Hi,
Please can someone recommend a way of having a backup / failover internet access in the event the bt infinity should be unavailable?
In the past I had a peplink load balancer setup with both a 3g dongle and a 2nd fibre connection by another isp. The peplink load balancer does not seem to be the best option for BT Cloud Voice as it adds another firewall to the equation which creates a high ping rate. I really need something automatic so if I am out of the office it fixes itself in the way the load balance used to work when we were on isdn.
Our computers are also connected to the internet via the Cloud Voice handsets.
Thank You!
Hey,
I have setup a DrayTek Vigor 2860 to have the standard VDSL setup on one line and then setup another broadband line on WAN2 to failover to once it detects that WAN1 has lost its connection.
It works very well and as soon as WAN1 disconnects to takes not even a second to switch over to the WAN2 connection. We also have the ability to failover to 3G/4G if both connections fail.
DrayTek routers are very good at this type of thing I find but maybe some cheaper alternatives if you are on a budget.
lsmithx2,
I need to pick your brains as I trying to setup failover on our Draytek Vigor 2860. We are currently migrating from a Plusnet business account to BT Halo lines with supplied Smart Hub 2 routers. Our first line migrated is our customer & volunteer's WiFi. This is working and was our learning platform.
On the 2nd line is our business broadband (Admin and EPOS) currently running off the Plusnet ADSL. I want to failover to WAN2 (Ethernet) to the 1st migrated line initially, once tested and proved to be working then we can migrate the 2nd line to BT.
We have a small window in November to migrate the 2nd line during our 1 month down time before starting our Christmas season, we are a tourist attraction staffed by volunteers.
Once the migrated 2nd line is live I can transfer WAN 2 ethernet over from the 1st to the 2nd and make this business broadband permanent.
What setting do I need to configure on the SH2?
What specific setting did you make on the 2860 over and above the information in the DrayTek's
"How to configure WAN Backup or Failover", document ?
I hope you can help us.
JohnP