Cuzzo’s Blog

I recently moved into a new apartment and faced a challenge when setting up the network: the ISP handoff was in a coat closet that didn’t have enough room for my network rack (but also, who wants to keep their network rack in an entryway closet?). Ideally, I wanted the rack to be in the office, and luckily the closet and the office share a wall. The simple solution would be to add an ethernet run between the closet and the office to get the WAN connection from the ISP handoff to the rack. But there was one complication: the closet had an ethernet drop to the living room that I wanted to utilize. So, I needed the single cable between the closet and the office to carry both the WAN connection back to the rack, and a LAN connection for uplinking the living room. I’ve read discussions about using VLANs to backhaul a WAN connection back to the main server rack and figured that’d work great for my use case. ...

A while ago, I noticed an issue with the latency indicators in Unifi Network on my UDM Pro. The values for Microsoft and Google were showing N/A, though the Cloudflare one was working fine. Originally, I hadn’t paid much mind to it but recently Ubiquiti added an ISP Viewer in Site Manager and that UDM wasn’t showing up in the list. I figured the broken latency measurements had something to do with it and decided it was time to figure out what the problem was. ...

A regular player on AntGame reached out recently with a really good question, so I figured I’d make a post about it. The question was: In the screenshot below, how can the home achieve a larger score than the sum of all food in it’s section? Adding up all the food in that section gives a score of 22582, so how did the home get 22583? ...