Home network

Having flood wired my old home, we then moved so I have had to start all over again!  Despite being here for 18 months it is still early days for the structured cabling, but it is taking shape, see the image.

 

The challenges were finding the best location for the wiring closet (ended up being by the electrical consumer unit in the hallway), routing the incoming services to there in a hidden manner, involving taking up floors, channelling and replastering walls, taking down and boarding and plastering ceilings and getting an electrician to replace the consumer unit and test the newly installed circuits and sockets.

 

The network consists of an MX75 performing the routing, two MS220-8p switches in outbuildings (connected by powerline), MR55, MR56, CW9163 and CW9166 APs and a C9300L used (for the project at least) as a cable tester to ensure the shielded CAT6a cabling would run at 10Gb.  One of the outbuildings also has an MV73X to monitor the entrance to the property and the other has an MT10 to monitor the environmental conditions as it houses some antiques.

 

As you can see more of the cabling needs terminating, there is more to be run and I am building a cupboard around the electrical consumer unit and networking equipment to hide it and try to soundproof it.  If successful the C9300L will be the core of the network.  The patch cables are all temporary, so don't worry it will be much tidier and colour coded when complete!

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cmr
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Oh yes and I need to buy some cage nuts as Meraki C switches no longer include the lovely ones that the MS switches did ☹️

PhilipDAth
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Very well organised.

cmr
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Thanks @PhilipDAth, the cage nuts are on the way and the CAT6a cables have all now been terminated at the panel end, even managed to fit the old POTS cable pair into the far end of the panel 😈

PhilipDAth
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How common are POTS in the UK?

 

In New Zealand, you can no longer order them.  Some providers offer a POTS-style port off the ONT, but it is rare to see that used.

 

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You can't generally still order a POTS line, but a lot of connections still use the copper tail that was the POTS line... 

 

When we moved in 18 months ago, the phone line was genuine POTS, but in the process of being transferred from the old owner to us, became an IP line.  However, as fibre hasn't been run to some of the houses in the village, they just provide the IP line over the old copper cables.  So you get the worst of both worlds 🤦🏻‍♂️

NicolasRen
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Oh that's a nice setup !

Brash
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Nice tidy setup.

 

I'm always a big fan of rack mounted MX's.
That kit must be pretty secure to be comfortable holding the MX on its side 😄

cmr
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@Brash its the 9300 that I was more concerned about.  It does have four quite long screws into a brick wall, so hopefully okay 🤞