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Advice on networking summer house at the end of my garden. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I can look in to that and the conduit. There is a local DIY type place near me I have bought from in the past. Would cost a little bit but it's probably worth it for a reliable solution

Advice on networking summer house at the end of my garden. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Mikrotik and TPlink seem like good options. I did think about ubiquiti but don't I need cloud keys and stuff for that?

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Advice on networking summer house at the end of my garden. (alien.top)
 

Hi all. I have a summer house at the end of my garden. A year or so ago, I ran cat 6 external to the summer house from my "core" but now all of a sudden it has died. Running the cable was a tough job, something I struggled with on my own as the only real path was along the fence line only partially buried.

What is the best solution to remedy this?

Wireless bridge, if so what brand

Or

Running a new cable

Securing my network in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You can ask Chat GPT?

That I did not know lol. Thanks for this. My NGINX is running in a container as well as the Cloudlfare plugin but my HA has its own server. A bit overkill but its just to future proof as I plan on automating a lot and having a NUC dedicated to that seems sensible.

Securing my network in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Thank you. VLANs seem to be the common consensus. Time to play around with my switches lol

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Securing my network (alien.top)
 

Hi, I apologise if this isn't the right place to ask for advice or if I come across as stupid. I work in IT and have started to run my homelab. It's mainly local stuff like a NAS and media server but I do have a Home assistant instance running. I was always a hardware guy but with my role growing I felt I needed to learn about networking and how a network runs services on the Internet.

I own a domain and use NGINX to point to my HA box. Cloudflare points my domain to my local IP via plugin that watches for changes as I understand it. Currently Home assistant and NGINX are open on my router but I'm pretty sure I made them open only to the two static IPs running my services. Cloudflare seems to mask my local IP when pinging my domain but I'm sure there are ways around it.

I want to eventually run a Minecraft server and a few other bits as a hobby but I'm conscious of the security risk of opening up ports and exposing my servers to the Internet. Is there a way I can secure my network even more? Am I doing this wrong?

Again I apologise I'd this is the wrong place or I come off as stupid. While Networking and Hardware are my specialty at work, the buck stops at the router