Small Office / Home Office Network Build Part 1: Selecting Main Gear and Subnets

Here's the first video in our small office/home office network build! We'll list the initial gear and the subnets. Are we missing something? Tell us in the comments!

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[scooterjes]

One you might add is a IOT network for all the TV boxes, Home automation ect

[NeriusNerius]

IOT network is missing. Smart office is important.

[gibbykaro]

Just some FYI's after installing more than dozen GS full stack its been pretty rock solid. Most my clients are cloud managed but still must log into switch to delegate trunk or access port on switch and when changing signal Dbm I find that you still need to manually change those in product. And When changing Db on In wall it sometimes kick the cloud connection and needs a reboot.

[RedWollip]

Greetings to a network wizard! It’s been a while my friend. I love your approach to network design and implementation. I have my Grandstream network up and running and my MikroTik network is alive and well.
I will hopefully be more active in the future.

[Practical-IT]

Another great video. I will be following the series for review and to recommend to a new coworker.

[Monsicek]

Thanks for touching this topic as suggested last week under one of videos. Just requesting here again, talk bit more about SFP/SFP+ modules which ones will work on what device and what cables we should buy for each module. Looking forward for rest of series.

[michaelh]

Great idea to do a series on this with non UniFi hardware.

Look forward to it.

Would be great to integrate an intercom into the Grandstream phones.

[kristopherleslie]

Good luck on the series buddy. Thank you for the content about to tune in

[Felix-vehs]

6:29 I am really missing IPv6 in all of these networks :^)

[timd]

Very excited to see this come together. Very interested in signing up for the course!

[Luc]

Great video Willie. I am very interested.

[thhznt]

Nice work. I like to have the VLAN number match the third octet for familiarity and troubleshooting.

[jonesdh]

IoT network, management vlan and secure or office vlan as you are doing a home/office network!

[phildegruy]

VLAN you might add would be for multiple servers so they aren't mixed in with other traffic (but are accessible to other VLANS except guest) and a VLAN for a Home Lab.

[apalrdsadventures]

I think you're missing the v6 subnets on your vlans

[jhippl]

Nice, for my small sites I stopped using class c networks because i kept getting conflicts. I use class b networks for that size now, most enterprises use class a networks. Class b seems the most unused class.

[sycomiz]

Hi Willi, a ubiqiti dream machine pro vs grandstream gwn7002 or similar would be great

[apilon]

you are not creating an IOT network any reason why ?

[dbressler]

Hmm, would you want to seperate off your IOT devices as well?