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Load Balancing Two Internet Connections: Speed Myth
No — running two internet connections through a load balancer does not double the speed…
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Network Traffic Analysis in a Homelab: Seeing Your Wire
Network traffic analysis in a homelab means going beyond “something matched a signature” to actually…
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Trusting Your Own CA on Phones, Laptops, and Browsers
To trust your own certificate authority you install its root certificate into each device's trust…
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IP Cameras on Their Own VLAN, No Internet Egress
Putting IP cameras on their own VLAN with no internet egress means the cameras live…
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Internet Failover With a 5G or LTE Backup Modem
A 5G or LTE modem makes an almost perfect internet backup because it reaches the…
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Running Your Own Internal Certificate Authority With step-ca
Running your own certificate authority with step-ca gives you an ACME server you fully control…
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Multi-Link Operation (MLO) Explained: Hype vs Real-World Gains
Multi-Link Operation is the one Wi-Fi 7 feature that actually earns its keep, but not…
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Let’s Encrypt Wildcard Certs With DNS-01 for Internal Services
A Let's Encrypt wildcard certificate lets one *.home.example.com certificate cover every internal service you run,…
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Gateway Monitoring & Dpinger: How Failover Decides
Failover decides a link is down using a small daemon called dpinger, which fires roughly…
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Frigate NVR on a Homelab: Local AI Detection
Frigate is an open-source NVR that runs real-time AI object detection entirely on your own…
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Why a Public Domain Beats .local for Homelab HTTPS
Use a real public domain — a subdomain like home.example.com — for your homelab, not…
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DHCPv6 vs SLAAC: How IPv6 Hands Out Addresses, Explained
Here is DHCPv6 vs SLAAC explained without the RFC headache: SLAAC lets each device build…
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