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Hey @ToddATX. All the MX appliances are capable of load balancing across two internet feeds, so I would look at those. For home an MX64 is probably your best bet price wise, but maybe an MX84 if you need higher throughput.
Unfortunately, if you have higher capacity Internet services the price of the corresponding MX is going to very quickly outpace the value you will get out of it. For example, I have a 1gig coax service at home, which would require an MX100 to properly use all the bandwidth. However, there's exactly zero chance that me and my wife could ever possible use 1gbps so I instead have an MX64 as that's much more in line with what we would actually use.
Hey @ToddATX. All the MX appliances are capable of load balancing across two internet feeds, so I would look at those. For home an MX64 is probably your best bet price wise, but maybe an MX84 if you need higher throughput.
Unfortunately, if you have higher capacity Internet services the price of the corresponding MX is going to very quickly outpace the value you will get out of it. For example, I have a 1gig coax service at home, which would require an MX100 to properly use all the bandwidth. However, there's exactly zero chance that me and my wife could ever possible use 1gbps so I instead have an MX64 as that's much more in line with what we would actually use.
In a domestic situation, any MX device may not be suitable as ISPs in an increasing number of nations are switching to dynamic IPv6 addressing for home subscribers whilst continuing to offer multiplay (voice, internet, mobile, premium video content based on multicast IPTV) subscriptions.
MX appliances are not yet IPv6 ready and simply don't handle the most commonly encountered variety of multicast IPTV distribution, despite the Linux code being freely available.
I get round this situation by using a third party security appliance ahead of the MX and connecting the MX Internet port to one of the LAN ports on the other security appliance. This works, is not expensive (pick the right device), and helps keep the goats (smart TVs, A/V kit, IoT devices, the Guest WiFi, etc) away from the secure portion of the network.
In practice this approach is very efficient. Goats (Smart 4K TV monitors and A/V kit) are only attached to Sheep (secure workstations) using HDMI, which plug and plays.I prefer to keep old smart phones to control the Chromecast features which are built into most of the monitors and A/V systems.
We use a security model that is like an onion, interaction between the "skins" is strictly controlled. Overall, we have ended up with networks that are more resilient, flexible and secure than if we had relied upon a single security appliance.
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