Now that I have time for hobbies again I wanna dive right in to building up a home lab. Right now I just have a Netgear router that reached end of life, and a NAS i’d like to make accessible remotely, and a DIY router seems like the correct next step for me. I’m very interested in ad-blocking network wide and someday I’d like to host my own little webpage, but for now I’m really just barely getting started.

I’m information gathering, I don’t know what I don’t know and my networking skills are pretty weak anyway. But even if your needs and desires have nothing to do with mine, I also just like to hear people talk about their set ups. Please? 🌞

  • DecronymBEnglish
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    5 minutes ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

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    AP WiFi Access Point
    DNS Domain Name Service/System
    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    NVR Network Video Recorder (generally for CCTV)
    PCIe Peripheral Component Interconnect Express
    PiHole Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole)
    PoE Power over Ethernet
    Unifi Ubiquiti WiFi hardware brand

    8 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 14 acronyms.

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