An Updated Look at My Home Network

It’s been a while since I’ve written about my home network, which I totally rebuilt after moving last year. Here is my rack as it stands today: I am all in on UniFi gear, as you can see from all the Apple-like aluminum hardware in that photo. From top to bottom, here is how things are set up: Cable Modem: My Comcast connection comes straight into this, and then is passed to my network over a 2.5 GbE Ethernet connection. Dream Machine Special Edition: This is my gateway. In the UniFi world, this is what manages the entire network, including routing, the firewall, content filters, and more. The Dream Machine can be used to run Protect, Unifi’s home security and camera system, and even record footage with its built-in hard drive, but I have a standalone Protect box further down the stack, as when I initially built this out, I was not using a gateway with its own storage. The Dream Machine uses Comcast as its upstream Internet connection, but it can fail over to my backup ISP — a…