Exactly! He can do it any way he wants, but he certainly can not call it the 'right way'

very well said Sir.

Agreed. Many of the suggestions by others are appropriate for a larger install, but unnecessary here. Most of the comments are no doubt from those used to working in a commercial wiring closet with hundreds of connections, not 12. I've been at both ends of the spectrum and the design considerations are different. Since there are only about a dozen connections, even a patch panel is optional, but nice to have. Good wiring management really comes into play when you have a lot of wires. I think some of these people would be saying you need a rack, PDU, and patch panel for 3 connections to an integrated wifi router.

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He can configure it however he likes but HE SHOULD NOT BE INSTRUCTING OTHERS IN THAT CASE. This isn't best practices which is required when you claim to show how it's done right.

@Phoenix because it's out of the way, So it's easy to add more equipment down lower later. Also heat rises, so you don't want actual powered equipment up the very top if possible. There might be other reasons, that's all I can think of for now

I was watching this video going..... Cage nuts!!! Lolz. Btw, do you have any experience with rack studs? I just bought a set for my home rack. Server is going to be on nuts, but trying out the rack studs for the lighter weight mountables.

If this is your own home network, do wathaver you want. If this is a proffesional installation, I will kick the living crap out of you. I am confronted with so called Proffesionals who do this as a living.

@@richardwilliamjohnson8566 I'm moving equipment at work from wire rack shelf into a Tripp cabinet. The config top to bottom I was sketching was Router, POE switch, two keystone patch panels, second non-POE switch, two shelves for backup internet equip, and power control unit. Logic was to place the router at the top since it runs the hottest compared to the other pieces of equipment and would place it near the vent for optional fan if needed. Also, the patch panels sandwiched by switches because I've read you don't want patch panels crossing equipment. Figured if a current wall jack that currently does not require power injection I could move patch cable into POE switch. It would cross the patch panel but not equipment. Your opinion?

@@mcraw4d Not super sure what you mean, but in reference to active equipment up the top, it doesn't really matter especially if it's an open rack or has a decent push-pull fan system. However if it's an enclosed rack where heat will get trapped at the top, it would be recommended to have the hot router seated a little lower. I haven't had much experience with this stuff being an electrician by trade, so have only done the occasional rack fitout (which is definitely an interesting process) but almost always you will have passive items like PDU's, UPS managers, patch panels etc up higher and active equipment throughout the rack, usually with patch panels dotted throughout along with some cable management duct, or brush. It's totally up to you, you just need to think about what's easiest to work with now and in the future, heat and airflow, and where the cables are all actually going. You'd best ask somebody who does this stuff for a living if you want some decent advice.

You can also buy such short cables. And then you're sure they're crimped the right way. I would never crimp cables by myself. You can use the very easy push/click-systems. They are much safer.

@@disdonc6012 Making tp cables is easy

Yeah, I feel for him making them, I just did it last night, made 24..... man were my fingers sore.....

Yea wtf? Why would you not get them preconnected?

Ready made are expensive cables.

​@@renzjohncordero Not really, though? If you buy in a dedicated cable shop (they exist), it's barely any more expensive than buying all the parts seperately. Add in the time you spend on it and you're no worse off just buying ready-made patch cables.

Not to mention that he didn't even use cage nuts for secure mounting.

This guy gets it.

You wrote exactly what I wanted to. First thing I saw was no aligned equipment with holes in rack. For home use it would bo good - it's clean

The single core cable isn't the best for patch cords. The multi core wires brings less mechanical stress on the connector. Too short patch cords put so much stress to the conectors too. Pre build patch cords are really inexpensive. I recommend you to put the Switch on top, 1U cable organizer, 1U patch panel, 1U cable organizer, 1 rack self and on the bottom the power strip.

I think he used cage nuts but used them wrong. Also like others, use the screws adjacent from each other per unit if you only want to use two screws. (left top, right bottom)

Would a firewall be necessary if I am extending from my existing home router LAN ports to a switch?

2) there are different opinions on that. I personally prefer any front facing power connections (which are often handy for home racks) up top and patchpanel beneat it. (I personally have: Power A Passthrough Power B SFP+ switch (dedicated) passthrough 1GbE switch A (with a few extra SFP+ ports for redundancy of some important devices on the SFP+ switch) patchpanel 1GbE switch B It's not ideal, but I have a lot of U's in height but a lack of access from the back, so having everything from the front makes maintenance easier. It also puts the patchpanel and switches on eye height, which is nice. What I wanted to make clear: The location of the patchpanel depends on your needs and setup. However, it should always be above any servers.) 3) preferably just grab rackmount gear. Switches are not that more expansive rackmount and almost every PC an easily be turned into a rackmount by just putting it in another case (including a router). 4) Standards, any link to a standard about bend radius for these? 5) The problem is bigger, he should've terminated the in-wall cables into keystones (not plugs) and should indeed have used passthrough plugs for the devices. I do like using pass-through plugs in patchpanels connect devices though, it's nice and clean... Till about 10 devices, then it becomes cleaner to do it differently. 6) This is so understated... PLEASE EVERYONE document it. I cant second this more. 7) Depends on your location. Some countries don't have frequent outages. I myself unplugged all UPS's in my rack. The poweroutages once every 30-40 years(!) here, was not worth the 25-40W upkeep they took.

