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Two ISPs, one load balancer, WiFi 7, and DHCP that lives on a Pi.

Two ISPs come in: ACT Fibernet on a static IP as primary, with Jio Fiber as the failover. Both terminate at a TP-Link ER605 load balancer that sits on its own private segment and feeds a TP-Link BE6500 WiFi 7 router, which is what the home LAN actually hangs off. DHCP and DNS run on tars rather than on the router; AdGuard Home does both, with static leases for every smart device and ad-blocking applied across the LAN. The Zyxel unmanaged switch in the work room is the dumb pipe between wednesday, the SLZB-MR1 Zigbee coordinator, and the rest of the wired stuff in there.

Network · 6 items
Dual-WAN load balancerER605
TP-Link. Auto-failover from ACT to Jio. Managed via the Omada Controller running on tars.
WiFi 7 routerBE6500
TP-Link. Gateway for the home LAN. WAN port wired to the ER605.
DHCP + DNS (tars)AdGuard Home
Static leases for every smart device, network-wide ad blocking. The actual source of truth for address assignments, not the router.
Unmanaged switch (work room)Zyxel 8-port switch
Connects wednesday, the SLZB-MR1 Zigbee coordinator, and the rest of the wired devices in the work room. On the UPS.
ISP (primary)ACT Fibernet
Static IP. WAN1 trunk into the ER605.
ISP (failover)Jio Fiber
WAN2 into the ER605. Only takes traffic when ACT is down.
Last updated · April 28, 2026