One thing ISP modem/router combos suck at is QoS. Multiple users on the home network can tank each other’s experience regardless of how fast the connection actually is.
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Including QoS profiling and control for basic networking serving Home Network Users would have Corporate entities insisting on not paying for such a service for their Commercial sites!
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I don’t think so. 
My last three modem/routers ( all provided by the ISP) all had good working QoS settings.
I used to have VoIP (analog telephone directly plugged into the modem/router ) .
I could have a big fat download potentially saturating WAN and still have no interference with the phone.
I can also confirm that the bandwidth on the LAN side is nicely distributed among the connected PC’s if the WAN side is saturated.
No corporate entity seemed to have complained up to this day 
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I’m self hosting Audiobookshelf, Home Assisttant, and PiGallery2. They are stable and working well on the server. Unfortunately, i am trying out T-Mobile internet and self hosted stuff doesn’t work well with their router. I am moving back to Xfinity and hopefully they ail will be better soon.
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My primary efforts these days revolve around self-hosting. Taking it a step at a time.
I have settled on Linux Mint as my desktop and Debian for my servers. I still love checking out new distros to see what others have come up with but as I continue to become completely(?) self-hosted, I just like the stability I have found on the Debian base.
Systems
- brawn – main desktop: Linux Mint 22.3, kernel 6.17; custom build; AMD Ryzen 7 3700X, GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB, 16GB RAM, 1TB NVMe, 4TB NVMe,
500GB SSD x5 - mite – caddy/pihole server: Debian 13, kernel 6.12; Intel NUC NUCC6CA; Intel Celeron CPU J3455, 16GB RAM, 500GB SSD
- bard – Plex server: Linux Mint 22.3, kernel 6.17; custom build; AMD Ryzen 3 3300X, 8GB RAM, 1TB NVMe, 4TB NVMe
- boss – Nextcloud/Immich/Home Assistant server: Debian 13, kernel 6.12; Lenovo ThinkCentre M710q; Intel Core i5-7400T, 16GB RAM, 500GB SSD, 2TB NVMe
- ardor – build server: Debian 13, kernel 6.12; Intel NUC NUC111PAH; Intel Core i7-1165G7, 16GB RAM, 500GB SSD
- shrek – general server: Debian 13, kernel 6.12; Lenovo ThinkCentre M710q; Intel Core i5-7400T, 16GB RAM, 500GB SSD
- deft – laptop: Linux Mint 22.3, kernel 6.17; Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5 (16AKP10); AMD Ryzen AI 7 350, 16GB RAM, 1TB NVMe
- happy – laptop: Linux Mint 22.3, kernel 6.17; Acer Aspire 5 A515-45-R74Z (N18Q13); AMD Ryzen 5 5500U, Radeon Graphics 512MB, 8GB
RAM, 256GB NVMe SSD
Network
- ISP provides 1Gbps down/50Mbps
- Arris S33v3 cable modem (owned)
- TP-Link AX3000 Multi-Gigabit WiFi 6 Router
- Yaunley 26/24 port PoE (IoT)
- TP-Link 5-port 10Gbps switch
Other
- I use iDrive for my cloud backup.
- shrek will likely host Frigate in the future to NVR my security cameras.
- I have generally built my own systems but all of the servers became available from other projects so I use them as they came. Looking at the list, I am glad I am not trying to purchase this hardware in today’s economy!
- Though I am a minimalist and prefer native installations, I have gone with docker for nearly all of my services. It makes it pretty easy to bring up new services. It does require some additional administration (e.g., set up bind volumes for proper backup) but it isn’t difficult. I have dinu running to monitor each server so I am notified when a container has an available update.
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That is quite the herd of stallions you have there!
Is all that under your own umbrella, at
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Yes, it has been a bit of work but I’ve learned a ton in the process. The URL you shared is someone else’s domain. Mine is https://www.advappsw.com. Right now, I intentionally do not have a landing page at the top address. Eventually, I expect to put something there but haven’t decided what.
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Have you set up any automations with HA? I’ve just started with it – its up and running, recognizes my cameras, but I’m still working on getting the rest of my IoT configured. Unfortunately, it doesn’t like my Kasa light switches.
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I’ve done some to turn the driveway lights on and off. I also did some to turn our mini-splits on and off. They’ve worked well.
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If those relate to security, have you got a tool to capture video slices with a time-stamp embedded in each video file?
If that is of interest, you might to review if the below fits your needs:
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Electronics repairs - what a trip down amnesia lane! I love working on older equipment.
Still on my “to-do” list is replacing a pair of non-polarized electrolytic capacitors in a 40-year-old Technics turntable…as well as the electrolytic capacitor in the old Heathkit AR-3 receiver that launched me into electronics at an early age.
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True quality brand equipment. Real hi-fi!
My own was a step-down, being all Pioneer!
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My github - in addition to mail mailguard, which is pretty much in maintenance mode now, I’d been playing with benchmarking different languages at different tasks.
For instance, one of the benchmarks reads a million line password file and displays the count for each login shell in the file.
Not surprisingly, C rules. But zig is very close, go and rust also do well. Surprisingly, lisp is nipping at C’s heels. Among the interpreted languages, php is fastest. Haskell, Raku and Scheme are the cellar dwellers, along with MS Powershell.
I set up another benchmark, a simple http server test. Again, C rules, with Crystal and Go neck and neck for 2nd place. Python makes a surprisingly good showing.
If anyone would like to add another language to the menagerie, feel free!
Here are the most recent http results on my desktop machine:
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Really cool project! SBCL’s compiler is no joke, seeing it that close is fun. And PHP topping the interpreted pack… nice.
On my end I’ve been buried in something adjacent, trying to cut mailing costs across the community sites. Started with Mailchimp 15 years so, then Mailerlite for the savings, then added Postmark for transactional, but the bills keep climbing. Needed to hop off.
So lately I’ve been wiring up open source tooling like Listmonk with Amazon SES (can’t chance the warmup with local), and it’s knocked almost 80% off the mailing costs across the related sites. Open source is more rewarding but it eats way more time initially, with plenty of manual workarounds needed for stuff the proprietary SaaS just handles for you.
In any case, thats a bit of what I’ve been working on.
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I am trying to make an IBM thinkpad from 22 years ago work flawlessly with some apps. Right now, I am getting a Brainf*ck compiler to work with inputs. And my Asus EeePC from 2010 is something that I am trying to get good for my family to try Linux.
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We demand pics!! Just for the nostalgia alone. 
Optional, but if you decide to, it deserves its own showcase gallery in the Showcase category.
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