EnGenius Access Point Review: Cloud-managed Wireless
EnGenius is a brand gaining traction and visibility among many across the landscape of wireless solutions available on the market today. The wireless space is certainly a crowded one with…
Category: Networking
10 gig switch vs 2.5 gig vs 1 gig: Which do you need?
There are so many choices among network switches these days. Especially in the home lab or consumer market there are now great choices for 10 gig, 2.5 gig, and 1…
pfSense Plus vs CE: Complete Comparison
Netgate, has made an interesting announcement and have announced pfSense Plus in 2021. This is a new version of its popular open-source firewall and router software based on FreeBSD. If…
pfSense Wireguard: Setup Fast Open-Source VPN Configuration
pfSense has a lot of great features that allow you to have an enterprise firewall in your home lab or even production environment for free. You can setup VPN connections…
Ubiquiti Discovery Tool Alternative WiFiman Download for Desktop
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pfSense Port Forwarding Setup Guide
Understanding port forwarding when using a firewall solution like pfSense is an important topic. Let’s look at port forward setup and see how this is implemented when using pfSense. What…
pfSense Force Safe Search Configuration
Safe search is a feature on firewalls that allows you to filter out search results that might not be appropriate for young ones or in certain environments. Let’s look at…
pfSense VLAN Cannot Access Internet – A Troubleshooting Guide
If you are new to setting up pfSense or setting up VLANs inside of pfSense, you may have issues getting traffic on your VLAN out to the Internet. Let’s see…
Palo Alto PA 440 New Firewall Review
For the past few years now, I have been running the Palo Alto Networks PA 220 in the home lab environment. I have the lab bundle subscription with the PA…
Pialert Docker Setup – Detecting Rogue Devices connected to the network
If you are like me, you are constantly looking at new solutions for network security and better visibility to devices connected to your network, including unknown devices. I have been…