Gadgetory

all right so here's what we're going to do today we're going to kind of do a blog here me cleaning up the internet solution here in this house because if you are married or you live with a girlfriend or fiancee or a wife or whatever then you'll know you can't get away with this mess for very long not to mention knowing what a cable management whore I am I can't stand this anymore the mastercase 5 and mastercase 5 pro from Coolermaster combines modularity with creativity giving you the freedom to build it your way make it yours by clicking the link down in the description alright so one of the reasons why this is such a mess and why I haven't put any of this back together yet or neaten this up is because when we first moved in we went with the Charter internet which you guys know is the only real option for where I live you saw the video where I put together all these ends I didn't actually show the way this looked done which is kind of sad huh you see I've got all the rooms wired up and things are going TVs and entertainment centers and consoles and PCs are all chugging away there but anyway this was the splitter that Charter used when they hooked up the coaxial now we didn't like the Charter TV very much so we went back to DIRECTV and they installed this thing well as you can see ya the installers well I asked them to kind of leave alone because I wanted to put this panel together but the installer for DirecTV simply cut all the coaxials off of the splitters here for charter and left me with this thing here which runs over to the modem so I've got a neat mess up I want to melt this down I've got to figure out how I'm going to get power into here because this requires power the internet box for the Direct TV requires power and there is no power anywhere in this patch panel so that's a little bit unfortunate so this is the cover panel for it right here and I'm thinking what am i probably enough doing is drilling a hole in the bottom of putting like a grommet on it that I can literally just push the you know the thief internet feed from the router to the switch and the power for it because the only power plug down here is down there as you can see and it's not perfectly lined up at the patch panel so it's not like I can push out our you know knock out one of these punch pen or punch downs here rfsu punch now I can't punch out one of these holes and go straight down if I could then I would have considered tapping off of existing power like if that was over here and then just running on up to here and actually utilizing although that wouldn't even work because as you can see this is where it's designed for utilize our electrical tape and this is where it's designed for you to actually been able to put like a power block or something we feel like carefully there it's fine there but then you can see right there where there's a stud so because of where it's lined up you wouldn't have even been able to do that I'm sure you could have customized something you could have then you could have had power right there but alas I cannot so we've got to find a solution to that and I want to clean this up and this is this is the real mess right there I'm if you move all that out of the way you can see my switch looks pretty damn good in there and then there's that so because I know that the modem and the router are going to pretty much always be next to each other because obviously the modem is feeding the router and then the router has a single output going into the switch I think what I'm going to do is I'm going to run down to Lowe's and I'm going to get myself like a small white piece of wood that would fit like right up right here and then I'm going to mount these things with the power strip down to the the board and then with that I can have that all nice and wired up neat and I can mount that to the wall and then I'm just going to have the power that I need running into there for things that require power so I think I'm going to do it that way because that's going to be easier than drilling a bunch of random holes up here to mount the things and then I can actually then use um jeez a x-33 will you focus already holy hell is your ax 33 of you super slow focus anyway then I'll be able to use our do cable management on it with all the wires by using you know different straps and things to route it nice and neat how I want because quite honestly if you look at this this is pretty ugly this is pretty bad every time I walk in here even though the wife's half the closets over there yeah can you tell wife's closet men's closet anyway uh no I got I got some stuff but anyway yeah so I want it to look nice and orderly because when I walk in here you can kind of see it more from my side than anything else all right so here's the whiteboard I said I was going to get at Lowe's it's nothing more than just like a shelf one of those shelves you don't want to get those little L brackets and then screw it to so I'm going to mount the router and the modem as I said to this thing here and then this is going to pretty much get mounted up on the wall up there above the patch panel that way everything can be moved as a unit and I also got I said unit now some people might be asking themselves well Jay why don't you just hide the modem up inside that panel because as you can see it fits in there well one it there's a lot of cable mess here I can't actually push the coaxial back up in there very well I believe it to be mounted to a stud right there the other thing is the switch the switch doesn't really get hot the switch doesn't really do much that generates any