On Tuesday August 24th I posted a link to my Running underground CAT6 to detached garage post on the r/homelab subreddit. The Reddit post got lots of upvotes and comments — and started climbing on the r/homelab front page.
This generated a spike of traffic like I have never gotten before. In this post I’m going through some numbers; like performance, traffic and cost.
I’m adding security headers to my S3 and CloudFront hosted website — using Lambda@Edge. It’s pretty easy, here is how 👇
I dug a 10 meter trench to get wired network to my detached garage. Then installed a rack cabinet and PoE switch. Here is the build log 👇
This blog is built with Hugo — an open-source static site generator. Static websites require no server side processing, which makes them easier to host and opens up new hosting possibilities.
There are many options out there, but I deploy my website to AWS S3, using CloudFront to distribute it globally (aka. make it fast).
Here is the why and the how.
I walked around my house, and garden — measuring the Wi-Fi signal. Here are the results 👇
Ever since I got the fiber installed last year, the plan has been to drop the ISP box and plug it straight into my router. That’s why I had the fiber terminated in my patch panel.
I’ve been reluctant to do it, since messing with the internet needs to be done while the rest of the house is sleeping. And I was unsure what SFP module to use. I did buy the Ubiquiti UF-SM-1G-S pair, planning to use it with my EdgeRouter.
But I ended up using the SFP module that came with the ISP box, and my new MikroTik CCR1009.
The swap was super easy and only took a few minutes 😃
When I began replacing my Unifi switches with MikroTik — I was very impressed with the MikroTik devices. So when I found a CCR1009-7G-1C-1S Core router, second hand, for a reasonable price — there was no reason not to buy it.
RouterOS seemed daunting at first; so I watched a lot of YouTube videos from The Network Berg, which increased my confidence 🙂
I like the concept of blog post series — a large topic or project, broken up in smaller pieces. Easier to write, easier to read.
Here is how I implemented a series taxonomy in Hugo 👇
The last month or so I’ve been replacing my Ubiquity Unifi switches. It’s part of a complete network rebuild — more posts will follow…
Four years ago; when I first got into the Unifi system, I loved the single pane of glass admin interface. But now I feel that the interface is too glossed over, prioritizing looks over function. The new Unifi controller UI is just terrible…
I like networking, it’s one of my hobbies. I want VLANs to be named VLANs, not network isolation.
I recently purchased a used Lenovo Thinkstation E32 computer. I always update the BIOS when I get a new machine — here is how to do it using a bootable USB stick. No Windows required.