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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
Cleaned up my homelab today. Routed all power through a UPS, which gives me an hour of uptime in case the power goes out. My ISP’s 10 Gbps fiber modem feeds into an SFP+ module plugged in a Ubiquiti Dream Machine SE that acts as router and firewall. I’m running 3x Ubuntu Server NUCs with an Ethereum node, a Quilibrium node, and Adguard Home as the central adblocking DNS (which I can monitor in real time on the screen). Also a Synology NAS for local backups + video surveillance. The utility closet was ~20 inches wide so I had to shop for a slim rack that could just about fit
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maurelian
@maurelian.eth
What are the advantages of the ubiquiti box versus something more pedestrian?
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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
Mostly the ability to handle 10 Gbps, which my pedestrian TP-Link router could not. It also has a better interface for features that I value, such as DHCP reservations, separate SSIDs for guests and IoT devices, performance tweaking, etc. I actually did the full arc — went from a professional rackmount pfSense router which was extremely flexible but also painful to configure and maintain, to a basic off-the-shelf, consumer-market router; and now to the Dream Machine SE, which I think is a great tradeoff in performance vs simplicity
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maurelian
@maurelian.eth
Nice, thanks for laying it out
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shazow
@shazow.eth
Lots more affordable 10gbit and spf consumer routers came out last couple years. I'd go for TRENDnet or Netgear over tplink if possible (latter has a lot of sketchy sec drama).
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shazow
@shazow.eth
Sfp*
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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
I like the idea of homelab gear that also protects you from the sun though
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shazow
@shazow.eth
Autocomplete agrees with you!
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