you might be able to find that PoE board that's only giving 1V on eBay.... it's probably easier to just replace it than to hunt down the exact piece that's fried... PLUS you aren't really solving the problem by replacing the broken piece... what caused it to fry? ... BUT since I'm TOTALLY NEW HERE and this is my first video I've watched from you I have NO IDEA your skill set and finding and replacing components could be your specialty lol ... - - I only brought this up because something similar happened to me with an audio amplifier and I spent so long chasing down the problem, I'd replace the fried cap only for it to fry again 2 days later, and then replacing mosfets and the same thing happening.... after nearly 2 weeks of this I just looked up the board number on eBay and found it for $15 and it's been going good for over a year LOL - and I know just how helpful PoE is so not having it a huge headache... so luckily you got the other box to get the PoE up and running.... :) - -- OH BTW why did you cut the ends off the RJ45's and patch it that way when you could have just got a dual female patch panel and not had to cut anything? OR am I forgetting that this wouldn't work?? I know you have to flip 2 wires if you go from one computer to another without a router (the name of the cable is on the tip of my tongue... BAH!) so does this come into play here and that's why you chose to do it the way you did? Or was it just that you had that patch 'bay' on hand and didn't wanna buy a new one? lol :)

@Nobe_Oddy I think you’re looking for crossover cable. There are female to female crossover adapters that keystone and all that, but those wouldn’t be required here. This is a straight through connection every time. You’d only really use crossover to go NIC to NIC, one pc to another pc. The switches manage the data pins for you, so you’d really want to just extend the existing cable. Newer NICs can also handle the data in any standard CAT configuration, so crossover may not even be necessary any more in most cases. I agree with the rest of your statements though, and only trying to share some knowledge 😅

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He has contributed to a habit that is ruining me financially, physically and emotionally, while straining my relationships and keeping me from my responsibilities. Homelab tinkering can really wreck your life. Check on your kids, talk to them about the dangers.

H.H. who do you figure that is.. Howard Hughes, Herbert Hover..

I considered it, but I’m pretty sure it ended up being cheaper and I don’t mind it being more “permanent”.

@@HardwareHaven Punch down are annoying to make any changes. Like really annoying. Keystone are a huge quality of life homelab improvement.

I was a direct punchdown guy for years... a friend of mine said that I HAVE to try keystones. Oh... yeah... about that.... friggin awesome solution... never going back

He doesn't know how to use a multimeter or ohms law. Just saying as he's likeable. You know it's a job when you're not passionate enough to learn basic things which govern all digital and analog signals

I figured someone was already going to mention keystones, and I'm not disappointed. But still here to give my +1. Yes, you might not plan to change anything with the cables you have run already, but punch down is also a pain if you ever decide to add anything. With a growing homeland, that's what finally got me to change out my punch down patch panel for a keystone

100%! For me, this was needed because it has limited me in testing things out and exploring, either literally or just by making me less motivated. lol

@@HardwareHavenI totally get it and there are also the swag points for having a nice looking setup. I've spent a lot of time re-cabling everything from home offices to datacenters and there is also value in a neat well labeled environment.

Thanks for the tips!

I hate that you’re 100% correct haha

That’s awesome!

Yeah that’s not a bad idea. I think for me it’s nice having more flexibility as it’s not uncommon to all of a sudden need 2.5Gb to a jack across the house, or to need to setup a temporary test network and such. I like not having things as hard-lined. It’s already proven very useful in just a week or so. And one of the things I’m hoping to do once I get into more of a routine with full-time KZfaq is experiment more, so ESXi is on my list haha.

Good to know! (That’s the plan haha)

I had a power outage a little back and i had two hours of wifi working thanks to that, though it´s a pretty small unit and can only run my pc for a couple of minutes it was enough to have wifi on my laptop and phone for a decently long time

There’s a small UPS in that closet, but I’ll be upgrading it at some point

If you don't have an ATX psu lying around, you could use a generic DC power supply. Not the wall wart types, but a bigger 10A, 20A, or 30A one. These are often used to power LED strips or fans in a cabinet.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Normally I would, and you can see that for the heavier stuff like the big switch and shelf that I used all 4. That 10Gb switch is surprisingly light though, so I didn't really put much though into it. That's not saying you aren't correct lol

I thought about mounting them in, but access to the back would be a pain unless I built in sliding rails or something. And thanks for the recommendation! I’ll have to check it out

Yeah renting can be tricky. I’ve found that flat Ethernet cables are great for running under trim and such. I ran one all the way across my apartment a few years back.

