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Router - Dual WAN
A company I support has awful Internet access due to the cable company having issues.
There is another cable provider available.
The question: which router can have two different WAN ports connected and will automatically fail-over if it senses a outage? There are no VPNs. The internet connection is to get to cloud based CRM systems that are business critical.
So - a router / switch with two different WAN ports plugged in and has auto-sensing capability.
Thanks.
Darryl
I'd go for a FVS336Gv3 and buy a dedicated AP. You can use the FVS318N kind of like an AP by doing the following;
*Factory default the FVS318N
*Change management IP since the default IP of the FVS318N is the same as the FVS336Gv3
*Turn off the FVS318N DHCP server
*Create a wireless SSID
*Plug the FVS318N in to the FVS336Gv3 using a LAN port (so LAN-LAN), do not plug anything in to the WAN port
This is assuming that you don't use multiple VLANs in which case you may need some additional configuration. But like I said a dedicated AP is probably a good idea anyways.
Attaching possible topology with the FVS318N:
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fvs336gv3 should work, I only hvae one single provider here so cannot test specifically but the 336 supposed to do auto fallover between wan ports.
Is there a WiFi version of the FVS336v3? or just a Access Point? we have a single WAN port Netgear now. i think that can be made a AP.
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