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  • Ha indeed, every room in the house is getting 2 faceplates (on roughly opposite sides of the room) with 4 Ethernet that runs each back to the server rack. Is every room having 8 runs right back to the switch excessive, you bet.

    In my old place I had one faceplate with 2 ethernet, coax and phone to each room, but phone and coax is useless and I didn’t have enough Ethernet.


  • Top to Bottom:

    • 48port Patch panel
    • Cisco 2990 48 port Poe
    • 48port Patch panel (future)
    • Cisco 2990 48 port Poe (future)
    • 24 port patch panel (spare)
    • Pfsense 2.5gb eth minipc
    • 4u server 20 bay (proxmox)

    Bottom area:

    • 2 mini pcs (proxmox)
    • PiKVM and ezcoo switch connected to all PCs
    • Couple of UPS

    The access to the crawlspace isn’t great so the CrapRack tm had to be assembled in the crawlspace.














  • I have my own matrix server that I primarily use like beeper and bridge all my chats together. Even using some of their bridges, it’s been pretty reliable for years.

    I know that a few people are hating on the closed source client, but that feels unfair to me. They provide lots of open code in the form of bridges which is really the meat of the offering. Their client just makes using the bridges easier for the lay person. The bridges are super easy to use without it, invite the bridge bot to a chat room, type login and do what it says, then type login-matrix and your pretty much done.

    The I suspect that the same people who are displeased about the closed client also like using tailscale which is generally pretty popular but has closed source clients on Windows and Mac as well as the server (though all support the open source headscale server)