Maybe not the prettiest, but a little cleaner than it was when it began. If I had it to do over, I might use a small 9.5" rack if such a thing existed. Originally I had the Netgear and patch cables in a Square-D circuit breaker box but it seemed unnecessary and a bit cramped with no air flow. I then added the Firewalla and moved the fiber over with all the other gear. I have room to expand but I don’t think there is anything else I will ever need to add to this location. I have another networking rack more centrally located in the house. There was also tons of coax here but I coiled it up and tucked it away in case it is ever needed again. I originally wired my house with 2 network drops and 2 coax drops to each wall outlet. This spot services 6 drops to my office, two lines to my main networking rack, and the main internet connection.
How do you like the Firewalla? I keep meaning to pick one up. Looks like you have the gold as well which is what I was looking to get. Seems easier than managing openwrt, pihole, and VPN VMs.
was going to ask this as well
Coming from DD-Wrt I like it well enough. I needed something to let me control Internet access to all the devices my son uses. I was also having trouble getting full Gigabit Wan speeds with my previous two routers so I wanted to upgrade to something more premium that did one thing really well. I like that it separated my wifi access points from the WAN device. The only real problem I have had with it is enabling encrypted DNS WITH blocking rules. I belive this is fixed now but when I first got it, if I enabled encrypted DNS lookup, it would fail to block some sites it was supposed to be blocking. My other complaint would be that it is too mobile app dependent. There is a web interface but it isn’t as full featured as it should be and it requires you to periodically log into the mobile app to give you access to the web interface. It is definitely a mobile first experience.
One thing I really like about it is that I can fail over to a cellular network through my phone if my fiber goes down. This has come in very handy a couple of times.