Ask HN: How do you bring down your own home network?

Go unplug your routers/switches/hubs for massive lulz!

highly effective..

Before I upgraded to a router with more memory, I found that a couple of moderately popular torrents would fill up the router's NAT table, and thus memory. Existing outgoing connections continued to work, but any new connections were DOA.

$ ssh root@router # ifdown -a; ifup -a

Oops.

verizon fios routers cannot handle more than 16 wireless devices at home