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Home network

• Measuring the value of time outside of work, revisited
• Ensuring systems are remotely accessible with watchdog timers and bootloaders
• Philosophical and economic considerations for operating a non-trivial home network, with non-engineers involved, explaining engineering to business managers
• Issue on my home network, best first thing to try for future re remediations
• Wi-Fi roaming improvements, Nintendo Switch's lack thereof
• Jared Mauch's story of becoming his own ISP
• Info cable modem communications error messages
• Watchdog timer on Raspberry Pi? Yes.
• Ideas on better boot-time watchdog timer behavior
• Learning about the watchdog timer on my TPE-R1100 wireless access points
• Follow the breadcrumb trail, try to find out inner workings of ThinkPenguin Wi-Fi devices
• Why hardware NAT is not in OpenWRT
• pfsense versus openwrt
• Last calls on LibreCMC gigabit routers
• Link Aggregation Groups (LAGs) on an unmanaged (SOHO) switch? Maybe.
• Using an APC UPS with GNU/Linux
• Energy efficiency of PoE splitters
• UPS sizing, Watts versus Volt-Amps
• Configure remote syslog over UDP
• Using an unmanaged (SOHO) network switch with VLANs
• Read Wi-Fi password via QR code
• Aluminum foil reflectors can improve your Wi-Fi network
• Find hidden Wi-Fi networks
• Fun ways to build improvements to a toybox
• Ubiquiti Networks and the DC lead-acid UPS I was looking for
• Lessons learned on house logs, a tour of common human weaknesses and limitations on human ability to attain ideals
• Interesting article on the disadvantages of DIY
• New houses do not have new networks
• Wall stud spacing and doorways
• POE splitters, injectors, and 12-volt lead-acid UPS power
• Good guidance on setting up multiple Wi-Fi access points on the same network
• Lessons learned from a first major home cabling project
• Demise of the Apple AirPort series routers
• Comparing new Gigabit routers and Wi-Fi access points
• AX.25 and the node package is for amateur radio packet networking
• SLIP and TFTP are really easy to implement and use
• Installing new electrical boxes on an existing finished drywall?
• Office Wi-Fi access points
• Adventures in creating a bridge between eth0 and wlan0, and how to use wpa_supplicant manually
• Kermit and serial communications on a Macintosh Classic
• Cat6A Cabling Speed Test Tool? No.
• Splice Ethernet cables and trunking
• Red List Building Materials -- great start
• Foldable smartphones, unwanted smart home rollouts, and genetically modified chicken egg hatcheries
• Interesting home inspection blog
• More info on controlling uneven foundation settling
• Reflections on 3D scanning, WeWork, and newer ways of doing things
• Looking for switches and devices resistant to static electricity
• Smart thermostat dual MCU and SoC design
• Static electricity IS causing the hanging on my smart switch
• Updates on board support in LibreCMC
• How to repair a window screen
• Repair aluminum mini blinds
• Methods for having a server computer go to sleep when unused, and a very interesting blog by a blogger covering some of the same subjects in my blog too
• The universality of surveying across many endeavors
• Revisiting Mr. Money Mustache blog
• Open-source land surveying software
• Thermal mass
• Home network wiring tips
• Interesting Wikipedia info on LED lamp
• Raspberry Pi peripheral classifications
• Fastest measurement techniques for indoor surveys
• Error measurements and classification in house logs
• Sinking garage foundation treatment, insulated slab, and more links from Mr. Money website
• More notes on home improvements
• More on Wi-Fi mesh networking in small spaces
• Still looking to buy a Li-Fi transceiver, and reflections on Li-Fi
• Router with an internal MicroSD card? No, here's why.
• Low-power cable modem and battery backup
• Smaller Wi-Fi cell sizes
• Technical specifications for my ideal home router
• Ethernet over Copper
• Still looking for Li-Fi products
• Popular Mechanics and Home insulation
• Libre 802.11ac 5 GHz Wi-Fi?
• Info on GnuBee and `switchdev`
• Sources of information in your daily life
• Libre software friendly hardware on 802.11ac?
• More info on broadcast TV on a computer network
• Repair broken tab on Ethernet jack
• Fire sprinklers
• Multi-licensing on GitHub, and how to increase the polling rate of your mouse, and TiVo
• Opto-isolated Ethernet
• Architect marketing -- Architects are facing a silent war?
• Sensors on the 35W bridge and ideas for structural sensors in the home
• Why purpose-built fluorescent lighting fixtures in the home are obsolete
• Lessons learned from the house logs and cable detection methods
• Plumbing, a consistent quality problem
• More house systems
• Natural ventilation and sick building syndrome
• Network equipment power consumption considerations for battery backup, and connecting broadcast television to the home network
• Studless home building method and adding lignin to plastic
• Cannon LCR-5001? DCU?
• Garage door torsion springs
• Smoke detector network communication protocols
• Smart home design criteria
• Smart home water metering
• ARM/MIPS Linux syscall programming notes, and cross-compile information
• Trusses
• Home network cabling part II
• Home network cabling
• Plenum versus riser cable
• Home network rules, observations, survey, tech plans
• Reflections on alternate ways to transfer data