I’ve played around with networking a LOT over the years: and I currently have an Eero Pro 6 router setup where all routers use wired backhaul, then any mobile devices (like cell phones and laptops) naturally use Wi-Fi. It works really well. I moved home in September 2023 and various rooms have CAT6 points which has been awesome – it makes running a solid, gigabit network really simple.
I also have a Synology NAS attached to the network, and so I’ve written a series of articles helping people with their Synology NAS.
After running out of disk space on my PC a bunch of times, I decided to try storing games on my NAS instead. Well, I actually have two NASes: a Synology NAS with mechanical hard drives, and a Homelab NAS with NVMe drives (and 10Gb networking). So I decided to install six games on each … Read more
A few months ago I launched a new series called the ‘Media Workflow Upgrade Series’ (snappy name I know), because the way that I was producing video content was a bit too cumbersome and laggy. After making a BUNCH of upgrades, I have now ‘finished’ the upgrades (or I’m as close to being ‘finished’ as … Read more
When I attempted to upgrade my study from 1 to 10 Gigabit networking, I quickly found that there is a world of non-Ethernet based home networking out there. In-fact, Ethernet is barely ever used as the central delivery mechanism for 10Gb, 25Gb and 100 Gigabit networks. So in this video I run through exactly how … Read more
I have seven network switches in my home: six unmanaged switches, and one managed switch. Why did I choose unmanaged in most areas, but a managed switch in my study? I answer this question and more in this video, and I also dive into a hands-on demo of the Ubiquiti management dashboard (the UniFi web … Read more
I decided to ‘upgrade’ to 10 Gigabit home networking as part of upgrading my content creation workflow series, but as it turns out, 10Gb can be a difficult upgrade. Achieving 1 Gigabit is a LOT easier. So in this video I discuss and show all the difficulties I faced when trying to move to 10 … Read more
I’ve had a REALLY annoying bug on my Windows workstation PC in recent months: its internet speeds randomly drop from Gigabit speeds, to just 100 Mbps download and upload speeds. When this happens, my actual network link speed is capped at this low 100 Mbps rate too – so this isn’t some random ISP glitch. … Read more
When I was planning out my Homelab NAS build, I was originally going to go with a budget AM4 CPU and motherboard – costing around £100-110 in total. But I ended up going for a £120 DDR5 AM5 motherboard and £165 CPU. I explain WHY my reasoning in this video, along with covering when it’s … Read more
I recently received my 10 Gigabit Ubiquiti Flex XG managed network switch, and while it IS “plug and play”, that is only for the basic (dumb) mode. I wanted the full management features, but this means diving into Ubiquiti’s network service controller to launch a UniFi Network. Luckily my Homelab NAS runs 24/7 and it … Read more
My Homelab NAS is finally up and running. I have moved all the video content over to it, and this is actually the first video that I produced/edited entirely over my home network. Noice! When setting up my custom NAS, you might have noticed that I simply installed Debian on it – and not TrueNAS, … Read more
Phew, it’s finally here! I have spoken about building a new Homelab NAS (to store all my video content) in a few previous videos, but here is the full build and OS setup. I decided to roll a Windows 11 and Debian 12 dual boot, but Debian will be the primary OS. Because I kept … Read more
