A repeatable and sensible Dual-WAN Failover setup

In my previous Dual-WAN failover article, I moved from a TP-Link ER605 (slowest device ever) to a MikroTik hEX S. That setup worked, but it also sent me down the usual rabbit hole of buying increasingly specialised router hardware for a problem which does not actually need it. Repeatable infrastructure should depend on open networking standards and replaceable commodity hardware, not a particular router model, vendor GUI, or temporarily available development board. ...

September 12, 2026 · 12 min · 2400 words · Dhiru Kholia