Built by someone who kept rewiring his own house
NodeSupply sells networking gear the way I wish someone had sold it to me: as a working plan, not a parts list.
Most home networks fail the same way. Someone's WiFi is slow, so they buy a better router. It's still slow, so they add an extender. Now devices drop when they roam. Three purchases later the problem is unchanged, because the problem was never the hardware — it was that nobody mapped the network before buying anything.
I spent years doing this the hard way in my own house and lab: running cable, separating routers from access points, learning which $300 box was worth it and which $50 one did the same job. The pattern I kept hitting was that the knowledge mattered more than the gear, and nobody sells the knowledge.
So that's what a bundle is
Each NodeSupply bundle is a complete working network for a specific job — a first homelab, a whole-home refresh, a 10G storage core. You get the hardware, labeled cables, and a port-by-port map showing where every piece goes. The map is the product. The gear just carries it out.
We're not the cheapest option, and I won't pretend otherwise. You can always buy the components separately and figure out the layout yourself — plenty of people should. The bundle is for when you'd rather spend the evening with a working network than with forty browser tabs of spec sheets.
Being built in the open
NodeSupply is a one-person company in Illinois, in its first year. I'm documenting the whole thing on YouTube — the supplier applications, the pricing math, the mistakes — because the same curiosity that makes someone build a homelab tends to make them want to see how the sausage is made.
If something here is wrong, or a bundle is missing a piece it obviously needs, tell me. At this size I read everything myself.