The Hardware Arrived. Here's the Plan.

Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In my last post I wrote about why I was replacing my Deco mesh with enterprise gear. A friend was offloading equipment and I was getting a Dell R330, four Cisco Aironet 1702i access points, and a PoE switch. Total out-of-pocket cost at that point: zero.

That was the plan. This is the update.

My friend was running seven servers: three R330s, two R710s, and two R610s. He decided to downsize and decommission most of it. I ended up with one R330 and one R610. Another friend got an R710. The rest he kept or scrapped. I wasn’t expecting the R610, it wasn’t part of the original conversation, but he threw it in and it changes what I can build.

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The Hardware Arrived. Here's the Plan.