Tag: networking

  • breathing life into the mac mini

    TL:DR. it is now not running macOS and I have 16GB of RAM inside it. If you’e been here before you know I have a 2012 Mac mini server.It’s pretty old now and I’ve been meaning to do something about it. I wasn’t sure what that would be but after a little research, rather than […]

  • Cloudflare tunnel adventure

    What am I talking about? Have you ever wanted to connect to a device inside your home network using FQDN? eg. myserver.mydomain.com, or proxmox.mydomain.com. If you have there are few options. In the past I’ve opened up ports on my router and would forward traffic through and play with CNAME’s in the DNS records of […]

  • ngrok to the rescue

    Port forwarding with a public IP address is fine. But without a public IP address you need to be a little bit more savvy. I currently have that situation with Carrier Grade NAT with my internet service provider. It is often the case with LTE connections and I believe it is the case with Starlink […]

  • Cell Lock MikroTik LHG R11e-LTE

    Cornwall internet isn’t great where the in-laws reside. When they moved in it was ADSL and topped out at 2Mb download and 0.2Mb upload. Then some big news hit, Cornwall was to get a massive grant from the EU to create a fibre to cabinet or premises network throughout Cornwall. Once this had arrived we […]

  • Can I remove the Mac Mini from the house?

    This is project to see if Google Cloud Platform could remove my Mac Mini server from my attic. That computer is coming to end of it’s life and needs to be replaced. It serves a few purposes: Host video files and share them to the Apple TV Run Plex to allow my brother in another […]