About HomeLabRouter

Networking gear that actually works at home — router reviews, VLAN setup, and self-hosting without breaking your internet.

What Homelabrouter Covers

This site is a working reference for homelab networking, routers, and self-hosted services. We publish:

• Buyer’s guides — comparison tables of equipment at every price tier, with notes on what matters and what doesn’t.
• How-to articles — practical, tested procedures with the failure modes that come up in real homes and shops.
• Background explainers — the underlying technology, math, or biology so the buyer’s guides make sense.

Articles are organized into hub-and-spoke clusters around home networking and homelabs’s major subtopics, so once you land on one piece of writing you can navigate the whole topic from there.

Who Writes This

Homelabrouter is written by Kenny Nyhus Fadil, who also publishes a small network of niche reference sites. My homelab grew from one Raspberry Pi to a small rack of OPNsense, Proxmox, and managed switches over five years. HomeLabRouter is where I write down the configurations and gotchas that took me a weekend each to figure out.

If a topic on this site falls outside what I’ve personally tested, I’ll say so in the article and link to the primary sources I’m relying on. Where there’s a manufacturer claim I haven’t independently verified, I’ll mark it as such.

Editorial Standards

• Independent. Homelabrouter accepts review samples but never guaranteed-positive coverage. We disclose review-sample relationships in the article where applicable.
• Affiliate-funded. The site is supported by affiliate commissions on outbound product links. Recommendations are not influenced by which retailer pays the highest commission. See our Disclaimer for full details.
• Updated. We revisit articles at least annually and add an “updated” date when we make material changes. Pricing, model availability, and software versions move fast — if something on the page is stale, email and we’ll fix it.
• Corrections welcomed. If you spot an error, write to [email protected]. Real corrections get noted in the article body.

What We Don’t Do

We don’t publish sponsored posts disguised as editorial. We don’t accept link-injection requests from SEO agencies. We don’t run press-release republishing. If a manufacturer wants coverage they can mail a unit for review, knowing the review will be honest.

Get In Touch

Questions, corrections, review-sample inquiries, or topic requests: [email protected].