Do You Really Need Wi-Fi 7 in Your Home Lab in 2025?
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…
Tag: networking
12 Things I Wish I Knew Before Upgrading My Home Lab to 10 Gig
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…
2025 Home Lab Network Upgrades Every Home Lab Needs
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…
10 Linux Networking Commands Every Home Lab Admin Should Know in 2025
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…
Smokeping is the Simple Way to Monitor Pings in Your Home Lab
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…
See Everything on Your Home Lab Network with ntopng
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…
Home Lab Networking 101: VLANs, Subnets, and Segmentation for Beginners
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…
5 Things You Should Know About OPNsense Before You Install It
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…
5 Secure Networking Projects for Your Home Lab This Weekend!
Man so many projects to try and most of us feel like we don’t have enough time. However, I hope you have been enjoying my “weekend” series blog post I…
New UniFi OS Server Lets You Self-Host the Full UniFi Experience
If you have been following the news lately, Ubiquiti just released something very exciting, UniFi OS Server. This will likely change how we self-host our Unifi controller and network application…