UniFi
Captive Portal Triage: Connected, No Login Page, No Internet
Find the first failed captive-portal layer, from association and addressing through discovery, authentication, access policy and upstream routing. Compare clients and preserve logs before changing settings; discovery and NAT behavior depend on the design.
PisoWiFi Daily Operator Checklist
A PisoWiFi daily operations checklist for checking power, ISP, Wi-Fi, DHCP, DNS, captive portal login, vouchers, sessions, and daily logs.
Fix Sticky Wi-Fi Clients: 802.11k/v/r, Minimum RSSI, and Roaming Tests
A practical sticky-client Wi-Fi guide: AP placement, transmit power, 802.11k/v/r, minimum RSSI, Apple behavior, controller settings, and roaming tests.
UniFi VLANs Without Breaking AirPlay, Printers, and Smart Home Gear
A UniFi VLAN guide for keeping AirPlay, AirPrint, printers, casting, HomeKit, and smart-home devices usable without flattening the network.
Where Should You Put Your Wi-Fi Access Points?
A practical Wi-Fi AP placement guide for homes and small offices, covering ceiling APs, wired backhaul, multi-floor layouts, RF obstacles, and validation.
Smart Home VLAN, Guest Wi-Fi, or Second SSID?
Smart-home isolation can improve security, but it can also break discovery, Matter, Thread border routers, casting, and app setup.
OPNsense, pfSense, UniFi, or Consumer Router: Which Should Run Your Homelab?
Compare router platforms by ISP requirements, policy, VPNs, enabled-feature workload and recovery. Evaluate exact models and releases rather than treating a dashboard, feature list or integrated management as proof of throughput or isolation.
Ubiquiti Site Magic Routing: A No-Nonsense Beginner Guide to Routes, Route Injection, and Software-Defined Wide Area Network Fabric Design
A practical Site Magic routing guide covering UniFi site-to-site VPNs, route injection, subnet overlap, firewall policy, and branch troubleshooting.
Homelab VLAN Design: Simple Network Segmentation That Works
A practical VLAN design guide for homelabs, covering trust zones, VLAN IDs, trunks, access ports, firewall rules, mDNS, and rollback planning.
WireGuard Home VPN: Secure Remote Access for Your Homelab
A practical WireGuard home VPN guide for secure homelab access, including routing design, firewall rules, DNS, validation, and gear recommendations.