…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…
…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…
…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…
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…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…
…Ethernet cables are about protecting your home server from network hiccups, not chasing throughput numbers. Related I ran my home server on Wi-Fi for a year, and learned when Ethernet actually…
…There's also no native VLAN support on the LAN side, which is a strange ommission given that the guest network likely uses this for proper network segmentation. If your home lab…
…Related 5 reasons you should replace your unmanaged switch with a managed one You gain a ton of utility by using a managed switch in your home network. Older hardware can be…
…UniFi makes my home network easier to handle Life's annoying enough without having to micromanage every part of your home network. I got tired of having a different dashboard to log…
…I was already using it to access sensitive dashboards like Portainer, Pi-hole, and Omada Controller when I was outside my home network. Beyond homelab-related services, I was also actively using…