2 ISPs coming into same network

[quanttrade99z]

Hi All,

I posted earlier about the best ISP to support a mission-critical day trading operation.

You guys came up with the good suggestion to get two ISPs, so that I can use one in case the other once goes down.

Somebody recommended: Linksys RV042/RT042

Anybody have any experience with this? Is that the best piece of hardware? I absolutely need to buy the best/most stable one... but don't want to waste any money.

Any/all advice appreciated.

(Any advice on most stable ISP in San Francisco would be great too!)

Thanks a lot!
quanttrade

 

[aniruddha23]

If its critical why are you using a consumer grade router?

Get one which natively supports dual ISP connections and fails over automatically.

I used to have one from fortinet and it worked darn well.

 

[quanttrade99z]

Can you recommend a specific model?
Thanks!

 

[aniruddha23]

I used to have this. Rock Solid.

Marketing bull below

The FortiGate-60 system is an ideal solution for small offices. The FortiGate-60 features dual WAN link support for redundant internet connections, and an integrated 4-port switch that eliminates the need for an external hub or switch, giving networked devices a direct connection to the FortiGate-60.
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P.S. you would get much better advice if u had posted in the Networking Forum.

 

[redbeard1]

Any of WatchGuard Core series models, X500, X700, X1000 & X2500, can be ordered with a software package called Fireware Pro. This enables the unit to have the ability to have multiple ISP's, up to 4, and then set them to be used in either a failover mode or a round robin mode. The way Round robin works is if one conection has more traffic load than the other, the box will route packets down the connection with less traffic. If you have two DSL connections, you will have the total of the two connections speeds available to use.