DIY Networking Wall - A renter's solution!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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1,307 words · ~6 min read
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So, this is my networking pile. It's all the things that were connecting the
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stuff in my house and some things that were honestly not doing anything at all.
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I truly believe that the best solution for a networking setup is to have it all
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mounted on a wall, but I rent, which is probably something that a lot of you do
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as well. Because I rent, I can't dictate what I can screw into my wall very
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easily, at least very destructively. and screwing a whole bunch of things into
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one small area is something my landlord would probably be pretty pissed about.
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So, I don't really have that as an option. But what I can do is get a big
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piece of board, mount everything onto this, and then lean this up to the wall.
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So, that's what I'm going to do. I'm tired of this giant pile of networking
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crap, and I'm going to solve the problem.
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the link in the video description to learn more. I'm just going to get all these Ethernet cables out of the way.
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So, basically how all my things need to work is the internet needs to come in
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through the fiber line to my modem, then go over to the router, which has
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terrible Wi-Fi that always drops all the time. So, we'll then go from the router
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to my access point and from the router
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to my switch because this also obviously doesn't have enough plugs. I need way
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more than four. So, all of this needs to go onto the board along with a power bar
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so they can all be actually powered. I also want to label all of the adapters
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so I know where they're going. And I have some stuff lying around which I'll
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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
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layout. Okay, so this is what I have to work
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with. I'm going to want to cut this down to size with a circular saw eventually,
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but um I'm just going to lay everything out starting on one side, see how far
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along I have to go, mark that off, and cut it. And this will send a whole bunch
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out. Okay, so this is more or less what
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I want to do. I need to take the leg off of this. I need to try to find a shorter
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power cable for this, and I need to hopefully crimp up some shorter Ethernet
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cables. Okay, so first things first, I'm going to go through my router and
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carefully remove the warranty void if removed stickers. Who am I kidding? I'm
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just going to go right through. So, the gloss on this DLink router is just
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absolutely disgusting. Almost as disgusting as its Wi-Fi capabilities.
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So, I'm going to try to scratch it and make it not look glossy anymore. Now I
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need to do a whole bunch of cable routing and try to find some shorter
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cables and stuff. So with that, we'll be
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back. So I went about trying to make my own Ethernet cables. I made one of them
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really well pretty quickly and then the whole rest of it was basically one giant
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unmitigated disaster. So Linus solved that problem by finding cables of all
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the right lengths already made. So I'm just going to use those and start on
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actually velcroing things down. Okay, so I did some boring busy work.
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I've velcroed down the router, the access point, and the modem, the power
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bar, and these two power adapters. They look a little bit wibbly, but everything
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is fine. Um, I need to cut the board
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now. I'm going to circular saw the board
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and then use the rest of this board as my networking board.
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Okay, so next up I have to fix this
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switch to the board. This gu is a little heavy. Okay, so my idea of drilling
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through it will not work because I don't want bolts like way up here on the
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outside of it. But Velcro
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dog, what's up? We used a lot of it.
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It's expensive. Thanks, Lionus. Oh my
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god, I didn't check the cable length.
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Wow, that's pretty close. Okay, now I
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really need to start organizing cables. Okay, so let's start off with some
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slightly larger cable
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loops. Ah, so the force of the drill
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actually pushes it through. So I can use those washers. That will solve my
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problem.
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So, all the Ethernet cables are good and tied down. You might notice that there's
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nothing going into the switch from the outside. Well, that kind of makes sense
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cuz I'm not at home right now. Um, and those ones aren't really going to be
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able to be managed. So, that's a little bit unfortunate. But, at least I have
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all the networking kit itself all managed and good to go. So that if I did
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need to ever pick it up and move for whatever reason, I would just unplug the
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devices from it, take this whole board, and then I'm good to go, which is pretty
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cool. And if I need to swap anything out, it's just velcroed
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on this way. It doesn't really look like I crossed the
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cable. All right, so we're done. This is
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it. It's not absolutely perfect, but I
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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
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own like ghetto networking wall because you can't make a cool networking wall
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because you don't own your own house, please post it on the lines.com forum.
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That would be awesome. I would love to check out how you make yours so much
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better than mine. So, that would be cool. If you like the video, like it. If
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watch that. See you later. Believe