Multi-Wan/Load Balancing networking

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I had recently experienced an ISP outage (fibre) which blinded me to my smart home. I have have two fibre ISP's, however only one is connected to to my smart home. I am looking for a multi-wan/load balancing switch (GbE only). The intention is to have my main ISP (500Mbps) as the primary, then second ISP (75Mbps) as a failover and then add a Mobile, LTE/5G as redundancy in the event both fibres are down.

Any recommendations will be appreciated.
 
You can probably look at something like this: https://scoop.co.za/reyee-5-port-gigabit-4-wan-4-poe-60w-cloud-router-rg-eg305gh-p-e.html


I know the Unifi cloud gateway supports 2 wan's, not sure if the LTE addon would give you the third one: https://scoop.co.za/ubiquiti-multi-wan-unifi-cloud-gateway-ultra-ucg-ultra.html
scoop.co.za

Ubiquiti UniFi LTE Pro Wired LTE Back-Up | U-LTE-PRO

Ubiquiti's ULTE-PRO is a wired backup LTE solution for existing UniFi networks. It features a Nano SIM slot and 2x Gigabit Ethernet Ports to provide a redundant WAN Connection. The device also has 2x SMA connections.
scoop.co.za scoop.co.za

What is your budget? What are currently running, Mikrotik, unifi, cisco?
 
@Imoe Is all your traffic outbound or do you have inbound port forwarding also?
 
ItherNiT said:
What is your budget? What are currently running, Mikrotik, unifi, cisco?
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Have a mic of devices, looking at ultimately moving everything to Unifi, but will consider Mikrotik if its more feasible. Not really looking to break the bank, but will invest in something that will give me good value for money,

eddief1 said:
@Imoe Is all your traffic outbound or do you have inbound port forwarding also?
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Mainly outbound, have removed port forwarding/DMZ, but may need to enable in the future.
 
Any views on this:

scoop.co.za

Cudy 5 Port Gigabit Multi-WAN VPN Router | R700

Cudy's CD-R700 features 5x Gigabit Ethernet Ports which are comprised of 3x LAN/WAN ports, 1x dedicated WAN and 1x LAN port. The router supports multi-WAN load balancing, flexible traffic control, DNS over TLS (DoT) and more.
scoop.co.za scoop.co.za

not much resources regarding this device but appears to be an alternative
 
Imoe said:
Any views on this:

scoop.co.za

Cudy 5 Port Gigabit Multi-WAN VPN Router | R700

Cudy's CD-R700 features 5x Gigabit Ethernet Ports which are comprised of 3x LAN/WAN ports, 1x dedicated WAN and 1x LAN port. The router supports multi-WAN load balancing, flexible traffic control, DNS over TLS (DoT) and more.
scoop.co.za scoop.co.za

not much resources regarding this device but appears to be an alternative
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In Mikrotik I use route distance, but Cudy has the same idea

Set each WAN with a metric in order so when your main ISP (metric 1) fails it will go to metric 2, then when that fails to your LTE metric 3

R700

support.cudy.com support.cudy.com

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