Re-cabling the Entire Home Server Closet / Home Network Closet installation

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After installing the new Eaton 5PX 1500RT UPS in the home / office server closet, I finally got around to redoing all of the network cables and power cables in the closet. The home server closet is now cable managed and just looks a hell of lot better. We went from having 4 UPSs to only 2 thanks to the newest addition.
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@ShinyTechThings 3 жыл бұрын

Whenever I have to unplug stuff I have to schedule downtime at home 🤓🤦‍♂️🤣

@SPXLabs 3 жыл бұрын

Family is Florida!

@ptessier73 3 жыл бұрын

LOL!!!!! That was funny. "I'm just going to keep cutting, I don't care, I'm a risk taker!!".. You came close to cutting one.

@SPXLabs 3 жыл бұрын

I think that moment describes my general attitude perfectly.

@ecu8r 2 жыл бұрын

Your setup is what inspired me to do my network rack because we have very similar panel setup in a closet. Thanks for all your pointers and recommendations.

@SPXLabs 2 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah! Thanks for watching

@mrmotofy 2 жыл бұрын

When cutting blind, expecting cables behind, DON'T cut deep, cut shallow. Better yet get an oscillating multitool for the cutouts. A desktop grommet works great for drywall holes, instock in any home store.

@chrisboyce3109 Ай бұрын

120V power cables run inside the wall is technically a no-no code-wise, but unlikely to burn your house down, lol. Like your videos!

@SPXLabs Ай бұрын

Whaaaaat? I am totally not doing that. That would be wild. 10/10 would not recommend to anyone

@Raymond6494 3 жыл бұрын

Nice job clean

@SPXLabs 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you thank you

@cliffx7 2 жыл бұрын

The AT&T jack is call a Fiber Jack. This jack simply converts outside fiber to Inside Fiber. If you didn’t have this in your house then you would be breaking fiber anytime you plugged or unplugged your AT&T gateway.

@MactelecomNetworks 3 жыл бұрын

Great video!

@GotWire 3 жыл бұрын

looks good man love your videos!

@SPXLabs 3 жыл бұрын

Dawww. Thanks, for sticking around!

@jackslater2096 3 жыл бұрын

Got a bit of a blow to the he’d at 4:30 lol

@rcgillsympaticoca 6 ай бұрын

Nice ladder. 👍

@SPXLabs 6 ай бұрын

Short guys like me need them

@Alphahydro 2 жыл бұрын

Much cleaner and pretty rewarding

@ShinyTechThings 3 жыл бұрын

Love the shirt!😎

@Inmysightstarget 2 жыл бұрын

Should just order a tall rack and put everything into just one rack and run the cables to it make it more simple and less cables you have to run and be alot more efficient

@tonebaxter 2 жыл бұрын

Nice!!!!👍🏾❤️

@seanhaywood1789 2 жыл бұрын

If you use a Variable Oscillating Saw you can control how deep you cut a lot easier and take less chance to cut cables.

@SPXLabs 2 жыл бұрын

What’s more exciting?

@rgarza7264 3 жыл бұрын

Great setup!! Looks nice and clean!

@SPXLabs 3 жыл бұрын

You look nice and clean!

@rgarza7264 3 жыл бұрын

@@SPXLabs 😂

@EvanIIRC 3 жыл бұрын

Running power cables in the wall smh

@SPXLabs 3 жыл бұрын

But that’s where all my power is!

@jeremymyers5503 3 жыл бұрын

I was waiting on the first comment about that!

@notsure7874 2 жыл бұрын

If you're talking about having the pigtail fished through the wall into the box, thats technically "legal" as its not a permanent install. Having permanently installed power and network cabling in the same box is not. Either way, I don't want power that close to my network cables. 18" minimum separation for parallel runs, not in same wall cavity. The outlet in there - I get why it was put there, cable amplifier power etc - but I wouldn't want to run the whole rack on that. Lots of current, lots of induction.

@erichankins2634 3 жыл бұрын

I like!!

@ShinyTechThings 3 жыл бұрын

Buy thimble insurance by the hour using their app on your phone before cutting, it's usually $8-12/hr for a $1M policy.

@jeremymyers5503 3 жыл бұрын

Looks great!

@SPXLabs 3 жыл бұрын

You look great!

@ronved 3 жыл бұрын

In my country we never put cables directly in the wall.. all cables are in flexible pipes, which makes it easier to re-wire if needed.

@SPXLabs 3 жыл бұрын

That’s pretty cool. Which country are you from?

