Bad thing to say, I basically always have questions lol.

1. Reviewing the Qotom, there are many options, for future proofing myself, how much storage space is really needed (let’s factor in I plan to continue building my homelab.

2. For the WAP, is it possible to create a mesh system from more than one? There are only a few devices that I have “currently” that need to be hardwired but will obv. change in the future as I grow. (plus I’m sure the wife and guests will want wifi too gosh so neeedy

You had my curiosity, now you have my attention.

I doubt it is getting fully saturated, not to say it’s not possible though. I can’t wait for our area to get High Split for symmetrical speeds. At the end of the day even if the router isn’t my issue, and I’m being saturated, I would like to move myself in a more secure and useable direction. Such as for home automation, additional servers and firewalls, and potentially getting into cyber security.

As for your planned homelab. On a birds eye level I would recommend using a small cheap computer with two network interfaces and opnSense as a router / firewall and Ubiquiti Unifi Access Points with the unifi controller software hosted on your media server. I can go into some more depth if you wish, but the official documentation for opnSense is pretty good.> This was basically gibberish to me, if you are willing for more details, I am more than happy to soak it in, and provide more questions following because that’s how it goes in the beginning right? lol

Thank you for your time as well. Reddit side was much less responsive than here. Judgy almost.

Hm if that’s what it’s for I may just stick to my subscription. Usually I go a self hosted route when I don’t want to pay for things, but in this instance I feel it may be worth it.

Wait wait wait. A Bitwarden server? Please elaborate on what this is and the benefits of it? I use Bitwarden for everything and if there’s a more secure route, sign me up!

This right here. Infinity is/was my go-to. Fingers crossed!