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| Thread ID: 136115 | 2014-01-21 00:01:00 | More than 1 ISP | jwin (16186) | PC World Chat |
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| 1365692 | 2014-01-21 00:01:00 | Hi Im just researching how a business would setup more than 1 ISP for redundancy for an office. Ive tried searching on google but not really coming up with anything, maybe im typing in the wrong search criteria. The bit im really stuck on is if you have say 3 connections from 3 different ISP's how is payment structured do you pay for all 3 at the same rate or do you pay for 1 until it fails then start paying for the other one? If anyone knows how to do this or has a link they could share would be awesome Cheers |
jwin (16186) | ||
| 1365693 | 2014-01-21 00:10:00 | You would have to pay for multiple connections/phone lines at the same time, but you can get other benefits from doing this too. If you get a multi WAN load balancing router, you can use the internet connections at the same time. So faster net, and redundancy. Something like the DrayTek Vigor 2860 is good, although there are cheaper around, TP-Link used to make a half decent one. Double the speed of your internet, and built in redundancy (as much as you can anyway). What's not to like? |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 1365694 | 2014-01-21 02:14:00 | Awesome wratterus thanks for the reply this helps out loads I didn't and haven't even heard of a WAN load balancing router before Cheers |
jwin (16186) | ||
| 1365695 | 2014-01-21 02:42:00 | Usually you'd (I would?) run one as a primary and have another as a "failover". Load-balancing can get messy, if you start doing things like VoIP. It expects data to come in one connection but it comes from another, or one ISP delays things a little more by adding a few hops, and things can go belly up real quick... Alternatively, set _specific_ things to be routed out one connection, other things to be routed out the other... |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1365696 | 2014-01-21 03:02:00 | The telecom technicolor modems have a USB port you can put a 4g modem into for a backup connection. This is what we have at work for our fibre connection. There must be other modems available to do this. Before moving to fibre if Internet went down we used one of the work cell phones connected to a computer and shared the internet from there | plod (107) | ||
| 1365697 | 2014-01-21 03:50:00 | It's dubious how much benefit you'd get, they all tend to share the same cable route into the building unless you are prepared to pay for a diverse cable terminal and a secondary route and things can get expensive very quickly, they also can end up using the same equipment in the exchange despite different ISPs. You would be protected from faults in the network to a large degree but a cable fault could theoretically effect all connections and wouldn't be any safer if you used 3 ISP's or 3 connections from 1. I'd personally reccomend talking to your prospective ISP's about what they can offer by way of a secure or redundant connection. For larger companies using fibre they often have diverse fibre routes and pay accordingly, I've had some involvement in designing that and it isn't cheap (but I have no Idea how much of the cost is passed onto the customer and how much chorus absorbs) Don't ask me about costs though I won't discuss it. Business connections tend to have service level agreements where they garauntee a fault response/fix in a certain amount of time, home connections are a "best effort" service and have no garauntees. |
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| 1365698 | 2014-01-22 02:19:00 | Thanks guys for all your replies you have made it a lot easier to understand | jwin (16186) | ||
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