Fiber optics in home low voltage wiring: How and what I did.

A look at the what and where of running fiber optic during my home construction.

[@0hN0es203]

This is what happens when a geek builds his dream house. In a very very good way. Definately taking notes for any theoretical future builds.

[@slavic_commonwealth]

I need more "geek builds his dream house. In a very very good way." type of content

[@anubis1984a]

The Word "overkill" was made for this guy's House!

[@curiousorange27]

you say that like it's a bad thing though 😆

[@teejcee123]

Jeff, amazing work. You have inspired me to do more. I'm sure everyone here would agree that your next video needs to be a house tour.

[@maxnietubicz3305]

I'm taking notes on this home set up for some of the smaller enterprise locations I'll be setting up later this year. Cheers!

[@jacobp8294]

This would be a nice setup in comparison to many SMB's infrastructure I have seen.

[@jacobp8294]

Thank you for sharing this Jeff! You are an excellent resource! Please keep it up!

[@marc3793]

Your planning was extreme and impressive.

[@Alan.livingston]

Having worked in a few DC’s along the way and got a taste for infrastructure so my home lab is pretty over the top, but I’ve not got a patch on this lad. Most people don’t ever go down the rabbit hole of terminating their own fibre.

[@czummo76]

Wow, i am in love.. great video, totally overkill and i love it. You're making me want to buy a house with huge property now.. LOL - That server room is amazing, I can barely saturate 10GB, i can't imagine what you are running to require 40GB throughput.. great job bud!!

[@tehsimo]

You are an absolute mad man, this is very interesting!

[@SteveOwensRoswell]

Amazing! Well done. I have a house build in 1897 and have fiber runs from the demarc to the server room and then up to the office. So much harder to do as a retrofit, love that you could prewire and sure you will make use off the majority of that cable someday.

[@GasBrake]

this is better than porn for me. I wanna grow up to be just like you. im 32 btw....

[@andrewshade]

I'm 18 btw

[@slavic_commonwealth]

I'm 15

[@psyfertech]

absolutely amazing, all of my home network fantasies

[@allensedze]

Please do a video on storage . Storing, securing and managing data.

[@michaelloving8004]

yeah as techie this how I would build my house very cool

[@jobnollette1097]

thanks for the shoutout. I would do it again :)

[@downloadXD]

I love seeing all of this home automation and networking, really inspiring. Our closing date on our first home is in 2 weeks and I can't wait to start building, with that said one of the many things I'm looking to automate is household air quality (monitoring, alerts, and auto-remediation). I'm curious, do you have any air quality monitoring platform you're currently using (the full suite preferably, voc, ppm, radon, co2, humidity etc)

[@akshatjain2444]

please do a video on terminating fiber. and its cost. like is there any way to terminate fiber ends directly on to cable or a patch panal for splicing is must. and how you terminated it in your Datacenter ( house).

[@jeffsponaugle6339]

Yes, that is coming up soon.

[@Ferdaze]

@@jeffsponaugle6339 Thanks ... Looking forward to that. I ran MM in some structured cable when I built my house 20 years ago to multi drops in each room and want to use it.

[@bucknerfilm]

can you help me with my math homework

[@TheMchip]

this is insane and totally AWSOMEEEEEE

[@mivo2624]

You have more racks in your house than a hole city in denmark holy shit dude :D

[@aRndBelgianGuy]

So overkill ! I love it :p

[@TheNPVideos]

Would it be possible for you to share your cable run plans? Greetings from Slovenia ❤

[@fartburp5531]

What office chair is that? I have been looking for one but can only find cheap alibaba ones.

[@boot-strapper]

that chair is hilarious

[@tomnowak2997]

How did you run fiber in wall in your new build? Did you run flex conduit first? If you just ran the fiber did you secure it to the studs in any way? Would be interested in some more info about that.

[@jeffsponaugle6339]

No conduit for almost all of it. I used some plastic wire holders for the studs that had a bigger inside diameter then the fiber so it floats in the holder. I also pulled fiber along cat6a so sometimes I used velcro to keep those together. I also used zip times in some places with care to have them loose. The 12x and 24x fibers are armored cable, so those are a lot easier to pull.

[@bentheguru4986]

Hey Jeff, might be "suck eggs" for you but I noticed you are feeding both the SFP+ ports (ports 10 & 11) to the same switch. I did hear you mention that you have your WAN (2.5Gbps) sitting on port 10 but thats into the switch suggesting that you are VLAN'ing it from somewhere else instead of bringing WAN directly to it, with all your fibre runs, WTF happened there? I also noticed way too many devices connected to the UDM which has a very limited switch-backplane in it.

[@jeffsponaugle6339]

Very observant! I like it! Yes, Port 10 which is the primary internet input comes from the aggregation switch because I have a mirror port in that switch going to a data capture/collection device (Think Gigamon). It is of course in it's own VLAN, so it is not connected to any of the other networks. Port 11 is then the firewall LAN side which is 10g into the internal VLAN on the aggregation switch. The devices plugged into the UDM switch directly are all very low bandwidth devices including a VPN device and a few other security related devices that I want in the first tier before a second switch, so the limited switch bandwidth doesn't cause any limitations.

[@bentheguru4986]

@@jeffsponaugle6339 Cheers, int he early days on UniFi, running WAN traffic through a VLAN was messy, the platform would see all the traffic on the WAN VLAN and report it which, as you could imagine, noisey and a lot of extra crap which inturn reprisented why data usages where high when the ISP sucked and I was getting a lot of unwanted traffic. As for the heap of fibre you have, still not able to bring the WAN photons direct to the UDM, bugger! I am surprised you haven't maxed out the UDM yet.

[@cisco-man8638]

I used to be an electrician so I ran conduit everywhere for everything.

[@empirekorea]

영상 잘보고 갑니디ㅏ 응원드립니다

[@themagic8ball]

Fiber optic cable

[@HB9HUR]

your GPU clock and GPU Memory are maxed out in your GPU tweak 2. are you mining or rendering something on your PC? Without use it should be a lot lower.

[@StuFrankish]

“For writing code” - Code for what?? What do you do? I must know! 😮 Edit, while the network techs are drooling, I’m over here (software developer) drooling over everything else and the fact that you code too!

[@jeffsponaugle6339]

Indeed - I have spent more time as software engineer than hardware engineer in my career... In the past I did lots and lots of C/C++, C#, and of course X86 assembly.. but these days I do a mix of C, C#, and Go... and now 68030 assembly with the Project Roscoe.

[@leo_craft1]

Oh, my 40 amp breaker for the datacenter keeps popping, lemme reset it

[@jmitchener]

So basically built the house around the lab… this is not a home lab it’s a lab home!

[@josephwilliamcosta]

Aces

[@henrytran4339]

jaw on the ground.

[@retartedfreak]

No conduit?

[@jeffsponaugle6339]

Not in the walls, at least for the majority of the pulls.. With this much wire and fiber it would have been really difficult to have conduit and pull that much material around the steel beams. I did do conduits to the TV locations as those were closer and didn't have as many drops.