How to easily add a backup internet connection to your home office - and why you should, A failover internet connection is a good idea if you work from home - and it's not complicated to set up.

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• Concave1142@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  But if I have a backup Internet, I have no excuse to be to not work during an ISP provided break time!

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  • wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Agreed. Can we have this article taken off the internet? I don’t want it accessible from any of my connections.

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• Buelldozer@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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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• CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have a much better plan for when my internet stops working… I stop working.

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• doodledup@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s good that you post the archive link too. But you should primarily also post the original. You can add the archive link to the description.

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• MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nahh just stop working, not worth the huge cost of having an extra.

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• MSids@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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• Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Bluefruit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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