Networking

I Switched My Homelab Rack to Wired Ethernet and the Bandwidth Got Worse

I cabled my five-node rack behind a switch to get off wifi. The cutover worked. Internet bandwidth dropped 50-85% across the cluster. Here is what happened and why I am keeping it anyway.

Swapping Two USB Wifi Adapters Broke Both Kubernetes Nodes

Two HP worker nodes dropped off my cluster after I pulled their USB wifi adapters. When I plugged them back in, neither came up. The adapters were fine – I’d put them in the wrong machines.