We want to see the best (and the messiest) networks!
To celebrate our Firewalla Switch and the new Discourse forum, we’d love to see how diverse the Firewalla Community really is. Whether you’ve got a mature, neat setup or you’re just stacking random devices together, show us what you’ve got!
Prizes:
We will have 2 winners:
1 with the Best Setup.
1 who needs the most TLC.
Each winner will receive 1x Firewalla Switch SE as part of the Switch Early Access release (tentatively shipping early to mid-July!).
Winners can choose alternate products of equal or lesser value. Top entries may be featured on our website and in Firewalla marketing materials!
How to Enter:
Post a photo of your setup as a comment below.
Must include at least one Firewalla Box.
If you’ve entered a past Firewalla contest, please submit a new, original photo.
(Optional) Include a short paragraph describing your setup and how you’d organize your network with a new Firewalla Switch!
How to Vote:
Scroll down through the comments below.
Vote for your favorites by clicking the (thumbs up) next to the comment. You can vote for as many as you’d like!
Going for the TLC prize this year with my Gold, dual WAN’s, dual 1Gbps Cisco LAN’s and Ethernet in every room. Have a Gold Plus in a real equipment rack nearby that needs two SE switches to implement VqLAN utilizing two AP7’s that are replacing eeros. Comcast just took our neighborhood down for mid-split upgrades for 2Gb/200Mbps. (And why is there a Netgear 5 port switch? Extends an Ethernet run from the gateway eero upstairs to a downstairs eero.)
This rack is the result of years of building, upgrading, and learning. I started with used Cisco switches (upgrading to Arista switches- Waiting on Firewalla), Ubiquity WiFi (till the AP came out), and a fiber infrastructure, virtualization servers, storage, and a Firewalla Gold and Gold Pro protecting everything. I’ve created separate networks for production, lab testing, IoT devices, security systems, guests, and family use. If I added a Firewalla Switch, I’d use it to streamline VLAN management, improve network visibility, and make expansion even easier as the lab continues to grow.
A year or so ago one of my best friends gifted me a Firewalla gold and AP7 to help enhance the security of my home network and helped me use one of my old boxes to set up a homelab.
I’d love to colorcode the post, but I don’t see that option so I’ll just list it all out. The firewalla gold is on the small shelf where all of the lines terminate.
Orange – Primary WAN - Cable internet, connected from the wall on the right out of frame. Connected to Firewalla Gold
Green – Secondary WAN - DSL, connected from the wall to the left behind shelving/magic cards. Connected to Firewalla Gold
Purple – Primary work/gaming station, connected to firewalla gold via ethernet.
Red – Proxmox box running Security Onion along with other testing virtual machines. Connected to Firewalla Gold.
Blue – Firewalla AP7, connected to the Proxmox box so that all the traffic can be captured with Sec Onion.
Dark Blue – PS5 connected via wireless to AP7.
As you can see my set up is very “strung out” across my room. A firewalla switch would also let me add some additional boxes to build out my homelab and centralize everything easier!
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I’m just wait for the switch so I can complete my firewalla stack!
