I bought a couple of MokerLink 2.5-gigabit switches back in September. One lives in my office. The other lives in my network cupboard on the other side of the house. I plugged my desktop PC into a 10-gigabit copper SFP+...
Read the post →I haven’t had Smart Queue Management (SQM) enabled on my Openwrt router in a very long time. I am not even sure if what I was using in the olden times was called the smart queue management, and it has...
Read the post →In days that have long gone by, I used to carry all sorts of useful gear in my laptop bag. At the time, I was working a job where I would spend most of my time at my desk, some...
Read the post →It has been about eight weeks since I upgraded to core of my home network. I added a Mokerlink 2.5-gigabit switch to both my network cupboard and my home office on the opposite side of the house. The 5-port switch...
Read the post →I bought a couple of 2.5-gigabit Ethernet switches with 10-gigabit SFP+ ports, and if I wanted to be able to utilize the 10-gigabit connection from my home office to the other side of the house, then I needed to buy...
Read the post →I ordered and installed a pair of MokerLink 2.5-gigabit Ethernet switches in my home about two weeks ago. I put an 8-port managed switch with one 10-gigabit SFP+ port in my network cupboard, and I put a 4-port unmanaged switch...
Read the post →I am changing course again. I used to have a small 40-gigabit Infiniband network segment in my home office. This was necessary at the time because I stored video files on my NAS that I needed access to on my...
Read the post →I very nearly typed “so you don’t have to” as the end of this blog post’s title, but that wouldn’t be the least bit accurate! I bought these because I posted a link to a deal for a Sabrent 2.5-gigabit...
Read the post →It was about eleven years ago when I helped my friend Brian Moses run Ethernet to every room in his house. Once he decided that the router and switches would live in an actual cupboard in his laundry room, Brian...
Read the post →I noticed a problem last week. Tailscale is at least a small part of nearly everything that runs on my own private network, so it gets mentioned in the vast majority of the blogs I write. I also tend to...
Read the post →I am excited about the new Tailscale Funnel feature. I have been asking for an option like this ever since the very first time anyone at Tailscale asked me for my opinion. What the folks at Tailscale have done isn’t...
Read the post →This isn’t a tutorial. The steps to enable 802.11r on two or more access points running any reasonably recent release of OpenWRT are pretty simple. I will spell those steps out shortly, but there won’t be screenshots walking you through...
Read the post →This blog isn’t going to lead to some keen piece of insight or an interesting conclusion. I’ve been messing around with a pair of very different OpenWRT routers from GL.iNet: the GL-MT300N-V2 Mango and the GL-AXT1800 Slate AX.
Read the post →If you’re a lone Tailscale user like me, there’s a good chance that you have no pressing need to set up Tailscale’s access control lists (ACLs). Until quite recently, I didn’t feel there was much reason to lock anything down....
Read the post →I have had my little GL.iNet Mango router for about two years now. It was an impulse buy. It was on sale for less than $20 on Amazon, and I just couldn’t pass it up. It was exciting for me...
Read the post →I don’t know how I managed to notice this, because I almost never open the Google Play store on my phone, but I did open it a few nights ago, and there was a Tailscale update waiting. I clicked the...
Read the post →I don’t know if I qualify as an early adopter of Tailscale. My first blog post about it was in September of 2020, and that post said I had Tailscale installed on a few machines for months before I really...
Read the post →I’m not new to the world of Infiniband. I bought a pair of 20-Gigabit Mellanox Infiniband cards in 2016 to connect my desktop PC to my virtual machine host. It has been chugging along just fine, though I’ve never gotten...
Read the post →Last month, one of my friends asked me if I’d help him test an upcoming Tailscale VPN feature. I’m always willing to help out a friend, so I said yes, and he talked to the folks at Tailscale into giving...
Read the post →Last month, I discovered GL.iNet and their line of routers. They have a lineup of hardware that starts with a $20 travel router up to $400 industrial routers, and they have all sorts of options in between. The best part...
Read the post →For the most part, I haven’t needed access to computers in my house while I’m away. All my files are stored in the cloud using Seafile. Seafile works a lot like Dropbox, so there are replicas of all my files...
Read the post →UPDATE: Private Internet Access is merging with Kape Technologies. I’ve been reading a bit about this today, but I’m going to have to do more research. It sounds like this could be bad for PIA customers and their privacy. At...
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Read the post →Two years ago, I added InfiniBand cards to two machines on my home network, and it was a very inexpensive upgrade. My raw network throughput between these two machines has increased from 1 gigabit per second to around 6.5 gigabits...
Read the post →UPDATE: Everything in this blog post is still relevant today, but I’ve since upgraded to 40-gigabit Infiniband cards. When I bought the used 20-gigabit Infiniband gear, it was already 10 years old. Today, the 40-gigabit stuff is 10 years old,...
Read the post →It has been quite a while since we made the decision to drop our cable television service. We’ve just been patiently waiting for our two-year Verizon FiOS contract to expire. The contract expired about a month ago, so we dropped...
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