As an FYI: this set up is vulnerable to ARP spoofing. I personally wouldn’t use any ISP-owned routers other than for NAT.

I like the WiFi 6 just going out into the ether. Like you're just throwing morsels out to the peasants.

That’s… not all hand written is it? No one who is good at computers can write that well. We got into this BECAUSE we couldn’t write well, right?

Oh God yes, I never knew I needed illustrated self hosting architecture.

Need more. Could you also add like, a curious cat that asks questions?

I would never use an ISPs router for my home network. It just causes so many issues that you can easily avoid by either using your own router directly or if that is not possible putting the device into "bridge" mode and using your own router behind it.

What are some of the issues?

The devices the ISPs send out are usually the cheapest hardware imaginable and therefore introduce substantial unnecessary latency.

Where I live some ISPs also used to use tools that genereted wifi passwords based on the devices MAC address. While this is apparently fixed now, a lot of non tech savvy users still use these old devices that are basically open to anyone now.

To save even more money, they sometimes deliberately send out faulty devices (as in devices that drop connection frequently, restart for no reason, etc) which is just horrible.

I know these issues because I worked in that field and there are a lot more unfortunately...

That is a great quality post! Congratulations and thank you

Your home network is not too shabby either ;)

I like the way you wrote this in history class

Hmm, nice detailed specs on your home network. Mind sharing your IP? For, uh... totally trustworthy reasons. Asking for a friend. >: )

Congrats for keeping your setup simple!

Upvoting because Balsamiq

For the stupid among us, what’s the purpose of the switch?

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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Thank you for posting this with the explanations and great visuals! I am wanting to upgrade to a setup almost identical to this and you've basically given me the bill of materials and task list.

Anything you wish you had done differently or suggest changing/upgrading before I think about putting something similar together?

Very nice