I like it, it shows someone put some effort into it!

I was able to find a few 10" rack items, but the selection is very limited and the prices are about the same as for 19" accessories. I would replace the three patch panels with a low profile 10" 3u open wall mount rack if I found a setup at a reasonable price.

Thank you. One of the reasons I cleaned it up is BECAUSE the “cable guy” was coming by, seriously. I was paying for Gigabit fiber but only getting 100-200 megabits down. In the past I had gotten over 900, but I would constantly have times where I was getting very slow speeds. I would swap routers and it would help for a short period of time and then speeds would drop again. So I decided to purchase the Firewalla and move the Fiber drop right next to it and the office router (before the fiber drop was in the garage and the router was in the basement). This way everything to test the WAN is right next to each other. This and a network driver update fixed my problems. The hard part now is finding a reliable server to test speeds against. I just checked and it shows I was getting 58 Mb/s down this morning :(

Coming from DD-Wrt I like it well enough. I needed something to let me control Internet access to all the devices my son uses. I was also having trouble getting full Gigabit Wan speeds with my previous two routers so I wanted to upgrade to something more premium that did one thing really well. I like that it separated my wifi access points from the WAN device. The only real problem I have had with it is enabling encrypted DNS WITH blocking rules. I belive this is fixed now but when I first got it, if I enabled encrypted DNS lookup, it would fail to block some sites it was supposed to be blocking. My other complaint would be that it is too mobile app dependent. There is a web interface but it isn’t as full featured as it should be and it requires you to periodically log into the mobile app to give you access to the web interface. It is definitely a mobile first experience.

One thing I really like about it is that I can fail over to a cellular network through my phone if my fiber goes down. This has come in very handy a couple of times.

This is great advice and had I thought/known this I might have chosen another backer material. I just used what I had laying around. Elsewhere I installed cement backer board for this very reason. I just didn’t think about this equipment or the wiring being of concern. I will look into the Intumescent coatings.

Thanks. Up until recently the only thing here to protect was the Netgear router. This space gets pretty hot so I didn’t want to put a battery in with it. There is a whole house EG4 18Kpv with batteries being installed that will help protect the equipment though.

Your guess is spot on. The patch panels only serve the office and “serverroom” though. The server room then distributes to another patch panel in a different attic and all the other rooms.