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jameskilbycouk

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Category: Mikrotik/Networking

Home Network Upgrade

Posted On September 9, 2024April 1, 2025 By James
CRS-504

My journey to superfast networking in my homelab

Category: Homelab/Networking

Using Unifi DHCP Option 43 in my Network

Posted On June 26, 2024October 1, 2025 By James

How to configure DHCP Option 43 for UniFi devices

Category: Networking

Configuring a Zen Internet and City Fibre connection with a 3rd party router

Posted On November 15, 2023October 1, 2025 By James

Back in July I bought a new house and one of the best things about the property was that it was already in a City Fibre location. That meant I could take my Zen internet connection with me but ditch the ADSL (and Phone Line requirement). This gave me a Continue Reading

Category: Homelab/Networking/Storage/VMware

100Gb/s in my Homelab

Posted On December 19, 2022November 11, 2023 By James

For a while, I’ve been looking to update the networking at the core of my homelab. I have had some great results with the current setup utilising a number of DAC’s but there were a couple of things that were annoying me. Then MikroTik dropped the CRS504-4XQ-IN and if the Continue Reading

Category: Homelab/Networking

Lab Update – Part 3 Network

Posted On January 6, 2022October 1, 2025 By James

I have retired the WatchGuard Devices with the migration to PFSense running bare-metal in one of the Supermicro Nodes. I will likely virtualise this in the future. In terms of network/switching I have moved to an intermediate step here vMotion and Storage are running over DAC’s while VMware management and Continue Reading