@ronved 3 жыл бұрын

I live in Norway. For hidden electrical installations, its pretty much illegal to put the cables directly in the walls in case of fire. The wallboxes we use, have circular holes in them, where the pipe locks itself into place, so its pretty cool. When i ran my network installations, i used same kind of pipes. Typical dimensions are like 16 or 20mm. Btw i think you can terminate the fiber that comes from the outside of your house, directly to your UDM Pro with a SFP transiever. I just called my ISP and said i would like to use my own router instead of their modem.

@SPXLabs 3 жыл бұрын

Oh wow. I’ll have to Google search some examples to check it out. I may be able to but it’s not that simple unfortunately. I’ve made a video about it if you are interested to get an idea of why it’s not. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oNF4qKSEntHaYYU.html

@mrmotofy 2 жыл бұрын

@@SPXLabs Smurf tube is really easy it's flexible. Available in any home store electrical dept

@SPXLabs 2 жыл бұрын

Sweet, I’ll look into it!

@Corgitronics 2 жыл бұрын

It looks nice, and I like those Eaton UPS units. But, how many code violations are there for running those AC power cords behind the drywall? I suppose it might vary by locality.

@SPXLabs 2 жыл бұрын

Yes.

@glpdrum Жыл бұрын

Yea it's a no can do in Texas, must be romex wire stapled to the center of the stud. When someone wants the connections moved I cut out large sections of drywall to run it correctly and won't do it any other way. But I am an expert in drywall so it's easy for me. I never see anyone hit the fireblock so curious if that's a building code in other areas.

@AmnesiaPhotography 2 жыл бұрын

Buy some sparkle and touch up paint for those holes. Best $20 you’ll spend

@SPXLabs 2 жыл бұрын

One day!

@WorkBundle 3 жыл бұрын

How often do you clean the rack to remove dust?

@SPXLabs 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe once a month. I kind of just do it when I notice.

@tanmayagrawal2741 2 жыл бұрын

Can you please give me an insight about that fiber optic device in your closet? I'm looking for a simple fiber patch connection just like any ethernet patch connection which runs inside the house. The setup which I can think about is like one point of the fiber patch cable terminates at the property boundary where the ISP can plug their fiber cable from the main ISP Junction box and the second end of the fiber patch cable comes into my network closet and terminates there, from here another fiber patch cable goes into my ISP's ONT/Gateway box. Then I can connect TP LINK Omada compatible router to this gateway and then have complete control over my network on the Omada ecosystem. Can you also share some Amazon links for that device as well. Thanks

@SPXLabs 2 жыл бұрын

It was all out put in by ATT so I cannot share any links. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p9yYmaiBzbKpaGg.html

@cbulloch 2 жыл бұрын

Bit of a noob question. Why are there two separate fiber links between the 16 port and the 10G switch? Does that increase throughput?

@SPXLabs 2 жыл бұрын

One of my switches is 1G only. For fun I aggregated two of the 1G ports together so they will be 2G instead. But it’s kind of pointless because the devices in the other end are 1G. At one point long ago I was just playing around with different configs

@jasona4881 3 жыл бұрын

Looks great! Can you tell me what the measurements of the rack is from wall to front of the rack?

@SPXLabs 3 жыл бұрын

About 19inches.

@jasona4881 3 жыл бұрын

@@SPXLabs Thx. That’s unfortunate. I want to put a rack behind my master bedroom closet but I have about 15 in. clearance

@SPXLabs 3 жыл бұрын

@@jasona4881 the wheels stick out so much further than the rack, which kind of sucks but it makes the rack so stable. There has got to be one that will fit in your closet! Check out AC Infinity?

@GETBENT1331 2 жыл бұрын

get a keystone patch panel and patch the fiber to the patch panel with a keystone. i am patching my coax to the patch panel.

@sylvesteryaiuglig2470 2 жыл бұрын

Can you share your equipment links

@Natsumidragneelkim 2 жыл бұрын

contact your isp and ask if they have a sfp+ fiber adptor

@SPXLabs 2 жыл бұрын

AT&T is my ISP and it would be more effort than it’s worth.

@razaaali 3 жыл бұрын

what is the size of your closet ? how big is the media closet should be where you have whole house edthernet , hdmi , camera wiring ?

@SPXLabs 3 жыл бұрын

6 feet wide, 3 feet deep, and 10 feet high. I don’t understand the second part of your question.

@razaaali 3 жыл бұрын

@@SPXLabs got it thanks

@MoneyMarcMes 3 жыл бұрын

Do you have AC to cool that room or is it just passive air with the door open?

@SPXLabs 3 жыл бұрын

Nope I use a small fan to vent the air. It does a okay job. I probably need to shave an additional inch off the bottom of the door. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o9ZkjLh_p7q5qXk.html

@notsure7874 2 жыл бұрын

I've seen fart fans piped to another room back into conditioned space with a t-stat control.

