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My Ubiquiti network gear is an awesome “prosumer” device and it supports a number of enterprise features for gadgeteers to use. Over the years I tried various methods of monitoring devices and network throughput – either via RRD, SmokePing or custom scripts. With...
The one downside with Let’s Encrypt has always been the limitation that for verification any internal server needed to open up ports. Using Cloudflare and acme.sh gives my old Synology DS1010+ new life with a proper SSL certificate (the acme.sh supports...
I previously blogged about my issues with the Calix 813-G FTTH router being complete rubbish. Despite having moved from a 20Mbps VDSL connection to a 50Mbps fibre connection, my throughput and latency with the Calix were actually worse and I even...
With Synology DSM 6.0 and upwards Docker is natively supported and this allows you to easily configure services without having to download or manually install services. The first step is to get Docker installed via the Synology Package Center: Once...
NZBGet is a great application to automate downloads. Synology has introduced with DSM 6.0 full Docker support which now makes it even easier to install and run any 3rd party application. The first step is to get Docker installed via the...
The latest version of Synology DSM introduces a Squid proxy which allows you to speed up web-browsing within your local LAN due to proxy-caching web fragments. By the looks of it, Synology still needs to improve on the admin functionality,...
I bought the Xtreamer Ultra 2 Deluxe Edition over two years ago and still today it outperforms many of the newer competing models – the device comes with everything you need to get your XBMC setup going and fits nicely in...
I recently recycled my hard-drives on my Synology DS1010+ as one of the drives started to fail. Migration of the drives was easy, but I did notice that I had file-system corruption when looking at dmesg: htree_dirblock_to_tree: bad entry in directory...
Synology has really outdone themselves with DSM 4.0: Although this is the first beta, it introduces a number of improvements with the most noticeable a completely revamped user interface which includes widgets and vast UI improvements over the desktop-style dashboard...
Synology’s Disk Station Manager (DSM) comes pre-packaged with it’s own download manager, but I have never been a fan of it, and have already heavily customized it but was still not quite happy with it. Over the last 12 months...
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