New Server Rack Ideas

[Mindovermaster Global Moderator]

This my current wood placement for my "servers"

Top is my "dumb" 16-port switch. Goes to rest of house.

On left is my ISP (Spectrum) modem.

In center is my low-power mini-PC running PFSense.

My UPS below. (thanks to Warwagon's suggestion)

 

Now, it is up high in our basement. I can not get at it, and with my Dad pushing 68, I don't know how long he'll be able to get up there. We have a lot of wood left over from when this house was built (4 years ago)

Only problem I have, that I don't think the wires to the rest of the house are long enough to be at chest level (with the power box to left) Would you suggest I get a pass-through on top?

 

To further bring it down..

Internet -> Modem -> PFSense Box -> Switch -> Rest of House

 

I need ideas here.

[sagum]

It doesn't look like you have too many wires going to the switch already so you could just use a 'rj45 coupler', or maybe a handful of them.

Unplug your cable from the switch, plug it into the rj45 coupler and then a new cable into the other side of the coupler.
Your cable will be extended and you can plug your switch where you need it to be.

[Brandon H Supervisor]

On 02/02/2023 at 13:13, sagum said:

It doesn't look like you have too many wires going to the switch already so you could just use a 'rj45 coupler', or maybe a handful of them.

Unplug your cable from the switch, plug it into the rj45 coupler and then a new cable into the other side of the coupler.
Your cable will be extended and you can plug your switch where you need it to be.

this would probably be the easiest/cheapest solution that would work with any kind of rack you set up

https://www.amazon.com/Inline-Coupler-BENFEI-Ethernet-Female/dp/B07X6KW7WK/