My network kept dropping devices until I stopped over-engineering and checked my firewall rules
… This coincided with me using Gitea with a repository for my entire smart home and home lab setup. …
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I built a perfectly segmented home network, then spent six months poking holes back through it
… I assumed an hour of troubleshooting could solve all that. …
Most smart home problems aren't automation problems, they're network problems in disguise
… For setups with over 30 smart devices, move smart devices to a guest network. …
The smart home upgrade nobody wants to do is labeling every cable and device
… Your gear can be the smartest , your setup can be the sickest , but it's only as organized as you make it. …
After moving to a NAS, I can't go back to cloud storage for anything important
… It was a one-time setup, and it makes my NAS reachable from anywhere. …
Your ISP router is the biggest bottleneck in your home network, and you know it
… A router with ill-equipped internals can easily be overwhelmed by such a setup, failing to manage bandwidth among all your devices as the load varies. …
VLAN isolation sounds great until you forget the firewall rules that actually make it work
… For my setup, I split everything into five VLANs: Primary VLAN for trusted devices phones, laptops, etc. . …
This free network monitor exposed exactly what my devices were sending to the internet
… I had assumed that the setup would be pretty involved, but everything was up and running in just a few minutes. …