 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here and I want to talk today about something related to the concept of internet failover and on the TP-Link ER605 and the topic I want to cover today is Doing what I'm going to call manual failover. This is kind of a dirty and Manual methods for what is supposed to happen automatically But what I wanted to really talk about was why that might be necessary and I actually think it's a good reason It's still a reason why having a load balancer on your network for multiple one Connectivity is actually a good idea because you can do things like switching over networks without needing to actually pull out Ethernet cables or stuff like that. That is just kind of a dumb way of doing stuff You can do it all on the on the computer level. So what I covered in my last video about the TP-Link ER605 and I'm surprised I'm relatively surprised. I've seen a decent amount of Comments and feedback about that video. There's apparently other people dealing with this issue of poor internet connectivity and If you don't have something better in your area, you are limited to kind of approaches like speedify connection bonding or Doing what what I did in the last video, which is using a load balancer and Doing this basically on the on the network level connection switching So the thing is this right that works great. The system does work really well if you have a situation in which let's say connection a Being your primary connection be being your backup. So let's say fiber and cellular if connection a drops And it drops for like an hour or it goes out for 30 minutes. This is a great system, right? So you have to think about the way this works TP-Link there is a setting there which I showed in my last video for failover detection And you put in a DNS server and basically it's pinging at that server, right? So if it pings at the DNS server Through ISP one and it doesn't get a ping back. