I had been meaning to look into this. Woke up this morning to a Frontier outage (second in 3weeks). Watched your video and then signed up for xfinity. Drove to the store, grabbed the equipment, drove home and was up and running in 15 minutes. The easiest part was getting to working with my UniFi CG Ultra. Thank you for doing this! Going to stick with 2 providers. Working from home I can’t be down. It’s worth the extra $40 a month. Insurance I guess.
I had been waiting for the distributed feature :D In Germany we often have very shitty internet. So I have a 100 Mbit copper DSL and will load balance with Starlink Gen3 to get more decent speeds.
@@ApexOneTech We micro segment our networks at my college. Vlans for phone, student services, IT, and public relations would be set to fail-over incase of 1Gb fiber failing. We typically use 500-600 Mb/s dl and 50-60 ul with everything running.
Nice, looking at getting a 4G or 5G modem for failover on WAN2 so that my camera VLAN can still be able to send clips to the cloud in case of a robbery. Still not sure of what modem to get, possibly the GL-X750V2 since it is cheap. 5G would be better but it is more expensive. Now to look into how to send only specific traffic to the failover connection. I think this video will help me look in the correct direction.
@@ApexOneTech I have this all setup, it was very straightforward. I only want to send camera traffic so that my property is secured. I'm using a Google Fi SIM that comes free with my cellphone plan but I only get 50GB of high-speed data, after that it's LTE. If everything used my 4G connection for failover I'd easily exceed my cap. My primary fiber WAN has no cap.
You imply that it’s better to have the secondary wan as a failover and to only you it when you have an outage on the primary. You did demonstrate how to use both. Can you provide an explanation as to why (if) it’s better to use one exclusively?
My secondary ISP is much slower internet speed for both download and upload. There's no point to use it unless I really have an outage with primary WAN. This keeps the cost of the secondary ISP at a minimum.
Good video, told me what I didn't want to hear though, I was hoping I could combine two internets and get a combined speed on one device at a time as it would be a gamechanger for the work I do which requires a lot of heavy uploading. While I can get very good downloads at my current address -1600 mb/s and 1000mb/s using two networks using different infrastructures, both have comparability lackluster upload speeds (115 mb/s and 200 mb/s respectively, meaning I could have up to 315 mb/s combined). I'm sure there is a way to do this, but I don't really want to mess with anything outside the UniFi ecosystem.
In your video, you said it will not help single client to reach higher speeds. I understand that it’s not possible to get a higher speed for a single connection. But what about a client that runs multiple connections? For example a client downloading a game from Steam and Epic Store. Or client running multiple RTMP upload streams and bottlenecked by uplink. Wouldn’t the load shared in these scenarios as there are multiple connections?
Had EdgerouterX with multi-wan setup in load balancing mode, bought UCG Ultra to replace it, in order to have everything in the same environment, and keep the Edgerouter as a backup router. Can't find the option for sticky sessions in UCG, which is important for some services that will log you out, if during the session the router decides to pass the traffic through the other wan connection! Do you have any idea about it?
Need load balancing video. I have just set up redundancy but if main network goes down my services are still not available because of new ip address of redundant network
Probably want some kind of subdomain that points to the WAN IP. Like SFTP.apexoneit.com if you're using that service. I usually don't deal with this though. My setups typically rely on a VPN to the local network if someone needs something there, like a NAS, rather than a WAN IP and open port. In my case, the VPN server will continue running fine despite the WAN IP change.
I’m not sure what you mean. The nanobeam 5ac would be used to create a wireless bridge to extend your internet. I don’t know how it can be used for failover.
I have a Unifi gateway max an a 7 AP. One of my devices has problems staying connected via Wifi. Do you know which of their devices I can use to make them stay connected? ty
You'll need to see the strength of the wifi signal for that device. That's availabe in the UniFi network dashboard. Click on "clients" and you should see all devices connected in your network.
I had been meaning to look into this. Woke up this morning to a Frontier outage (second in 3weeks). Watched your video and then signed up for xfinity. Drove to the store, grabbed the equipment, drove home and was up and running in 15 minutes. The easiest part was getting to working with my UniFi CG Ultra. Thank you for doing this! Going to stick with 2 providers. Working from home I can’t be down. It’s worth the extra $40 a month. Insurance I guess.
Usually cheap to add a low cost speed as a backup. Glad this worked for you!
I had been waiting for the distributed feature :D
In Germany we often have very shitty internet. So I have a 100 Mbit copper DSL and will load balance with Starlink Gen3 to get more decent speeds.
we need a video talking about firewall rules thank you
Cool, liked and subbed. I will set this up just like so.
