Your old router is the secret to a stable smart home
…If you've picked up a load of cheap IoT smart home devices, it's likely they have questionable security and phone home to overseas servers quite often. Creating network segmentation with…
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The smart home upgrade nobody wants to do is labeling every cable and device
1w agoMy homelab monitoring broke silently until I switched from SMS to ntfy in an afternoon
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1w agoWi-Fi 7 will not fix what's actually wrong with your home network
…to Wi-Fi 7, you'll need a complete overhaul of your home network, and that needs a firm belief in the fact that you really need to replace your existing setup.
Your Raspberry Pi will outlast your PC if you stop treating it like one
…You can pair it with Jellyfin to serve media and run a Pi-hole instance in a Docker container — that’s a genuinely good setup. Lightweight network monitoring utilities sit comfortably within…
Stop struggling with OPNsense — these 4 tweaks take a few minutes to make
…The software should then optimize network traffic and reduce bufferbloat. Related Here's how OPNsense's traffic shaping can massively improve your bufferbloat Get the most from your home Internet with this…
3 Docker containers that turned my $80 used mini PC into a complete home office server
…See at Github A practical home-office setup that just works Building out a self-hosted setup isn't just about great power and performance, as you can see. Even on a…
I switched from pfSense to OPNsense, and I'm happy with the upgrade
…I currently use the AdBlocker Home plugin for my IP blocklists, with Unbound acting as the recursive DNS resolver, and this setup has served the pfBlockerNG-shaped hole in my networking arsenal…
I don't use Tailscale or Nginx to access my home lab remotely, here's what I use instead
…Sign in to your XDA account One of the most useful services to any home labber is a VPN , so that you can access your home network from anywhere and browse as…
I wired my house with fiber instead of Cat6, and the installation was actually easier than I expected
…Related 5 things I wish I knew before upgrading my home network I didn't expect a single cable could bring my network to its knees. Cat cabling has a place in…
These 4 tools paired with Ollama gave me a private AI workflow that actually matters
…Home Assistant Making home automation actually smart Home Assistant was already a key part of my setup, but pairing it with Ollama made it much smarter without sending any data to the…
I moved everything to Proxmox and learned that fewer boxes doesn't mean more reliable
…That split doesn’t make a home lab less elegant. It makes it more resilient. Service type Better on standalone hardware Better virtualized in Proxmox Why Router / firewall Yes Sometimes Network edge…