Apr2026

April 22, 2026, Wednesday

Moved the networking and server gear from the Office Cabinet to the basement Mechanical Room. Though I found and dragged out my Cisco XL 2924 managed switch many months ago, I'm still not using that, rather I am using the simple 8-port D-Link switch to tie things together at this point.

The equipment that stayed:

Power-over-Ethernet power supply to provides 35V to the Rise Broadband outdoor dish-type antenna. I'm using the Office Extra #3 CAT5 cable to run from the Office Cabinet to the Wiring Closet, and since the CAT5 cable from the antenna comes to the Office Cabinet, I chose to keep this power supply in the cabinet, so that only that particular CAT5 cable had power applied. I didn't want to jumper/couple those cables together with power from the Wiring Closet in order to avoid a possible consequence of disconnection the coupler and plugging in a non-PoE device into that cable by mistake.

The equipment that moved:

Grandstream ATA (provided by Rise Broadband)
- I have tied the #1 TEL port to the Panasonic PBX as Central Office Line 1 (CO1). This allows any analog phone to dial via the PBX to the outside world.
TP-Link X21 Deco mesh-network router
D-Link 8-port Ethernet switch
HP t5740 main server (Humbaba), with two (2) external USB drives, plus one (1) external Toshiba USB drive
HP t5740 media server (Jikininki), with one (1) external USB drive, plus four (4) external USB drives (for VIDEO), plus one (1) external USB drive (for MUSIC)
Toshiba laptop POP3 mail server (Eligos)