Bsnl as backup

[Nifty]

May anyone actually using merged broadband tell me true benefits of merged connections, are there any hiccups expected?

 

[Deleted member 10390]

Think about it like this,

You would need to dial and connect to exchange on both Airtel and BSNL connections. Normally this done within the modem. Either your Dual WAN router should be able to do that, or you would need separate devices for it. Now that your line is active, you can do whatever with it. Merging, setting up WiFi, using as LAN etc

If you merge two connections, secure site view it as a threat. You won't be able do things like online banking on a merged connection.

 

[Sushubh]

I googled and it appears that dual wan routers have settings to ensure that ssl web content is accessed from the selected connection. @Nishant can confirm if his TP-Link model has a setting like that.

 

[Deleted member 10390]

@Nishant did say

[Although I am not using the router on load balancing mode but on link backup mode (when primary connection fails it switches to BSNL and when it comes back up it reverts to primary connection). Using it on load balancing mode affects the speed of torbox downloads and Google peering./QUOTE]

 

[Sushubh]

because his local isp has torbox and google peering. airtel does not support torbox and i am going to guess that google performance would be similar on airtel and bsnl. and he should be able to configure individual domains to run on either of the isp in configurations if there are any issues.

 

[Deleted member 10390]

I was focusing on the first sentence in quote.

 

[Nishant]

I did read that merged connection can cause issues while accessing secure banking and financial sites. I do not remember seeing a setting where we can route a particular connection via a particular wan interface. Maybe we can use the 'routing' option, not sure. Will have to check. In case someone wants to have a look at various settings, here's an emulator of the router.

TP-LINK

 

[Sushubh]

Should be doable here:
www.tp-link.com/resources/simulator/TL-R470T+/userRpm/Static_Route.htm

@vedantlath might be able to help.

 

[Nifty]

As it's an office use broadband, and trading too, I think that trading software will also have a problem in changing data connection as it will see it as a threat and if so trading software might get disconnected frequently as and when connection changes, and I will have to login multiple times due to that

If it's true, it's of no good use to me, then better thing will be to manually switch to 2nd broadband and be in peace for sometime

 

[Sushubh]

Trading again happens over SSL so it should be fairly easy to restrict all HTTPS sites to one of the two connections which is stable in your experience. The point is that you have to decide if it makes sense for you. It is not an out of the box solution and you would need to continually tinker with the settings to fix any bugs you face. Once you are used to adding troublesome sites to one of the two connections, I do not see any thing major that should cause issues.