sort of heat the modem does get warm and as you guys saw this is a closed-off patch panel and I don't want to have air flow issues in there so that's why it's going to be mounted over here on the board also with the router the other thing that's kind of interesting about the router is that the way it's designed for hanging and as you can see with you know the little notch right there is being faced up with the logo facing the right way is not the way it hangs it actually has to hang upside down like that now some folks might be asking why I put zip ties up here instead of the velcro straps like I have here well the way I look at it one is I'm a lot less likely to mess with the coaxial at all than I am to mess with the stuff over here on the switch so the velcro makes it easy to undo it get the cable I need we you know tighten it all back up whereas this I just want sitting here being untouched now when it comes to the cable management here I don't really need this splitter anymore this is just a splitter that this comes in from the main feed from the street for the coaxial or the cable service and then this used to go to the other rooms because of the fact that I had you know the actual cable TV service but I'm not using that anymore so I don't technically need that splitter now I can put a barrel connector on there and put those two together obviously I would have to do something to extend this cable because it's not long enough and then this is the cable I have here now even if I mount this thing down to the back I don't have a lot of slack left on this cable right here to make it out of the box and up into the router but if you look here the Internet box for the Direct TV is way longer than need to be it's coming all the way up and around and back on there so what I'm thinking I'm going to do is I'm going to switch these two I'm going to take the longer cable and put it over here where the Internet is and I'm going to put the shorter cable on the Internet over here to the Direct TV box yeah hooray for light it was dark in here so I went got one of my soft boxes and it's pointing that up anyway now you can see a little bit better one thing I'm going to do now is I'm going to take this barrel connector and I'm going to cook hook it up to the internet feed and to the other cable that way I'll have this splitter as you can see they even just cut all the coaxial rather than reusing the ends because installers have to put their own ends on it's part of the installation process that you do just to make sure that everything is kosher so I'm going to go ahead and get this crap out of here put a barrel connector on it with the longer cable one other thing that's important to do too is because that's all the slack there is on this cable and it's not labeled so in the future if I ever needed to change any of this up and I was like I don't know what the heck this cable is you want to mark it mark your cables it's a big deal all of these are mostly marked except with this one which is the main feed all right well the exception of power this is pretty much all wired up I mean I've got I've now got to take the panel cover drill the hole put the grommet in it like I said yeah it's gonna kind of get it with a hole in the panel but the only thing I can do there's no other way out of here I'm not going to drill a hole either underneath and do like a like a pass-through like you would do with say you know like that like I did with the TV I don't want to put holes in this wall so that's what I'm gonna do next and then we can run our power cables through there and then we'll be pretty much done there's not a whole lot to do just mount the stuff to the board over here and then be done with it here's the grommet but I got for it the grommet just needs to be big enough to allow the ethernet cable to pass through because all the low bolt stuff in there is as a tiny little cable it's actually not that big of a deal so if I need the hole to go bigger though I've got a step bit here it goes all the way up to what is this an inch and a half I believe an inch and three-eighths so it can go pretty big if I need it to but that's what we use to make the hole for the grommet and of course I'm going to do a pilot hole so that we don't get it like you know you're scratching all the way across the thing and it's actually the first time using my shop for anything right now and it's for the patch panel how ironic is that I do need to build a computer though for the gaming rig or the sim the gate the racing sim because I did finally move that thing in the house see it's not right there anymore all right so I ended up getting a little crazy and making the hole a little bit too big for the grommet size that I have as you can see there it's just sort of moving around in there but then I remembered that I had these extra grommets that come with the case-knives cases and so I can actually get this one in there I can step it up with a one more size and get that in there so thank God for that and it's much thicker it can be like beefcake oh ring or beefcake grommet leave that go to the other one huh yeah like a glove look at that perfect and it's bigger than the other whole list so now I can fit possibly like even a power plug through there or something perfect there we go it's really dirty but just sort of a test fit to see how well that works out and there's the feed cable for the Internet obviously I've got to do you know Ethernet through there and power cables and stuff man Ashley's looking a lot better than I thought I would so I got the wood piece up here as you can see mounted