Home lab, part 1: hardware and physical setup
When my wife and I moved into our current home seven years ago, I wanted the network gear tucked away in the loft rather than piled up behind the TV. Wiring the house for Ethernet turned out to be a bigger job than I'd expected, and since it wasn't urgent, it kept sliding down the to-do list. That changed last December, when a problem with the existing setup made it worth finally tackling properly.