While the primary use case for Project Garanchou will be for fixed locations in hotel rooms, the fact that this will be a self-contained setup does raise the question: can this be used for field operations? In this case, field operations are broadly defined as not having shore power available, such as in a car ... Read More

A few months ago, I changed the name of the page detailing the contents of the case to “Project Garanchou”. When I first began work on this project back in 2006, I simply called it the “AWA Con Room Network” as that was, barring the Huntsville Hamfest trip about a month prior being its “dress ... Read More

While most of the posts on this blog have been related to what I’ve dubbed “Project Garanchou” and its development over the last 15 years or so, the fact that I’ve been watching a lot of travel videos on YouTube where the presenters are using backpacks vs. suitcases or checked baggage lately and have followed ... Read More

We’re back with a quick update! A few days after the last post, a friend came in town for Sakura-Con, which I chronicled on the main blog, and as he has a Japan-spec Xperia phone which is pretty limited in capability in the US now, he made good use of the M5 throughout the weekend. ... Read More

I’ve had the NUC running as my home server for a while now, and twice in the past couple of days its main NIC has crashed. I’m thinking it could be thermals, so I moved it around a bit to give it more breathing room. This is making me rethink my want to use it ... Read More

Hi! I’ve got a new (old) plan for the case! Turns out I’m going to be able to reuse my existing gaming PC’s motherboard, CPU, and RAM later this year, so that will be the building block of the new home server, which frees up the NUC to use with the case! While the NUC ... Read More

Well, we’re into 2025 now, so we’ll see how things end up going over the next few years. I’ve still not picked up the Fitlet3: this is just an “other expenses more important” thing, but I’ve got its configuration nailed down finally. I was going to use OPNsense for the firewall VM, but some testing ... Read More

I mentioned in the last post about using the testing server with an OPNsense VM connected to my T-Mobile Home Internet box with success. I decided to work from this, get my hands on a NETGEAR M5, the 5G version of the MR1100 we used all those years ago, perform the necessary adjustments on it, ... Read More

Quick follow up to the last one.I’m renting a /48 because I’m going to have connection failover at home at some point in the future, so why not borrow a /64 from that for the case?I plugged the test server into my T-Mobile 5G Home Internet the other night, spun an OPNsense VM up, set ... Read More

Wow, this is the closest posts have been together in a while. I was doing some research the past couple of days, and while I did mention in the last post that I was looking at OPNsense vs. OpenWrt, realizing that OPNsense needs more resources means that I’ll stick to OpenWrt for the firewall VM. ... Read More