Dual ethernet connections, help..

stefanm

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I have dual ISP's via ethernet, now if one goes down I lose connection until it's restored, especially when the one that's connected via the MB, the other is connected via a USB to ethernet dongle.

How can I make the system (win11) switch automatically and asap?
 
If possible, go for Dual WAN router - you can configure these 2 connections into load-balancing or fail-over. You will not even notice your network dropped from ISP 1 to ISP 2.
Do you have a suggestion or a link? It's not for gaming (that's secondary at best) but for my work.
 
If you have such a router which can be loaded with openwrt then you can use that to convert one of you router's LAN port to a secondary WAN port and then "merge" the connections. They also act as a fallback mechanism.
If you don't have such a router then you can also use a spare PC (any old PC from past 10-12 years is fine) as a dedicated openwrt router. In that case you'd need 3 LAN ports (2 will work as WAN and 1 as LAN to your router which will act as dumb AP).

docs: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wan/multiwan/mwan3

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Dual WAN routers have teaming support with active backup/failover. If you can not manage that, windows has support for bonding or merging connections but haven't used it personally. Shouldn't be that difficult to setup.

Do you have a suggestion or a link? It's not for gaming (that's secondary at best) but for my work.


Look at bridging connection. This should work if not you can use a third party app to achive the same


Again I haven't done it myself so can't comment on accuracy of the article. However I know hardware so anything with dual WAN, openwrt, or LB switch would do the job.

Do keep us posted
 
Look at bridging connection.
This is not the same as Internet WAN failover which the OP is looking for. As others have suggested, the multiple WAN failover feature is available in specific routers or the OP needs to roll his own solution.
 
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The keywords to search for are nic teaming or link aggregation for windows. Historically it was made available only on server os and not for desktop. Not sure if it is available on win 11.
Read it here : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/p...ows-server-2012-R2-and-2012/hh831648(v=ws.11)

Everyone here suggesting for router is because linux provides same same functionality called “bonding” and it is very stable and well tested. As all routers run linux kernel. They provide this functionality and if you have a linux box with multiple nics (even sbc like rpi) it is as easy as running a shell script. Search for “modprobe bonding” and you will get many tutorials about it.
 
Thanks, to be honest that's all above my patience level....
Would this do the trick? https://www.amazon.in/TP-Link-TL-R4...2&hvtargid=pla-343899271660&psc=1&ext_vrnc=hi
Same but for less,

But you should go for the following one as it supports gigabit connections. For future proofing.
 
This is not the same as Internet WAN failover which the OP is looking for. As others have suggested, the multiple WAN failover feature is available in specific routers or the OP needs to roll his own solution.

Well I was looking for something close to Nic teaming/bonding (in Linux/Win server) but yeah not the same. Bottom line is get a LB switch and be done with it. If you can wait a little check of someone here has one to sell. Also do check port speed before placing the order, gigabit is what you should go for.
 
There used to be a software named Connectify Dispatch. It did the job of load balancing and failover over multi internet connections. However it is no longer available.

Load balancing router seems to be best solution at present.
 
Can I connect my two wifi routers to it as well?

Yep, you can. I presume 2 wifi routers you will be using as access points?

I have the version 1.0 edition of the Tplink ER605 which has 5 ports out of which you can configure upto 4 to be WAN mode for load balancing , failover, the last port is fixed as LAN mode.

I see there is a new version 2.0 which has a USB port and this one only max 3 ports can be in WAN mode, remaining 2 in LAN mode.

But overall , my experience has been pretty good with this device.
 
Same but for less,

But you should go for the following one as it supports gigabit connections. For future proofing.

Is moglix a reliable site? It was the ER605 for 3.8k whereas it is 7k on Amazon.
 
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