Used enterprise workstations are the home lab upgrade everyone overlooks
…A new AM5 build with a Ryzen 7 7700X, a decent B650 board and a case will run you $900 before you've added storage, networking or memory, which is the most…
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Your expensive headphones sound worse than they should, and the fix has nothing to do with them
Wesley Karanja Apr 20, 2026, 2:00 PM EDT Wesley has been passionate about technology from a young age, passion that led him to pursue a Bsc in Computer networking. His curiosity…
Your house can have Ethernet everywhere, and here's how I did it without drilling a single hole
…Related I upgraded my home network to prosumer gear - here’s what I learned This has been an educational experience. Wi-Fi is pretty good, too Wired connections are a little overrated…
Your NAS permissions are probably a mess, and a single flat share fixes it
…Sign in to your XDA account Network-attached storage (NAS) becomes the central part of most home labs and smart homes. Even if you're not running stacks of used enterprise gear…
The gaming mode on your router is a marketing lie — here’s what actually lowers your ping
…Sign in to your XDA account Networking marketing is notorious for slapping gaming branding and RGB lights on products to justify a 50% price markup. Let's say you just bought a…
Powerline Ethernet gave me reliable speeds without running cables through my walls
…Related I upgraded my home network to prosumer gear - here’s what I learned This has been an educational experience. Where powerline Ethernet still falls short There are physical limits Even when…
High availability doesn't require matching servers — my three different mini PCs proved it works anyway
…It was the dull work around storage, networking, and VM configuration. High availability can only restart a VM on another node if the required disks and networks make sense from that other…
Your NAS doesn't need to be all-SSD, and TrueNAS proved it to me
…The network becomes the bottleneck far before you start maxing out the speed of the hard drives. Forget a 10-gigabit network, that's true even with a standard gigabit local network…
Proxmox running Xpenology gave me the best of both worlds for my home NAS
…Sign in to your XDA account You don't need to have a proper network-attached storage (NAS) device to store and load data on the network. Buying a branded NAS system…
Your router has a client limit, and it might be a problem for your smart home
…Related 5 router settings most people never touch that fixed my network problems Lesser-known fixes for well-known problems Why can't your router keep up? Your router might be drowning…