Marcus Webb

# CyberPower PFC Sinewave Series PR1500LCD vs APC Back-UPS Pro 1500VA — Which Keeps Your Home Lab Alive? *By Marcus Webb — 8 years enterprise network engineering, 6-year Portland home lab* ## The Short Answer In my basement testing environment over the last six months of daily uptime on a four-node Proxmox cluster and 24-bay

# Bond Bridge with Existing Blinds Review — Six Months in a Portland Home Lab *By Marcus Webb — 8 years enterprise network engineering, 6-year Portland home lab* ## The Short Answer The **Bond Bridge with Existing Blinds** is the most pragmatic solution for retrofitting motorization into standard vinyl roller shades without tearing down your

# Netgear EX6250 Review — 14 Months in a Portland Proxmox Home Lab *By Marcus Webb — 8 years enterprise network engineering, 6-year Portland home lab* ## The Short Answer In my testing of the **Netgear EX6250**, I found it to be an adequate budget repeater that struggles significantly with high-density IoT environments common in

# First Alert Z-Wave Smoke Detector Review — 180 Days in a Portland Proxmox Home Lab *By Marcus Webb — 8 years enterprise network engineering, 6-year Portland home lab* ## The Short Answer After running **First Alert Z-Wave Smoke Detectors** alongside my Zigbee2MQTT stack for six months on the second floor of our Portland craftsman