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General Query - Backup Internet When Primary WAN Fails - Gaming / Keeping Connection Live?

General Query - Backup Internet When Primary WAN Fails - Gaming / Keeping Connection Live?

General Query - Backup Internet When Primary WAN Fails - Gaming / Keeping Connection Live?

2025-04-06 05:03:14

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General Query - Backup Internet When Primary WAN Fails - Gaming / Keeping Connection Live?

2025-04-06 05:03:14

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General Query - Backup Internet When Primary WAN Fails - Gaming / Keeping Connection Live?

So my query is simple I've just been doing some testing........ if the primary connection fails (I unhook it) and it falls back in my case to a 4G modem on the SPF port........ if I can keep a game online it fails to.

Is this just because of different IP's or routing? I've got it set to 3 seconds response. But even say if I plug the WAN back in, it's super slow to response when primary wan recovers.

Is there no way to keep things online?

eg. If I have multiple people in games for example web games or otherwise, how to have it seemlessly just switch with only a minor pause not a loss of connection?

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Re:General Query - Backup Internet When Primary WAN Fails - Gaming / Keeping Connection Live?

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@MrHC1983: I am not sure exactly what you are looking for, but if its continuity of gaming, multimedia or voice call sessions across WAN switchobver events, then the WAN aggregation and Load balancing feature implemented in omada will not pass muster. You need a WAN bonding solution.

WAN bonding solutions practically fixes the next hop of your traffic to a VPS or Server that is available 24x7 in the Cloud and from there you actually connect with the network service you are using. So if you WAN Chnages the network service's server or peer will not see it. It sees only the Cloud VPS/Server. And then between the WAN bonding router and VPS the switchover between links can be implemented.

I think this technque is implemented in many SD-WAN solutions and also some services like speediffy, openmpTCProuter, peplink, etc. It will be great if tplink can implement this, even on a paid servuce model.

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