Networking

Background ZFS is one of those technologies that once you are introduced to it, it is challenging to think in the old ways again. One of the features I was always hesitant to embrace was snapshots as a mechanism for backup and recovery. I know that sounds a bit nutty given how powerful they can be, but my old tooling is muscle memory at this time. Bacula, rsync, and tar has been in my mind since I was a child. ...

Background I live in the boonies of Michigan, and my only option for unmetered and unlimited internet is SpeedConnect. The company is a smaller WISP that, for the most part, has been pretty solid. Over the past six years, though, they have performed a single network upgrade that doubled my speed to a blazing 6mbps down and 300kbps up. I began to look for other options to offset the lack of speed during these weird COVID-19 times, where my home internet became much more critical. ...