What's your network failover solution ? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by uvish66@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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I guess my ISP uses some subpar hardware because the connection keeps dropping at peak hours. I want to implement a failover system without having to buy some expensive router which I would not be able to justify with my normal usage.

Wanted to know some other ways how people do it .

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[-] Giannis_Dor@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

get a mikrotik they are good for the price and setup recursive routing so what I'm using right now is 2 wans or you could use 1 wan and 1 4g or plug a phone on the usb port and turn on usb tethering so basically recursive routing checks if a host is up on a line say isp 1 pings to see if 1.1.1.1 is up if not switch to isp 2 isp 1 is my own line and isp 2 is my apartment's shared internet connection that has unstable speeds but for failover, it's better than nothing

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