My home network - djhworld

This has been my obsession over the past few years. Whilst I’ve had various bits of network equipment, SoHo cabinets and a whole lot of chaos going on in the house over the past few years, this is the first time I’ve actually gotten myself a proper rack and I’m really pleased with it.

But this post I want to talk about my home network and all the bits I’ve put together to make it work, it’s not very interesting or novel but this sort of setup is something I’ve wanted for a long time and I just wanted to write about it and how I got here.

If you want a more informative post about home network racks, I highly recommend this post from Michael Lynch, he goes into way more detail and I found it useful.

I’m lucky enough to have ethernet in some of the rooms of my house. This is not common in the UK, but newer build properties like mine are being built with CAT6 in the walls. Obviously it’s possible to retrofit cabling in UK houses but it requires some chopping and chasing to get everything in place, so it’s nice to have had that already done when I moved in. In hindsight I wish I’d requested more drops throughout the house but oh well, it’s good enough.

The drops all end at a point in a small cupboard on the ground floor, 4 ports in total one for each area, this is where the rack lives. Here’s a crude drawing of what the network looks like right now:

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