VLOG Thursday 481:Firewalls, Networking, and Homelab Q&A
5 Security Upgrades Every Home Lab Should Have
Network Security Basics - Are you doing these things?
My 2026 Homelab Tour (Rack + Servers + Network + Storage)
Network Fundamentals Explained: OSI Model, Subnetting, and More
UniFi Travel Router: My Network Follows Me
What’s Actually Running in My Homelab? (50+ Self-Hosted Services)
Beelink ME Pro: No Business Being This Capable
THREE HUNDRED EIGHTY FOUR CORES - Supermicro AS-2126HS-TN w/ 2x AMD Epyc 9965
I Spent $600 on Ubiquiti's Industrial Gateway — Here's What You Need to Know
Auto SR For ROG Xbox Ally X Is Here! Best Use For An NPU In A Handheld
My Private Mini Kubernetes Cluster - Powered by Tailscale
… Diagnosing network problems for your smart home No networking degree required A Wi-Fi analyzer app is the right tool for helping you discover the least congested channel in the 2.4 GHz band. …
… Home Assistant’s constant probes and firewall rules wore me down After the first hole, the rest followed quickly I assumed that getting Home Assistant to talk to smart devices across the IoT VLAN needed a single firewall rule tweak. But that didn’t help. …
… Network Switches TP-Link unveils a family of new 2.5GbE & 10GbE switches for homes and offices. …
… Network Providers Mint Mobile's new deal line-ups can get thrifty phone users a seriously cheap home internet package on the side. …
Hi everyone. I upgraded to gigabit fiber through T-Mobile fiber. My cable internet bill became outrageous, so it was time. ($20 less per month for double the download and real upload speeds.) I'm moving my office down to…
Hi, I greatly appreciate help and suggestions. In short, this is what i have pieced together through AI and scrambling github etc. I have smooth playback locally but stutters and lags on remote connections. Below is evey…
Ended up doing some plumbing, high and low voltage work, over 10 Cat 6 runs for APs, switches, cameras, and doorbell. Been very happy with my UDM pro SE and U7 pros. I moved all my hubs above the server cabinet and mostl…
I am running into a classic source IP masquerading issue on macOS, and I am looking for a workaround that doesn't involve moving my reverse proxy out of the container environment if possible. My Setup: Host: Mac Mini run…
Hi everyone I’m hoping to get some insights from the experts here on how to troubleshoot and improve the local network speed between two devices in my home. To give you a clear picture of my setup, I’ve attached a diagra…
… This coincided with me using Gitea with a repository for my entire smart home and home lab setup. …
… Instead, the goal here is to give you an overview of insights, and HomeLabInfo excels at that. HomeLabInfo: This open-source dashboard helps you monitor Docker containers, network devices and homelab topology from one place
… Related 5 rules I use for sane VLAN design at home without overcomplicating it These keep me sane as well... The best VLAN was no VLAN This whole experiment helped me understand that copying enterprise best practices before understanding the problems my home network had was not productive. …
… Related 6 best self-hosted tools I have in my network stack My networking setup is incomplete without these neat utilities Old phone, zero blind spots After a few years running my own homelab server, I observed one thing: most homelab monitoring setups fail at the exact moment they are supposed to … …
… At some point, I was recommending Tailscale to every homelab user I knew, since it was beginner-friendly, had NAT traversal, and helped skip the raw WireGuard setup. …
… A little bit of extra attention to detail in a few areas can help with network performance and security immensely, and none of it requires a networking background or an overhaul with expensive equipment .