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Secure Home Network: How to Connect Synology NAS to Multiple VLANs

Posted on January 16, 2021

In a previous post, I discussed my setup of a Synology NAS. I have multiple VLANs at home, and I find a need to connect my Synology NAS to some of them. My NAS device has two network interfaces and can be connected to different VLANs on each interface. However,... [Read More]

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Secure Home Network: Configure IPv6 for Your Home Network

Posted on January 16, 2021

IPv6 has been around for a while, but surprisingly, not every ISP supports it. If your ISP supports it, you can enable it on your router. Given not all devices or everyone in the internet supports IPv6 yet (or never will), we will run dual-stack network that supports both IPv4... [Read More]

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Secure Home Network: Build Your Own Private Cloud with NAS

Posted on January 1, 2021

As everyone’s digital footprint increases with more and more photos on phones, more and more digital (or “paperless”) documents from life and work, and as Covid-19 changes our lives to be more online, we now have a large amount of digital data lying around on our desktops, laptops, tablets, phones,... [Read More]

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《美国真相：民众、政府和市场势力的失衡与再平衡》书摘

Posted on December 27, 2020

这是约瑟夫·斯蒂格利茨（Joseph E.Stiglitz）所著《美国真相：民众、政府和市场势力的失衡与再平衡》(People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent)的书摘。 [Read More]

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《全球化的悖论》书摘

Posted on December 21, 2020

这是丹尼·罗德里克 (Dani Rodrik) 所著《全球化的悖论》(The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy) 的书摘。 [Read More]

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Lambda-based CDK Custom Resource with Input and Output

Posted on December 17, 2020

AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) is a great way to describe your infrastructure in a strongly-typed language. CDK provides support for many resources out of the gate, and also have integration with CloudFormation resources. However, there are still gaps in support, mainly due to [Read More]

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Secure Home Network: Using Chromecast across VLANs

Posted on December 13, 2020

In previous posts, I discussed why you should isolate connected devices with VLAN and how to add pinhole rules to allow AirPlay to work across VLANs. This post discusses another use case: Chromecast. [Read More]

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Cord Cutter: Enhance Your TV with Chromecast with Google TV

Posted on December 13, 2020

In Network Design Considerations for Cord Cutters post, I discussed how to design your network for Cord Cutters. Specifically, I called out the desired features for your smart TV devices. However, not everyone has the latest and greatest smart TVs. This post, I will discuss how to enhance your non-smart... [Read More]

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Secure Home Network - Network Design Considerations for Cord Cutters

Posted on November 29, 2020

Cord-cutters refers to people who cancel their subscriptions to multichannel television services available over cable or satellite or drop pay television channels by replacing them with rival media available over the Internet. I personally don’t have any cable TV subscriptions; but I have Amazon Prime Video and Netflix subscriptions, and... [Read More]

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Secure Home Network - Place APs for Optimal Coverage

Posted on November 29, 2020

In Extend WiFi Coverage with Multiple APs post, I discussed some considerations of setting up multiple access points (AP) and helping clients roam across them. However, it is more important to have sufficient signal coverage in all rooms. We would like to achieve the best coverage with minimum number of... [Read More]

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Secure Home Network - Set Up a Plex Server

Posted on October 18, 2020

As I previously mentioned in my Pi-Hole and Home Assistant project, I have an Intel NUC running Ubuntu server in my network closet, I’d like to see what else I can do with it as even a several-year old NUC is too powerful for DNS sinkhole and IoT automation only.... [Read More]

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