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Recently, I've been forced down a rabbit-hole in this space, the tl:dr of it being I have crappy internet where I live, and I've had to cobble together a multiple-ISP solution with load balancing wherein the individual ISP connections are on opposite sides of the house, and it is absurdly difficult to understand. I have a ton of old computers/equipment that I'm sure could do most of the lifting, and I'm relatively pr…
Recently, I've been forced down a rabbit-hole in this space, the tl:dr of it being I have crappy internet where I live, and I've had to cobble together a multiple-ISP solution with load balancing wherein the individual ISP connections are on opposite sides of the house, and it is absurdly difficult to understand. I have a ton of old computers/equipment that I'm sure could do most of the lifting, and I'm relatively pr…
It seems like lately it's like regular expressions, obscure to many but when you really need it, you really need to know it.
Recently, I've been forced down a rabbit-hole in this space, the tl:dr of it being I have crappy internet where I live, and I've had to cobble together a multiple-ISP solution with load balancing wherein the individual ISP connections are on opposite sides of the house, and it is absurdly difficult to understand. I have a ton of old computers/equipment that I'm sure could do most of the lifting, and I'm relatively pr…
I've found myself in a similar situation. What I've learnt is that good load-balancing makes a surprising difference. It won't help you back up your files to the cloud any faster, but it will keep your Internet connection usable for other people while you do so. I've gone from being unable to hold one decent Skype conversation to being able to hold two in parallel on the same network. I've gone from ping times of up…
Recently, I've been forced down a rabbit-hole in this space, the tl:dr of it being I have crappy internet where I live, and I've had to cobble together a multiple-ISP solution with load balancing wherein the individual ISP connections are on opposite sides of the house, and it is absurdly difficult to understand. I have a ton of old computers/equipment that I'm sure could do most of the lifting, and I'm relatively pr…
This can be easily incorporated into a guide book as a long awaited replacement for Tony Mancill's Linux Router book that's long overdue from 2002 [1].
Kudos Gary, I wished I can buy you a coffee, do you accept PayPal ;-)
[1]Linux Routers: A Primer for Network Administrators (2nd Edition):
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Take a look at https://www.gl-inet.com/ >. These boxes come with a nice, simplified GUI, but will run stock OpenWRT, which you can build yourself if you wish. I placed one of these boxes behind my ADSL router to do load-balancing. To use it as an Internet router, you'd instead need to couple it with a modem. A colleague whom I trust recommends Draytek kit but (a) I've not tried it, (b) it's not cheap and (c) I'm just…
i didn't realize it, but it seems they provide the bootloader sources which most "open source routers" don't. If they also provide the full board schematics then I would consider them completely open source.
Recently, I've been forced down a rabbit-hole in this space, the tl:dr of it being I have crappy internet where I live, and I've had to cobble together a multiple-ISP solution with load balancing wherein the individual ISP connections are on opposite sides of the house, and it is absurdly difficult to understand. I have a ton of old computers/equipment that I'm sure could do most of the lifting, and I'm relatively pr…
What's the router that you ended up buying (I'm also giving on load balancing on my own)?
And yes, Amazon et al DO NOT HELP because all of the little boxes look exactly the same, and Amazon will happily recommend the wrong thing. This was how I learned that you can return things at Whole Foods easy.
Recently, I've been forced down a rabbit-hole in this space, the tl:dr of it being I have crappy internet where I live, and I've had to cobble together a multiple-ISP solution with load balancing wherein the individual ISP connections are on opposite sides of the house, and it is absurdly difficult to understand. I have a ton of old computers/equipment that I'm sure could do most of the lifting, and I'm relatively pr…
The home networking space has really been broken for quite a while now. We've forced home users into separate-but-unequal internet using NAT's and forced private addressing. Part of it is there are no more IPv4 addresses to go around anymore. Part of it is that IPv6 has been delayed by 20 years, and now IPv6 isn't what we need at all, frankly. It seems like lately it's like regular expressions, obscure to many but wh…
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Just grab something like pfSense or any variant that will give you a GUI to do this wayyyyy more easily and with someone knowledgable configuring it and testing it.
You are waaaay overselling pfSense :) Seriously, I tried it, and sure it's easier than hacking at iptables. But not much.
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You are waaaay overselling pfSense :) Seriously, I tried it, and sure it's easier than hacking at iptables. But not much.
pfSense gives you the shape of the problem and creates bounds. Being on your own in a text editor with google allows you to shoot yourself in the foot while stumbling in the dark.