On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 09:06:50AM +0000, Mark Rogers wrote:
I have seen various 3G routers which support fallback from a WAN connection, so in theory an ADSL router with a 3G router behind it would work - but in terms of simplicity and reliability it's very hard not to go Draytek on this one.
Yes, it seems fairly common on 3G routers to support failover but very few (almost none) have the ADSL in the same box.
I have two ADSL connections and could find *nothing* at a sane price that would handle both connections, I've ended up with the Draytek 2820n which provides failover/sharing to a 'WAN' (i.e. ethernet) connection and on the second connection I have a BT 'business hub' (i.e. a 2-wire ADSL router).
So essentially I'm doing similar to "in theory an ADSL router with a 3G router behind it" but with the sharing/failover ability in the ADSL router.
Thanks for the advice.
If anyone's actually used the 3G feature I'd be interested to know how straightforward that was?
Setting up the 2820n to *share* the two ADSL connection needed some help from their support people, the web setup is extensive and complex and I think has quite a lot of redundant stuff in it (i.e. several ways of doing the same thing). It does work pretty reliably though. It *looks* as if setting up failover is more straightforward, I assume the 3G/ADSL failover setup would be similar.