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Fixed-fee packages for residential network, homelab, smart home, and home office work. You get a design package first: drawings, bill of materials, Wi-Fi and VLAN plan, configuration notes, and a household runbook.

Packages

10G Home Network Foundation

A home network plan for the next decade: reliable Wi-Fi, clean cabling, and separate networks for household, guest, IoT, work, and lab traffic.

What's included

→ Network design with VLANs for trust zones, IoT, guests, and labs
→ Bill of materials with vendor and model selection
→ Wi-Fi coverage planning and AP placement
→ Coordination with your low-voltage installer for cabling and termination
→ Post-install configuration of router/firewall, switches, APs, and DNS
→ Documentation handoff: network diagram, IP plan, runbook

Fit for: Homeowners building or remodeling. Households that want reliable coverage and a network plan before the walls close.

Home Lab Architecture

A homelab plan that matches how you learn and build. Compute, storage, networking, and backups get planned as one system.

What's included

→ Compute, storage, and networking design
→ Virtualization and container platform selection (Proxmox, K8s, Docker, your call)
→ Backup and recovery strategy
→ Monitoring stack with reasonable alerting
→ Power, cooling, and noise considerations
→ Documentation for the next person to maintain it

Fit for: Engineers and sysadmins who want a homelab for learning and side projects. Builders who'd like the design done before the parts arrive.

Smart Home Foundation

A locally controlled smart home plan for Home Assistant, cameras, access control, and automation.

What's included

→ Home Assistant or Hubitat platform design
→ Camera and NVR system layout, locally hosted by default
→ Access control and intrusion detection (where appropriate)
→ Automation patterns built around your actual routines
→ Network integration with separate IoT and household traffic
→ Documentation and runbooks for the household

Fit for: Homeowners who want a smart home that runs locally and keeps running through vacations and vendor outages.

Home Office Pro

Network, telephony, cameras, and access for full-time work from home.

What's included

→ Network design with WFH-grade reliability and segmentation
→ VoIP / softphone setup and call quality engineering
→ Office camera and physical security design
→ Access control for the office space
→ UPS and continuity planning
→ Documentation and an annual review option

Fit for: Remote workers and home-based founders. People whose income runs through their home network.

Hourly consulting

Hourly time is available for one-off questions, second opinions, or pre-purchase reviews when a full package is more than the project needs.

For new construction with structured cabling, I create the cable plan and labels, then coordinate with the licensed low-voltage installer who pulls and terminates the cable.

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