Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Thursday, September 3, 2026
Ben Thompson detailed his extensive efforts to reorganize his home's server rack and network infrastructure, involving the rewiring of 70-80 Ethernet runs. He emphasized the importance of network resilience, having recently incorporated a secondary internet source via Starlink.
“I've spent two days, Andrew, without internet.”
“Anything runs over ethernet, you know, you can run video over it, you can run sound over it, like it's just a universal transport mechanism.”
“Resilience is important as always.”
“I pulled out the Starlink, which was which was a part of that. And so I did have internet. But, um, in the future, I now have a secondary network in the house such that the whole house will have internet.”