on the studs and you might look at that and go why is it off-center like that well it's actually centered on the closet overhead railing thing so now I'm going to do is I've got to cable manage all of this up here so that it looks nice and neat yeah I wish the board was a little bit longer side room to actually mount the power strip like right underneath it on the board I'm not sure exactly how I'm gonna do that yet but I think this is all going to turn out very very neat the wife is actually gone right now I'm hoping to get this done before she comes home at which she can come into the closet here and see that it's not just a big wired mess everywhere but then again that was the whole point of this video in fact I don't know why I'm making a video on this I guess you guys like the vlogs and things but I just don't know what is it about the vlogs that people like is it the fact that you feel it's more much more off-the-cuff it's kind of like you're there it's it's more relatable because it's not all produced in you know super shot carded and be rolled and stuff like that is just kind of like hey we're check we're checking out Jay do some geeky techy things that you guys could probably do better than me I don't know guys tell me down in the comments what is it you like about the vlogs I like vlogging I mean it's easy I do like to do creative stuff and obviously b-roll content and things like that too so maybe you guys like a big mixture of it tell me down in the comments it really does help to tell us what it is you guys like to see and why tell us why you like to see it and why you don't want to see certain things that's important to a lot of people leave that out it is go this sucks they don't tell us why it sucks alright so here's where I'm at so far and this really kind of sucks because there's no way to make that power cable clean there's really not so I guess it could look cleaner I mean obviously it's not done it's tough to deal with all those cables right there um yeah I mean a shelf or something would have worked too but at the same time I wanted a wall-mounted and it really is going to be a lot better than it looked before this was coiled up only because I don't have a shorter like a 2 foot cable I was going to make one but I'm running out of time to get this done before some other errands I've got to run today but it's coming together it really comes down to this damn power plug for the router it's super long and just ugly and awkward how am I trying to figure that out and make it look a little cleaner but for now as you can see it's better than it was so let me just go and get this thing buttoned up well I guess in hindsight this looks pretty damn ghetto but whatever um I've logged it and that's so hey it turned out the problem is all the power cords the power cords are so freakin long and then they all have these power bricks and like the modem the power brick is in the middle of the cord and then just like the Netgear you've got the thick PC like power supply unit type of cable there and then you've got it's you know again that's in the middle then you've got the cord and neither one's long enough to reach all the way to the floor if I just wanted to run it that way but it works that's what really matters to me the most is it works so it is what it is well something else that's going to have to wait is doing the channel strip because I'm an idiot and didn't pay any attention and I bought a corner one clearly that's not a corner anyway I have to go back and do that but I guess if we compare this to the way it looked when I first started even though the kylix have jumbled wire of a mess it's better than it was with it all just kind of everywhere here and wire stick now alright so that project is mostly done I have to stop being so anal about it because it's in the closet you're not really going to see it it's all mounted to that board rather than holes all over the wall I mean there's just a four holes in the wall holding the board up and those we easily patched and stuck out and repainted you know if you had to if I have to take that thing down the other thing is like I said it's in the closet you're not really going to see it which is a big deal I guess I mean it's one of those things where I know it kind of looks bad but whatever something else I'm working on here as you can see the upstairs like entertainment center things just some IKEA furniture we put together but look the racing sim is up here I don't have the other monitors hooked up or anything to it yet but this is going to be hooked up and this upstairs loft area it's going to kind of be just sort of a probably made you all dizzy row there did it this upstairs loft is any more like a game area which is we kind of need like I said have a area to play around have some console games up here is when we PC up here movies it's going to be pretty neat when it's all done anyway guys tell me what kind of stuff you want to see in the future if you guys want to see more vlogs maybe I'll kind of introduce a couple of these in the month during the month I don't do a lot of vlogs so maybe it's kind of nice to be able to see what's happening behind the scenes again like I said earlier tell me why you like the blogs if you like them and it will help me out a lot in the future anyway thanks for watching guys - hope you guys enjoyed today's video tell me what a pile of crap that job I just did looks like I won't even get mad because I'll agree with you it doesn't look great but it looks better than it did you can't argue with that alright Internet time to go see you in the next one