I have often wondered what aspects of a home network, or any small LAN affect real world performance & what hardware upgrades & configuration changes could be made to improve performance. I’m ...

In this series of articles, I walked you through how I set up ntopng to monitor my home LAN. I used ntopng because it is a well-respected, powerful, open-source network monitoring tool that has a free ...

In a previous article, I wrote about/confessed what a mess my home/home lab networking was and discussed various tools I used to discover what devices were connected to my home network and where they ...

Having LAN connected devices opens up a world of possibilities.

Most network switches are built for one thing: efficient data transfer. And while that’s fine for streaming Netflix or scrolling TikTok, it’s a different story when it comes to high-performance audio ...

Whenever we work on multiple systems, we prefer sending files over the connection. After all being on the same LAN connection makes our work easier, file transfer is what makes our tasks difficult.