I Let Claude Build My Home Network: Two ISPs Bonded, $312/Year Saved
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If you used Oracle cloud, I think 10TB is still in their free tier so you'd be looking at ~$15/month.
I did run into this and claude implemented a work-around (see step 8) to route some traffic through the normal exit IP for those special use cases. So far I've only run into this problem with 3 services (Ring, Blink, and Paychex). Surprisingly none of the streaming services seem to care (Netflix, Amazon, Apple TV).
> 1. Downgraded Xfinity from $90/mo to a basic $50/mo plan (still usable speeds, just lower tier)
> 2. Added AT&T Fiber as a second line at $55/mo (different infrastructure = different failure modes)
> 3. Bonded both connections using WireGuard VPN and OpenWRT routing
> an llm managed to generate some iptables rules and sysctl settings that have been well documented for years..
> you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem.
But the whole point of the blog post is that a person who didn't know how to do it did the thing. If the thing is the goal, they succeeded. They now have a thing they didn't have before, after not knowing how to do that thing. A new capability was unlocked by the LLM.
Please generalize this.
But it does mean that the user can build a solution that they don’t understand well enough to maintain.
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!
you could use an azure VDI machine as a cloud endpoint, i believe those ips are flagged correctly. It’s not this cheap though.
It seems incredulous that this didn’t take dozens of back and forth prompts and fixes. It was able to one-shot deploying a digital ocean droplet and configure wireguard?
> It was able to one-shot deploying a digital ocean droplet and configure wireguard?
Yes, that part was pretty easy - but the whole thing wasn't one shot. The parts I struggled with were: - getting automated SSH installed on the $130 router, once you have that the LLM can drive things - during security hardening, I got fully locked out and had to recreate a new VM. But it was able to automatically recreate everything in a few minutes.
I am assuming all the missing steps is just the information you censored.
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.
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