Telecom Closet
The Telecom Closet is located in the basement of our house.
The house is wired with Cat 5e cable that is distributed throughout by an in-built 10/100Mbps switch. I have shunted some of the connections onto a GigE switch -- and voilà -- we have gigabit ethernet throughout the house.
All this speed is only useful within the house, because we connect to the Internet via ADSL at a nominal 2.5Gbps. Our actual connection speed varies from 2.3 Mbps to 0bps, depending on the network use in the Villa at any given time of day. (And on how much our VPN server likes us at any moment in time.)
Shown on the shelf are:
2nd from top L-R: the ADSL Modem (I really should replace the stock photo with something nicer) and the 10/100Mbps/Wireless-N Internet Gateway router.
3rd shelf from top L-R: 8-port GigE Switch and 360GB Maxtor NAS.
Not shown are the 1000Mbps/Wireless-N access point on the 1st floor and the 100Mbps/Wireless-G access point on the 2nd floor. These auxillary routers are set to operate as switches using RIP to synch the routing tables.
Telecom Closet
The Telecom Closet is located in the basement of our house.
The house is wired with Cat 5e cable that is distributed throughout by an in-built 10/100Mbps switch. I have shunted some of the connections onto a GigE switch -- and voilà -- we have gigabit ethernet throughout the house.
All this speed is only useful within the house, because we connect to the Internet via ADSL at a nominal 2.5Gbps. Our actual connection speed varies from 2.3 Mbps to 0bps, depending on the network use in the Villa at any given time of day. (And on how much our VPN server likes us at any moment in time.)
Shown on the shelf are:
2nd from top L-R: the ADSL Modem (I really should replace the stock photo with something nicer) and the 10/100Mbps/Wireless-N Internet Gateway router.
3rd shelf from top L-R: 8-port GigE Switch and 360GB Maxtor NAS.
Not shown are the 1000Mbps/Wireless-N access point on the 1st floor and the 100Mbps/Wireless-G access point on the 2nd floor. These auxillary routers are set to operate as switches using RIP to synch the routing tables.