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A follow-up to replacing my ISP router: how I went from a forced 1Gbps link to getting HSGMII 2.5Gbps working on a Broadcom BCM57810S, after fighting DOS, iLO, and UEFI along the way.
Hello World!
Hi, I'm Hugo. I'm a CS student at IST and team lead of a fellowship group at DEI.
This is my personal blog. Home lab setups, cybersecurity experiments, and other things I tinker with in my free time. Mostly here to document my progress, but glad if it's useful to you too.
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How I ditched my ISP's router entirely, using a rooted Huawei MA5671A GPON stick and OPNsense to get my own hardware directly on the fiber line.
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Before replacing my ISP's router, I had to get a GPON stick working in the first place. This is the story of how I bricked one, then very nearly bricked a second, and eventually recovered it over a soldered serial connection.
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I ran out of drive bays on my home server, so I bought an HBA, an external PSU, and a handful of cables to bolt eight more disks onto it anyway. Here's how, and why.
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My HP DL560 G8's fans were screaming every time I added anything HP didn't sell me. So I patched the iLO4 firmware, found the sensor causing it, and wrote a script to tame it on every boot.
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In April 2025, I found a way to farm unlimited reward points from Continente's mobile game campaign. I reported it responsibly, waited over 90 days, and heard almost nothing back. Here's the story.
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Hello, Welcome
I don’t know what to write here yet, but this is the first note in my new blog. I guess I’ll figure it out as I go.