On 09 Mar 09:06, Mark Rogers wrote:
On 08/03/12 18:17, Chris Green wrote:
Solwise have a couple of possibles, or maybe not, you're after an ADSL router with 3G backup are you? I think that may well almost lock you into Draytek for anything at a sane price. I know I spent a very long time looking for a router that would handle failover (in my case from one ADSL connection to another) and I've ended up with a Draytek 2820n.
We're a Solwise reseller (from years back when we used to sell direct to consumer, we're just project work these days), so I checked Solwise and was surprised how little there was of relevance. Once upon a time I could have relied on them giving me some options.
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.
Thanks for the advice.
If anyone's actually used the 3G feature I'd be interested to know how straightforward that was?
Yup, we did. For a while. Because the ADSL line wasn't enabled in our office at the time...
After a week of sometimes on/sometimes off unpredicatable results using the Draytek 2820, I gave up on that and just used a USB modem attached to a linux box for the 3G instead, it proved a hell of a lot more reliable.