Tech in a Busy Household: Balancing Home Networks, Gaming Rigs, and DIY Tinkering
My home network serves four separate humans, two cats, a Nintendo Switch, three streaming devices, a NAS, a homelab in the closet, and an unreasonable number of Raspberry Pis. It also serves a PlayStation 5 that’s downloading a 90GB game update at 9 PM, while my wife is on a work call from the kitchen, while I’m restarting a service I broke twenty minutes ago. None of these things are hard individually. All of them at once is how you end up with a router you want to throw out of a window. This is how I keep it all working. ...