<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>HomeGrid VPN Guides</title><description>HomeGrid VPN guides, news and columns.</description><link>https://www.homegrid-vpn.com/</link><item><title>Japan weighs cyber duties. Why small companies should pay attention</title><link>https://www.homegrid-vpn.com/blog/en/small-business-cyber-obligations/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.homegrid-vpn.com/blog/en/small-business-cyber-obligations/</guid><description>Japan is considering cyber duties for telecom operators. Review RDP bastion patching, operational ownership, private VPC access, development permissions, and office outage continuity.</description><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How to Access Your Home NAS from a Mac When You Are Away</title><link>https://www.homegrid-vpn.com/blog/en/mac-home-nas-vpn/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.homegrid-vpn.com/blog/en/mac-home-nas-vpn/</guid><description>Open your home NAS in Finder over a VPN without exposing SMB to the internet. Check SMB 3, register your Mac, allow its LAN access, and troubleshoot connectivity.</description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How to Use OpenClaw with Ollama on Your Home GPU — Without Port Forwarding</title><link>https://www.homegrid-vpn.com/blog/en/ollama-openclaw-remote/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.homegrid-vpn.com/blog/en/ollama-openclaw-remote/</guid><description>Run OpenClaw on your laptop and use Ollama on your home GPU over a private VPN path. Configure the listener, access to your home Grid&apos;s LAN, the native API provider, and troubleshoot each layer.</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Keep SSH, RDP and NAS Private with WireGuard and Network Segmentation</title><link>https://www.homegrid-vpn.com/blog/en/wireguard-reduce-attack-surface/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.homegrid-vpn.com/blog/en/wireguard-reduce-attack-surface/</guid><description>Reduce public management endpoints with WireGuard, outbound Hub &amp; Spoke connectivity, separate production and development networks, and subnet ACLs. Understand the limits and remaining risks.</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Connect home, office and cloud LANs with HomeGrid VPN</title><link>https://www.homegrid-vpn.com/blog/en/connect-lans-with-acl/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.homegrid-vpn.com/blog/en/connect-lans-with-acl/</guid><description>Add a LAN with a generated command on a Linux gateway, then allow access using dashboard checkboxes. Learn the Spoke slot requirement, mesh VPN setup differences and internet exit selection.</description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Remote work, revisited. Rethink your work environment with a small team</title><link>https://www.homegrid-vpn.com/blog/en/soho-office-virtualization-bcp/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.homegrid-vpn.com/blog/en/soho-office-virtualization-bcp/</guid><description>Keep work laptops local while moving server workloads and access paths away from the office. Six diagrams explain office VPNs, RDP, cloud VPCs, hybrid access and continuity planning for small teams.</description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Data Breach Prevention for Small Businesses: Reduce Exposed Entry Points</title><link>https://www.homegrid-vpn.com/blog/en/small-business-reduce-exposure/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.homegrid-vpn.com/blog/en/small-business-reduce-exposure/</guid><description>Start with exposed entry points and permissions, even without dedicated IT staff. Learn how HomeGrid VPN uses outbound connections, LAN ACL, and access revocation after maintenance.</description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Home VPN Not Connecting? Consider Your Home IP Before Forwarding Ports</title><link>https://www.homegrid-vpn.com/blog/en/home-vpn-direct-exposure/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.homegrid-vpn.com/blog/en/home-vpn-direct-exposure/</guid><description>A direct home VPN can work, but exposing a home endpoint has maintenance and privacy trade-offs. Explore residential IPs, destination visibility, and an outbound alternative.</description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>AI Can Write the Code. That Does Not Mean Anyone Can Build the System</title><link>https://www.homegrid-vpn.com/blog/en/ai-coding-decision-quality/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.homegrid-vpn.com/blog/en/ai-coding-decision-quality/</guid><description>AI-assisted development depends less on clever prompts than on shared intent, evidence-based decisions, system-level review, and a living model of quality.</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>We Used to Crimp Cat5e Cables. What Should We Learn in the AI Era?</title><link>https://www.homegrid-vpn.com/blog/en/ai-era-infrastructure-learning/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.homegrid-vpn.com/blog/en/ai-era-infrastructure-learning/</guid><description>From making LAN cables to building a home VPN, what should engineers build themselves, and what should they use as a foundation? A look at learning and value in the AI era.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>WireGuard MTU Can Be Too Large in Docker Desktop: Measurements and Fix</title><link>https://www.homegrid-vpn.com/blog/en/docker-desktop-wireguard-mtu/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.homegrid-vpn.com/blog/en/docker-desktop-wireguard-mtu/</guid><description>On Docker Desktop for Mac, WireGuard selected an MTU of 65455. Setting MTU = 1420 in the [Interface] section corrected it.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>IP Reputation Goes Beyond Blocklists: How Services Assess an Address</title><link>https://www.homegrid-vpn.com/blog/en/ip-reputation-score/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.homegrid-vpn.com/blog/en/ip-reputation-score/</guid><description>IP intelligence can attach network type, ASN, VPN or proxy indicators, recent abuse signals, and vendor-specific risk scores to an address. Learn what those signals mean and what they cannot prove.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Residential IP vs. Data Center IP: Why the Network Matters</title><link>https://www.homegrid-vpn.com/blog/en/residential-vs-datacenter-ip/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.homegrid-vpn.com/blog/en/residential-vs-datacenter-ip/</guid><description>Two IP addresses in the same country can look different to an internet service. Learn how ASN, network classification, shared addresses, and other signals shape that view.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Register your own device</title><link>https://www.homegrid-vpn.com/guides/en/add-device/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.homegrid-vpn.com/guides/en/add-device/</guid><description>How to register a phone or PC as a Spoke in the VPN. Covers three methods, the Android app, the Windows app, and the official WireGuard app (configuration file).</description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Add a Grid</title><link>https://www.homegrid-vpn.com/guides/en/add-grid/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.homegrid-vpn.com/guides/en/add-grid/</guid><description>How to register a Grid from the dashboard. Covers how to choose between the Linux install command, Docker, and the virtual appliance (ISO), and the steps for each method.</description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Switch the internet exit</title><link>https://www.homegrid-vpn.com/guides/en/internet-exit/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.homegrid-vpn.com/guides/en/internet-exit/</guid><description>How to switch which Grid is the internet exit from the dashboard list when you have two or more Grids. Covers traffic during the switch and the messages shown when it fails.</description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Invite someone else&apos;s device</title><link>https://www.homegrid-vpn.com/guides/en/invite/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.homegrid-vpn.com/guides/en/invite/</guid><description>How to register a family member&apos;s or other person&apos;s device with an invite link. Covers issuing and sharing it, how they register, the 24-hour single-use rule, and what to do if it fails.</description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Control which devices can reach each LAN with LAN ACL</title><link>https://www.homegrid-vpn.com/guides/en/lan-acl/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.homegrid-vpn.com/guides/en/lan-acl/</guid><description>How to use LAN access control (LAN ACL) to decide which devices may reach the LAN behind a Grid. Covers the table view on a PC and the per-device cards on a phone.</description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What Is HomeGrid VPN? Use Your Home Connection as a VPN Exit</title><link>https://www.homegrid-vpn.com/blog/en/how-homegrid-vpn-works/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.homegrid-vpn.com/blog/en/how-homegrid-vpn-works/</guid><description>HomeGrid VPN carries IPv4 traffic through a Cloud Hub to a Grid at home, then sends it to the internet through the home ISP connection without inbound port forwarding.</description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>