Usually we are thinking about upgrading other hardware in our home labs, including mini PCs, network switches, storage, and RAM (cough cough with today’s prices). However, there is another aspect…
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One of the best upgrades that I have undergone in my home lab is the move to 10 GbE networking. Without a doubt, that was one of the best performance…
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Networking like everything else has evolved quite a bit over the past few years, not really in terms of new technologies, but in terms of new hardware, and pricing of…
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Running a home lab in 2025 is one of the most exciting and fun things you can build. It also develops skills that others simply don’t build without one. Networking…
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Network latency can absolutely kill your performance. If you have noticed y our virtual machines lagging, or your Docker containers struggling to pull images down. Or, if you have felt…
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If you are like me, I have always been interested in networking and the technologies that allow us to get packets from point A to point B. In the home…
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There is no question that one of THE most important parts of your home lab is the networking component. Home labs are like real production environments. If the network is…
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I have been playing around with and using OPNsense for a while now and it is a rock solid open-srouce firewall that can do just about anything you want to…
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One of the first things that you will want to do when it comes to building out your home lab or home network in general to go beyond the basics…
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Have you ever been there before? You accidentally plug in the wrong cable in your home lab or enterprise environment and you realize what you have done when pings stop,…
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