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What is your contingency for when the ISP goes down? (ttrpg.network)

submitted 2 years ago by Gutless2615@ttrpg.network to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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In my ever-ongoing struggle to disentangle myself and my family from our corporate overlords I have gleefully dived into self-hosting and have a little intranet oasis available; media, passwords, backups, files, notes, contacts, calendars -- basically everything I needed the Big G suite for at one point, I'm hosting locally, and loving it. But Unfortunately... my ISP can be shitty. Normally its' fine and no complaints, but every now and then the network itself goes down for maintenance for a few hours, half a day, a day. When those outages happen even though I have a battery backup/generator, I'm basically stuck treading water, unable to even listen to podcasts. I'm wondering what the folks here' have as a contingency plan for these kinds of outages. Part of me is considering pricing out some kind of VPS for barebone, password manager, podcast player, notes etc for outages; but I haven't dipped my toe into that world yet. Just wondering what folks are doing/recommending/

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[–] rentar42@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

On most consumer level routers the hardware is unlikely to be the restricting factor, but the software could quite possibly not allow that option.

If you could (and are willing to!) flash something like OpenWRT (or DD-WRT, I haven't used either one in a long time) onto it, then you could potentially unlock the full potential of the router.

[–] Gutless2615@ttrpg.network 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yep long ago flashes OpenWRT Merlin on my router. I’m not sure if there’s a slot for SIM cards though is the problem.

[–] rentar42@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

most routers have a usb port and usb lte modems are relatively cheap and widely available.

[–] Gutless2615@ttrpg.network 1 points 2 years ago

Great point! Definitely has some usb ports.