Technical Capers

Getting Wake on LAN packets between IP subnets is easy.. right?

Where I go on an adventure to integrate my new LG TV and Sound Bar with Home Assistant. Of course, it works! But how to turn the thing on...

A very deep dive into how I achieved automatic internet connection failover, a.k.a. putting my ISP's L2TP backup connection to use

A canter through the various Internet connections I've had so far, from dial-up modems of the nineties to gigabit fibre-to-the-premises.

I realised I didn't immediately know the answers to some very basic networking questions. So I got Wireshark out and had a look.