So, this is my networking pile. It's all the things that were connecting the
stuff in my house and some things that were honestly not doing anything at all.
I truly believe that the best solution for a networking setup is to have it all
mounted on a wall, but I rent, which is probably something that a lot of you do
as well. Because I rent, I can't dictate what I can screw into my wall very
easily, at least very destructively. and screwing a whole bunch of things into
one small area is something my landlord would probably be pretty pissed about.
So, I don't really have that as an option. But what I can do is get a big
piece of board, mount everything onto this, and then lean this up to the wall.
So, that's what I'm going to do. I'm tired of this giant pile of networking
crap, and I'm going to solve the problem.
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So, basically how all my things need to work is the internet needs to come in
through the fiber line to my modem, then go over to the router, which has
terrible Wi-Fi that always drops all the time. So, we'll then go from the router
to my access point and from the router
to my switch because this also obviously doesn't have enough plugs. I need way
more than four. So, all of this needs to go onto the board along with a power bar
so they can all be actually powered. I also want to label all of the adapters
so I know where they're going. And I have some stuff lying around which I'll
get to in a moment in terms of managing all the cables once they're on the board. So, now we need to work on
layout. Okay, so this is what I have to work
with. I'm going to want to cut this down to size with a circular saw eventually,
but um I'm just going to lay everything out starting on one side, see how far
along I have to go, mark that off, and cut it. And this will send a whole bunch
out. Okay, so this is more or less what
I want to do. I need to take the leg off of this. I need to try to find a shorter
power cable for this, and I need to hopefully crimp up some shorter Ethernet
cables. Okay, so first things first, I'm going to go through my router and
carefully remove the warranty void if removed stickers. Who am I kidding? I'm
just going to go right through. So, the gloss on this DLink router is just
absolutely disgusting. Almost as disgusting as its Wi-Fi capabilities.
So, I'm going to try to scratch it and make it not look glossy anymore. Now I
need to do a whole bunch of cable routing and try to find some shorter
cables and stuff. So with that, we'll be
back. So I went about trying to make my own Ethernet cables. I made one of them
really well pretty quickly and then the whole rest of it was basically one giant
unmitigated disaster. So Linus solved that problem by finding cables of all
the right lengths already made. So I'm just going to use those and start on
actually velcroing things down. Okay, so I did some boring busy work.
I've velcroed down the router, the access point, and the modem, the power
bar, and these two power adapters. They look a little bit wibbly, but everything
is fine. Um, I need to cut the board
now. I'm going to circular saw the board
and then use the rest of this board as my networking board.
Okay, so next up I have to fix this
switch to the board. This gu is a little heavy. Okay, so my idea of drilling
through it will not work because I don't want bolts like way up here on the
outside of it. But Velcro
dog, what's up? We used a lot of it.
It's expensive. Thanks, Lionus. Oh my
god, I didn't check the cable length.
Wow, that's pretty close. Okay, now I
really need to start organizing cables. Okay, so let's start off with some
slightly larger cable
loops. Ah, so the force of the drill
actually pushes it through. So I can use those washers. That will solve my
problem.
So, all the Ethernet cables are good and tied down. You might notice that there's
nothing going into the switch from the outside. Well, that kind of makes sense
cuz I'm not at home right now. Um, and those ones aren't really going to be
able to be managed. So, that's a little bit unfortunate. But, at least I have
all the networking kit itself all managed and good to go. So that if I did
need to ever pick it up and move for whatever reason, I would just unplug the
devices from it, take this whole board, and then I'm good to go, which is pretty
cool. And if I need to swap anything out, it's just velcroed
on this way. It doesn't really look like I crossed the
cable. All right, so we're done. This is
it. It's not absolutely perfect, but I
like it. I think it's good. Um, I went and played a full ice hockey
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Anyways, thanks for watching. If you guys are inspired and want to make your
own like ghetto networking wall because you can't make a cool networking wall
because you don't own your own house, please post it on the lines.com forum.
That would be awesome. I would love to check out how you make yours so much
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