bubbaQ Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 At this location, cable periodically has bad hair days for Internet access. Usually just a few minutes, but sometimes a couple of hours. Although all my equipment is on UPS, all of that is worthless for getting notifications from unRAID when Internet is out. And I have to reconfigure my laptop as a router, open a dial-up connection, and live without my laptop until the cable Internet is back. I want to get a home router that has fallback to dial-up. Any recommendations? Also, I would be nice it it will run Tomato or DD-WRT firmware. Quote Link to comment
Chris Pollard Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 smoothwall? Pretty sure you could get an old Cisco box to do the job from ebay, just need a box with a WIC-1AM and whatever other interfaces you need. You wont like configuring a Cisco if you never used one however Quote Link to comment
bbrodka Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 You might want to consider a multi wan router. I have one capable of 4 different routes I use 2 DSL lines (Different companies) and Cable to feed the thing http://www.edimax.us/ If one provider is out, everything just keeps on working For what you pay for a dial up account and a phone line you could have a second broadband connection, load balancing, and redundant paths google multi wan router http://www.google.com/search?q=multi+wan+wouter&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a Quote Link to comment
bubbaQ Posted February 1, 2010 Author Share Posted February 1, 2010 For what you pay for a dial up account and a phone line you could have a second broadband connection, load balancing, and redundant paths Really? I pay zero for dialup, and the land-line is mandatory for other purposes, so it has zero incremental cost.... whereas naked DSL is $50/mo. Quote Link to comment
bubbaQ Posted February 4, 2010 Author Share Posted February 4, 2010 FWIW, I've found some candidates: SMC Barricade 7004AWB D-Link DI-824VUP NetGear ProSafe FWG114P While both do dialup fallback, unfortunately, I don't think either is speedy to keep up with a 20mbps WAN connection. Quote Link to comment
sosdk Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 I think it's possible to build your own router that can do this and use PfSense. I've only just started looking into PfSense so I'm not 100% sure. Quote Link to comment
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