Relocating desktop to alternate room, what did Linus settle on?

aggie113 · March 19

Plan is to reuse copper phone run in guest bedroom to pull two fiber runs through the wall. Initially I will use this to run my 12 bay NAS and my UNVR-Pro. Primary network equipment will still be in loft space (office area) that is the most challenging to cool in the summer. Looking to the future I may want to relocate my desktop as well. I figure I could use a SFP+ switch/aggregator to use one of the fiber runs for the networking equipment and one for running the desktop remotely. Wanted to benefit from all of Linus's trials and errors but I am not sure where he ended up in regards to the equipment he used to do his remote runs.

Shimejii · March 19

Dont bother trying its Simply not worth it. You dont have the time + money + troubleshooting team that linus has to get something like this to work.

You can put it in another room and just remote in with remote desktop with something like a mini pc in the room, but dont try to run wires through the house. Quite a few people on here have tried it and its always a disaster. Its not a practical solution.

jaslion · March 19

Linus ended up using a usb over ethernet run/optical usb and optical fiber/hdmi as the thunderbolt was too much work to keep going.

Pretty much have a dedicated cable for what you want to do as combining it all in one is the most fragile costly pile of trouble you can do.

aggie113 · April 1

Well at least the NAS and UNVR have a new home. Phone wire ran under the house though so ended up drilling a small hole in the ceiling to flag where I needed to drill into the wall cavity. Was able to find the 2 1/2" hole I made with a fiberglass pole run up through the wall's phone box.