10Gbps Home Network Tour
If you are following my articles here, you may have heard that I recently got Comcast Gigabit Pro and now have 2Gbps Internet at home. Many have asked me how I am accomplishing this internally and...
View Article10Gbps Home Network Tour Video Follow-up!
Recently, I was contacted by Lon Seidman from Lon.TV on YouTube about my home network and my Gigabit Pro setup. He found me through my article here on Binary Impulse: What It Was Like Getting Comcast...
View ArticleMy Negative Review of ARS Rescue Rooter
It’s winter, and the heater is not starting up! Living near Chicago, it can get quite cold in the winter time. Just last week, the temperatures dropped below 0 degrees Fahrenheit. My furnace was...
View ArticleComcast Upgrades Gigabit Pro from 2Gbps to 3Gbps!
I have been a satisfied Comcast Gigabit Pro customer for almost two years now, since my original installation in November 2019. Although the price tag is high, I have always felt that the...
View ArticlePorting a Landline Number to Google Voice, via TracFone
In 2021, an AT&T landline price increase finally gave my grandma the push she needed to get rid of her landline phone service. I have been encouraging my family to use their Google Voice lines for...
View ArticleComcast Upgrades Gigabit Pro from 3Gbps to 6Gbps!
Seems like I just wrote one of these articles, doesn’t it? It was only back in September 2021 when my Gigabit Pro connection received an upgrade from 2Gbps to 3Gbps, now, Comcast has officially bumped...
View ArticleReddit Deplatforms Popular Microsoft Software Swap Subreddit
As large social media platforms like Reddit grow subject to ever increasing scrutiny over the content posted by their users, it is becoming increasingly common for these platforms to remove entire...
View ArticleOPNsense Performance Tuning for Multi-Gigabit Internet
Recently, I decided to begin the process of retiring my Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Infinity, for a number of reasons, including the fact that I don’t have a spare and the availability and pricing of these...
View ArticleMigrating Proxmox Hypervisor’s Boot Volume ZFS Mirror To New (Smaller) Disks
Background I have a three server Proxmox cluster in my lab, where I cheaped out on the OS drives. I bought 1TB Silicon Power SSD’s, because they were cheap, and I have generally had no issues with...
View ArticleMy UBook X Linux Tablet Adventure and how I learned more than I ever thought...
The quest for a full featured Linux experience on a tablet I recently fulfilled a dream of mine that I let stay a dream for too long – I bought a tablet PC which can run a full desktop operating...
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