What hardware to get for a small "cabinet"?
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@stephenw10 Ahhhh....well.
I'll try the insert-after-boot-thing. I don't boot too often, so if that's what it's gonna take....
Would be soooo cool to get rid of the dumb bridge and the associated PSU.
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Switches with 10 GBit/s ports
- Netgear GS110MX ~200 €
Unmanaged 10 Port Switch - Netgear GS110EMX ~200 €
Managed 10 Port Switch
PoE Switch
- Netgear GS310TP ~160 €
Managed 10 Port PoE Switch with SFP ports
Switch that can be powered over PoE
- Netgear GS108Tv3 ~90€
8 Port GB Switch can route the VLANs if needed self
Multi-GIG Switch
- QNAP QSW-1105-5T ~90 €
5 Ports mit 2,5 G/1 G/100 M Unmanaged Switch - QNAP QSW-2104-2S ~150 €
2 ports SFP+ & 5 Ports mit 2,5 G/1 G/100 M - QNAP QSW-2104-2T ~159 €
2 ports 10GbE RJ45 & 4 Ports mit 2,5 G/1 G/100 M
They are all silent without fans or moving parts.
- Netgear GS110MX ~200 €
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It actually works when I insert the module once the system has booted!
As it's not remote and I rarely need to reboot, I think I'll live with that. Certainly worth removing a small PSU and that bridge-box from the cabinet.Now, does anyone know where I can source the shortest RJ11 to RJ45 cable? That would be great ;-)
Also, are there shorter cables from/to the PSU available?
Before I moved, I had the VDSL-connection (from $work) upgraded to 50/50 (from 20/20). My old APU2 router died in the move and I used its predecessor, an ALIX. I recently checked and it still showed 20/20 more or less. It seems like the change never went through. They did upgrade it to 50/50 though when I told them ;-)
BTW: does the 2100 have some sort of temperature sensor and can this be displayed on the start-page?
There's no direct sunlight in that spot, but it can get pretty warm in the apartment during the summer.All together, I'm very pleased with the outcome so far. The 2100 is enough for the foreseeable future and it's also nicely compact.
Fun fact: the people that did the recabling told me I needed to clean the floor because they used a lot of lube to get the cables in and out. And truly, it was extremely slippery in some places.
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@rainer_d said in What hardware to get for a small "cabinet"?:
Now, does anyone know where I can source the shortest RJ11 to RJ45 cable? That would be great ;-)
What are you connecting that is RJ11? That's a 6-wire (at most) phone connector... Most phones use 2 of the 4 wires (BYRG) in the set -- they're completely not compatible.
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@rcoleman-netgate I don't know what it is. It's the thing that connects from the DSL-bridge to the socket that DSL comes out of (the socket with the green cables underneath).
I assumed it was a telephone jack (basically).
On the one side it's definitely RJ45, on the other side it isn't and it looks like the cable that my old (POTS)-phone used.
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@rainer_d If this is on the TELCO side of the DSL then you just need a phone line. Any normal RJ11 cable will do
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I'm sure you could buy a shorter lead but for something really short I'd be making it myself. If you have the crimp tools to do so; or know someone who does.
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@rcoleman-netgate said in What hardware to get for a small "cabinet"?:
@rainer_d If this is on the TELCO side of the DSL then you just need a phone line. Any normal RJ11 cable will do
Yes and no
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Sure, in most cases it works, but... I recommend never to plug a RJ11 into a RJ45.
The jack matches of course, but I have seen some issues, in which the RJ45 was damaged afterwards. When plugging in a RJ45 cable again, some contacts did not have a proper contact, because they have been bend by the RJ11 jack.As far as I remember, the shortest RJ11 to RJ45 was 3m.
Regards
Edit: Did see some shorter cables at the "big river"...
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If it's the DSL-line cable, then It's a simple one to make yourself if you have (or know someone who does) the tools... but if not, then I would ask some local shop that does electrical/IT installs, if the can make one for you. Shouldn't cost much.
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@mvikman I'll try in the office next week - they have all the tools, no point in my buying anything ;-)
In the mean-time, I found a shorter cable in my own stash.I will update this thread once I have more parts.
Thanks everybody so far!
