Greetings,
I will be testing the roll out of fiber in my neighborhood for the ISP. When testing I intend on using the new fiber connection as my primary internet connection and would like to use my current cable connection for fallback connectivity when they are patching and terminating connections. Hopefully this will not be too frequent but since I will be the first one connected to the system I can only assume that there will be disruptions. My router does have dual WAN with fallback sensing capability but I would prefer not to use it in this situation. However I am pretty sure I am going to have little to no choice.
Does anyone know of a device I can put before my router’s wan port that I can plug the two WANs into and one output cable to the router? I have scoured the internet and cannot find anything. Of course, if such a device exists I do not know what it is called so that can lead to search result issues as well. The best I can find that could do this is an ethernet A/B switch that is manually operated, this will get the job done but I was hoping for something capable of remote manual operation through IR or RF as the switch will need to be in a location with poor access.
Any ideas or recommendations?
Thanks!
I will be testing the roll out of fiber in my neighborhood for the ISP. When testing I intend on using the new fiber connection as my primary internet connection and would like to use my current cable connection for fallback connectivity when they are patching and terminating connections. Hopefully this will not be too frequent but since I will be the first one connected to the system I can only assume that there will be disruptions. My router does have dual WAN with fallback sensing capability but I would prefer not to use it in this situation. However I am pretty sure I am going to have little to no choice.
Does anyone know of a device I can put before my router’s wan port that I can plug the two WANs into and one output cable to the router? I have scoured the internet and cannot find anything. Of course, if such a device exists I do not know what it is called so that can lead to search result issues as well. The best I can find that could do this is an ethernet A/B switch that is manually operated, this will get the job done but I was hoping for something capable of remote manual operation through IR or RF as the switch will need to be in a location with poor access.
Any ideas or recommendations?
Thanks!