Homelab

If I absolutely must keep working and a “sorry internet is down will be mostly unavailable” wont suffice for work, I will tether to my work phone… or in an absolute pinch, my personal phone.

There’s also a starbucks and a few other free wifi hotspots I can go to within a short drive or even walking distance.

I suppose I could bring in a second ISP but I would really only do that if the maximum speed I could get from my ISP was too low and/or a faster speed from the ISP was similar in price (preferably less than but possibly a little more expensive) to doing a similar speed using 2 ISPs.

Where I am, my internet costs me $70/month for gigabit… its their highest tier and their lower tiers suck (100mbps for $55 and 400mbps for $60) but I dont really need more than that… if I wanted more, I could switch providers and go to Comcast and get 1.2Gbps for $85 per month but I’d probably bring in either Comcast’s 75mbps tier for $20 or 200mbps for $35 first.

Technically it’d cost a bit more at $105+tax vs Comcast’s $85 but with Comcast Id have to pay $30 for unlimited bandwidth or $25 with their rented hardware since I somewhat regularly exceed 1.2TB of data transfer per month.

My current provider has no cap, is more reliable in my area and there are less restrictions on my their network (e.g. in addition to the lack of bandwidth usage cap/charge, I can and do run multiple public IPs and I have no port restrictions though admittedly the handful of ports comcast blocks wouldnt really impact me) and it would provide me redundancy for only a slight increase in cost (actually slightly less when you tack on the bandwidth fees with or without renting their hardware which I absolutely despise)…

My setup would probably utilize a Vyos VM as an edge router since its how Im currently connected but really many off the shelf home routers will support converting one of the LAN ports to a redundant WAN port, especially if you can use WRT firmware variants (Tomato, DD-wrt, OpenWRT, etc).