Home and Office Setups → My Home Network as of 11/28/14

Here is my home network. My router is a Cisco 1841 running IOS 15.1 - dated, I know, but it still gets the job done. The modem is a Centurylink C2000T operating in transparent bridge mode, which has been one of the best VDSL modems I have ever owned. My internet connection is 20/768k from Centurylink. The switch is a Dell Powerconnect 5324. It's a pretty generic 24 port managed gigabit switch, but once again, it gets the job done. The white box is a WD MyCloud 4TB NAS, which I use for streaming Blu Ray ripped movies. It isn't the most powerful thing ever, but it works well for this. The UPS is a CyberPower OR700. I have two power strips zip tied onto the side of the rack, one for surge and another for surge+battery. I have two APs, Ubiquiti Unifi AC1750 which is mounted under the stairs conveniently in the center of the house and an Engenius ENS200, which covers the back yard in the summer (it's currently in my desk since it's winter).

On the logical side, there are three VLANs, VLAN 1 for the LAN, VLAN 2 for IPTV traffic, and VLAN 3 which feeds a guest SSID on my APs. VLANs 1 and 3 connect directly to the internet and VLAN 2 is fed from a GRE tunnel (kind of like a VPN, but supports multicast traffic) which goes to a router at the telco co-op I work for. Normally, we deploy IPTV over our fiber network. Unfortunately, I'm out of our service area but still wanted to take advantage of the IPTV service we provide. This turned out to be a surprisingly elegant solution. It works really well.