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Updated: My Server setip

Splice Case

splice going to friend next door so he can get internet

the whole thing could use some cable management.....

But i still love the fact that you have a straight fiber internet connection,

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Is that Juniper gear in the second shot? Is this all your equip or are you just colocating with that sweet fiber connection1?!

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And as someone who is also young (22), how do you afford all this equipment? If you don't mind me asking....

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It's looking good, Paul.

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what do you have for internet?

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holy power consumption batman.
Why don't you sell some of that old gear and buy a nice beefy box and run vmware or xen? I think you'd get improved performance actually.

I see you have a mac there, you can't really virtualize OS X, but if you're running windows and linux mostly you can build a pretty kick ass box for your host and run plenty of vm's on it.
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Almost none of that gear is connected to a power source. Might want to repurpose the space, perhapse a family game room is in order.

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Let see.. where do I start?

I see 5 racks, containing about 2 racks worth of useful/semi useful stuff, depending on how much you want to spend heating the basement with obsolete boatanchors, and about 2 racks worth of e-waste.

I see a lot of tagging with a sharpie, which looks like a gang of taggers was let loose in your basement.. It looks "ghetto", rather than "professional" . my advice, get a can of goof-off, and a box of rags, and clean it up. buy a p-touch, and label it right.. even post-it's or strips of paper and scotch tape would look better.

I see big loops of outside fiber in dire need of cable management.. get that splice case out of the middle of your backboard, and off to the side where it belongs, assuming you even need it, I'm betting that a fiber patchbay would be more appropriate.. mount the other one next to it, if you still need it, and properly dress the fiber.

I'd also clean up the racks, and bolt the three blue ones together as a unit. Get some shelves for the pc's instead of the stack-in-a-rack, so you can get to them without having to topple the entire stack.

Send the e-waste to recycling.. most of the cabletron stuff in the blue racks is so obsolete that the only thing it is good for is scrap value. I don't know about the units in the white rack.

Paul as always good to see all the stuff you score, but seriously man you need to clean up that website! So many spelling issues. Not very professional. And yes some cable management is in order

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looks like it belongs to someone who neither has to pay rent or the electric bill...

q.

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Holy crap, Cabletron gear... Wow, I haven't seen that stuff in years. And I mean, YEARS.
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Wow I got rid of like 6 ML370's and put everything on two DL380's. The 370's are soo big and useless.

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I see that mac there. What do you do with it?

What version of mac do you run on that box? I was wondering because I figured it would be underpowered for leopard and might be under powered for tiger.

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Close up of the racks

Overview

Fiber Stuff

Conduit on ceilings

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First off whats your electrical bill.... Perhaps one needs a fire suppression system now? Put some halon gas in there, or and air lock. hehehe

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