@damyanmp 2 жыл бұрын

Curious, given how much gear you got, why didn't you opt-in for a full rack? how often does the cart move?

@SPXLabs 2 жыл бұрын

Because years ago I didn’t think I would get this far. How far can it moved plugged in? Half way outside of the closet.

@damyanmp 2 жыл бұрын

Haha I appreciate that, i made the same mistake, 9u wasn’t enough

@SPXLabs 2 жыл бұрын

I’m down to 1 server now. I don’t see myself adding another one any time soon. Pretty glad I with a 15u initially because I’d be in trouble with a 9u

@jbdragon3295 2 жыл бұрын

@@SPXLabs Just upgraded my network including the rack in my small closet. Going from a 8u rack to a 12u rack to have some breathing space. And it makes it easier to access things with a little extra space.

@SPXLabs 2 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah dude. The bigger the better loo

@adipurnomo5683 3 жыл бұрын

4:30 Sir why you using many UPS instead of just one UPS with high power?

@SPXLabs 3 жыл бұрын

Essentially because I don’t like having all my eggs in one basket. Also I’ve had most things for years now and I’m finally getting to point of out growing it.

@jeffherdzina6716 3 жыл бұрын

I wonder if seeing all this home networking equipment kinda scares people away from owning any home like this. In my house, I have Dell servers, Eaton UPS, Cisco Networking Equipment like ASA firewalls, 48 port switches, and Routers. They think they might need a Network Engineer to run the house. LOL ..wait until they find out that I only run Linux on my servers.

@SPXLabs 3 жыл бұрын

I wonder what my neighbors with bigger houses are doing, because our ISP only gives us 4 ports. Lol that would be me to honest. The whole reason I went ubiquiti is because I didn’t want to learn Cisco command line. Yay I love Linux!

@jeffherdzina6716 3 жыл бұрын

@@SPXLabs Learned Cisco, hate it. work as a Linux Admin. LOL.

@SPXLabs 3 жыл бұрын

I’m just too lazy. I want to click a few buttons and it work.

@balla2172 3 жыл бұрын

@@SPXLabs ubiquiti or fortinet then fortinet has wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy better firewall solutions

@SPXLabs 3 жыл бұрын

I’ll take your word for it

@louiem5985 3 жыл бұрын

Great video... You have the same layout I do. I just need to find the rack at a good price. I spent so much money on my ubiquiti stuff wife is starting to question me. lol.. Still waiting for my dream machine. Do you have a discount code for ubiquiti I need to get the 16 (150) switch since I"m going to add cameras and my AP. Keep up the great work.

@SPXLabs 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Racks are pretty expensive. Not sure what your budget and size demand is but the Tripp Lite is pretty cheap already IMO, hard to find anything cheaper and when I did I was afraid of the quality of the rack. Are you talking server rack or network rack though? Unfortunately not, Ubiquiti don't play those games with discounts, they are like Apple.

@louiem5985 3 жыл бұрын

@@SPXLabs Are you still going to use the battery back up in the rack? if not willing to sell it or not worth having it? My setup is close to yours just need to figure out if I will get a POE switch from Ubiquiti or go with a different brand. let me know when you have a moment.

@SPXLabs 3 жыл бұрын

Sorry ol chap, I’ve already pilfered the UPS.

@louiem5985 3 жыл бұрын

@@SPXLabs Do you know a good place I could guy 1U battery like yours that's good but also not so expensive? I just found out POE switch I was planning to use with UDM is not supportive so now I have to buy a a new POE. let me know when you have a moment.

@SPXLabs 3 жыл бұрын

Refurbups.com

@EricGoodrich 3 жыл бұрын

Is that UPS power cable in wall rated? 🍻

@SPXLabs 3 жыл бұрын

Come on, you know they aren’t. But it will be fine.

@EricGoodrich 3 жыл бұрын

@@SPXLabs Sorry about that and yes I do know. I'm a licensed Low Voltage Contractor (C7) here in California so I couldn't help but point that out to your viewers that detail. I agree it should be just fine BUT if there were to have an issue such as you burn down the house and they find a non-in wall rated power cable you may have a real issue. If I'm nitpicking... Use a cut ring to finish out the penetration to the drywall. They don't cost much and it really helps to provide a professional finish. www.amazon.com/dp/B092SY5BPY/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_3M1XDPM4CC2WKR9K544Y Over all I really do like the job you did and I like the Tripp-Lite racks too. Keep up the good work! 🍻

@SPXLabs 3 жыл бұрын

@@EricGoodrich you are not nitpicking, you are definitely correct and I’m definitely aware. I’m a bit of a risk taker lol. Thanks for the link I’m going to check that out now. Thank you thank you!