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Creating WAN failover
I'm trying to create a WAN failover, as the cable internet connection from my ISP fails occasionally. Currently I have the following set up. As a modem I am using a Fritzbox 6690 cable modem, which i...
I'd quit trying to gimmick it up if you want stability.
I'd look at picking up a cheap edgerouterx. Its a cheaper option that supports dual wan with failover.
so you'd go modem's (in passthrough mode)---->edge routerx---->SXR (in access point mode)
Thanks for your reply. If I understand it right, I can go for a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X, connect both the Fritzbox cable modem and Pepwave modem to it and run the third RJ45 cable to the WAN port on the Orbi SXR80, right? That would be an awesome and pretty simple solution.
Rumor is Netgear will enter the market with a multi-port, partially Multi-Gig equipped, dual WAN-router. However, the Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X is hard to beat (in price-performance) wit it's < 50 USD price tag.
For now, the only multi WAN Orbi is the LTE version, but unfortunately not compatible with my existing Orbi satellites. Would be looking forward to the dual WAN routers, as several competitors have that capability already. Fail-over setups becomes more and more important these days.
As you suggested, I hooked up the Edgerouter X between my two ISP's and the SRX80. Configured port 1 and 2 on the Edgerouter X as WAN connections for the ISP's, port 0 should go to LAN. Should I then run an ethernet from port 0 on the Edgerouter X to the WAN port of the SRX80 router or to one of the LAN ports? Because I'm not getting an internet connection, although both ISP's seem to be working fine on the Edgerouter X.
I'm not a edgeroutex expert so their forums might be good. but if the SXR is in AP mode, it should be running from the edgerouter to the wan port on the SXR.
So far, no luck to get it up and running smoothly 🥴 I've searched in different forums and on Youtube, but so far I can't find an explanation on how to set it up with an existing router such as the SXR80 in between it. The SXR80 doesn't seem to accept the WAN connection from the Edgerouter X. I'm under the impression there's an IP conflict somewhere, now its the challenge to find out where the IP conflict is 😅
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