I have been saving up and buying equipment for the new home Network. Currently I have been using the equipment provided by the ISP that is Fiber Fast. It’s a small ISP that has a lean on the neighborhood and is through the HOA.
The idea is to ditch their “modem/gateway” and put in a Mikrotik router and a couple of WiFi access points. I think I talked about this before.
As a addition to the network I bought a ThinkCentre M715q first gen I plan to turn into a second gen, max out the RAM and toss in a Ryzen 5 2400. Just have to replace the BIOS/UEFI chip with a 16MB chip and flash on the latest firmware. This will be the home server. The plan for the Home Server is a 24/7 minecraft server for the family, VM server and Wireguard.
Instead of running Ethernet cable all over the place I’m just going to do a couple of WiFi access points, PoE Switch and controller. Not bad for a $300.00 system.