What is your home network setup?

[Member 1919122]

OK, so my home network is basically a old Dell Inspiron 660 running Windows 11 Home edition, which I use for running my entire media collection of movies, TV shows and music thru Emby, a personal media server. Works great as it gives you all of your media anywhere you have internet, be it at home or away. My other PC is a New Dell tower that I use for my Graphic design business from home,and a new Dell Latitude E5580 laptop for my business also. Both running Windows 11 Pro editions.
What I like about having Emby is I have my music and movies anywhere at any time.
I also use Onedrive, which is a life saver. Able to access my Graphic design files home or away on my laptop.

 

[Milo Willamson]

Away I have my Samsung Tablet that I also is a laptop whenever I do not feel like typing on my pc and it is an easy way to, check my emails about whenever I do wake up and go into the zombie mode, I have a really old NVDIDIA / Intel hybrid that is basically running windows 10 Home, I shoot through youtube every once a while, but I mostly for my music goes through newpipe app on my moto edge celluar, or I will turn it on via Dish network. I also have Terabox that backed up my old files and it is downloaded on my cell yay, no more stupid verizon cloud thing, yay..

Got super Joey Dish on my room too, a playstation three, in the other room is my mother's Levono p.c. for her every day stuff she always does, and can stream anything she wants on it, our dish just upgraded to streaming as well.

 

[Hadron]

My actual home network is just a 500+ Mb/s fibre-optic broadband connection to a 1 Gb/s wireless router, and various devices connected to that: 1 desktop (few year old HP), one NAS, mine and my wife's laptops (MacOS and Windows), plus phones, my tablet, and odd domestic appliances like a TV, a solar inverter and a dishwasher(*). No media server (though I can use the kitchen radio as a networked speaker), and no "smart speakers" or similar.

I keep the non-confidential folders of my laptop backed-up and synced with the lab, but don't otherwise use any cloud storage systems.

So actually a very simple system.

(*) just for a laugh - not really convinced that the ability to start the dishwasher remotely is terribly useful...

 

[Member 1919122]

Nice set up, Hadron!
I was thinking of using Syncthing or Nextcloud to stay totally off the cloud but I haven't gotten around to it yet.

 

[ozonetrooper]

I built this machine about 3 years ago and it will still go faster than I can afford to pay Bomblast for service.

I have 3 external spin up storage drives, and a spin up reader/player, and lots of plugs for things, like my 2 digital cameras, the cell phone camera, etc.
As much as all this cost I did not realize the fancy tower did not accommodate a reader/player !

I have my eye open for a old free standing case to put it in.

 

[mikedt]

China Unicom 1gbs fibre-optic broadband connected to a TP-Link wireless router sat on top of the fridge-freezer, 2 Macbooks (1 with macOS, 1 with MX Linux), 1 Xiaomi tablet, and 2 smart-phones (Samsung & Vivo).

 

[The_Chief]

Spectrum 500 MBPS cable internet; Linksys Velop Wi-Fi 6 mesh router with 3 nodes, covering the entire property; Desktop and laptop, both running Kubuntu Linux; two Galaxy S24 Ultra phones; and a 15.5 TB Synology NAS for securely storing our files away from the prying eyes of online cloud storage services. That data is backed up to an external drive for redundancy.

 

[ozonetrooper]

Just signed on with a company for fiber.

My machine is hard wired and the tv is streamed. I can have mesh but really do not need it as the only device is the tv box.

I have not bothered to check the wireless speed to the tv, as long as it works I am good.

This it the hardwire computer :