I own a small business. I am the IT guy in the shop, but I'm not a professional. I try to get as much free advice as possible in IT matters. My goals have always been a secure and cheap network, but ...

pfSense isn’t just for enterprises—it can transform your home network into a fortress when configured with smart firewall rules, intrusion prevention, and segmentation. By combining default-deny ...

Will look into fwbuilder but so far was planning to go with a server distro (no GUI) and was hoping to get by using iptables directly for NAT. With regards to bufferbloat, I had run the DSL reports ...

While there are a lot of settings to look at and change, some are more important than others. For example, you’ll probably want to stop by your network interface setups and have a look. In most cases, ...