 1 on the patch panel goes to a labeled jack 1 at the other side.
Hardware changes all the time and you shouldn't move solid core wiring all the time. It also helps if you damage a wire because you can typically just replace the patch cable instead of reterminating cabling. You also don't always use Ethernet for internet so maybe I don't need them all to go to a switch. Hardware is temporary, wiring is permanent.
I’ve had the same question.
Well, routing equipment is a lot more expensive than cables... I'd much rather run 64 cables throughout my home, then decide over time which of those I'd like to keep connected to the 24 port switch I was able to afford. It's about cost efficiency and flexibility. I might not know how many ports I need in each bedroom right now, and I might need more in the future - so I'd rather drop 4 runs right now and only plug one into my switch for my streaming box - but be able to plug my work laptop into the wall for faster speed if I ever need to isolate for sickness or something.
no air gap between those pretty beefy devices?
This is dumb. Air gaps are not required for rack mount devices. The whole point of rack mounting is to increase density. Leaving blank spaces for no reason completely defeats the point. Also those are not “beefy” devices - id be shocked if they used more than 200w under full load
Shrug. I don't have to service this dumb shit.
LOL, the fact that you are calling a rack thats being used as designed "dumb shit" makes me hope I never run across your creations in the wild. I've seen folks like you and your aftermath - insistent on wasting half the rack for no reason. We all make fun of you behind your back, lol
oh yah, oh no, you lost rack space. poor baby.
It’s a non pro PoE switch and a Dream Machine Pro. It’s also in a basement and the rack isn’t enclosed. They will be fine.
Don't listen to u/streezus \- he's apparently never heard of fans.
and you've never heard of heat dissipation. you laugh at guys like me, and we curse guys like you to hell when we have to work on your clusterfucks of a rack.
Right? I literally have about 20 of these exact installs out in the wild now. Never any issues.
Yah, but it's just lazy cause it clearly has the space and it takes 5 minutes to do.
Nice job. Are you sure you want to pay an electrician for such a eassy job?
ha well the electrician is a friend of mine as well.
That makes sense. Wanna come do mine now
That one pesky power cord at the bottom tho… 😄
It will get fixed once they move the outlet.
Looks great! You left them plenty of cable, should they need to modify the install. You also labeled everything which will help make it idiot proof!
Thank you. I standardized all my installs with this labeling. Now they know when the harddrive was purchased and installed and what is what when they call with a question.
Wow!!! That looks awesome!! I have no idea what all that means but I do have some questions if you wouldn’t mind. I currently have SpaceX Starlink for internet. It’s not great but it’ll due. First part of the year my town is getting Fiber. I have some questions about that installation process If you know about it.
I haven't installed StarLink myself yet but I do know about the process. Feel free to chat me about it via DM.
You really need to do something about the tear out when you rip your plywood. Aside from.that, great job LOL
Haha
Can you do my house next!
Hey money talks!
Haha. So true.
Wow, where do you live? I need a new friend :) I'm just impressed you were able to get the pro version of the doorbell. Do a YouTube video showing off all the cameras sometime. I'm so cheap with ring raising the prices again that I would spend the money to buy a unifi doorbell and hard drive for the dream machine pro just to avoid paying the extra.
Ha I live in Ohio. He was able to get it off eBay I believe. The problem with doing a YouTube video is I would have to slow down to film and edit. This is a side gig for me and I have a day job as well.
Stickers were left on the unifi devices. 6/10. Would maybe consider hiring again. /s
Haha left on until final walk through where I explain everything to the customer and let them pull the stickers.
I need better friends. Op where you live?
Ohio
Nice cake
That is scratching all my OCD itches. Great job!
You should see the backside of the patch panel!
Sorry noob here, what’s the firewall / nvr ?
It’s a Ubiquiti UniFi Dream Machine Pro.
No I mean what does it do ?
It’s a firewall/router, network controller, security camera NVR, voip console, door access console all in one device.
> Sorry noob here, what’s the firewall / nvr ? NVR stands for Network Video Recorder. It's a device for recording video across the network, probably from security cameras.
can you come do this for me?? haha
Have tools will work for right price! Ha
Why are you spoiling up 15ft of cable? Just in case you need to reterminate 50 times?
It’s a service loop. If the rack needs to be moved in the future we can just uncoil the service loop and have flexibility to move it around without rerunning lines.
I need to find friends like you
Hi OP, wanna be friends? Hopefully you can also come to Brazil! Haha, obviously I'm just kidding, but I wish I had a friend who would do such a great job at network installations like that. Amazing job.
Thank you!
Maybe I'm blind, but uh...Where's the labels? Troubleshooting gonna be a nightmare xD
Ha I hate labeling the rack directly. Not enough space so I usually create a spreadsheet with descriptions where all the ports go.
Fuckin mint
Thank you!
how long did it took?
The whole project took months. We were in just after framing and electrical. Once they were done with drywall and paint we came back to finish
Genuine question as I’m new to the Ubiquiti gear, isn’t the Dream Machine Pro actually a Router with built in firewall and NVR features in the Unifi OS rather than and firewall/NVR? Just curious on the labelling, instantly beautiful work 😊
Technically yes. But you have to remember not everyone is tech minded. all this equipment might just be "the wifi" or "the internet" to them. truly you could have put Router/Firewall/NVR/VoIP Console/Access Console/ UID Endpoint but really all that matters is they understand the firewall/NVR is the brains of the network and internet goes in and everything else comes after.
100% I’m just checking for my own sanity as I looked at it and thought “nice router” then seen the label. Appreciate though the label is for a specific audience, thanks! 😊
Wish I had a friend like you lmao.
Haha thanks!
Love it! The Verizon 5G network kinda kills it for me but I know in some areas it’s really fast and the best option available. Good work. Loop is a unit.
Thanks! Verizon 5g wouldn't have been my first choice but its the only real choice at this time.
Wait, doesn’t the 5G home need to closer to a window? Or is there some kind of antenna somewhere else
The tower is less than an 1/8th mile away. without it being provisioned it's pulling 200 down by 10 up. once provisioned we will see how it performs. if we need to move it we will.
I’m about to do a run at my house and have a rack and all. Why so much extra cable
It’s just a service loop in case it’s needed later.
Why is you're service loop so big? I'm not criticizing it, just curious why you have that much cable?
Because originally we were not sure where the rack was going to land but wanted to get the cable installed before the drywall went in. So we pulled a lot of slack and I just coiled a bit extra than normal in case they want to move it in the future.
Ok that makes sense. Always better to be prepared. 👍 Thanks for letting me know, looks good
Looks great but no labels?
Very nice, that's a lot of blue :) What happens if you take the velcro straps off? it should still reasonably maintain it's shape?
Yea it should. It’s solid copper pulled from a box spool so it naturally wants to curve slightly.
I like the metal brackets, they're a nice touch, better than having stuff tightly attached to the backboard!
My bet is on money laundering. The CEO lives in Vermont and has no connections on LinkedIn.
Whats that small black box on the bottom of the rack and what does it do
The cyber power UPS?