Netgear GS308, GS308E, GS308EP: Unmanaged vs Smart vs PoE+
The Netgear GS308 is probably the most-deployed eight-port switch in home networking, and almost nobody who owns one can tell you which...
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Beelink SER8 in the Rack: Ryzen Mini PC Thermals, Power, and Mounting
The Beelink SER8 is the machine people buy when they have decided a Raspberry Pi is not enough and a used tower...
Standardizing Client Sites on the Dell OptiPlex Micro
Every MSP eventually arrives at the same conclusion: the hardware you can support at scale beats the hardware that benchmarks well. Twenty...
Your First UniFi 10-Inch Rack: Gateway, Switch, and Patching in 6U
The first UniFi rack is almost always overbuilt. Someone decides they want their network off the floor, and forty minutes later they...
Intel NUC in a Rack: NUC8 Through NUC15 and the ASUS Era
The Intel NUC has been through eight-plus generations, one corporate handoff, and a small army of imitators, and through all of it...
Smart Home Hubs Belong in the Rack: Hue, Lutron, and the Rest
Smart home hubs are the last devices to make it into most racks, and the reason is usually aesthetic rather than technical....
The ER605 Omada Build: A Complete Budget Rack Around TP-Link's $60 Router
The ER605 is a strange product. It is a gigabit router with a managed-network control plane, VLAN support, IPsec and OpenVPN termination,...
A Three-Node Proxmox HA Cluster on ThinkCentre Tiny: Layout, Power, and Racking
Three ThinkCentre Tiny boxes is the canonical homelab Proxmox cluster, and it got that way for unglamorous reasons: the machines are cheap...
Top 10 SMB Network Closet Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them)
Every MSP tech has walked into the same closet. A 12U wall cabinet with the door removed and leaned against the wall...
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