The new Firewalla switch will fit right in above the Gold Pro in place of the cheapo TrendNet switch !
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Please send help! It was less of a mess until I had to baby proof, then it all got tossed into a locked box!
This Firewalla doesn’t deserve to live this way!
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OG Firewalla Gold in the middle of my networking rack. One (of three) AP7s is visible tucked behind the cables along the back wall to the upper left.
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Got my Fiber ONT, Orange, and TP Link POE 2.5 GB Switch all on a shelf above my filing cabinet. It’s not pretty, but it works for my home. The only downside is I need a fan on the ONT because it gets HOT. Not pictured is my Netgear WAX620 Wifi AP.
It’s been through a lot of upgrades recently. I upgraded from a Purple and an 80 MB DSL plan, so the Orange fit perfectly with my 2 Gig fiber line.
Finally get to enter one of these competitions. I see them every year and never felt I could meet the bar until now. Gold SE with Olilo Prosumer Static 1.6Gbps fibre, Failover 4G Spitz Plus, TP Link 8 port poe switch, Zimaboard 1 & 2, Brume 3 security gateway I use to offload my wireguard VPN at gigabit speeds and a rtx3060 attached to the zmb2 for ollama and openwebui for local AI. A few Glinet kvms for out of band management such as the comet and comet poe. Off rack DXP4800 PLUS nas. All UPS secured. Naturally I would replace my POE switch with the firewalla switch and happily feature it with some high quality shots for any marketing. The Firewalla switch would be used as the central trunk for all lan connections. Merging a deeper integration with Firewalla.
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My Firewalla Gold Plus is dutifully hanging on the wall below my desk, along with a jumbled bunch of other stuff.
My current network is a temporary apartment setup consisting of a Firewalla Purple, AT&T Fiber, and multiple eero access. A Firewalla Switch would become the backbone of our future network, allowing me to neatly organize devices into separate VLANs. It would help transform my current “make it work” apartment network into a secure, scalable, and professionally managed home network.
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The switch is the last piece of the puzzle. Seven cat8 drops through the house, 3 AP7Ds, and a gold pro. Vlans for iot, kids, grownups, work, and wife’s home business. Once I have the switch, I’m planning on a 6u vertical rack with a patch panel…and giving up the clothes drying rack 
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It’s a hot mess and it’s really hot that’s why I have a box fan 
and a mini fan to cool my cpu because the fans stopped working 
If I win I actually want to get away from Tp-link Omada and go all the way with Firewalla with AP’s and everything. I like everything you guys have put out lately and I want everything to be under one umbrella
Been in our house 2 years. Maybe one day I’ll get this finished so the door can close.
Cox as main internet (Boo Cox!), Starlink mini outside as backup, through a mesh node, and the WiFi card because why not?
Dual 10Gbps to my room/server because I can.
4 POE cameras, 2 non-POE, 3 APs (Firewalla soon?)
I am a nurse by background and have been teaching myself all about networking. Absolutely loving it! It’s a work in progress, I still have more cabling to do.
If I had a Firewalla Switch, I would be on my way to replacing older gear, but not sure I would have wiring ready for 2.5G yet. Would switch ecosystems, but not too quickly. I do need to run 2 APs via POE and 2 additional POE devices. Still loving the Firewalla Purple!
ISP is fiber 1G symmetrical.
I’m the sole Systems Engineer for a growing manufacturing company. The first pic is the Server room and MDF for our home office. There are 8 IDF’s connected to this one in our 165,000sqft manufacturing facility and 45,000sqft offices. After extensive re-working it’s merely awful instead of an abomination. Our Firewalla inventory is 1 Gold Pro and 7 Gold Plus’s. ThI would love to have a Firewalla Switch SE on my home network “for testing purposes.”
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This is my current setup. Can’t wait for Firewalla Switch, it can help me create VLAN setup for my IoT device and my NAS.
My Firewalla Gold SE has been running continuously 24/7 for the last two years without a single problem.
The only missing piece in this setup is a Firewalla Switch. It would let me properly segment VLAN traffic and make managing all my devices much cleaner and more efficient.
Lot of clean setups.. Mine.. not so much. It’s a rats nest of wires.. Promise to clean it up if I win! Also.. first time submitting a picture. Quick summary:
The brains is a Firewalla Gold Plus.. also a hidden firewalla purple on the shelf that I travel with sometimes.. It’s connected to keep it updated. There is also a TPLink router in a 3d printed rack that holds a hot spare just in case. The very top (hard to see) also has a cellular modem for backup internet in case my main ISP goes down. I also have 2 Firewalla table top AP’s that aren’t in the picture.
I also use a couple of TPLink switches.. one smart, one dumb. Under that next to the purple is a mini PC that I use to host my home media. The bottom shelf has my Hue hub and cable modem.
The most interesting thing is mounted to the back wall to the right. It’s another mini PC that I use to host my hobby stuff.. You’ll see some wires connected to ADSB/ACARS antennas (used to track locations and messages from aircraft flying overhead). I feed that data to a bunch of ADSB providers like Flight Aware, Flightradar 24, ADSB Exchange and a slew of community based ones. I use ADSB.im in a docker container to run it all.
It also feeds weather stats from my weather station to weather underground, PWSWeather, and CWOP (Citizens Weather Observation Program), which is basically a network of weather stations used by the National Weather Service to model micro-climates. The data gets ingested by MADIS, which contributes to the NWS. WeeWX, an open source program that is used to feed everything, runs in a docker container to feed the weather stuff.
Sorry for the mess! Hard to keep organized when you tweak it all the time.