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Treating your ISP's router as the brain of your home network is the biggest mistake you can make
1d agoI thought a 10GbE home networking upgrade was overkill, but it's the best upgrade I ever made
3d agoI added a second network port to my home server, and it fixed more than transfer speeds
1w agoI used an old router as a dedicated smart home network, and it solved two problems at once
1w agoI didn't know my homelab was broken until I found split DNS
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Your motherboard's Ethernet port matters a lot more than it did 5 years ago
…TP-Link 10GB PCIe Network Card (TX401) $100 at Amazon Related Your home lab needs better networking more than faster storage or memory Attack the biggest bottleneck of your home lab before…
One DNS tool did what two containers couldn't, and I'm not going back to Pi-hole
…Sometimes the best homelab improvement isn't adding another new tool — it's realizing you no longer need an old one. AdGuard Home AdGuard Home is a network-wide software for blocking…
Your router's MAC address filter is security theater, and here's what actually protects your Wi-Fi
…It doesn’t stop anyone who knows what they’re doing, and it makes your own network more annoying to manage. For a modern home network, that’s a pretty bad trade…
Tailscale replaced my dynamic DNS setup, and I stopped worrying about IP addresses entirely
…Once I set up Tailscale with Home Assistant, I stopped thinking about the public IP addresses of my home network entirely. Related Is Tailscale the safest way to access your home network…
Tailscale is the only home lab change I made this year that I actually noticed
…It's not the only change in my home lab this year, but it's by far the most impactful. Sure, I've upgraded servers, my NAS, and my physical networking stack…
Your cheap unmanaged switch might be the bottleneck you forgot existed
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Wi-Fi 7 will not fix what's actually wrong with your home network
…Wi-Fi 7 has been around for a while, but most home networks are still not prepared for it . The majority of home networks can still manage just fine with Wi-Fi…
MoCA adapters are the most underrated networking upgrade, and I installed mine in 10 minutes
…Sign in to your XDA account Like most homes built before the 2000s, the last apartment I lived in was a nightmare for getting consistent network connectivity in every room. The wall…