Home Network Guy

For security reasons, I decided to put my IoT devices on their own network using VLANs.

On my home network, I host the Plex Media Server software on my server and make use of its Live TV and DVR capabilities.

Pi-hole is open source software which provides ad blocking (and more) for your entire home network.

In the interest of increasing security and reliability of my home network against malicious attacks, I thought enabling all of the Denial of Service protections on my TP-Link switch would be a good idea.

For the uninitiated, VLANs are Virtual Local Area Networks.

Having an offline local network with no Internet access can be useful for a number of reasons.

For my guest wireless network, I like the idea of all of the network devices on the guest network to be isolated from one another.

Setting up the Pi-hole DNS service is relatively straightforward on your home network.

The Internet is full of malicious actors looking to take advantage of insecure networks and devices.

Network port isolation is one way you can restrict communication between network devices.

I generated this website using the static site generator Hugo, and I am hosting it on GitLab.

Since this site is created with a static HTML generator and is not a web-based, database-driven application such as Wordpress, no personal information is stored in a database.

Dustin Casto is a home networking enthusiast that enjoys sharing his experience with others.

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The idea for this website began to take shape months after I finished building out my home network in my family’s new home.

Consumer Routers Most everyone should be familiar with the standard consumer-grade wireless router.

One great feature of enterprise ready wireless access points is VLAN support.

I purchased the budget friendly TP-Link T2600G-28TS L2 managed switch (affiliate link) for my home network since I wanted to be able to segregate the devices on my network to help address the security concerns of hosting public services and using various…

In this how-to, I will using the TP-Link T2600G-28TS L2 managed switch (affiliate link) and the TP-Link T1500G-10MPS PoE smart switch (affiliate link) to show the difference between the firmware versions.

In my home network I wanted to set up a dedicated Pi-hole installation so that I could have network-wide ad blocking.

When I was setting up a development environment for creating the this website using the static website generator Gatsby (before I decided to switch to Hugo), I was struggling to run the built-in development server.

As you may have correctly assumed by the acronym, a Virtual Local Area Network is a network that is not a physical Local Area Network.

A “router on a stick” (aka “one-armed router”) is a network configuration in which a single network switch is connected to a single LAN interface on a router.