Network pics thread

When it comes to servers for home use, I always build my own over Dell or HP. While their form factors are nice, a 1U server is just... louder.

I start with a 4U case and a high quality, high-efficiency PSU. And then drop in a ton of undervolted 120mm fans for airflow and low noise. Then add in a no-frills motherboard (from Supermicro or Intel), server class CPU and whatever the memory and disk requirements dictate.

The price typically comes out the same, but I end up with a more power-efficient and quieter server. Of course it's a 4U form factor instead of 1U and no warranty is included...

Plus building my own keeps me abreast of component configurations as well as giving me upgradability options that a make-to-spec server doesn't have.


Of course I'm hoping to score an old PE2950 III / MD1000 / TL2000 trifecta in the upcoming months from work so take everything I just said with a grain of salt. :D
 
Ethereal, that is a nice old WE protector...I have several in my collection.
All of those switches...since they can not be sold/given away, do they just end up being sold for scrap?
 
timreichhart said:
I really hope your not married or living with somebody..... If your married I would hate to see what your wife would say to you if she sees that hole through the living room. Because I know my wife would seriously kill me if I did something like that.
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This happened back in August of 2010. I was engaged at the time, and she wasn't living in the house yet. I had sent her a picture of it, and she asked WTF I was doing. She wasn't mad about the damage, just wanted to make sure I was OK. Fell in the hole, caught myself on the joist with my ribs, that felt great for a few weeks. Fine other than that. Had I gone ALL the way through, I would have landed on the couch, literally.... We got married December of that year, and we still look back at it and laugh about it anytime I start a project. Had a buddy come out and replace the drywall for me, and we got it all mudded and painted, and it was back to new in about a week. (Was living alone at the time, wasn't home much, so I wasn't worried about it getting done right away.

All patched up.
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feffrey said:
Sorry, I can't sell them. Due to idiotic rules we can't sell or throw out old equipment.
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That is lame :-\, if they goto some crazy surplus sale, plz pass on the info, I would be interested and I am sure allot of the forum would be as well even if its only once a year
 
feffrey said:
I like the one practically empty patch panel at the bottom lol

Finished the Unifi Deployment, getting rid of these POS.
SonicWall makes good Firewalls but their wireless AP's suck.

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I see a bottle of Siracha in the background.
 
New 3 Apartment building almost completed, i'll be living on one so decided to run a few cables on each floor and deploy a 3pack unifi. I use Cat6 all over the place except for unifi (cat5e) because it's more flexible than Cat6. One uplink per floor run to my main cabinet in my apartment so i can provide wired and wireless to my 2 other tenant. For mine i decided to run 4 cat6 per wall in the living room, 2 coax per outlet and speaker with banana jacks. Blue jacks are for normal data use, yellow for AP's and red for uplink. Note that i'm waiting for my Panduit minicom coax jack and 1st floor was not ready this weekend so i need to be completed. I ues Panduit all over because i have tonssss of stuff at work. Cisco 2811 as main router, Linksys SD2016 switch 16 ports (will be using SD2008 on other floor). Provider is Videotron (QC, Canada) with TGV30/MBs package free for a year. Cabinet is a 12U made by ElectronMetal, robust and strong, i deployed at least 400 of these cabinets all across Canada. Server is a custom built running WHS2011, Intel I5, 16GB ram with 12TB hd. Still under progress so more to come !

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How do you like that case's LCD, Carlcrack?

I have the "old" version with no LCD temp monitor, and was considering that as the new version I'd be getting. I do like the case itself tho.
 
That's the bad part about those brackets. I built a shelf out of plywood for a DVR and 3Com switch at a customer's office. Doesn't look half bad!
 
Brak710 said:
How do you like that case's LCD, Carlcrack?

I have the "old" version with no LCD temp monitor, and was considering that as the new version I'd be getting. I do like the case itself tho.
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not that bad and looking great, bought this case only for it's size because i had only 16 to 17 inches deep available to fit in that cabinet but to be honest, no space inside. Having 4HD is a pain in the /"% to fit in, half an inch between the front HD and the CPU fan, had to order another power supply because the one included was missing a power plug for my i5, the new 600w i ordered was oversized (my bad) and have a fan on top so can't put back the top panel anymore... The LCD display/control is working great with temp controlled fan, programmable on the display for fan1 and fan 2 at different threshold. If you plan to put more than 2hd i don't recommend it, 189$ on newegg 1 month ago if i remember..
 
they're great for patch panel purpose only i guess, i also have a few 8 or 9u adjustable bracket so a 2960 will fit in but the setup was overkill considering it's in tenants locker, so thats why i grabbed these one !
 
Neat job and great photos! I like seeing the SMB installs like this. Are you going to have the apartments on the same network? VLANed?
 
here is part of one of the nodes at my new place of employment......this is most of the fiber racked there
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adam30k said:
Neat job and great photos! I like seeing the SMB installs like this. Are you going to have the apartments on the same network? VLANed?
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Not for now, i have a dozen of 2960 sitting on a shelf that i can use but they are 100mbs with shared GB uplinks. For now i have 2 tenants, wich one of them is a friend so we will share ressources through the WHS server. The other tenant have an Ipad and a laptop and she is 53, so i'm not worried about the network and security that much. If a new tenant want to be on his own and have his own internet connection, i might have to upgrade to a VLANed network so i can add another SSID on the Unifi and tag this one with the switchports in his apartment. Better coverage and less interference for him and us !
 
