Recently saw a late 90s home network diagram for a AWS VP. It was super cute... Got me thinking.. what’s your average FAANG home network look like? Here, dual WAN, weighted load balance through a pfsense VM. 1.4gbps from diverse providers. Stopped going to the office a few years ago, so made sense to have a redundant WANs for the home network. DNS server is pi-hole on a raspberry pi, which sole purpose is to block ads at network level, plus AMZN/GOOG metrics, and tons of uncle sam call home log writing. Pi-hole is neat— Smart TVs don’t get any annoying youtube Ads, and iOS games are Ad free. 20TB NAS- raid 5 (16 usable). Mainly a Plex/photo server. During my time at Apple, I made a personal, family photo app that now has an impressive 800gb+ of photos. Started with an initial 1gb upload from scraping family FB photos. Anyone in the family with the app can upload. And they do all the time. Tons of firewall rules due to 40+ devices and multiple WANs (got the CCNA cert for fun). OpenVPN servers to tunnel into either WAN. Smokeping setup to monitor home network from 3 external sources for each WAN, free SNS push notifications for outages. Since I travel most business days, I usually bridge the hotel network to my home (ddwrt travel router) to take advantage of the DNS ad filtering and access to plex and gapped security cameras. On the fun side, I have a few machines that run a UNIX honeypot and a tor exit node.
I have a US Robotics 56k modem that I use to dial into AOL.
What the point of your setup? Sounds like you have to much free time.
I work in tech. The last thing I want to do is work during my free time.
What wifi AP?
Yikes, who peed in your cheerios ?
Wired cat 5e, a few gigabit switches that are racked, an old Solaris box with six hard drives with ZFS for file sharing, pf on an old OpenBSD box for WAN routing. It kept on working, and it's probably a waste of time to upgrade it.
I have a $30 router from amazon. It’s meh.
How do you block the ads?
Your shit sounds so complicated... I bet you have a bug tracking system for when things break
Complicated? Ahh, I left out the complicated stuff, lol