I silenced my network stack, and all it cost me was my sanity
… But it worked, and now my networking gear has quieter fans, and that's worth the world to me when I'm sitting next to the rack all day. …
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Most networking equipment isn't exactly designed to be user-serviceable, but the Unifi Dream Machine Pro Max was a little easier to disassemble than most. Honestly, I feared the worst when I looked down the hard drive bays and saw the cooling fans buried at the bottom, but they were attached to a plastic vent that came out after four screws were undone, so that was a pleasant surprise. The worst part was routing the Noctua fan cables back to the headers, as the sleeve around the cables made it a little tricky, so I had to go inside the venting area instead. And the plug needed a little trimmin
I silenced my network stack, and all it cost me was my sanityThis $9 switch makes it a breeze to add ports to your network
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Home labbers say to ditch your ISP router, but the Fritz Box 7530 has WireGuard, dynamic DNS, and even a media server
… The networking features are surprisingly deep for an ISP router Dynamic DNS? …
I set up this open-source tool to see what my network was doing, and I found things I didn't expect
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I bought a KVM-over-IP for my home lab, and I can't believe I waited this long
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Curtain automation is fun, but the weird smart home projects are where things get really useful
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I put my Steam library on my NAS, and it was both brilliant and stupid
…Sign in to your XDA account I typically rely on my Network-Attached Storage rig to create backups, sync random projects via network shares, and archive ripped media files. However, I also…
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… Prosumer networking equipment is no longer complicated to set up, and the systems I've personally used have been easier to set up than all-in-one combo routers. …