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I Swapped My Garage Access Point and Here Is What the Data Actually Shows
From WiFi 5 bunny ears to WiFi 7 in one afternoon, and what the UniFi API said about both of them.
Running a WoW Private Server Client on Apple Silicon: Three Dead Ends and a Better Answer
I wanted to play my homelab WoW private server from my MacBook Pro. The client is a 32-bit game from 2010, and Apple Silicon turned that into a stacked translation problem across three different Wine tools. Here's what broke, why, and why I think the spare x86 laptop is the better machine for it.
How much does Tailscale actually slow you down? I ran the numbers.
Before connecting to my homelab remotely, I ran a speed test to get a baseline. Then I connected via Tailscale and ran it again. The results were almost identical, which would have been a clean story, except the first two tests had the exit node on the whole time.
How I set up NAS-to-NAS backup at home (Part 3: What I'm doing about it)
The destination NAS's CPU is the wall. Drives have headroom, the network has headroom, the source is bored. The Atom in the DS1815+ is why an 11 TB initial replication is going to take days, with three more shares behind it. Here's how I thought through the options.
Synology NAS-to-NAS backup with Snapshot Replication, Part 2: What went wrong
An overnight death I couldn't immediately explain, CPU pegged on a single core, drives bored. The bottleneck on a 12-year-old Atom NAS turned out to be more interesting than the symptom.
Synology NAS-to-NAS backup with Snapshot Replication, Part 1: The build
Going from zero backup of 45 TB to twice-weekly Snapshot Replication between two Synology NASes — the hardware, the decisions, and the one wizard quirk nobody warns you about.