more CAD adventures...embarrassing laundry server closet UPDATE edition (LOTS OF PICS!)

so yes, everyone laugh at CAD and my pathetic server closet that i never seemed to find time to fix. this explains alot about my brain.

hand-me-down equipment, shelves from the 1970s that are sagging and about to buckle, dust bunnies the size of small dogs, holes punched in the bathroom wall to fish trunk cable throughout the house..just pure filth and sadness.

before you ask THERE IS LITERALLY NOWHERE ELSE IN THE HOUSE THIS COULD GO. thank you, weirdo 1970s architect, for your service.

what. a. dump.

even the dog knew he was in for a long night. this took 2 nights well into th wee hours because i got so much shite going on during the day i couldn't get to it.

as for my choice of wallpaper...? it was the cheapest amazon had in stock for overnight delivery but ended up working out surprisngly well.





Shitty alarm system box i never took down..had to rip that off off the wall along with the clothes rack post and whatever the hell that plastic thing is with the hooks.





look at that gorgeous wall plate. that just screams MY NETWORK IS SOLID!





sooo...it went from bad to worse in the beginning after removing all that crap from the side wall. LOOK AT THAT FIBER ON THE GROUND!! no way that is going to be a problem!





so....wait for it.... wait for it.......



i ran those 4" lag bolts int the studs (burned up an electric drill trying to be lazy) so nothing but elbow grease would work those things in. SO PROUD...
















I frickING FORGOT TO HANG THE WALLPAPER FIRST


(everyone pause and laugh at CAD as he's looking at that rack at 3AM with a socket wrench in his sore, bruised hands as the realization sinks in he forgot to put the frickING wallpaper up.




So I had to take it down, hang the wallpaper and do it again.


anyway, here's the final results.

white equipment (xsense hub, hue hub, att gateway, ecowitt controller) lives on the new 8' shelf i grabbed at home depot with appropriate service loops for ethernet and fiber.




i settled on a small hole UNDER the giant hole in the wall and wired up all 6 connections with 24g cat6a wire which i then ran along the wall...that white panel has a plastic access door i can go inside where the 6-keystone outlet lives with extra loop of ethernet.

the fiber is now tacked to the wall with appropriately sized (and colored) plastic clips.

...and in the one cool thing that wasn't planned..ran that massive bundle of 6 cables up the black stripe on the wall which lined up with the rack edges! that huge wad of cable almost disappears entirely.

omada ceiling mounted EAP access point (not pictured) is where that one white cable is going. its the bomb! signal coming off that is 2-3x better than the att shite. i was glad to turn that router off and let omada handle everything.




am i going to finish that one section with wallpaper? nobody knows. right now i dont give a shite; this is off the ground and has a brand new 1500VA sinewave UPS keeping omada happy.