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Stop buying mesh Wi-Fi before trying these free yet game-changing network upgrades
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I fixed my home network lag without buying a new router or a mesh system
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Your NAS doesn't need to be all-SSD, and TrueNAS proved it to me
… The network becomes the bottleneck far before you start maxing out the speed of the hard drives. Forget a 10-gigabit network, that's true even with a standard gigabit local network where you are nowhere near pushing the limits of what modern hard disks can handle in a RAID config. …
I stopped buying expensive Ethernet cables after learning what actually matters
… Most home networks never benefit from premium Ethernet cables The cable wasn't the bottleneck The biggest realization I had was that Ethernet cables are rarely the bottleneck in a modern home network. …
I silenced my network stack, and all it cost me was my sanity
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