I might be a nerd, but I'm fascinated by the thought of the journey my data takes inside my house.
The router is downstairs and is connected via a 10 Gbps fiber link to the upper floor, and to an access point whose cable goes directly upstairs (a relic of old telephone lines that I ripped out during the Covid lockdowns). It’s powered via PoE by the router itself.
Upstairs, on the other end of the fiber, there is a 2.5 Gbps switch. Connected to it are another access point in the same room, various devices, and a cable going into the attic, where the temperature is exceeding 40°C these days. Up there is a PoE switch installed in 2020. For years it was powered via PoE and in turn powered another access point; now I've put a power supply up there, and it distributes the network to other parts of the house, as well as to another access point (which it powers via PoE) in another corner of the medium floor.
In the garage, far away from everything, there's a device without Wi-Fi that I need to reach. Also back in 2020, I set up a MikroTik mAP lite acting as a station and router, allowing the device to be reached.
Right now, I can connect to the device downstairs: I'm on the access point that goes straight into the router, so down one floor, from there it goes up to the switch in the study, up one floor, which in turn goes up to the switch in the scorching hot attic, upper floor, from there it goes back down to the other access point on this floor, and the device in the garage gets its signal from there. Effectively, it's just a few meters from the router, same floor, but it travels through the entire house.
Yes, I'm a nerd, and I'm proud of it.
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