2025 Home Network Tour

This the 2025 tour of my home network.

See my other home network tour videos below:

2016 home network tour:    • 2016 Home Network Tour  
2018 home network tour:    • 2018 Home Network Tour  
2020 home network tour:    • 2020 Home Network Tour  
2022 home network tour:    • 2022 Home Network Tour  

For a 2025 network diagram, see here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eyE5...

Sorry about the over expose of the video.

Full Specs of my current 2025 setup are as follows:

Core switch
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Cisco SG350X-24P Layer 3 Switch
24 x 1G RJ45 PoE ports (4 x 60W PoE Ports)
4 x 10G ports (2 combi RJ45/SFP+, 2 Dedicated SFP+)
Stackable up to 4 units in True Stacking
195W PoE Budget

Elliott’s Bedroom & Kitchen Switch
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Cisco SG250-08 Layer 3 Switch
8 x 1G RJ45 Ports
Switch can be powered via PoE PD on Port 1 or via 12V DC adapter

Spare Bedroom Switch
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Cisco CBS250-8PP-D Layer 3 Switch
8 x 1G RJ45 PoE Ports
45W PoE Budget

Shed Switch
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Cisco SG250-10P Layer 3 Switch
8 x 1G RJ45 PoE Ports
2 x 1G RJ45 Ports/SFP Combo Ports
62W PoE Budget
Switch can be powered via PoE PD on Port 10 or via 54V DC adapter

Main NAS
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QNAP TVS-672XT running QuTS Hero OS (ZFS based OS)
32GB DDR4 RAM
6 x 6TB WD Red Pro Drives (7200RPM), 5 in RAID 6 + Hot Spare
2 x 2TB NVMe M.2 SSD’s in RAID 1
2 x 10G SFP+ ports via expansion card
1 x 10G RJ45 Port
4 x 1G RJ45 Port

Backup NAS
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QNAP TS-453A running QTS OS
8GB DDR3 RAM (Unofficially can be upgraded to 16GB)
4 x 10TB Toshiba NAS Drives (7200RPM) in RAID 6
4 x 1G RJ45 Ports

VoIP System
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Vonage VoIP system using Grandstream HT801 VoIP box.


VDSL Modems
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Huawei HG612 VDSL modems running unlocked firmware
LAN 1 = PPPoE
LAN 2 = Management

Router
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Draytek Vigor 2962 Router
Connects to 3 remote sites that I manage, using IPSec site-2-site VPN’s.
Dual WAN with session based load balancing
Tagged VLANs
1 x 2.5G RJ45 interface, 1 x 1G SFP interface, 5 x 1G RJ45 interfaces

Wi-Fi
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3 x Unifi UAP AC SHD (Local. Located in Kitchen, Loft and Shed)
2 x Unifi UAP FlexHD (Remote Site 1)
2 x Unifi UAP AC LR & 5 x Unifi UAP NanoHD (Remote site 2)
3 x Unifi U6 Mesh (Remote site 3)

UnFi Network Controller software running on Hyper-V VM.


Dell R530 Server
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Windows Server 2019 Standard, also an Active Directory domain controller.

Runs Hyper-V with 5 VM’s running under Hyper-V. Hyper-V VM’s are backed up to NAS with VEEAM.

Runs Blue Iris CCTV server.

2x E5 2630 v4 CPU's @ 2.2GHz (10 cores / 20 Threads each for a total of 20 cores / 40 Threads)

96GB DDR4 Memory
4 x 1G RJ45 Network Adapters
Dual hot swappable 750W power supplies.
iDRAC8 Enterprise with its own dedicated RJ45 network adapter
PERC H730 Mini RAID controller
2 x 240GB Segate lronwolf SSD's in RAID 1 for the boot drive
2 x 6TB 7200RPM Toshiba drives in RAID 1 for the Hyper-V VM's
1 x 10TB 7200RPM Toshiba drive for backup to Main QNAP NAS.
1 x 8TB and 1x 6TB WD Purple drives for Blue Iris CCTV

Main UPS
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1500VA APC Smart UPS
Network enabled and connected to core switch via Ethernet cable

Shed UPS
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850VA APC UPS
Connected to the Shed's Backup NAS via USB cable

CCTV
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7 Local External PoE powered IP cam’s
CCTV Cam’s on their own segregated and restricted VLAN
Switch ports feeding CCTV CAM’s have additional security applied to them.

4 Additional CCTV cams located at remote sites

Printers
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Canon MF752CDW with Optional 500 sheet paper draw (A4 Printer)
Canon Pixma Pro 200 (A3 Printer)
Ender 3 Max Neo 3D Printer with Creality Sonic pad

Home Theatre PC (HTPC):
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Windows 10 Pro
16GB DDR4 RAM
Asus Strix H270I
Intel i3-7100 CPU @ 3.9GHz
Quad tuner digital TV Tuner card
250GB Samsung 850 Evo SSD


Main PC:
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Windows 10 Pro
32GB DDR4 RAM
Intel i7-8700K @ 4.5GHz
Asus Prime Z370-A II Motherboard
Gigabyte RTX 2070 8GB GPU
1TB M.2 NVMe Samsung 980 Pro SSD
500GB M.2 SATA Samsung 850 Evo SSD
Blu-Ray Re-writer drive + DVD Re-Writer drive
Intel x520-1 10Gig SFP+ fibre Network Adapter

Battery Backup UPS's:
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1500VA APC Network enabled UPS for loft server & stuff in hallway cabinet.
850VA APC UPS for Backup NAS and Switch in Shed.


Miscellaneous:
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24 Port CAT 6 Patch Panel
Various Wi-Fi devices such as Amazon Smart Speakers, Media Streamers, etc...



If you have any questions, then please leave a comment on the video.