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Redundant Internet

My power went out last night for about 5 hours. Despite my network hardware being on a UPS, the Internet service went out anyway. Seems they use the same power feed my house does. When the power came back on late last night the Internet did not.

This used to be routine, then they fixed it, now we are back to unreliable.

As a result I’m investing in an inexpensive edge router and getting TMobile home internet as a fallback. The long term reviews for Tmobile home Internet were mixed. At first users loved it, then after a couple of months the performance seems to have deteriorated significantly. Hopefully it is now better an with a little luck I won’t have both go out at once.

erik_squires
gumbedamit
109 posts
 

I've cut the cord over a year ago and exclusively use Tmobile wireless. 

I'm a network engineer/architect, work 100% remotely and never had a problem with my internet 

I have read somewhere that since Tmobile internet became so popular that new subscribers are not getting the same bandwidth as the legacy user. It's currently 12;58 and my download speed is slightly over 200mb. I have seen speeds up to 300mb. My location is in the suburbs of Atlanta. At any given time 3 or more 4k TV"s are streaming along with other IOT devices, no real issues.  Since I'm a Tmobile phone customer,  internet costs me $30 monthly along with Netflix,  AppleTV and Paramount+..

You can't beat that with a stick.....

Enjoy the Music 

erik_squires OP
16,121 posts
 

Thanks @gumbedamit 

I don't know whether the issue was originally popularity or other start up hiccups but glad to know it has worked for you.

erik_squires OP
16,121 posts
 

Well I got TMobile and the EdgeRouter working today.  It wasn't all that easy.  Biggest issue was changing the DHCP for the EdgeRouter to use a subnet that was not going to be used by Tmobile or my other Internet provider.  Once that was squared away and I added rule sets to allow traffic IN via the LAN port it pretty much all worked. 

I can turn off the copper Internet modem and the EdgeRouter picks up on that fairly quickly.  Not sure how well it will pick up when the device is working, but going nowhere though. :)

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