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Turning Your Home Router Into a Networking Lab
Episode 4640
Daniel's been running OPNsense for years, but now wants to go beyond the basics. We explore the most educational plugins (ntopng, Sensei, netdata), b…
4 days, 20 hours ago
Concrete Walls vs. Wi-Fi: Choosing a Fill-in AP
Episode 4639
When Daniel moved apartments, his single Ubiquiti access point suddenly couldn't reach the bedroom — and the culprit wasn't square footage, it was co…
4 days, 21 hours ago
Traffic Shaping: How Routers Decide Who Gets Bandwidth
Episode 4638
Ever wonder why your video call stays clear while downloads crawl? It's not magic — it's traffic shaping. We break down the token bucket algorithm, h…
4 days, 21 hours ago
Boeing vs Airbus: What Pilots Really Think
Episode 4637
What's it really like to fly a Boeing 737 or an Airbus A320 for thousands of hours? This episode digs into type ratings, the engineering philosophies…
5 days, 16 hours ago
Taming Three DNS Overlays on One Laptop
Episode 4636
Daniel runs a commercial VPN, Tailscale, and Cloudflare WARP on a single laptop — and all three want to control DNS. The failure mode is silent: quer…
5 days, 19 hours ago
Your Phone Is a Firewall Blind Spot — Here's Why
Episode 4635
You'll fire up a VPN on airport Wi-Fi, but did you ever ask what ports your phone has open? Android has the kernel machinery for a firewall but hides…
5 days, 20 hours ago
When Your Ticket Says United but the Plane Says Lufthansa
Episode 4634
Ever booked a flight with one airline and boarded a plane painted with another's colors? That's code-sharing — and it's not just a branding quirk. In…
5 days, 21 hours ago
How In-Flight Wi-Fi Actually Works at 35,000 Feet
Episode 4633
How does in-flight Wi-Fi deliver 150 Mbps over the Atlantic? We break down the two-layer network: the phased-array antenna tracking LEO satellites at…
5 days, 21 hours ago
What Your Speed Test Is Really Measuring
Episode 4632
When you hit "start" on a speed test, you're not measuring your internet—you're measuring a chain of bottlenecks, from Wi-Fi chips to ISP peering dis…
5 days, 21 hours ago
How Starlink Delivers Real In-Flight Wi-Fi
Episode 4631
Flying over the ocean with working Wi-Fi used to be a pipe dream. This episode breaks down how Starlink's LEO constellation delivers low-latency, hig…
5 days, 22 hours ago