Switch Between WAN/LTE on schedule

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Hopefully I'm asking in the right place.
I've seen this discussed before,and now that i think about it,I might have thought of an additional cost hardware solution.

I have very poor ADSL connectivity,thinking of getting the rain LTE and dropping the ADSL service to 2mbps or 4mbps(whichever is available/cheapest).

Scenario : Use Rain LTE Uncapped add on for regular internet browsing until 17:55,then switch over to ADSL Automatically until the following day at 8am,whereby ADSL becomes the primary connection.

I have an ASUS N14U and a Gargoyle router.
My idea was to use this guide - https://itbusters.wordpress.com/201...lover-between-wan-and-3g-on-tp-link-wr1043nd/

And get a timer for the plug the modem goes into.Kill the modems power between 8am-5:54pm and have it auto switch over.Looking for a software solution so I dont have to buy the timer though.

Any ideas?
 
Asus N14U runs AsusWRT, which is basically a custom fork of OpenWRT, I believe. That said, the root filesystem is read only, and 100% full, so I'm not 100% sure how one goes about configuring additional apps or cron jobs on it.

Regardless, the N14U DOES support configuration of an ethernet port as a WAN uplink, which you could use for the RAIN modem. I'd look at scheduling a job that simply switches the default route between the two options at a particular time. Or possibly keeps both default routes, and simply updates the metric of the preferred route may be better.
 
RoganDawes said:
Asus N14U runs AsusWRT, which is basically a custom fork of OpenWRT, I believe. That said, the root filesystem is read only, and 100% full, so I'm not 100% sure how one goes about configuring additional apps or cron jobs on it.

Regardless, the N14U DOES support configuration of an ethernet port as a WAN uplink, which you could use for the RAIN modem. I'd look at scheduling a job that simply switches the default route between the two options at a particular time. Or possibly keeps both default routes, and simply updates the metric of the preferred route may be better.
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Thanks for getting back to me.
Looks like it might be more complicated than expected.

My new plan is get this Plug for the ADSL modem (scheduled off/on),then setup the Gargoyle Router to auto failover to the 3G connection when the WAN link goes down
 
It really shouldn't be that complicated, I'd certainly give it a try first before running out and spending extra cash on wifi-connected devices to turn OFF the wifi access point! :-)
 
Did you manage to get this method working ? I would have tried doing it with a mikrotik switch but no idea if you can add time management to a port etc to turn on or off at times
 
If you can run OpenWrt or Gargoyle on your Asus router then you can enable multi-wan and have ADSL on wan 1 and LTE(through a LTE router LAN) on wan 2.
Enable Cron and schedule your wan switch accordingly
 
Why don't you try writing a batch script that changes your gateway (and IP if necessary) and add it to Windows task scheduler?
 
netstrider said:
Why don't you try writing a batch script that changes your gateway (and IP if necessary) and add it to Windows task scheduler?
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This actually worked for me but limits you to just your windows devices.

What animehero is looking for is to have dual WAN connections for his whole network to switch between....
In fact, I found this post because I've been searching to try and do the exact same thing...
 
I have a super awesome setup using a Mikrotik RouterBoard that switches between my 2 rain and Telkom LTE routers on schedule. Works like a charm.

I'll document my setup and post it here sometime over the weekend.
 
yeah, I've also got my mikrotik to switch between LTE (Rain) and Ethernet (WAN -WISP) at certain time schedules.

Thought it would be a mission, but got it working pretty quickly.
 
Sn@p said:
I have a super awesome setup using a Mikrotik RouterBoard that switches between my 2 rain and Telkom LTE routers on schedule. Works like a charm.
I'll document my setup and post it here sometime over the weekend.
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I do have an old Mikrotik but could never get it to work properly
Keen to see how a working setup is configured ...........
 
OK so this is what I have done:

My devices are, 2 LTE routers connected via ethernet, Microtik RB433 from the good old days when WUG was a thing.

The two LTE routers have the following IP configured:
RAIN Router - 172.16.2.1
Telkom Router - 172.16.3.1

I have disabled DHCP on both the LTE routers.

Step 1:
Assign static addresses to the interfaces.
Go to the menu IP>Addresses and configure 3 interfaces, I used:
Int 1 -> 172.16.1.1 - Internal network
Int 2 -> 172.16.2.2 - Network to RAIN Router
Int 3 -> 172.16.3.2 - Network to Telkom Router

Step 2:
Add the default routes.
Go to the menu IP>Routes and add 2 static routes

routes.PNG

It's important to add the comments to each route as the scheduler uses this to disable the routes.

