I purchased the patch panel from Amazon back in June of this year. Today I finally got around to installing it. One of the main reasons for the delay was that I had to properly ground the patch panel to an electrical outlet. I did this with an old PC power cable and solder the ground wire only to the metal frame of the patch panel.
In addition to the patch panel, I also purchased this wall mountable network rack. This 7U rack has enough room for our new 10Gbps networking equipment that I talked about in this post. These included the UDM Pro Max router / firewall, and our 10Gbps networking upgrade with our new USW Pro XG 10 PoE switch.
We also upgrade some of the satellite switches in the house with:
- A couple of Flex 2.5G PoE;
- One Flex Mini 2.5G;
- One Pro XG 8 PoE;
So we went from this 1Gbps backbone:
To this, 10Gbps backbone:
Using the UDM Pro Max, we can have dual Internet Service Providers (ISP). We are currently using TelMax and Rogers with a 75% and 25% traffic split, respectively. If one goes down, the other automatically pickup all the traffic, so we have Internet redundancy.
The UDM Pro Max allows us to have our old UDM Pro to be a cold stand-by in case the unit fails.
I think we can all agree that the latter 10Gbps system is much neater. I’m quite happy with the reorganization and the upgrade.
After all of this, we now have the most current speed tests:
Today is the first time that I register advertised speed with my TelMax subscription.
Now our household wired networking infrastructure is ready for WiFi 7 upgrade. That is a project for next year.