Not sure how much bandwidth you need but as @jond mentioned, mobile phone Hotspots are great. Guessing if your needs are work or serious enterprise level service, that wont do. Not considering Starlink? I've no idea what the Tmobile solution is/costs but Starlink is around $120 to $140 per month. Interested in how your redundant internet is solved as we may build a house in rural VA so will be seeking a "wireless" solution there. Here in Alaska at my cabin, i can stream video rates on my ATT phone hotspot. Until tourists arrive and use up the tower bandwidth. At home it's cable delivery.
Redundant Internet
My power went out last night for about 5 hours. Despite my network hardware being on a UPS, the Internet service went out anyway. Seems they use the same power feed my house does. When the power came back on late last night the Internet did not.
This used to be routine, then they fixed it, now we are back to unreliable.
As a result I’m investing in an inexpensive edge router and getting TMobile home internet as a fallback. The long term reviews for Tmobile home Internet were mixed. At first users loved it, then after a couple of months the performance seems to have deteriorated significantly. Hopefully it is now better an with a little luck I won’t have both go out at once.
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@erik_squires unless Tmobile has the absolute best coverage where you are at, I wouldn’t go with them. They are very aggressive in their throttling when they think you have used too much. Granted, all carriers throttle, but I have used AT&T, Verizon and TMobile for this for various applications over the years, and with AT&T have been able to watch entire F1 races without throttling, that has not been possible on both Verizon and T-Mobile, with Tmobile being their worst. also, you can configure it to automatically failover, you may want to look at a SD-WAN device for ease of use. |
ATT put fiber in my back yard a few years ago. Internet has been very stable. Had a couple of short late-night outages that I think were maintenance. I run a late schedule. If I’d been working “normal” hours I might not have seen it. Unlike my Spectrum/Charter experience, upload and download speeds are blazing fast. Seeing email and talking to neighbors, cable in general can still be problematic and customer service isn’t great (which is why I dropped Spectrum completely). Have had good luck with cell hotspots when I’ve needed them (ATT). But I live in a metro area with good coverage. |
Hey @jond and @akgwhiz - That is fine for work stuff, but I also have a lot of home automation, and of course, music and video streaming that goes on. To use a hotspot I have to re-configure each device independently to switch from the wired network to the hotspot. Certainly not really a workable solution for my fire alarms, thermostats, lights, etc. but I have done this to get my Roku working. That’s why I’m going to attempt an automated, redundant, dual-Internet setup. I’ll put a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter before my home Wifi router, and that will connect to my two Internet modems. I hope. |
@fredrik222 Thanks!! I'll keep that in mind. I'm going with them because they are already my cell provider and I know I get good coverage at home. Hopefully I won't be using it more than a couple of hours a month. :) |
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