https://pragmaticsysadmin.help/tags/router/Practical sysadmin guides, senior tech help for aging parents, and kids' learning games — without the buzzwords. By Jonne, a Finnish sysadmin.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenPragmatic Sysadmin (Pragmatic Sysadmin)Pragmatic Sysadmin (Pragmatic Sysadmin)Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://pragmaticsysadmin.help/sysadmin/tech-in-a-busy-household-networks-gaming-rigs-diy-tinkering/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Pragmatic Sysadminhttps://pragmaticsysadmin.help/sysadmin/tech-in-a-busy-household-networks-gaming-rigs-diy-tinkering/<p>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.</p> <p>It also serves a PlayStation 5 that&rsquo;s downloading a 90GB game update at 9 PM, while my wife is on a work call from the kitchen, while I&rsquo;m restarting a service I broke twenty minutes ago.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>This is how I keep it all working.</p>