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Now that everything is unpacked and paid for I am ready to start. Lets set this pig on fire!
Equipment Removal
The first step is to gut the existing wiring and to remove as much equipment as possible. This is also a great time to clean parts and see if you need to make any changes.
I love my HD HomeRuns but they are hard as hell to manage with all of the coax. I ended up dumping all of the longer coax and using shorties to try and clean it up.
Since I was only going to do this once I decided to try and organize the HDs as best I could. The picture below shows what I came up with. Ugly but it does the job and leaves the ventilation holes open.
Like the movie reference. Eddie Murphy would be proud. I assume your garage is air conditioned since, if memory serves you’re SoCal? No way I could keep all that stuff in my garage in El Paso between April and October…
Yes, I live outside of Los Angeles near the foothills. It gets to be about 90° at the hottest time inside the garage as I have solar fans and radiant barrier insulation.
It’s a lot toastier than that here in NC in the Summer. I’m looking to do the same thing in a closet under the stair case which is in the middle of the house. Perfect for a star topology setup. I’ve got to add power to the closet first but with a crawl space below, LAN and RG6 coax should be pretty easy to pull. I want to centrally locate phone, LAN, cable, and antenna connections into this closet leaving just one connection back to the service connection. Sounds like this is what you are doing. Why did you pick yelllow?
My home network color coding is:
Blue cables are PC Fast
Black cables are Media Fast
Yellow cables are Gigabit
My exception is that from the “main” switch in the office I have three Gigabit cables that go through the attic. I have red to game room, yellow to the garage and blue to the living room.
Hi Tim,
Nice write up. I was just wondering y you used a D-Link over lets say Linksys and what kind of router/wireless access point your using?
Thanks,
Ray
Brand preference and they look clean. I use a DIR-655 for the router and wireless.
Great write up! I followed it on the BYOB podcast as well. The best part is the Rack enclosure on the wall! Maybe its time for another Friday Night project where you put a 2U server in the enclosure… just a thought 🙂
I read somewhere you picked up a 4th HDhomerun around thanksgiving/x-mas of last year and I figure you have your hands on a PRIME, when are you going to show us some pictures of your latest setup!?!?
I have always enjoyed your write ups because you set up is so close to mine!