Ohhh nice! We have a few racks like that in our FOTS room, basically where the fiber comes in and connects to the transport equipment then the DSLAMs, and some of it goes up to the DMS and other parts of the CO. (Telco)
 
carlcrack said:
New 3 Apartment building almost completed, i'll be living on one so decided to run a few cables on each floor and deploy a 3pack unifi. I use Cat6 all over the place except for unifi (cat5e) because it's more flexible than Cat6. One uplink per floor run to my main cabinet in my apartment so i can provide wired and wireless to my 2 other tenant. For mine i decided to run 4 cat6 per wall in the living room, 2 coax per outlet and speaker with banana jacks. Blue jacks are for normal data use, yellow for AP's and red for uplink. Note that i'm waiting for my Panduit minicom coax jack and 1st floor was not ready this weekend so i need to be completed. I ues Panduit all over because i have tonssss of stuff at work. Cisco 2811 as main router, Linksys SD2016 switch 16 ports (will be using SD2008 on other floor). Provider is Videotron (QC, Canada) with TGV30/MBs package free for a year. Cabinet is a 12U made by ElectronMetal, robust and strong, i deployed at least 400 of these cabinets all across Canada. Server is a custom built running WHS2011, Intel I5, 16GB ram with 12TB hd. Still under progress so more to come !

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Nice! Looks very clean and organized.
 
Anyone play with one of these yet ?

BlueTree 6800

HSPA modem with sim card in the side, ive installed 5 of these now for work, they are sweet.

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Thats a nice looking unit Dash- Right now im playing with an ITX box.. wondering if I add a wireless card if I can run a wireless network from it
 
ChRoNo16 said:
Thats a nice looking unit Dash- Right now im playing with an ITX box.. wondering if I add a wireless card if I can run a wireless network from it
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If you plugged in a wrap to this you could bring in Hspa connection to a wireless network. I want one lol ..
 
dashpuppy said:
Anyone play with one of these yet ?

BlueTree 6800

HSPA modem with sim card in the side, ive installed 5 of these now for work, they are sweet.

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That looks cool, but at 100-500MB cap + 15cent per MB being typical data rate, it would cost a lot to run. :p
 
Yeah, but I have never seen a data plan with more than a few hundred MB as the cap. At least not here, maybe in the south they're higher? Really, it should be near unlimited. With the explosion of smart phones it only makes sense.
 
Damn, and they only throttle? That's not bad. For typical stuff you don't need more than like a meg anyway. I wish it was like that here. Maybe if some competition ever rolls in.
 
The funny thing is, we have no competition. Sure there's Fido and Telus and Bell and all that crap, but it's on Sasktel's network. It's either Sasktel's network or Roger's which blows chunks. Just last week they announced unlimited data in all of Canada. Before it was only 200 MB while roaming in Canada and then you had to pay roaming after 200, but now it's unlimited to 10GB and then it's throttled.
 
Damn, I wish that would come here. The crappy caps we have make data almost worthless. it's one of those things where it's either you use it or you don't, and if you do, you'll definitely use more than 100MB lol.
 
/usr/home said:
The funny thing is, we have no competition. Sure there's Fido and Telus and Bell and all that crap, but it's on Sasktel's network. It's either Sasktel's network or Roger's which blows chunks. Just last week they announced unlimited data in all of Canada. Before it was only 200 MB while roaming in Canada and then you had to pay roaming after 200, but now it's unlimited to 10GB and then it's throttled.
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Bell sucks, rogers is awesome on the island. I carry 2 phones around one bell one rogers ( rogers being my personal one ) guess what one gets used 99% of the time for personal use and work ?
 
/usr/home said:
The funny thing is, we have no competition. Sure there's Fido and Telus and Bell and all that crap, but it's on Sasktel's network. It's either Sasktel's network or Roger's which blows chunks. Just last week they announced unlimited data in all of Canada. Before it was only 200 MB while roaming in Canada and then you had to pay roaming after 200, but now it's unlimited to 10GB and then it's throttled.
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Sasktel throttles much earlier than that for domestic data roaming, also, their international data roaming can be best described as rape. I've had an $1800 overage charge from them :/
 
Berg0 said:
Sasktel throttles much earlier than that for domestic data roaming, also, their international data roaming can be best described as rape. I've had an $1800 overage charge from them :/
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That's why you turn off data while roaming internationally.... lol. You get raped with any provider for that. They may have throttled earlier than 10 GB in the past, but they just changed their policy last week so we'll see what happens.
 
that sucks. in the european union they cut your international roaming at 60 euros (somewhat around $75). after that you're not able to use your data plan outside your country, except if you call your provider and let them disable that cap.
 
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