Category: Technology

Meet the Yubikey. A hardware 2FA (two factor) authentication token because people are cunts and may duplicate/clone your mobile phone and render software 2FA pointless. Now, you may think that sounds cool. But not only do you have to buy one of this at 55 quid, you have to buy…

This is the SFP Media Buddy. It’s amazing. It may look like a weird Raspberry Pi, and it really does, but this allows you to rescue your WAS110 SFP stick back to default settings using just Putty and a serial connection. Bear in mind, I had no idea how to…

This was a long and arduous journey. I cannot emphasize this enough. Whilst there was no blood, there was certainly sweat and tears. Hear me out. I live in the UK, I have a fibre (fiber?) deal with Virgin Media, and I use their 5x Hub. Note, I also use…

This is the main switch for my stack. The main usage for this switch is the PoE powering of my G5 Turret camera and the U7 Pro access point. I also have a G3 Flex camera powered by a Unifi Device Bridge, and one of the USB only powered (and…

The usage of this is simple – 8 SFP+ ports to connect all your other devices via 10GB connections via SFP+ connections only. Previously I was using a US-16-XG switch which, essentially, has more connectivity than the Aggregation Switch with 10GB ethernet ports (I havent sold this yet, it’s in…

Top of the rack is the Unifi UDM Pro. I love this. It runs the whole Unifi software stack, which for me is the controller and Unifi Protect, and as per the previous post it runs all of this very well. Currently given my home setup I have no need…

This may be a little small to see, but this is my entire network. Please note that not every entry is a physical machine, they may be virtual machines (VMs) or containers. The scale of this is basically just my DeskPi Rackmate and contents (so a Pi4, 5 and MS-01),…

Just before we get into the rest of the rack, I thought it might be useful to discuss why I want a lot of this connectivity. Mainly this is to distribute my home-based services. Right now, I am running the DeskPi RackMate T1 mini rack. It used to hold several…

Let’s begin by talking about the rack. As I said below, I migrated from a 25U rack. To be honest, I never really used every unit of space in the 25U, but it was an amazing buy as Covid started in 2020 that kept me from going, well, at least…

I thought I would give a good first post by defining my current setup and it’s uses. To anyone who is familiar with Unifi gear, this will all look standard. Mostly this is enough to power a small business of 10-50 people, for me, it’s just enough to give me…