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Budget (including currency): £1500 - £2000 (For hardware not including labour) (not a huge issue if it goes over, this can be done incrementally) Country: United Kingdom Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: SOHO network 30 - 35ish endpoint demand PC's, Consoles, CCTV, The odd lan party. Other details Making the migration from crappy ISP router and a handful of switches, cables all over the floors etc. To everything neatly sorted, decent network management that wont choke on the demand. Labour / doing in wall or loft wiring not a problem, just can't figure out what to buy owing to not dealing with office grade kit much before. So thankyou Linus, a project that’s been on the back burner for 5 years, I'm now trying to tackle thanks to this.......................... not enough periods.............. Frustratingly there’s little info on what the overall network architecture ended up looking like? Anyway I've caught the damn 'ISP Router + unmanaged switch???... lol scrub.' bug and I'm naturally trying to skip several development iterations and pretending their aren’t massive gaps in my knowledge. Goals: - If it has an ethernet port (or can handle a dongle), it gets an ethernet cable. All told with a bit of overhead for (didn't think of that tm), 25 expected connections inc cctv. (+ 10 extra for expansion / laptops at lan parties) - PoE CCTV, with capacity for 8 cameras (starting with min 4. G4 bullet, G4 Dome, G4 Doorbell, G3 Instant) (€543 - £470ish) - Recording for CCTV. Plan at time of writing is https://eu.store.ui.com/collections/unifi-network-unifi-os-consoles/products/udm-pro - Decent enough data haul for 1080p PLEX + lan party traffic (Already got the server, missing kit that does not curl up and cry when using it, would be nice if I could get this everywhere in the house) - Rack mount for infrastructure (ideally wall mountable) - Additional PoE power for 4 flood lights (does not need to happen with initial install, but need the PoE capacity for later) - Wifi 6 access (single AP should be fine, UK housing is mouse cage sized, will add another if its not strong enough) Additional goals that I could live without but would be super cool: - DNS sinkhole. Was considering running Smoothwall or something but pi-hole is no issue. Anything that can diminish ads on phones/tablets on Wi-Fi. - Guest Wi-Fi / Wi-Fi landing page. I remember being able to do this with a flashed router at uni, and some initial r/d says the Ubiquiti stuff cannot do it? - Remote desktop access from internet (ideally within VPN) - Streaming games from Xbone SX, or PS5 to tablets/phones on lan that actually works. (Ideally with everything else going on) Things I know I don't know: - Widths of server racks, just discovered there is more than one after finding a rack that was total thinner than the DMPro was wide. - PoE selectivity. Can I use 1 big PoE switch for the whole network and select what does/does not have PoE? If so, is that going to be powerful enough or do I need more switches with mains power etc. (is it more sensible to use lots of smaller switches or one beefy one) - What are those extra 'not RJ-45 ethernet ports' I keep seeing on big switches? They're usually off to one side on their own. Looks like they're for connecting switches together as a backhaul but I don't know the name of the connectors? - Ubuquiti's diagrams show a firewall in the setup https://dl.ubnt.com/ds/udm-pro Does it have this firewall or do I need to run my own? No issue learning how etc just need to know if I do or not. - The LTT video above mentions multiple voltages of PoE but most of what I've seen does not include voltage info? How do I not get bit in the A by this? - What chonkyness of firewall/router hardware is required to make the 60mbps down internet connection the bottle neck? I often have guests that connect laptops/phones/tablets by Wi-Fi and then we are playing lan games + streaming video in for background ambience etc. I've often suspected the existing router bottlenecks rather than the internet. Could do with network diagnostics to prove it. Is there an easy way to back up motion activations of the cameras to the cloud (i.e. OneDrive/google drive/some other thing etc) or am I in script land for this? (no issue if so just looking for path of least resistance) UnifyOS's manual at first glance doesnt cover this topic? (I could just be blind) Things I don't know, that I have a suspicion that I do know that I don't know and oh no I've gone cross eyed: - What is the best thing in a potential setup to handle DHCP - UK ISP Routers are funny things and often don’t have a straight forward 'Just be a modem' mode. https://community.bt.com/t5/Archive-Staging/Configure-Home-Hub-5-as-modem-only/td-p/1437081 Not sure if I'd benefit from getting a dedicated ADSL2 modem or just threatening the BT box with a blowtorch until it plays ball. - Plex may be a cause of saturation on my current LAN. I.e. streaming 1080p from plex to a tv, while 5-6 pc/laptops are shoving age of empires packets down each other, plus phones/tablets doing only knows what + auto updates happening when they feel like it. I have no idea if the Lan is overloaded or the internet connection is. - Probably the 50+ bits of useful info I'm missing from this post. What I need: - A sensible shopping list that achieves the above without splashing on pointless hardware. (I don't consider the DMPro pointless as it gives local proper control of the CCTV+recording with no subscriptions and supporting software) - Advice on best practice - List of software I may need to learn. (already familiar with Linux/MacOS/Windows, just specific software that would help) - Decent wall mountable server rack that I can take the ethernet out the top of. (Going up to the loft then fanning out to all the rooms/outside) - Batmobile Cheers in advance and any extra info needed I'll get back asap. Will post results + cat pics when done

Having just upgraded, I'm both delighted and dissapointed in different areas. Loading times are still a bugbear tm, even throwing samsungs finest at it wont get you around some things use a huge amount of ram. Took a bunch of advice on saving money on the motherboard. Protip. Do not save money on the motherboard. I've spent as much as a proper upgrade on expansion cards for USB-C and various adapters to make it not worth it. Runs Quake good though.

I'd be facinated to see if that bears out. How much does RAM speed come into it etc. or can you move a bottleneck by overclocking a component. I've been itching to get back into 4k video work and after effects. multi year spell with a DellXPS laptop has meant I've had to find other hobbies. The nastiest real world task I can think of is image stabilisation in aftereffects. I expect if the diff is only 5 or so % then I doubt I'd notice it, but still I paid for a cpu that can hover around 5ghz, is it worth trying to push it that hard? Maybe the real question is how easy is it to brick £/$/€ 2500/3500 worth of kit by not knowing what you're doing?

Potentially deaf, "derpy but not dumb", and blind. I'm sitting infront of a 9900KF, and a 2080TI both running at stock. Overclocking frightens me due to sensitive little flowerness. Wondering how much improvement does overclocking actually get me? I'm sure it's been featured before but would anyone else like an apples to apples "Stock / Auto OC / Finniky OC / Lol N2O OC comparison? Or did I miss a video?