Point no.5, you mean that everything goes to the switch and not the patch panel right?

Got yeah

Where is the internet coming from: in all likelihood, the internet is coming in with the cable COAX, he is probably uplinking the firewall (wherever it is) to it, and then go the patch switch via patch panel. Why connect the media server to the router instead of the patch panel: patch panels are only for (should only be used) for remote devices, it make little practical sense to do it the other way. Addon wifi: the MikroTik firewall supports wifi via dongle or adapter. 2 wires on the right: he is using what's called a LAG, link aggregation group to boost the speed, so long as the switch and router are LAG compliant, they essentially double the uplink speed (instead of 1GbE he would get 2GbE.)

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Literally was thinking the exact same thing... I rip my guys a new one if they skip a cagenut hole as then your always left with 2/3 of a U at the end.

It hurts me reading a negetive post

Newb here. Is it just me or do i think his setup like an overkill for a single home. I mean why does it seem he has a lot going on. I have a decent sized house with 5 bedrooms, 1 mini office 2 living rooms but my switch is just an 8 port tp link switch. Then using an x50 deco mesh system. Ethernet bachauled to 3 rooms, the office, 1 living room, then wireless backhaul in the garage and the garden.

​@@lildrei01just you...not trying to be a azz but that's going to be my setup.

I use passthrough RJ45. It is a lot easier and will save you wasting RJ45

Agreed. And, use (maybe) different color cables to illustrate that. Not all just blue cables.

I didn't pay attention to the switch being used, but a 24 port gbe switch is not very expensive. If the rest of the ports were indeed 100 base t, then the first upgrade he should do is replace that switch.

Agree with both of you. But, I'm glad that he is showing it step-by-step, because it makes my PALTRY EFFORTS feel better. This guy is real -- not like Linus and all of his large team now. So, I like what this guy is showing us ... I really do. I'd like to have a setup like him one day ...

Not everyone with expert opinions have KZfaq videos. I was the Administrator over a facility with a central hub, three edge wiring closets and fibre optic connections to the edge wiring closets. I had layer two switches on the edge, each separated by their own VLANs (to reduce the possibility of traffic impacting other network areas) and redundant layer three switches at the core. I feel that I have pointers that I could add, but I'll hold back since I don't have a KZfaq video to prove my worth.

It wouldn't be as big of a deal if the creator didn't title his video as "Done Right", implying this is the model uneducated people should follow. Does it work? yes. Is it clean? Yes. Is it right? No its not. And that is fine. Things he could improve: 1) use proper rack hardware, in this case he should be using clip nuts, 2) Use hardware for all four mounting points on each piece of rack equipment. If you must use two, use the bottom holes, 3) Use a shelf instead of using hardware as a shelf for smaller components.

@@brandon3122 this is the problem with generalized communication and one way communication. As the title suggests as "done right" may simply imply his aesthetic view of his system where as others not directly involved in the project don't know what the actual goal was when completed. As you said, it works and it's clean, so in that perspective, it was done right.

Yeah I agree with you, all these pros pop out to comment how his network setup needs to be up to data center specs lol. This will be better than 99% of home networks out there, and actually better than most small business networks I've seen. Most are a massive mess of tangled cables from careless IT people. Only thing i'd say to add would be a cable tester, since they can be had for really cheap.

@@gerald8289 most home networks in 2018 use gigabyte switches. evem router built in switches from the isp are mostly gigabyte. ive done installs and maintenance in many businesses and schools and not one of them in 2018 uses a fast ethernet switch. the only times ive seen 2960s is in ccna code academys and home lab networks.. not in production systems. if you want a dumb switch you can get a 24 port tplink dumb switch for not that much if you want managed it will be a bit more but company like ubiquity have pretty good managed switches for not much moneys

Haters gotta hate. It could have been the music, which perhaps is unnecessary. Someone people are intolerant of accents that are not the same as their own. Best idea, ignore the dislikes! Or make fun of them. Such as 300 people cut their cable too short!

Its a standard ethernet cable. You plug one end into the server's network port and the other end into the network switch. That's it.