I have that general problem. My wife and I work at home full time (well, it was full time til RTO, sigh) and we live in the woods with lots of trees. So we have two ISPs.
We have a pfSense router made by netgate that we can tell our preferences for how to use the WAN connections. We plug them both in and we can tell it to use one as a backup, or use both equally, or with whatever affinity we like.
pfSense can also be installed on any old hardware - I just wanted a tiny silent one with some support because my day job of testing packets for other people seems to be over and the desire has faded to know how it works. (My first router had a cold solder joint and failed ... it was some work to get an RMA through because the Texas power grid, where the company is, was offline for a week when I issued it, but that's life)
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I have that general problem. My wife and I work at home full time (well, it was full time til RTO, sigh) and we live in the woods with lots of trees. So we have two ISPs.
We have a pfSense router made by netgate that we can tell our preferences for how to use the WAN connections. We plug them both in and we can tell it to use one as a backup, or use both equally, or with whatever affinity we like.
pfSense can also be installed on any old hardware - I just wanted a tiny silent one with some support because my day job of testing packets for other people seems to be over and the desire has faded to know how it works. (My first router had a cold solder joint and failed ... it was some work to get an RMA through because the Texas power grid, where the company is, was offline for a week when I issued it, but that's life)
most folks use opnsense now instead of pfsense