Took me about 3 and a half hours to do this. Looks good, now I need to get off the couch and begin segmenting the network for when my SO clicks on a green download button.
vlan tagging - the unsung hero of domestic tranquility.
nice job :-)
this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2026
152 points (100.0% liked)
Dull Men's Club
3812 readers
444 users here now
An unofficial chapter of the popular Dull Men's Club.
1. Relevant commentary on your own dull life. Posts should be about your own dull, lived experience. This is our most important rule. Direct questions, random thoughts, comment baiting, advice seeking, many uses of "discuss" rarely comply with this rule.
2. Original, Fresh, Meaningful Content.
3. Avoid repetitive topics.
4. This is not a search engine
Use a search engine, a tradesperson, Reddit, friends, a specialist Facebook group, apps, Wikipedia, an AI chat, a reverse image search etc. to answer simple questions or identify objects. Also see rule 1, “comment baiting”.
There are a number of content specific communities with subject matter experts who can help you.
Some other communities to consider before posting:
5. Keep it dull. If it puts us to sleep, it’s on the right track. Examples of likely not dull: jokes, gross stuff (including toes), politics, religion, royalty, illness or injury, killing things for fun, or promotional content. Feel free to post these elsewhere.
6. No hate speech, sexism, or bullying No sexism, hate speech, degrading or excessively foul language, or other harmful language. No othering or dehumanizing of anyone or negativity towards any gender identity.
7. Proofread before posting. Use good grammar and punctuation. Avoid useless phrases. Some examples: - starting a post with "So" - starting a post with pointless phrases, like "I hope this is allowed" or “this is my first post” Only share good quality, cropped images. Do not share screenshots of images; share the original image.
.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Nice! But good lord some of those corners/lack of slack make me wince - if you have a few feet of slack at the ends, I'd use them 🫣
You have to pull them tight, otherwise the packets pool in the drooping parts and slow down the network
Think of it like a series of tubes...
Yeah I estimated around 90ft however I lost around 9 and a half feet to turns and bends and was left with a few inches to spare. There's a little bit of slack but it's hard to tell.
I'm going to profess ignorance about the spouse download button segmentation portion?
I believe the implication is that the spouse is not technically literate or is for some other reason expected to be mislead into downloading untrusted or dangerous software.
By segmenting the network, the spouse's actions can be contained.
Yeah I tried to teach her not to click on links and stuff. She goes past all the warnings and enters everything. She no longer clicks on the rich Russian man get free money stuff or your computer is infected call us. But she still gets fooled by all the well crafted phishing attempts and it doesn't help that she is on every mailing list under the sun.
Surprised nobody has tried to buy a house in her name, it would be a good wakeup call. I mostly did this so because some nasty piece of malware was able to jump over the network from her computer to my mom's computer and almost steal all of the credentials to her bank accounts. Thank God for MFA.
It puts the anti-virus on it's skin.
Man, if anyone knows or a VLAN capable wifi 7+ access point that'll dump different SSIDs on different VLANs, please hit me up.
Right now I'm using an Orbi 6 Pro in AP mode, and it's fine, but I'm not getting the throughput I want for streaming games over my home network.
I want to keep all my networks separated from each other:
- Primary (phones, laptops)
- IoT very limited group of things like thermostats
- Always on VPN (a weird setup I made where if you connect to this SSID you're instantly in New Zealand)
Unifi works for that and a lot more
Unifi, does that and just works for me.
Check out tp-link omada
I’ve been extremely into QoS lately and CAKE with nftables has been incredible. I’m regularly saturating the upload link (huge NAS backup to the cloud on cable internet) but you’d never guess it — video streaming, voice calls, etc. all take priority so the bulk upload just completely backs off.
Oh man, I should look at QoS throttling - I have a Synology that does backup to Wasabi S3 on the regular. Good call.
The guy i worked with that always ran the cables told me to never run 1. Run 2 or 3 while you're at it. That's not the cost, the work is. Solid advise. Following it for deccades now, never a regret. In over 75% of the time he's right. There is always a use for the extra in the weeks after laying them.
Good job!
For future projects like this, check out multimodal fibers, which nowadays are all bend-insensitive, or these new "invisible fibers" - way easier to install than any copper cable.
we have something similar but with internet, since the modem was upstairs and someone living downstairs.