Budget Home Network Tour/How To

what's up everyone I thought I would give you a quick tour of my home network and show you a few of the items I Ed to keep it on a [Music] budget so I'm making this video for two reasons one there were very few videos and reviews of the equipment I wanted to use so I'll get to do that two I just wanted to share what I did to get a nice wired Network in my home without spending too much money it's rack mounted in my closet and looks pretty official I had some goals for this project number one I wanted it to look official and look nice and pass the life test part of looking official was to have it be rack mounted in my office closet I wanted it set up to allow for easy expansion in the future uh 1 gbit per second speed that to move data quickly at least a 24 Port switch so there would be room for set expansion it was going to be in my office closet so I wanted it to be quiet or even silent if I could and I for sure wanted a patch fanel so I could easily add ports and reconfigure the network down the road so the equipment I chose was the nav Point 6u 19-in wall mount rack a nav Point 24 Port patch pin channel the switch I use is the TPL link T LSG 1024 24 Port 1 gbit rack mountable switch and a bunch of other things that I would need so this is an f.6 U 19in wall mount rack I ordered from New Egg just $39 we came in that simple box no fancy packaging there's no access from the sides nor are there any places to manage cables but only minor problems there's a decent amount of space for the equipment uh but it's not too large does have a 12 in depth which should allow enough space for most any typical rack mounted equipment and this is a switch I chose it was only $70 on new eg it will support 1 GB per second speed and is rack mountable or comes with felt stickers that will let you put it on desk if you choose it has 24 ports there you can see uh and Link lights to let you know uh or see the network activity the model number there you can see is the tsg uh 1024 Port switch here I'm screwing in the brackets to mount it to the rack later and this is the closet and location where I wanted to mount everything this is the current setup which just isn't nerdy enough for me so I'm going to mount the rack right here I'm installing the patch panel the rack does have a hinge that will swing out to make it easier to punch down your cables on the back of the patch panel but I didn't find it to be very useful because if you had anything else mounted to the rack you would have to remove it all before the patch panel would swing freely again on the rack and with the patch panel just hanging there you didn't get much support to push hard when punching down installing the switch which installed Fair easily the rack only came with just a few screws the black ones which was a bummer but I found some more the silver ones and after contacting nav point they s sent me a bunch of them which was pretty cool the rack mounted power strip I already had so I didn't include that in the cost of this network build I kind of had to loosen and adjust some of the other equipment as you can see here to get it all to line up with screw holes but I eventually got it here's the setup nearly done but I still needed to route a few cables a little differently and to tidy up those power cables underneath I was filling in the section of wall here in our home which would be right behind our entertainment center I thought I would run some cables here for the DVR the Xboxes I kind of have everything staged for now you can see here I've set the set up power I ran the network cables through the crawl space I also had one network cable up here as you can see as we go up for the TV I tried to make everything all nice and neat uh to make it easier to run extra cable in the future you can even see that thin light teal pull cable to allow me to easily pull other cable through the wall for the TV down the road which should be nice these here are the eight network cables for this wall hanging out the other side waiting to be terminated I wanted plenty of ports and as you you never know what will be needed what will need a network connection at my entertainment center and up higher here we are is the single ethernet cable power and cable pass through for the TV I have this on the wall where the TV will hide it all once mounted and the network cable is just chilling out waiting to be terminated in the closet in the office uh any cable I ran the other end will come through this cable pass through plate which only cost me $5.50 from New Egg and will eventually get terminated at the patch panel this PL plays a vital role in making this setup look neat in cable management for networking neatness is everything and all said and done I'm very pleased with how it looks and how it turned out next the patch panel a must have for any serious Network this one only cost me $25 and seems to be very nice I haven't had any issues with it if you do get this patch panel you will have to be aware of the weird pattern they want you to use to punch down the cables most cables get punched down in a straight row but this one they were stacked blue and green on the top and brown and orange on the bottom as you can see from the picture there on the back uh you'll get to see here in just a bit how I did it pick a standard A or B and stick with it however B is the one that's most commonly used once I figured out how they wanted it punched down it wasn't really too hard to do there's a little hook where you can run some zip ties here you can see to relieve the stress on your cables which I would recommend for sure the punch down tool I using only cost $14 you'll see it here in a second so you you'll see me here it is uh you strip the cables unwind the the pairs place them where they need to go and punch them down not too hard at that point you're just kind of rinse and repeat once I got the hang of it it it went fairly quickly here I am punching them [Music] down the more I did this the faster I [Music] got all said and done this setup cost me just a little under $200 and I was able to hit all my goals and it looks pretty nice so it turned out looking pretty good still this is a little bit of an older picture I had to uh still have a couple cables to do and I have a picture at the very end of what it looks like done so I got a few of the sticky hooks from the store and suck them on the back it helps with cable management they work great and everything tucks up behind if you have any questions feel free to comment look for the full review of the switch and perhaps the rack if there's enough interest here's the finished product thanks for watching

Channel: Budget Nerd

Views: 2,172,917

Keywords: budget, home network, how to, patch panel, network rack, diy, network, navepoint, tp link, tp-link, tl-sg1024, tl sg1024, network switch

Id: 00UTYN9j0FE

Length: 8min 16sec (496 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 31 2017