Tag

networking

• 2026-07-30 · homelab · networking

  It wasn't the 10GbE adapter

  Symptom

  Transfers to the NAS ran at gigabit speeds over a link the Mac reported as 10Gbase-T, full duplex, active

  Cause

  The two machines were on different subnets, so every packet went through the gateway instead of staying on the switch — because I had filed the NAS on the management network when I built it

• 2026-07-22 · homelab · networking

  My cameras were eating the 2.4GHz band

  Symptom

  Nest Hubs randomly dropping off WiFi and refusing to reconnect; an Apple TV on the same 2.4GHz IoT SSID stuttering while streaming from a local Plex server

  Cause

  UniFi cameras streaming 143 GB/day of video over 2.4GHz, pinning channel 1 at 95% airtime and starving every other client of transmit opportunities