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.macbookpro.

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Internet provided by Virgin Media- 150Mb/s.
Connected to their modem is a AirPort Extreme AC, then 3 AirPort Expresses. The ones with 'bathrooms' are connected to an amp, connected to a ceiling speaker. The one called 'downstairs' is connected to a Sky+ HD box, and a LG 4K 3D 'Smart +' TV, which interestingly runs WebOS. Then, an iMac and a printer are connected to the AirPort Extreme, and 2 MacBooks, 4 iPhones, 3 iPads, a LG G Pad, a PS4, a PS3 and an Apple TV are connected wirelessly.
At the moment, all 3 AirPort Expresses are also connected wirelessly, but the house is undergoing refurbishment, so the 'Middle Bathroom' will be connected with Cat6, and the TV and Sky box that are currently connected to 'Downstairs' will be connected Cat6 to the Airport Extreme - most likely with a switch in between. I think I will also connect the 'Downstairs' cat6, in order to make a 3 access point roaming network.
This makes me very excited.
My friends and family laugh when I say so.
 

mmomega

macrumors demi-god
Dec 30, 2009
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DFW, TX
Pretty sure this is all.

WWW - Motorola Modem - Main AEBS - TPLink24PortSwitch - 2nd AEBS -

- 2013 27 iMac - 2012 27 iMac - XBone - 2012 Mini Server - HK Receiver -

- DirecTVGenie+3WiredClients+1Wireless - 2 wired AppleTV - 2 WiFiAppleTV -

- 2007 20 iMac - 2013 13 MBA - 2012 rMBP - 2 iPad Air - 1 iPadmini -

- iPad 4thGen - 2 iPhone6+
 

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mellofello

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Feb 1, 2011
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Nothing fancy.

To lazy to take pics lol

Fiber ont mounted outside with a ups power supply

2014 Asus AC router (with dedicated ups)

2 tb hybrid hd hooked up running time Machine backups on my macs and also set to do a separate image of my iPhoto library

Next to that is my security Dvr backing up 4 cameras

I have 3 hard wires running to

My solar panel interface

My 27 inch iMac

And my home theater switch

From the switch I am hard wired to

My new Samsung 4k tv

Ps4

Xbox

And Apple TV
 

PancakeEater101

macrumors member
Sep 27, 2014
31
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Here is mine, I am currently waiting on parts to make my rack, so its a bit messy

Servers, I run 2 x ESXi servers, and a Rackable SGI3016 connected to an IBM M1015 that is passed through to a Windows Server 2012 R2 VM for my Stablebit Storage Pool

ESXi1 - Bottom server

Intel Xeon E3-1256L V2 (4c/8t) 45W TDP CPU
32GB ECC
SUPERMICRO MBD-X9SCM-F-O
Antec EarthWatts EA-380D
iStarUSA D-213-MATX (2u Rackmount)
Noctua NF-R8 x 2
Noctua NH-L9I CPU Cooler
ICY DOCK ToughArmor MB996SP-6SB (Fan replaced with Noctua NF-A4x10)
8GB HP Flash Drive (Internal)
4-Port SFF-8087 to SFF-8088 miniSAS Adapter
IBM M1015 RAID Card (Passed through to FS01 VM and connects to the Rackable for storage)
2 x 512GB Crucial MX100 SSD
500GB 2.5” Hard Drive (Random Storage)

ESXi2 - Top Server

Intel Core i3 3220 (2c/4t) 55w TDP CPU
SUPERMICRO MBD-X9SCL-F
16GB ECC
Antec EarthWatts EA-380D
iStarUSA D-213-MATX (2u Rackmount)
Noctua NF-R8 x 2
Stock Intel CPU Cooler
ICY DOCK ToughArmor MB996SP-6SB (Fan replaced with Noctua NF-A4x10)
8GB HP Flash Drive (internal)
256GB Crucial MX100 SSD

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Networking, I have an HP 1810-24GV2, an EdgeRouter and a Zoom cable modem. The image is old and the UPS is no longer there, I now run off 1 large UPS for everything. There is also 2 x PoE Injectors thrown behind there

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I also run a UniFi AP Pro

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I just got a Foscam FI9853EP to monitor my back door. Powered via PoE and using BlueIris to record. I am really surprised how fantastic the picture quality is, and the night vision is fantastic also. I used to have a Ubiquiti AirCam H264, but that was just terrible quality, and the NVR software used to randomly miss recordings

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flosseR

macrumors 6502a
Jan 1, 2009
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the cold dark north
New Setup-OMG

So I ran into a bit of luck (ish) with new fibre speed to my home and decided to host some servers for some people, developing OpenStack and some other stuff.
Well one company went out of business and noone wanted to buy their server shelf, so I did.. CHEAP ( we are talking less than 1000USD). Had it delivered, ready to put it into my basement and use the natural coolness for cooling.
Arrvied at my door was: a Full HP C7000 Blade Center, 16x Blade Servers, 8-12 Cores each 4-128GB ram each and a HP Storage system with about 20TB of redundant storage and a couple of SAN switches.

