I have a similar setup, but it's a little more distributed. The internet gateway comes into the garage, and then there's 10G cabling to both the air-conditioned shed that functions as a home-office and the house. I "only" get 1 Gbit/s from AT&T for now, but I'm moving to the UK in a few months, and the average - as in normal - high-speed there is 7 Gbit/s.
The main reason for putting stuff into the garage was noise - back when I took the picture [1] below, I was using Linux servers as RAID storage, and they were noisy as hell.
These days, I've moved to a Mac mini 10G ethernet and thunderbolt RAID (96TB of RAID6 from an Areca ARC-8050T3-24R using SSD's and mirror/backup of it using a rocketstor 6674T with 18TB spinning rust drives, so it's a lot quieter. The main reason was that we're entirely Mac-driven inside the house though, so it makes sense to have a Mac running the storage and backup stuff, and I had a spare M2 mini lying around...
So the internet feed goes to a 10G switch in the garage, which then branches to a 10G switch in the house, and 2 10G switches in the shed (there's more stuff in the shed than the house). These are all unmanaged, I've never needed to manage my switches, I just buy enough bandwidth to not care.
There is also a 1Gbit physical network because not all my devices are 10G-capable, but more and more I'm moving to 10G over time - there's no point in the garage-door motor being 10G, but all the computers are now 10G or WiFi.
One thing I did notice is that when I first laid the networking out, 17 years ago, I went for cat-5E, and when I moved to 10G I was thinking I'd have to re-thread the cabling from the garage (which is a pain because it comes into the crawlspace under the house, emphasis on "crawl"). However, I tried it first, and it worked just fine at 10Gbit. It's been working perfectly at 10Gbit for the last 4 or 5 years...
With the main servers being in the detached garage, I was concerned about heat, it often peaks at over 105 degrees in San Jose in the Summer, so I bought a 3'x2' solar panel, and linked it up to a fan in the wall - that beast of a thing makes a draught, pulling air over the server rack and keeping things nice and cool. There's also a couple of temperature-monitoring fans inside the rack to keep air flowing out of the hotspots.
The main reason for putting stuff into the garage was noise - back when I took the picture [1] below, I was using Linux servers as RAID storage, and they were noisy as hell.
These days, I've moved to a Mac mini 10G ethernet and thunderbolt RAID (96TB of RAID6 from an Areca ARC-8050T3-24R using SSD's and mirror/backup of it using a rocketstor 6674T with 18TB spinning rust drives, so it's a lot quieter. The main reason was that we're entirely Mac-driven inside the house though, so it makes sense to have a Mac running the storage and backup stuff, and I had a spare M2 mini lying around...
So the internet feed goes to a 10G switch in the garage, which then branches to a 10G switch in the house, and 2 10G switches in the shed (there's more stuff in the shed than the house). These are all unmanaged, I've never needed to manage my switches, I just buy enough bandwidth to not care.
There is also a 1Gbit physical network because not all my devices are 10G-capable, but more and more I'm moving to 10G over time - there's no point in the garage-door motor being 10G, but all the computers are now 10G or WiFi.
One thing I did notice is that when I first laid the networking out, 17 years ago, I went for cat-5E, and when I moved to 10G I was thinking I'd have to re-thread the cabling from the garage (which is a pain because it comes into the crawlspace under the house, emphasis on "crawl"). However, I tried it first, and it worked just fine at 10Gbit. It's been working perfectly at 10Gbit for the last 4 or 5 years...
With the main servers being in the detached garage, I was concerned about heat, it often peaks at over 105 degrees in San Jose in the Summer, so I bought a 3'x2' solar panel, and linked it up to a fan in the wall - that beast of a thing makes a draught, pulling air over the server rack and keeping things nice and cool. There's also a couple of temperature-monitoring fans inside the rack to keep air flowing out of the hotspots.
[1]: https://imgur.com/a/oG4r8Bq
[2]: https://www.areca.com.tw/products/thunderbolt-8050T3-rack.ht...
[3]: https://www.thunderbolttechnology.net/product/rocketstor-667...