​@@HardwareHavenwhats the write endurance of your ssd in yur editing machine?

Budget labelling FTW!

I'll try! haha

Thanks! Felt good haha

That’s what I was hoping at first, and it possibly could but would involve some drilling and such. The plan for my server is similar, with the NVMe being for VMs and the SATA drive for snapshots and potentially non-boot virtual drives

There is one. I added a pinned comment with some info because I got that comment a lot lol

I don’t think I could fit a Storinator in there…

@@HardwareHavenYou just need to try harder! You could mount it vertically on the wall like Dave's Garage did!

@@JeffGeerlingDon''t give me ideas...

@@HardwareHaventhere is a storinator jr. you could use that?

Hahaha nah. It’s mostly fairly jank

@@HardwareHaven Jank is my middle name ;)

Thanks! And sounds like a sweet setup

Lol, you say that, but in a video where I talk about having 4TB of storage, people freak out that it's not nearly enough.

true, I mean imo usually when you don't neex storage 512GB is usually pretty big overkill, expecially if you don't use windows as an OS but if you'll be running VMs and might need expandability 1TB is a solid middle ground

@@L4X1K3 Exactly 👍

Yeah… unfortunately everything is on a cheap UPS hat doesn’t provide metrics. I’ll probably upgrade that soon, and if so I’ll mention power draw of the entire “lab”. So keep an eye out haha

I am moving to an new how, should i get cat6/6a or cat7? starting all from scratch, there is nothing there yet

@@qux8508Well Cat 6 will run 10Gbps up to 55 Meters, where as Cat 6a will support 10Gbps to 100 Meters. Cat 7 doesn't use traditional RJ45's, so that would be a pass for sure there is no TIA standard for Cat 7. Cat 8 has a max run length of 30 meters using traditional RJ45 connectors to support the full 2000MHz of bandwidth. The higher the category cable the thicker and less manageable it gets. Also you must use properly certified patch panels and wall plates for the cable you use. The price for those go up very fast as well. The faster the speed no matter the cable certification the more critical the terminations and cable routing becomes. If you are truly serious to run 6A or 8, then have a networking company or at least consultant come in to make sure the cables are run correctly would be a good investment. Electricians that run low voltage cable aren't typically up on running network cabling correctly. Like putting them in long runs with AC cabling or near appliances etc. Also a network guy with certification equipment can actually check each cable run after its in and terminated to make sure it will fully pass all the tests, not just a simple continuity test. Pretty much the consensus is that if you need more than 10Gbps you really should be running fiber and not copper. This means that depending on run length 6 or 6A will be more than enough for residential environments. The normal homeowner doesn't really care about network cabling, as they use use WiFi because wires are ugly. 😁 Don't mix and match use all the same, that way you only need one category of keystone jacks/patch panels. If it were me I would run Cat6 maybe 6A and fiber to each drop now a days. If I needed one drop, then do yourself a favor and run two, and if you need two run four. Its way cheaper to run cable when a house is being built than after the fact. I have close to 80 drops run right now in our house, all of them CAT5e at this point as it was done 17 years ago when it was built. I have a number of runs using 2.5Gbps and they are just fine. My longest run is just under 200 feet. Because of the size of our house I would have also used a MDF/IDF placement as well to have shorter runs and two wiring closets with fiber & copper trunking between them. That way edge switches would be placed at the IDF's and have 10G fiber connections back to the MDF. I would have also installed small closets for the IDFs and larger area for the MDF/server room. The MDF/Server room would have its own mini-split HVAC as well and dedicated 240VAC power run to it. When we moved in the electrician had manually stripped all 8 conductors from every drop and twisted them together to make them all phone lines. It was crazy, they had like 5 of them used for "computers" and weren't in the super bundle of electrical tape goop. We also have 28 coax drops that run with the network wiring too. Think about placement in rooms. Where would you need each of the connections on which walls. If you are putting up many flat screen TV's make sure you run power / network / coax to each of those areas as well. 🤠👍 Good luck.

I just updated the description so it has links now!

Thanks! I would expect it within the next month 👍🏻