Linux Fu: Upcycling An Old Router
You’re wandering through a thrift store and spot an old router for ten bucks. Worthless, right? But in this case, it was a Google OnHub, which, at the time, was pretty premium and still isn&#…
Autopsy Of A Freshly Cooked 10Gbit SFP+ Network Adapter
With the advent of affordable 2.5 Gbit, 5 Gbit, and 10 Gbit consumer networking gear, more and more people are taking advantage of these higher networking speeds, with [This Does Not Compute] havin…
Meshcore And Haiku: A Match Apparently Made In Italy
No, we’re not talking about cultural appropriation of Japan’s most famous form of short poem–this is the other Haiku, the open-source descendant of BeOS, which now has a fully-nat…
An Ethernet WiFi Router On A Pi Pico 2W
We are all in search of the fastest in a wireless router, to give ourselves the best connectivity to the world. But what about the slowest? Gigabit Ethernet may not be for everyone, as Matt Deeds d…
Revisiting Making Your Own Internet Router In 2026
After my recent misadventures setting up an OpenWrt installation on a scruffy e-waste-level x86 PC, quite a few people chimed in with feedback, criticism and friendly hostility regarding things lik…
How The Banana Pi BPI-R4 Pro Violates The First Rule Of OpenWRT Club
As fun as ARM and RISC-V single-board computers (SBCs) are, all too often getting the most out of the hardware requires the use of an unofficial firmware image. So too with the Banana Pi BPI-R4 Pro…
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