Marcus Webb

# APC SRT1500RMXLT Review — 6 Months in a Portland Home Lab *By Marcus Webb — 8 years enterprise network engineering, 6-year Portland home lab* ## The Short Answer After six months of daily use on my four-node Proxmox cluster and Synology NAS infrastructure, the **APC SRT1500RMXLT** remains a solid mid-range choice for users needing

# IKEA FYRTUR Smart Roller Blind Review — 180 Days in a Portland Home Lab *By Marcus Webb — 8 years enterprise network engineering, 6-year Portland home lab* ## The Short Answer After running continuous stress tests on my four-node Proxmox cluster with Zigbee2MQTT handling over fifty devices across the basement and attic of my

# Helping One Specific Dead Zone Room Review — 6 Months in the Portland Basement Lab *By Marcus Webb — 8 years enterprise network engineering, 6-year Portland home lab* ## The Short Answer After running continuous stress tests across my four-node Proxmox cluster and connecting over forty Zigbee devices through a congested basement-to-attic path on

# Are Smart Smoke Detectors Worth the Extra Cost? A Portland Home Lab Analysis *By Marcus Webb — 8 years enterprise network engineering, 6-year Portland home lab* ## The Short Answer In my testing within a basement environment filled with Wi-Fi congestion from apartment neighbors and legacy HVAC systems, smart smoke detectors do not justify