As someone that has build huge nation wide networks and data centers I can tell you this is far from what I want at home (now)! When I was a young network engineer I had a Sun SPARC5 running OpenBSD as a firewall. Ultra10 for my desktop. I ran my own DNS and a rack of servers. Wifi was new and of course I ran cutting edge OSS firmware on whatever was the latest HW. Too much work!
Today, Ubiquity HW.
Enterprise 48 PoE, 1/2.5/10G core, small PoE powered 5 port switch behind TV, etc. for fan out where needed (I did rewire house with Cat6A). 3 of the latest APs that support 6E. NVR for the cameras. TrueNAS MiniXL+ for NAS that I can run K8s on if needed (cheaper to pay IXsysten for the setup then build myself, including time). AppleTV for media. Leviton Wifi switches for remote control power/lights. 5 gig symmetric fiber internet with a Comcast backup that auto fails over (UDMP-SE for firewall). It all just works and I spend zero time on it.
About the only tech head thing I still have is a stand alone 4 generation old CPU (i7) running ... gentoo targeted at that CPU for speed, as a Minecraft server. And honestly that is going to be replaced with a 2 year old SFF box soon with a less complex version of Linux :)
Today, Ubiquity HW. Enterprise 48 PoE, 1/2.5/10G core, small PoE powered 5 port switch behind TV, etc. for fan out where needed (I did rewire house with Cat6A). 3 of the latest APs that support 6E. NVR for the cameras. TrueNAS MiniXL+ for NAS that I can run K8s on if needed (cheaper to pay IXsysten for the setup then build myself, including time). AppleTV for media. Leviton Wifi switches for remote control power/lights. 5 gig symmetric fiber internet with a Comcast backup that auto fails over (UDMP-SE for firewall). It all just works and I spend zero time on it.
About the only tech head thing I still have is a stand alone 4 generation old CPU (i7) running ... gentoo targeted at that CPU for speed, as a Minecraft server. And honestly that is going to be replaced with a 2 year old SFF box soon with a less complex version of Linux :)