This is on a PAYG unlimited sim which gives me about 30Mb down, 5 Mb up and that’s fine as an “able to use the internet” failover solution. I’ve also got a backup 4G router which is set up as a failover device, if the connection dies on the Fibre (which to be fair it never has) the traffic routes out using the 4G. This has a (single) external static IP address assigned to it. Living in a newbuild I’m lucky to have a Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) connection giving me 1Gb down, 500 up speeds. This post is about my hardware and software choices with a little about configuration however I’m not going to go into the full details about my security setup or IP address scheme. I appreciate there are better ways of doing some of this, however, you need to remember this post “works for me” and might provide others with a spark of enthusiasm. If you can’t do that then I’ll ignore you. I’m open to suggestions if the conversation is an open one held in a grown-up way.

There are some who will find this amazing, there are others who will think I’m as mad as a hatter and made totally the wrong choices everywhere, that’s the internet. The hardware I use is not rack-mounted or desktop servers they are old repurposed laptops, small MicroPC’s because I’m looking for low power usage and I’m a network of 2 users so I don’t need fast, only up and using the laptops specifically means I can treat the battery power as a kind of UPS. This is about the 5th iteration of this setup with previous versions being based on VMware, Docker and native installs. I thought I’d share my current home network setup (well some of it) and how it all fits together Some Preamble The home network used to be a family PC with an AOL connection, time however has moved on and it’s possible to have setups at home which rival some small businesses. Blog, devops, homelab, howto, linux, list, opinion, selfhosted

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