I Need a SOHO Dual-Wan Router

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Mar 26, 2008, 10:03:24 AM3/26/08

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I am looking for a Simple, inexpensive, Dual WAN router for my SOHO office.

Cable is 90% reliable, but my office depends on the WEB and email, so I need
that other 10%, Want to add DSL as a "fall-over"

Don't need VOIP, or load ballancing, just fall-over for when the the cable
network decides to be, uhm, flakey. I will be using a 12Meg Cable and a 768K
DSL. The DSL is enough to "function" and to be able to report the cable as
down... Fiber is not available where I am.

Looked at the Netgear stuff (FVS124G) but the reviews say don't bother and
that it is being disconinued.

Most of the other affordable (I am a small business not the office of a
monster) Dual WAN routers also have mostly bad, or at least troubling,
reviews.

Don't even need muti-ports, as I have a 24-port switch right behind my
router.

Hotbrick, XinCom, D-Link, Edimax, Hawking and Netgear were all on my list. I
tried to get a netgear (it was cheap) but the product never arrived, so I am
starting over.

You can email me directly if you have anything worth sharing.

Bob
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inspectionsbybob
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Yousuf Khan

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Mar 27, 2008, 8:20:56 PM3/27/08

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Comcast news wrote:
> I am looking for a Simple, inexpensive, Dual WAN router for my SOHO office.
>
> Cable is 90% reliable, but my office depends on the WEB and email, so I need
> that other 10%, Want to add DSL as a "fall-over"
>
> Don't need VOIP, or load ballancing, just fall-over for when the the cable
> network decides to be, uhm, flakey. I will be using a 12Meg Cable and a 768K
> DSL. The DSL is enough to "function" and to be able to report the cable as
> down... Fiber is not available where I am.
>
> Looked at the Netgear stuff (FVS124G) but the reviews say don't bother and
> that it is being disconinued.
>
> Most of the other affordable (I am a small business not the office of a
> monster) Dual WAN routers also have mostly bad, or at least troubling,
> reviews.

Well, unfortunately, pretty much all routers whether they are dual-WAN
or not will have troubling reviews. That's just the nature of the game,
since these routers are passively cooled rather than actively cooled
(i.e. with a fan). Your best bet to improve reliability of a router is
to put it into an air-conditioned computer room, which most home users
do not have access to.

Yousuf Khan

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Mar 30, 2008, 10:51:13 AM3/30/08

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My Netgear init showed up...

I flashed it to the latest version and brought it up...

I am not sure about the fallover timing...seems a bit slow..

I need 4 timeouts 15 seconds appart thats a long time in my world... but I
don't know how tight I can make it.

Time will tell if it works...

Yousuf Khan

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Mar 31, 2008, 7:42:51 PM3/31/08

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Have you tested it by unplugging one of the cables on the fly?

Yousuf Khan

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Apr 2, 2008, 9:24:57 AM4/2/08

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The fall over works fine...

the recovery, back to primary is a bit reluctant...

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Yousuf Khan

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Apr 4, 2008, 1:31:31 AM4/4/08

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> The fall over works fine...
>
> the recovery, back to primary is a bit reluctant...

Well, I guess that's probably just cautious design. If one link fails
and then comes back, then the router might be a little suspicious to
send data out through that link again, just in case it might fail again.

Try unplugging the secondary link to force it to use the primary link
quicker.

Yousuf Khan