I silenced my network stack, and all it cost me was my sanity
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I'd do these 5 things differently if I were setting up my home network from scratch
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Pointing your router antennas straight up is quietly killing your Wi-Fi
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I stopped organizing my NAS like a PC, and everything got easier to back up and maintain
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