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But if I have a backup Internet, I have no excuse to be to not work during an ISP provided break time!
Agreed. Can we have this article taken off the internet? I don't want it accessible from any of my connections.
When my employer reimburses me fully, I will pay for two connections. But they don’t, even though they (could) save a ton of money by closing the office.
I have a much better plan for when my internet stops working... I stop working.
Nahh just stop working, not worth the huge cost of having an extra.
Does anyone else use a Linux firewall to manage dual connections? I run Shorewall here, but I haven't really had much luck with traffic shaping to keep the majority of traffic on my primary connection while allowing low-speed info like email to split up between connections.
Not using that specifically but I have to load balance my internet between starlink and 4g due to the area I live in where the only other option is suffer with 1.5 DSL. Even what I'm doing now is only mostly ok but I'm surrounded by trees.
Due to the restrictions of a lot of providers for mobile data, I use the 5g store with Verizon network, and had to use one of their routers, went with a peplink as at the time, it was the cheapest option.
Peplink does a pretty good job of load balancing between the different connections but i wouldnt use them unless you really have to.
You could use pfsense or opensense to load balance between two connections if thats what your after.
I tried playing around with opensense awhile back. Wasn't impressed and kept running into things I couldn't get it to do for me, so I stuck with my existing setup. I use ldirectord for load balancing between servers and shorewall lets me generally balance the traffic between WAN connections. It works pretty well but there's a lot of moving parts.
Yea opensense is the less polished than pfsense, but its decent from what I've heard.
I'm not familiar with Idirectord of shorewall. Do you run all that locally? Tbh peplink is ok for the most part but because starlink goes on and off so often, it can get stuck sometimes and because I can't have a lot of granular control with its load balancing.
So ldirectord is kind of a front-end for ipvsadm. The tools allow you to set up load-balancing between internal servers. I run each service in a VM, and I have at least two copies of each (on separate physical servers). Ldirectord lets me configure how frequently to verify each machine is up, a list of primary servers, and an optional backup when the others go down. Overall it works pretty smooth.
Shorewall is similarly a front end for iptables, allowing a more structured set of configuration files. I've been trying to start using Webmin for the first time because it has some nice management of shorewall, maybe I'll be able to clean up some of my config, but I'd also like to get traffic shaping configured.
I have a dedicated firewall (just moved to a poweredge R620 last night), a NAS, and two VM systems to run services on... all run from home. I enjoy setting things up to play with, so this has all been built up starting from old desktop machines and expanded over time.
I can only remember one 45 minute outage caused by Comcast in 4 years at my house, before that I can't even remember one. The rest of the time it's been storms/power - things that would knock out other wireline providers. People shit on Comcast, but it's plenty reliable these days. I'll just use my phone's hotspot and save the $4800 over 4 years.
Setting up a dual wan edge device with fail-over isn't difficult, it's the paying for two ISPs part that most people don't want to do.
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