Charlie
Thu Jul 10 06:41:55 PDT 2008
I've used a dual-WAN router with both fixed IPs, and with one floating. No
difference in behaviour. You can use simple round-robin DNS on them, or set
the DNS to always point to one or the other.
If you use two different ISPs and provider technologies, you'll have some
redundancy if one goes down. I live in an area where power outages are the
norm from November through February, and the Cable line goes down the moment
we get a power outage. My DSL line stays up as long as my UPS lasts. I've
now got the UPS upgraded, and a standbye generator, and can do quite well
even when we're out for days. But when power is up, the cable line has
better bandwidth, so I use it as a preference.
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Charlie.
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"John" <info@nospam.infovis.co.uk> wrote in message
news:uH7m%236o4IHA.1056@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Hi
>
> Thanks for that. Will we still be able to do remote access to the sbs? I
> guess then we get the fixed ip with only one of the WANs?
>
> Thanks
>
> Regards
>
> "SuperGumby [SBS MVP]" <not@your.nellie> wrote in message
> news:%23JRuXXo4IHA.996@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> best, and pretty well only, way is a dual port router.
>>
>> SBS uses one nic to talk to the router which then controls which traffic
>> goes via which internet connection.
>>
>> "John" <info@nospam.infovis.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:%23ZuRNUo4IHA.1192@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> sbs 2003 standard. We have a typical 2 nic setup where our external nic
>>> is connected to a broadband router. We are running short on the
>>> broadband bandwidth as we get an external backup done through it but
>>> also upload large files to our external ftp site. Is there a way to
>>> bring in a second broadband connection into the equation to double the
>>> available broadband bandwidth?
>>>
>>> Many Thanks
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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>