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Why you should get 2 GL-AR750S routers!

Posted on November 27, 2019 by Justin Paul | 2 Comments

Since my “Finally a Geek Travel Router I Love” post over a year ago I have upgraded to a GL-AR750S travel router. It’s essentially the same thing, except it has Gigabit ports and external antennas. I won’t lie, I actually…

The Ultimate Nerd #RaspberryPi Cluster Case

Posted on July 5, 2019 by Justin Paul | 5 Comments

Warning: This may persuade you to buy a 3D Printer… just saying you’ve been warned LOL. Let me start by saying all of the STL files to make this bad boy are on Thingiverse. parts that are not 3D printed…

How to build a Raspberry Pi Serial Console Server with ser2net

Posted on January 29, 2019 by Justin Paul | 13 Comments

If you’ve ever built a Cisco CCNA lab or some other hardware lab that has serial console ports, there is a good chance you sat within a few feet of the gear with a serial cable to your computer while…

Moving my Blog to Azure and back with Zerto!

Posted on October 27, 2017 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

To Azure and Back, while also replacing hardware! First, Let’s Recap! In case you haven’t been following along, my latest personal project has been to completely eliminate my home lab and opt to have everything at one location – the…

The date is set, and replication has started

Posted on September 15, 2017 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

It’s almost time to shut down the Home Lab! I posted the other week that I would no longer have a home lab and this week I officially set the date for the hardware swap. It will be Tuesday, September…

No more home lab for me!

Posted on September 1, 2017 by Justin Paul | 3 Comments

Yes, you read that right! If you have been over to my Home Lab page you probably know I have a pretty big pile of gear in my garage. But no more! In fact, I plan to get rid of…

ATBatt.com saves the day!

Posted on March 28, 2017 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

In my last post I talked about my new APC Symmetra UPS for the home lab and overall it has been running great, but as all UPS’s go, it has lost some batteries in the last month. I expected this because…

Power Protection for the home lab

Posted on March 15, 2017 by Justin Paul | 2 Comments

My new HomeLab Datacenter UPS One of the things I’ve been up to lately is getting my home lab (or my home datacenter as my co-workers like to call it) operational for doing some Zerto testing. During that process, I…

10Gbps Home Lab – How I got there

Posted on October 4, 2016 by Justin Paul | 2 Comments

I remember a LOOONG time ago, I asked my friend Nate why he wanted to spend a bunch of money on a 100Mbps switch (at the time I had a 10Mbps switch and it worked great). To me it just didn’t seem…