Re: Internet connectivity - 4G backup

I appreciate both responses thus far.

I've talked to one techie at Verizon who doesn't know if and/or how this
'transparency' would work. He's going to get an engineer on the phone Real
Soon Now.

We're a small company, so ISP redundancy has simply been a dream for us.
But I assumed, maybe erroneously, that there were other, larger companies
that had ISP redundancy as a matter of course. If they do, I guess they
would already have techy people to do whatever might have been required in
case of an outage.



On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 11:45 PM, Ken Sims <mdrg8066@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Jeff -

On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:34:35 -0400, Jeff Crosby
<jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Anybody know how such a connection would work if Comcast went down?

(Other

than speed, that is. I know it would be slower.) We have 5 static IPs

and

DNS would still have to point here, right?
blahblahblah.dilgardfoods.comwould still have to get to IP address
111.222.333.444 whether Comcast was
up or not.

If the speed is acceptable on both providers you could use round-robin
DNS with parallel static IP addresses on each provider. But that
would mean that all incoming connections would be split approximately
50-50 between the two providers.

If your backup provider is enough slower to be unacceptable except as
a last resort, then I'm with David, I think this is going to be
difficult to pull off in any kind of transparent way.

Ken
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