Flashing a cheap dual-band router, keeping the old one around as a fallback until the new one proves itself.
Notes from a small homelab. Mostly routers, storage and backups — written down so that the next time something breaks I do not have to rediscover the fix.
Flashing a cheap dual-band router, keeping the old one around as a fallback until the new one proves itself.
A five-second burst looks great on almost any link. Sustained transfers are where the truth shows up.
Two disks at home, one copy elsewhere, and a restore test every quarter — the restore test is the part people skip.
Any machine you cannot physically reach needs an independent management path. Learned the hard way.