Continuous uptime with dial-up if broadband goes down?

Cymru · Post by **Cymru** » Mon Aug 11, 2003 12:30 pm

I'm looking for some recommendations. Recently our broadband connection was down for a few days. I have a limited amount of options available to me since the phone co does not offer DSL at my business location.

Is there a router that will automatically sense that the broadband is down and switch to dial-up without having to change anything on the server or workstations?

I've found one such thing but I was wondering if anyone had some recommendations.here

cyberskye · Post by **cyberskye** » Mon Aug 11, 2003 1:27 pm

Sonicwalls are nice. I have the soho3 and love it - tho my model doesn't have backup/dial up.

Nexland Pro Series also have serial backup ports. http://www.nexland.com - this will redirect you to symantec, who just bought nexland.

Skye

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Tue Aug 19, 2003 1:43 pm

Love Sonicwalls myself, suggest you go with them for a business solution.

If your budget prevents a better solution like that, even with some entry level routers, there are a few brands out there that have a broadband router with failover dial up, such as SMC (although not one of my favorite brands...just an illustration that there are some out there)

http://www.smc.com/index.cfm?sec=Produc ... =67&site=c

hardnut · Post by **hardnut** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 8:02 pm

If you have an old pentium based computer lying around (I dare say most businesses, and half the folk that use this forum would) then how about trying a linux based firewall solution?

I use IPCop at home and know that it can do exactly this. I dare say others would also work.

IPCop is free, save for the cost of a couple of NIC's and whatever else you might want (CDROM, monitor, keyboard, etc optional)