I Let Claude Build My Home Network: Two ISPs Bonded, $312/Year Saved
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I Let Claude Build My Home Network: Two ISPs Bonded, $312/Year Saved
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Re: I Let Claude Build My Home Network: Two ISPs Bonded, $312/Year Saved
#2Bonding two ISPs was previously too complex for most home use until agentic AI. Claude can automate the entire WireGuard/OpenWRT/VPN setup, testing, and security hardening via SSH as an afternoon project. Total cost: $305 over 3 years vs $1,241 for commercial solutions. Downgrade your current ISP and add a second cheap one to get faster more reliable internet at home.
Re: I Let Claude Build My Home Network: Two ISPs Bonded, $312/Year Saved
#3To save money, I would have just switched to ATT fiber like you did, drop Xfinity completely, and try that for awhile. It's worked for me for years, and my only downtime has been a few times during winter storms when the power goes out completely.
Re: I Let Claude Build My Home Network: Two ISPs Bonded, $312/Year Saved
#4To save money, I would have just switched to ATT fiber like you did, drop Xfinity completely, and try that for awhile. It's worked for me for years, and my only downtime has been a few times during winter storms when the power goes out completely.
nice. I wish fiber was available for me. I only had access to AT&T's copper service (DSL) but they do 2-pair bonding so speed is not far from Xfinity.
Re: I Let Claude Build My Home Network: Two ISPs Bonded, $312/Year Saved
#5oh boy, how amazing... an llm managed to generate some iptables rules and sysctl settings that have been well documented for years..
Re: I Let Claude Build My Home Network: Two ISPs Bonded, $312/Year Saved
#6I also went with an Xfinity cable and Frontier fibre combo in about 2018 I think.
I just bought a Synology RT2600 router at the time and plugged each provider in then set it to load balanced.
Reliability and speeds were great. Possibly not as optimised as this perf wise but a lot easier to setup.
Re: I Let Claude Build My Home Network: Two ISPs Bonded, $312/Year Saved
#7oh boy, how amazing... an llm managed to generate some iptables rules and sysctl settings that have been well documented for years..
And Dropbox is an afternoon project for any Linux user, right? Right?
Re: I Let Claude Build My Home Network: Two ISPs Bonded, $312/Year Saved
#8oh boy, how amazing... an llm managed to generate some iptables rules and sysctl settings that have been well documented for years..
And a really dreary blog describing something simple at great length :/
Re: I Let Claude Build My Home Network: Two ISPs Bonded, $312/Year Saved
#9AI clearly wrote the blog post too - it's a neat project but the "ai style of writing" really doesn't work well for a long form article. It's like a collection of listicles.
I think it'd be a better presentation to use more prose and fewer bullet points - I'm more interested in the human experience than the machine experience here!
Re: I Let Claude Build My Home Network: Two ISPs Bonded, $312/Year Saved
#10Bonding two ISPs was previously too complex for most home use until agentic AI. Claude can automate the entire WireGuard/OpenWRT/VPN setup, testing, and security hardening via SSH as an afternoon project. Total cost: $305 over 3 years vs $1,241 for commercial solutions. Downgrade your current ISP and add a second cheap one to get faster more reliable internet at home.
yeaaaaaah ..
something the llm didn't explain is how asymmetric bandwidth or latency between the connections will degrade performance... or how many services like streaming, banking, gaming will restrict, block, or otherwise treat the connection differently because the traffic now exits via a datacenter or VPN IP/ASN..