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Originally Posted by Bilyclub
That's the cleanest low voltage box I've ever seen. I see the fans, do you keep the door open all the time?
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I keep the low voltage box door closed. I have the fan on the bottom sucking air in and the one on the top blowing out. I use the fans to keep air moving during the summer months when it get's very hot in the garage. They are inexpensive but are ball bearing fans good for many years of continuous use. I also have a temperature sensor connected to my home automation system to alert me if the temperature gets too hot. I have a fan blowing up on my orbi router as well.
I wish I had the larger box that's now being installed in the new homes down south. I could change my box but it's too much work.
I also have a battery backup in there so when we get those short outages during the summer months my internet stays on-line. The box in the center is my Rachio Irrigation Controller and the box at the top is the Quantum Fiber Smart/Nid/Router in Network Bypass Mode because I'm using the Orbi Router.
I have kind of a unique setup where I have the Orbi router in the garage. It's there feeding my office via hardwired Ethernet that came with the house and its connected wireless to my Orbi Satellite in my livingroom which feeds all my network equipment in my home theater. Unfortumately, when my houes was built there was no ethernet installed in the livingroom by the TV, only Coax. The Orbi 971 I have has a wireless backhaul system where when testing, I was able to get about 8Gbs over that link from my desktop computer as a server in my office. Just wanted to see how much data the Cat5E cable and the wireless backhaul would run at. I don't need all this bandwidth except for my NAS which I stream some video's from but it's fun to set it all up. Who knows what the future holds.
Here is a picture of the whole system with my Orbi router above the cabinet and my whole house surge protector. Eventhough I'm not using cable, I have a surge protector on that as well just in case it gets an induced surge, I don't want it jumping to stuff in my cabinet. Yes, it's nice enough to take a picture of lol!