Step 3:
Configure NAT
Go to the menu IP>Firewall and select the NAT tab.
Check the "enable" checkbox.
Add Src. Address 172.16.1.0/24
Change Action to Masquerade

Step 4:
Configure the sceduler
Go to the menu System>Scheduler
Add a schedule to disable the "RAIN" route
Name: Disable RAIN
Start Time: 17:50:00
Interval : 1d 00:00:00
On Even: ip route disable [find comment=RAIN]
Leave all the policy checkboxes checked

Add a second schedule to Enable the "RAIN" route
Name: Enable RAIN
Start Time: 23:10:00
Interval : 1d 00:00:00
On Even: ip route enable [find comment=RAIN]
Leave all the policy checkboxes checked

Step 5:
Configure DHCP
Go to the menu IP>DHCP Server
Select "DHCP Setup" and follow the prompts, interface ether1 is where the DHCP server should listen for DHCP requests
Configure with the following ranges:
Address: 172.16.1.0/24
Gateway: 172.16.1.1
DNS Servers: 172.16.1.1

Step 6:
Configure DNS
Go to the menu IP>DNS
Add the following:
Servers 8.8.8.8 or any DNS server(s) you prefer.

And thats it, the RouterBoard should now disable the static route to the "RAIN" router and traffic should go to the "Telkom" Router during 17h50 and 23H10 daily.
 
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Sn@p said:
OK so this is what I have done:

My devices are, 2 LTE routers connected via ethernet, Microtik RB433 from the good old days when WUG was a thing.

The two LTE routers have the following IP configured:
RAIN Router - 172.16.2.1
Telkom Router - 172.16.3.1

I have disabled DHCP on both the LTE routers.

Step 1:
Assign static addresses to the interfaces.
Go to the menu IP>Addresses and configure 3 interfaces, I used:
Int 1 -> 172.16.1.1 - Internal network
Int 2 -> 172.16.2.2 - Network to RAIN Router
Int 3 -> 172.16.3.2 - Network to Telkom Router

Step 2:
Add the default routes.
Go to the menu IP>Routes and add 2 static routes

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It's important to add the comments to each route as the scheduler uses this to disable the routes.

Step 3:
Configure NAT
Go to the menu IP>Firewall and select the NAT tab.
Check the "enable" checkbox.
Add Src. Address 172.16.1.0/24
Change Action to Masquerade

Step 4:
Configure the sceduler
Go to the menu System>Scheduler
Add a schedule to disable the "RAIN" route
Name: Disable RAIN
Start Time: 17:50:00
Interval : 1d 00:00:00
On Even: ip route disable [find comment=RAIN]
Leave all the policy checkboxes checked

Add a second schedule to Enable the "RAIN" route
Name: Enable RAIN
Start Time: 23:10:00
Interval : 1d 00:00:00
On Even: ip route enable [find comment=RAIN]
Leave all the policy checkboxes checked

Step 5:
Configure DHCP
Go to the menu IP>DHCP Server
Select "DHCP Setup" and follow the prompts, interface ether1 is where the DHCP server should listen for DHCP requests
Configure with the following ranges:
Address: 172.16.1.0/24
Gateway: 172.16.1.1
DNS Servers: 172.16.1.1

Step 6:
Configure DNS
Go to the menu IP>DNS
Add the following:
Servers 8.8.8.8 or any DNS server(s) you prefer.

And thats it, the RouterBoard should now disable the static route to the "RAIN" router and traffic should go to the "Telkom" Router during 17h50 and 23H10 daily.
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is there any way to do these changes manually using an access point? let me give you my network setup currently.
I have two lte routers. one is my one and one is my wifes one. my one is Huawei B818 and my wifes is a Huawei B535. my one is used for streaming netflix and youtube etc at night. where as my wifes router is used during the day for her work. i have assigned static IP addresses to each router being

Router 1: 192.168.8.1 and router 2: 192.168.8.2.

Both routers then connect to a switch. i then have a lan cable from the switch that runs from a room at the top of my property where the routers are placed for better signal down to my house. it is then plugged to a wireless access point. (TP Link Access Point) Now i want to know how i can change which router is providing the internet service on my access point? it seems that the only router that provides internet is router 1. i am at a loss here.

Router 1 has dhcp on and set to 192.168.8.100 to 192.168.8.150
Router 2 has dhcp on and set to 192.168.8.151 to 192.168.8.254

my access point has a static IP address set to 192.168.8.2 with dhcp off. ( i have tried with it on too and seems to make no difference)

on the gateway of my access point i have it set to 0.0.0.0
although i thought this is where you tell it where to get internet from, i.e. 192.168.8.1 being router 1 and 192.138.8.2 for router 2. but changing this does nothing and defaults to router 1 every time.
 
Router 1 and 2 need to be on different subnets, at he moment they are both on the 8.x, maybe change router 2 to 5.x and see if that helps.
 
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