Mobile hotspot as a contingency network connection?

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Joseph DeGarmo

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Recently, my service with Time Warner has been bad. I had more service outages this month alone than I did all of last year. I'm considering switching my service to AT&T. I had AT&T DSL before and have not had any service outage issues with them. I still have the AT&T modem with me. However, AT&T is only offering internet speeds in my area which is about one-third of the speed I'm getting with Time Warner and their plans impose a 250 GB data cap. I was also thinking about getting a prepaid mobile hotspot device which I could connect to the PC (using a USB Wi-Fi adapter) and my tablet. If I set up a network connection to the PC from the mobile hotspot, could I set it up as a backup connection? In other words, each time a Time Warner service outage occurs, could the PC automatically switch the network connection to the mobile hotspot without interruption to the internet connection?
 
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The main problem with any of this type of software is what does "down" mean. You will never actually have the ethernet go down unless you turn off your router. What happens if you get 50% data loss is that down.

I would do in manually to start and see if you can get by with that. There are a couple ways to switch the connection. You can change the metric on the interface but I find the easy way is to use the ROUTE command. Open a cmd window in admin mode. First do route print. You should see 2 0.0.0.0 routes. The metric determines which is used and this is set in the settings. Ethernet almost always has a better metric.

Still it does not matter. You will want to delete the 0.0.0.0 for the connection that is your...
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http://www.connectify.me/dispatch/

They can help you setup multiple connections you your computer.

That is the only software loadbalancer i know of. maybe someone else here has a different alternative.
 
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The main problem with any of this type of software is what does "down" mean. You will never actually have the ethernet go down unless you turn off your router. What happens if you get 50% data loss is that down.

I would do in manually to start and see if you can get by with that. There are a couple ways to switch the connection. You can change the metric on the interface but I find the easy way is to use the ROUTE command. Open a cmd window in admin mode. First do route print. You should see 2 0.0.0.0 routes. The metric determines which is used and this is set in the settings. Ethernet almost always has a better metric.

Still it does not matter. You will want to delete the 0.0.0.0 for the connection that is your backup. When you want it to fail over just delete the other 0.0.0.0 route and add the 0.0.0.0 route back with the gateway of your secondary connection.

The other way to do this if you just don't want to deal with these commands is just unplug the ethernet cable it will switch to the other connection and when you plug the ethernet back in it will switch back.


A small add. No matter what you do you will see a interruption to the connection. The ip address you are using changes which causes all connections to close. Not a big deal for web surfing but other things may be affected more.
 
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