home network

Hi everyone, I am new to fiber, would like to switch my internal home network to fiber but since I am new to this I could easily pick incompatible parts so would like to ask some help to review my choices and of course for suggestions. I am trying to do a buy once/cry once approach but I am...

My sister and her fella are in the process of buying a house, a little rough around the edges and walls and carpets/flooring are gonna need work, now, I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to get some network cabling run, I've got a rough plan and runs and what I'd run where, I'm...

Hi, I've bought a really cheap (~170usd) switch in not mint condition - its marked as a store display unit. product page...

For 2023 x-mas I decited to renew my aging home IT equiment and besides adding some performance my main goals are reducing power consumption and go a more software defined way. In detail that means: Discard Mikrotik CCR Discard Mikrotik CRS Replace Xeon D-1541/8HDD server So the new server...

My current setup, is one "server", around 30 IoT devices (e.g. switches, outlets, TVs, game consoles, etc.), 10-15 "trusted" devices (laptops, phones, tablets), and 4 cameras (all for 5 people). Right now, the various devices are all on their own, respective VLAN ("Main", IoT, Video), and I'm...

Hello people, I'm trying to upgrade my home network and hopefully soon also my internet fiber to 10G. But first things first the LAN upgrade: I recently scored a good deal on a brand new SN2010 switch! This will be the core switch in my server rack. I bet most of you know but it supports (18)x...

Hi there, I've set up a small nextcloud instance on my home server. In the meantime, I connect directly via port forwarding and HTTP / HTTPS Port to the web interface of nextcloud. But because forwarding ports in the router could be a possible security risk, I want to avoid this practice. My...