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jet ,

The device you're thinking of has 42 decibels of sound. You should be aware of that, I don't think it's actually fanless

Noise is going to be a huge factor for your home lab, so make sure you look at the data sheet for whatever you're about to buy and check what it's rated noise level is

jet ,

Do one thing at a time, don't buy equipment unless you have a actionable use case for it.

Isp cpe in bridge mode

One of the boxes can be your gateway

You can keep using the Google Wi-Fi.

You can play around with proxmox, xen, etc, to run a bunch of containers, or virtual machines, to do different things on your network. I think you can do it all with your current hardware

jet ,

True, but you can use your gateway to cut off google wifi from google, and still use the radios. No need to buy new hardware.

Heck, you can put openwrt on some google wifi models https://openwrt.org/toh/google/wifi

My advice stays the same, work with what you have first, save your budget, then SLOWLY, after doing research, buy one thing, and fit it in.

Your advice is good if you just want the fastest way to de-google yourself, but i think the OP wants to run a homelab, and learn, and understand.

jet ,

Fair enough, can't go wrong with Ubiquiti, Mikrotik, Grandstream for radios.

jet ,

Depending on your requirements, you can pick up used gear for quite cheap, set alerts on craigslist/marketplace/kijiji. i.e. one access point for like $30 used, and host your own network controller container to configure it.

If you want a single pane of glass whole network management, its going to be spendy no matter which ecosystem you go with.

jet ,

People, on the whole, tend to be pragmatic.

Shelter, security, sex, and food... These are the core requirements for existence.

If someone sees a better outcome in terms of core requirements from new behavior they are more likely to try that behavior. Demonstrate the better way to be, and people will follow.

jet ,

What episode is that?

jet ,

The cards come with the game! So it's more like Dominion and not a CCG. I was worried for a second. I wonder how it'll play compared to Dominion. I absolutely will buy this

jet ,

Good article, nice use of data.

jet ,

It's not power efficient, you're better off buying a cheaper computer, that runs on far fewer watts

If you want to run it as a museum piece, or for archaeological purposes, go for it.

You could run it as a router, I question how much throughput you can get... But again, a cheap $20 off-the-shelf openwrt router like gli.net will be much cheaper on your power bill.

jet ,

https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a33796608/class-action-park-human-test-dummy/

Action Park, the cannonball loop

jet ,

https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/vlan/switch_configuration

jet ,

Hey, let's just focus on work right now.

And don't engage with any of the other conversations

jet ,

Packet capture and verify your hypothesis about the routing.

jet ,

before spending any money, just reuse old equipment you have around, even if it wont max out the speed. You can try out openwrt, opnsense, openbsd, linux, etc... deciding which ecosystem you like is very important before you buy hardware!!!! Different devices have different hardware support, etc.

Regarding hardware - Your fiber connection is 5GiB but your ISP cpe only has 2.5GbE ports, so you will need to bond two ports together to get your 5GiB throughput to your router. Once you select your routing environment, you can choose hardware that allows for multiple wan side ports that you can bond. (Perhaps your ISP has a CPE you can get 10GbE out of, or with a spf port, the same for your router)

Regarding Switches - You don't need a fancy managed switch, as long as you trust devices on your network to do peaceful vlaning on their own, you can just send vlan tagged traffic across a dumb switch no problem. Only when you start talking about doing default vlan tagging and enforcement on a per port basis do you need a fancier switch. So depending on what you want to do with vlans, you can save money here.

Regarding Wifi - Depending on your routing solution, it could have wifi attached to it, or you can just get a specific access point on your network that only provides wifi and rely on your router/gateway setup to do all the configuration.

FWIW - I just go full ubiquity, router, switches, ap. I used to fiddle around with openbsd routing, and it was really fun, but life got busy and ubiquiti fills the niche between just works, and letting me get really picky with settings.

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