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Posted on 1/24/24 at 9:40 pm to TJG210
I doubt a redundant connection would solve your issues totally, OP. It would help for general web browsing but live applications like video/voice calls.. probably not.
At a minimum you'll experience a few dropped packets when failing over, which can cause disconnects on its own. In addition, you'll be switching to a different IP. For security reasons, I believe most live applications would drop the session and force you to reconnect when changing public IPs.
Without pouring over the technical docs of the applications you're using its nearly impossible to know whether the extra money would do anything.
Get on AT&T fiber.
At a minimum you'll experience a few dropped packets when failing over, which can cause disconnects on its own. In addition, you'll be switching to a different IP. For security reasons, I believe most live applications would drop the session and force you to reconnect when changing public IPs.
Without pouring over the technical docs of the applications you're using its nearly impossible to know whether the extra money would do anything.
Get on AT&T fiber.
This post was edited on 1/24/24 at 9:41 pm
Posted on 1/24/24 at 10:54 pm to Korkstand
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They will probably still drop for a bit before resuming on the redundant connection. You may not notice it while doing misc browsing and such but if you have an active video or voice call at the time then you will probably notice or maybe have to restart the call.
Roughly consistent with my experience.
Office has dual-WAN with failover (Unifi USG still going strong. I don’t do the advanced security and only have 100-200mbps connections). When I force a failover, we will often drop phone calls (it would be a rare experience to not drop it. It’s happened. But they almost always drop). Streaming video may stutter but depends on the buffer.
As you’re browsing websites, you would never know the difference (in the vast majority of end-user settings with a handful of caveats or “but this one time” stories).rarely, you must refresh a page or video, but that’s unusual in my experience.
Posted on 1/25/24 at 7:57 am to Hopeful Doc
I hate ATT the company, but their fiber is legit. Two house with zero issues. About $70/month.
Posted on 1/27/24 at 5:16 pm to TJG210
I know its not ideal, but you may already have redundancy in the form of a mobile hotspot on you cell phone. Anytime my internet drops I just switch it on and am good to go.
Although, I say this assuming most new cell plans come with tethering included.
Although, I say this assuming most new cell plans come with tethering included.
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