so how important is the location of your
network devices
within your network panel you're going
to find out next
on the ultimate tech hub
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so guys the question is how important is
your location of your network devices
within your network panel and the answer
is it's very important
and one reason is heat you want to have
all your hot devices to give up a lot of
heat
they should be installed at the bottom
of your panel and the reason is
the heat can disperse up and out evenly
if these devices are at the top of your
panel that heat can't go anywhere it's
trapped
and he is not good for network devices
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all right so here's my network panel and
i want to show you three devices that
give out the most heat in this panel
the first device our modem this is our
fiber modem it gives off quite a bit of
heat
second device is our cloud this is our
nas and it gives off quite a bit of heat
and our third device is our ruckus icx
managed switch
and you're probably saying hey why
didn't you install it down here uh the
main reason why is we didn't have enough
room
and the way i wanted to set this up is i
want to have a little break in between
the hot devices you don't want all of
them kind of crowded together too much
and the location here is good because
above the switch there's literally
at least 12 inches of space for that
heat to radiate out
the next thing i want to talk about is
the location of our switch
this is our tp-link 8-port switch and
the reason why we have it down below and
not up top
is because this is kind of a central
place for all of our cat6 wires to come
in at once
you can see them all come in it's a good
location and
the heat coming off of these devices
will just bypass the switch this doesn't
get hot at all
but it's a good place for everything to
meet up at one spot
okay guys the last thing i want to talk
about are the devices that are up top
of the panel now there's four devices up
here
i've got lutron smart bridge pro i've
got a smartthings hub and a kivo plus
also i have an hdmi converter all four
of these devices
give off very little heat probably this
gives off more heat than anything
but it's not really not much so it it's
good to have your less
your devices up here they give off the
less amount of heat
well guys we're all done here i hope you
understand how important
your network device placement is in your
network panel
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