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Re: DSL and Cable?

Tue, 07 Apr 2020 13:58:10 EDT

Pharaoh11 posted : Also Asus has never managed to get fall over and fall back working correctly. Testing of it always show them unplugging the cable which rarely happens in real life.
Fall over works but the firmware detects a connection to the modem as a connection to the internet and keeps switching back and fourth every 3 minutes or so.

Best solution i found so far is to either go for a enterprise solution or build a pfsense router which handles fall over and fall back correctly most of the time.

We have a primary cable connection and and a dsl backup.
Our pfsense box detects when the cable goes down and falls over to the dsl to keep things going.

Re: DSL and Cable?

Mon, 06 Apr 2020 13:49:37 EDT

stormy13 posted :

said by iffs:

said by quidnunc:

Originally we had the cable on an Asus RT-AC5300 and DSL on the SmartRG modem/router combo

more recently I switched to a dual wan router (not on the asus wifi router as it was badly behaved)

It seems that the Asus router that you used is not a model that is for dual WAN, that was probably why it did not work well. According to Asus, the GT-AC5300 is supported, but no mention of the RT-AC5300, and it is only after a specific firmware version.

»www.asus.com/support/FAQ ··· 1037368/

What you linked to has to do with fallover, not whether the router supports dual WAN or not. The RT-AC5300 does in fact support dual WAN, just not fallover/auto-detection.

Re: DSL and Cable?

Sun, 05 Apr 2020 02:21:04 EDT

iffs posted :

said by quidnunc:

Originally we had the cable on an Asus RT-AC5300 and DSL on the SmartRG modem/router combo

more recently I switched to a dual wan router (not on the asus wifi router as it was badly behaved)

Re: DSL and Cable?

Thu, 26 Mar 2020 22:26:51 EDT

Treegravy posted : I have both too. They're both sort of crap, lol. But when one is less crappy I can use that one. Makes a nice option to have in times like this..

Re: DSL and Cable?

Thu, 26 Mar 2020 22:19:18 EDT

rickyricardo posted : I have had DSL and Cable now for months. I got Rogers because the Bell lines were crap. Then Bell came and fixed everything from my house to the switch but Rogers was faster. So I kept both as a backup to each other. Combined $100 a month (0r $105 now I guess) is still better than Rogers or Bell alone and I have redundancy.

Re: DSL and Cable?

Thu, 19 Mar 2020 09:55:29 EDT

Maclarenl posted : To start out, I'll just swap configs on the router level if needed. I'd really just be keeping the DSL as a backup if there's an extended outage (or if I wind up wanting to ditch cable and not pay *yet again* to reactivate service with a company I already do business with).

Some day, when I'm rich, I'd consider paying for both long term and just bridging the connections :P

Re: DSL and Cable?

Thu, 19 Mar 2020 09:33:46 EDT

quidnunc posted : Cable is unreliable here so we've also got dsl as a backup. The main concern if you decide to do it is configuration to switch between them either on router (one router dual wan) or at end user/device (switch between routers)

Originally we had the cable on an Asus RT-AC5300 and DSL on the SmartRG modem/router combo (with wifi and dhcp server disabled) and to switch either it was done with manual config to the DSL gateway in ip settings on the device or via a batch script on PC to switch back and forth (click on "switch to cable" or "switch to dsl" shortcuts on the desktop)

more recently I switched to a dual wan router (not on the asus wifi router as it was badly behaved) and some devices/protocols set to dsl or to cable in the router. downside is having to learn firewall/router software

Re: DSL and Cable?

Wed, 18 Mar 2020 22:03:02 EDT

HiVolt posted :

said by Maclarenl:

Good to know, thanks! I figured there was no technical reason this wouldn't be possible, moreso wondering from an account standpoint.

Nope, no issues with accounting. I think I even had arranged to bill both services on the same day.

Re: DSL and Cable?

Wed, 18 Mar 2020 22:01:33 EDT

Maclarenl posted : Good to know, thanks! I figured there was no technical reason this wouldn't be possible, moreso wondering from an account standpoint.

Re: DSL and Cable?

Wed, 18 Mar 2020 21:59:54 EDT

HiVolt posted : Absolutely you can. I had that long time ago when TekSavvy first started offering cable about 10 years ago. Had DSL & Cable, for the same reason, needed more speed, DSL was just too slow, but DSL was more reliable so I kept both for a few years until VDSL came out.

DSL and Cable?

Wed, 18 Mar 2020 21:56:37 EDT

Maclarenl posted : Is it possible, as an existing Teksavvy customer, to have active cable and DSL internet service? My only option for faster internet speeds, without incurring the wrath of my SO over losing Teksavvy TV, is to move to cable (from DSL), however I'd like to take a couple of months to evaluate stability/speeds/etc... before actually doing a hard cutover.

Is this possible?