Best 10G Network Interface Cards for a Homelab
The best 10G NIC for a homelab is a used enterprise SFP+ card — an Intel X520 or a Mellanox…
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DAC vs Fiber vs Copper for 10G: Which to Use
For 10G, use a DAC cable inside the rack, fiber between rooms, and 10GBASE-T copper only when Cat6a is already…
APC vs CyberPower UPS for the Home Lab
For a home lab, both APC and CyberPower make pure-sine line-interactive units that will serve you well — the real…
Best UPS for a Home Lab Server: How to Choose
The best UPS for a home lab server is a pure-sine-wave, line-interactive unit sized so your steady load sits near…
10G & Multi-Gig Home Network: The Complete Guide
A 10G home network is worth building when one specific link is your bottleneck — usually NAS-to-workstation or NAS-to-Proxmox host…
Cat6a vs Fiber for 10G Runs: Which to Pull
For a permanent 10G run inside a wall, pull fiber if you possibly can — it’s thinner, immune to interference,…
Wi-Fi in a Wet Room: Access Point Placement and IP Ratings for Sauna and Cold Plunge Areas
An IP65-rated Wi-Fi access point mounted on the ceiling outside a sauna door delivers a stable signal through a wooden…
Monitoring Home Battery SOC with Grafana: OPNsense, Telegraf, and MQTT Bridge
Grafana connected to InfluxDB and an MQTT broker receiving data from a JBD or JK BMS gives you a real-time…
Farm IoT Network Setup: Outdoor PoE VLAN and Cabling for Coop Sensors and Cameras
One outdoor PoE access point, one buried Cat6 run, one VLAN — about $130-140 covers a 150-foot radius of 2.4…
Networking a Greenhouse: Wi-Fi, Cameras, Sensors in a Wet Environment
A greenhouse is one of the worst environments for consumer Wi-Fi gear: high humidity, condensation, sub-freezing winters in cold climates,…