How is your home network?

[Denniz]

Here is some questions about your home network! 

 

[Denniz]

Question. 2. What brand do you use for your networking? Tell me if i missed any brand!

[Alvin853]

13 minutes ago, Denniz said:

Question. 2. What brand do you use for your networking? Tell me if i missed any brand!

AVM is a very popular home network equipment brand in europe.

[Mojo-Jojo]

My home network is OK, but not ideal. I have 350 down, 50 up over Coaxial/DOCSIS which is stable. I have 2 rooms which are hardwired; my office room and the living room. I replaced existing phone cables with ethernet in those, but for other rooms/floors it is not possible to go hardwired due to everything being concrete. Can't easily break open a wall and place more conduits. So I've resorted to Powerline to provide stable Wi-Fi in the attic bedroom and second floor.

 

In the future I'd like to have hard wiring into every room, but that'll maybe come as part of renovating the house to add floor heating.

[mariushm]

brands Dell , Arista, Quanta, Juniper , Brocade .. lots of people use these, cheap new old stock / refurbished datacenter switches with 10g sfp+ or qsfp or sfp28 (25g/100g ethernet)

smaller brands : microtik makes some cool small switches/routers,  trendnet is ok in the value segment , maybe not now but in the past I've dealt with Allied Telesis / Telesyn switches also

Some of these brands are defuct, or sold to other brands.

 

Funny enough, I'm in Europe but never heard of AVM ... but popular brands for routers and networking equipment here are Tenda (cheap, budget) , ASUS (routers) , D-Link, Edimax,  Linksys, ZyXEL,  even Xiaomi has 10 routers at a store I like to use. 

 

For switches I see also Hikvision and  Schrack as odd brands besides already mentioned brands above.

 

 

[manikyath]

Linksys is a pretty silly one to forget.

Draytek is rather unknown but gaining in popularity.

Mikrotik has been a thing for a while too.

 

also, i know the majority of D-link's products suck massive arse.. but that doesnt stop people from using them.

[Denniz]

8 minutes ago, Alvin853 said:

AVM is a very popular home network equipment brand in europe.

Hmm, Im European (Sweden) and i have never heard about AVM.

[Takumidesh]

edge router 4, some unifi APs and lots of various switches, I have a rack, with a 16 port tp link dumb switch, and a few 5-8 port switches around the house.

 

Anything that can be wired is wired, with the exception of laptops.

 

Generally everything is very stable, the unifi APs are very reliable for my use-case.

 

My biggest takeaway as I make a more advanced home network, is be prepared for downtime, and if you have other people in your household, be prepared to put in extra work to prevent friction for them (people who aren't interested can become frustrated when the network is down because you messed up a config.)

[Denniz]

1 minute ago, Takumidesh said:

My biggest takeaway as I make a more advanced home network, is be prepared for downtime, and if you have other people in your household, be prepared to put in extra work to prevent friction for them (people who aren't interested can become frustrated when the network is down because you messed up a config.)

Yeah, I know

[Alvin853]

4 minutes ago, Denniz said:

Hmm, Im European (Sweden) and i have never heard about AVM.

They may be mostly limited to the german speaking parts of europe (because Germany was using a different technology for DSL, international hardware wasn't compatible, and AVM specialized on that technology). Their products are the "Fritz!"-line, most people don't realize AVM is the manufacturer.

[Senzelian]

16 minutes ago, Denniz said:

Hmm, Im European (Sweden) and i have never heard about AVM.

I think he meant to say its well known in Germany. Almost every single router in Germany is made by AVM and most ISPs use their routers. It's good hardware and excellent software! 

 

17 minutes ago, manikyath said:

Linksys is a pretty silly one to forget.

Depends on which part of the world you live in. Here in Germany every IT specialist has heard about Linksys, but basically no one uses their products and in the homespace they're not a thing at all. I bet if you look through 1000 homes, you might find one product  

[manikyath]

3 minutes ago, Senzelian said:

I think he meant to say its well known in Germany. Almost every single router in Germany is made by AVM and most ISPs use their routers. It's good hardware and excellent software! 

 

Depends on which part of the world you live in. Here in Germany every IT specialist has heard about Linksys, but basically no one uses their products and in the homespace they're not a thing at all. I bet if you look through 1000 homes, you might find one product  

they -used to- have a BIG share in the small business segment, but at least the past few years they essentially stopped bothering with anything.

 

if around 2016-ish you wanted to set up a gigabit network with PoE access points and VLANs on the -relatively cheap- without going for second hand equipment, linksys was *the* way to go. and given networking equipment can last quite a long time, i assume i cant be the only one still decked out with linksys front to back.

 

i've only replaced my router, because that's been having issues, and linksys cant honor the "lifetime" warranty if they dont have the stock to replace it, nor have a product replacing the EOL device. so far for the funcitonality of warranties i guess... 

[Oshino Shinobu]

Rocking that 40Gb

 

[Alex Atkin UK]

You also have to bear in mind that not having every room (or any in my case) with hardwired ethernet sockets, doesn't necessarily mean primarily using WiFi.

 

I only have computer hardware in three rooms, they are all hard-wired as two of them have everything next a switch and the third only needs a single cable which wasn't worth the hassle of a wall jack.

[Alex Atkin UK]

1 hour ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

Rocking that 40Gb

 

That's a lot of data to push with "no network access".

[Oshino Shinobu]

18 minutes ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

That's a lot of data to push with "no network access".

lol Who needs internet, LAN only is where it's at

[TomChaai]

I’m too lazy to deploy complex networks but the survey barely covers my situation.

• Due to ISP’s unfortunate IPTV setup, currently PPPoE is on the EPON modem level, ipv4 only at this point but the connection does get native WAN IP directly onto the PPPoE. Connection is 500Mbps down 60Mbps up. VIP addon for priority international routing but does not bypass censorship on its own. 
• A DMZ has been set set on the modem to map external access from outside to second layer router, which is an Apple airport time capsule. 
• Wifi is 802.11ac 3*3, which held surprisingly long, I wasn’t able to saturate it with my current usage. 
• Due to censorship, a VPN is maintained, which I have the virtual adapter shared over the airport LAN as a secondary gateway, any LAN devices can use it by manually specifying gateway. 
• Primary PC runs VMs over hyper-v, so a virtual switch is set on the PC to share the Ethernet for host OS and all VMs. 
• A persistent route is set on my primary PC to ignore VPN and instead use native broadband connection for certain destination IP to connect to my company VPN, which greatly decreases latency. 

Weird solutions to all my problems, but satisfy my principle of absolutely least effort. 

[Alex Atkin UK]

5 hours ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

lol Who needs internet, LAN only is where it's at

It never fails to annoy me how modern OS claim stupid things like "no network", just because there is no Internet.  Doubly so when they will sometimes try to bounce the interface because they insist that must be wrong.

[Sir Asvald]

This is my home network, albeit some major changes have been done:

 

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