Hooked up to a newly installed 25A power supply, 250mbit synchroneous link, uncapped, fed into a 802.11N wireless network via redundant 48port gigabit switches.
Together with 2 additional HP DL380 Servers...

More hardware than some start-ups .. HUH.. more pics will follow when i am completely done setting it all up!.. i have more fibre cables and SFP+ now at home than RJ45 :)

just.. wow... talk about TimeCapsule on Steroids... :) Already checked with the power company :).. probably wont run all the servers at once :D
 

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Ulenspiegel

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Land of Flanders and Elsewhere
InternetTechnicolor ModemCisco/Linksys router ➯ Gamer PC ➯ Sony Vaio Netbook ➯ Toshiba Notebook ➯ PS3 ➯ Xbox360 Elite ➯ Wii U ➯ Samsung Smart TV ➯ Desktop PC ➯ Acer Laptop ➯:apple: MacBook Air ➯ Pioneer Blu-Ray Player ➯ Desktop PC ➯ Xbox360 Elite ➯ Nintendo Wii ➯ Samsung Tablets, Sony and Samsung Smartphones, Sony PSP, Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS, etc.
 
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robpow

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I don't have a picture of my network so I attached a screenshot of my internet speed test instead...
 

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Crazy Badger

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Apr 1, 2008
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Scotland
Mine looks like this, although some of the pictures aren't that accurate :D

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Freenas1 is also running Plex (Media Server, Connect & Watch), openVPN, DNS and a couple of VMs. Freenas2 is just a nightly replication of freenas1.
 
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snebes

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Apr 20, 2008
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Networking, I have an HP 1810-24GV2, an EdgeRouter and a Zoom cable modem. The image is old and the UPS is no longer there, I now run off 1 large UPS for everything. There is also 2 x PoE Injectors thrown behind there

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Nice to see another EdgeRouter user here. Incredible little boxes.
 

tylamb19

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Dec 27, 2014
72
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This is my network, but the diagram also includes all of the stuff in both my media rack and server/storage rack, not all of which is directly connected to the network.

Color coded connections are as follows:

Yellow: WAN (has not processed through firewall)
Green: LAN (has been processed by firewall)
Black Outline: Standard 19" Rack
Orange: Interlinked TiVos
Blue Cloud Outline: WiFi Devices
Purple: FireWire 800
Red: 2Gb/s Fibre Channel

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0000757

macrumors 68040
Dec 16, 2011
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Ahhh...I miss this thread.

Shame my 2014 got deleted. I think it was on my cl.ly and I removed it :/

Anyways, here's what we have in 2015!

The AirPort plugs directly into the U-Verse box. Otherwise everything is wireless.

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ecschwarz

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Jun 28, 2010
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My network - I had to split the U-verse TV equipment into extra VLANs because it multicasts and slows down everything else if allowed to run wild on the LAN...
 

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mellofello

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Show us your network

Why put the Blu-ray player and receiver parallel to the airport extreme? Doesn't that mess with airplay, unless you run the extreme in bridge mode? Are you pulling your ips straight from the ISP on those 2 devices?

I would run the ether net straight to the airport extreme, then run another back to the switch to provide service to those devices. You should be able to split the single cat5 if necessary.

I too had to put a switch in front of my cisco/pace iptv equipment. Letting the ISP provided gateway run the show for dhcp was terrible.

I experimented with letting my ISP assign dhcp to my devices by leaving my Asus in bridge, but it was equally terrible.
 

arggg14

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Dec 30, 2014
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Question for you all. Here is my current set up.
Arris cm820 cable modem connected to
Linksys EA4500 gigabit router
Tenvis surveillance camera connected to router
2 MBP's and 2 iPhones connected to router over wifi
Smart TV connected to router over wifi
I plan on adding a WD My Cloud NAS to my network.

Would I benefit from a gigabit switch?
 

mellofello

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Feb 1, 2011
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The only reason to add a switch is if you are out of ports on your router. Or have multiple devices to hook up at the end of one of your Ethernet cables.
 

arggg14

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The only reason to add a switch is if you are out of ports. Or have multiple devices to hook up at the end of one of your Ethernet cables.
Gotcha. Yeah, I have 3 more open ports on my router so I guess I'm in good shape.
 

sim667

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Dec 7, 2010
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My networks so simple its not worth drawing up.

Virgin Homehub, connected to raspberry pi, ps4, mac pro and Virgin Tivo box via ethernet.

Then wirelessly I have 2 macbook Pros (ones a work one), an iPhone, iPad, 2 apple tv's and my housemate has an iPhone, a smart tv and a macbook pro.

On the raspberry pi i also run a vpn server, and a WOL server, so I can access anything on my home network as long as its turned on, from outside the house. There's also a webpage setup on my pi that I can use to wake machines that are asleep up on my network.
 
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