This comprehensive home network tour showcases a 2023 smart home setup featuring a fiber connection, advanced network equipment, and full automation. From the outdoor fiber entry to internal access points, managed switches, smart lights, and cameras, this tour highlights how a reliable and flexible home network should be structured. Let’s dive into the tech behind this fully connected home.
This setup is a great example of how to scale a smart home network with performance, reliability, and full automation in mind. Whether you're planning your first install or upgrading your network, there's a lot to learn from this system’s layout.
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We’ll start with the fiber cable that enters the home. It comes from a box under the sidewalk, travels underground to the garage, goes up through the attic, and finally reaches the network panel. This cable connects to our ONT (Optical Network Terminal).
From the ONT, a Cat6 cable connects to an Asus AXE7800 Wi-Fi 6E router in our game room. Another Cat6 cable runs from that router back into the network panel and connects to a TP-Link 10-port gigabit switch with PoE+ and two SFP slots. This switch is fully manageable.
A Cat6 cable also connects the TP-Link switch to a Ruckus ICX switch. All the cables used are either Cat6 riser or Cat6A. No Cat5e cables here.
To the left of the panel is a Ring Elite power injector that provides PoE power to our Ring Elite doorbell. We also have an extra power strip since the enclosure only offers four outlets.
Next, we have a Raspberry Pi 4 running Pi-hole as our DNS ad-blocking server. Yes, it's a bit overkill, but it’s what was available during the Raspberry Pi shortage. The RGB lighting inside the panel is powered via the Pi’s USB port.
At the top of the panel is a Lutron Smart Bridge Pro for managing Lutron smart lights, and right next to it is a Samsung SmartThings Hub (which came with the house). We also have a Kevo Plus, which allows us to control our front door lock remotely.
Lastly, we have our NVR security system with a monitor and 2TB drive. The feed can be viewed on our living room TV using HDMI over Ethernet.
Outside the panel, we have a UPS backup power supply. In the living room, we installed two ceiling-mounted access points:
Every room in our house has a minimum of two Cat6 ports and features smart lighting and EchoBee smart thermostats. Outdoors, we have six Reolink cameras, a Ring Elite doorbell, and all lights are app-controlled and automated.
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