Excellent video thanks very much
Very welcome
Will be doing this at my work. Have to figure out how to restrict only certain vlans to fail over though.
Interesting use case. What would that be for? Only failover for a critical network?
@@ApexOneTech We micro segment our networks at my college. Vlans for phone, student services, IT, and public relations would be set to fail-over incase of 1Gb fiber failing. We typically use 500-600 Mb/s dl and 50-60 ul with everything running.
Great Video,
Do the UCG-Ultra still can do the same function of dual band and automatically kick in, if one network goes down?
Thank you!
Yes, absolutely
Nice, looking at getting a 4G or 5G modem for failover on WAN2 so that my camera VLAN can still be able to send clips to the cloud in case of a robbery. Still not sure of what modem to get, possibly the GL-X750V2 since it is cheap. 5G would be better but it is more expensive. Now to look into how to send only specific traffic to the failover connection. I think this video will help me look in the correct direction.
Why not send all traffic?
@@ApexOneTech I have this all setup, it was very straightforward. I only want to send camera traffic so that my property is secured. I'm using a Google Fi SIM that comes free with my cellphone plan but I only get 50GB of high-speed data, after that it's LTE. If everything used my 4G connection for failover I'd easily exceed my cap. My primary fiber WAN has no cap.
You imply that it’s better to have the secondary wan as a failover and to only you it when you have an outage on the primary. You did demonstrate how to use both. Can you provide an explanation as to why (if) it’s better to use one exclusively?
My secondary ISP is much slower internet speed for both download and upload. There's no point to use it unless I really have an outage with primary WAN. This keeps the cost of the secondary ISP at a minimum.
what happens if the Primary connection is poor and not out? This would not fail-over.
Algo comment!
Thanks
If using site magic will the fail over work? Thanks for the video.
Good question. Yes, it’ll recover and keep going.
Good video, told me what I didn't want to hear though, I was hoping I could combine two internets and get a combined speed on one device at a time as it would be a gamechanger for the work I do which requires a lot of heavy uploading.
While I can get very good downloads at my current address -1600 mb/s and 1000mb/s using two networks using different infrastructures, both have comparability lackluster upload speeds (115 mb/s and 200 mb/s respectively, meaning I could have up to 315 mb/s combined).
I'm sure there is a way to do this, but I don't really want to mess with anything outside the UniFi ecosystem.
I have the same question?
Try load balancing option rather than failover. It doesn't truly increase your internet speed but can potentially remove some bottlenecks.
Can you apply smart Queues to both wan with load balancing enabled?
In your video, you said it will not help single client to reach higher speeds. I understand that it’s not possible to get a higher speed for a single connection. But what about a client that runs multiple connections? For example a client downloading a game from Steam and Epic Store. Or client running multiple RTMP upload streams and bottlenecked by uplink. Wouldn’t the load shared in these scenarios as there are multiple connections?
The one aspect not covered is notifications.
When primary link fails want to receive an email.
Can that be setup.
Yes! Go to the System Log icon at the bottom left > Settings. You'll see an option to add email notification for "Using Backup Internet".
Had EdgerouterX with multi-wan setup in load balancing mode, bought UCG Ultra to replace it, in order to have everything in the same environment, and keep the Edgerouter as a backup router.
Can't find the option for sticky sessions in UCG, which is important for some services that will log you out, if during the session the router decides to pass the traffic through the other wan connection!
Do you have any idea about it?
How quickly is the failover from primary Internet connection to the backup in the event the primary goes off-line?
Like 2 seconds. No joke.
Need load balancing video. I have just set up redundancy but if main network goes down my services are still not available because of new ip address of redundant network
Probably want some kind of subdomain that points to the WAN IP. Like SFTP.apexoneit.com if you're using that service. I usually don't deal with this though. My setups typically rely on a VPN to the local network if someone needs something there, like a NAS, rather than a WAN IP and open port. In my case, the VPN server will continue running fine despite the WAN IP change.
hi can i use UCG Max
device failover nano beam 5ac instead of ISP
explain if possible
I’m not sure what you mean. The nanobeam 5ac would be used to create a wireless bridge to extend your internet. I don’t know how it can be used for failover.
I have a Unifi gateway max an a 7 AP. One of my devices has problems staying connected via Wifi. Do you know which of their devices I can use to make them stay connected? ty
You'll need to see the strength of the wifi signal for that device. That's availabe in the UniFi network dashboard. Click on "clients" and you should see all devices connected in your network.
What do you do if the router goes down?
Keep a spare and have daily backups for quick restoration.
Because of power loss? Battery backup UPS. If corrupt data, UniFi keeps a backup.
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