My basement utility room where I have a plastic Rubbermaid cabinet. I cut out select panels in the back so I could connect all the wiring and power. Image right shows the house 200 amp service. Image left shows the homemade gas-pipe clothing rack for all my mother's extra clothing. I have it covered up with an extra twin flat sheet to keep all her off-season clothing clean.
Rat trap of power cables. The orange extension cord powers two (2) 120 volt fans that keep my main NAS drive, digital cable modem and router cool. Everything else is plugged into the black APC surge protector.
From left to right is my Buffalo 1TB NAS drive, Tenda-brand router and Optimum/Cablevision supplied Digital Cable Modem. In this picture, only one of the two 120 volt cooling fans are visible. The left-hand fan is hidden behind the NAS drive. The CAT 5 wire with the orange tape on it runs to the 10/100 switch in the top shelf. This NAS is wired directly into the router because this is where I keep all my multimedia.
The top shelf of the cabinet. This is my 10/100 switch and second NAS drive. This 10/100 switch allows me to have another internet line in my room and allows the second NAS drive to be on the network. In my bedroom, I have one run of CAT5, directly off the router for my day-to-day usage computer. The other run of CAT5 comes off of the 10/100 switch.. It's for the 64-bit, Dell Latitude D-830 laptop I use as a dedicated Final Fantasy XI gameplay client. This second NAS is for items such as documents, photos and zip archives. This second NAS is an old IDE CoolMax-brand kit. I put my own 320Gb HDD into it. Basically anything that I don't access every day and doesn't need high-bandwidth is stored here.
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