Fibre redundancy

[kjbanks]

Fibre redundancy - so question is with Vumatel going down a few days a month in Krugersdorp area would one suggest going open server ? or ideal would be both accounts ? is that really what we have come to to get stability ?

So ideally run an Openserve account and Vumatel one ?

Then next question would be plugging in both POE's into the same router ? and load balance the Nat ? or is there a simpler solution ?

 

[axsis]

I'm with Octotel and my Net went down for 2 days due to maintenance. I'd also like to know what the best option for redundancy is but also I wouldn't go LTE because that may not be reliable enough.

The cost is a pain but at least I wouldn't be disrupted when either the Fiber or the ISP specifically for that FNO goes haywire.

 

[ghostRgg]

Fibre redundancy - so question is with Vumatel going down a few days a month in Krugersdorp area would one suggest going open server ? or ideal would be both accounts ? is that really what we have come to to get stability ?

So ideally run an Openserve account and Vumatel one ?

Then next question would be plugging in both POE's into the same router ? and load balance the Nat ? or is there a simpler solution ?

FTTH shouldn't go down often, the way its built it has been stable enough for people to run many companies from home, but for redundancy, you have a few options.

Best solution - 1 Fibre line, 1 Solid network LTE backup, load balanced to auto-swap over. You can opt to have two fibre lines (Openserve and Vumatel) but when there is a break locally, both tend to have its issues, as in a physical break at the road, not much you can do, hence LTE is the go-to.

Other solution, SLA agreement for FTTB (Buisness fibre) which has become more affordable but just as expensive, then you know it will be solved in 6 hours or less (example).

Apocalypse solution - FTTH load-balanced over to a 10mbps (or so) FTTB with an LTE backup. Tripple load-balanced over, with the option of even throwing on starlink for a full (I never want to leave the internet) solution.