About
Joe Goldberg
Security Engineer · Independent Product Tester · Home-Lab Engineer
I work in enterprise security and run a deliberately oversized home lab where I test infrastructure, products, and real-world edge cases.
trueNetLab is where I publish thorough, honest reviews of the networking, security, and smart-home gear I actually use - no affiliate fluff, no “10 best” listicles. Just the stuff that breaks, scales, or surprises me.
What I write about
The lab
The Lab is not a showroom. It is the environment where I validate firewalls, networks, automation, and smart-home gear under real conditions.
- edge
- Sophos XGS · Dream Machine Beast · OPNsense (test)
- core
- UniFi Pro XG 48 PoE · 10G core · WiFi 7 APs
- remote
- Tailscale mesh · WireGuard site-to-site
- automation
- Matter · Home Assistant · Thread border routers · TRMNL
- compute
- ZimaBoard 2 1664 cluster · Docker host
- power
- UniFi UPS 2U · network-managed
Get in touch
Reviews are independent. I buy most gear myself; vendor loaners are clearly disclosed in the post.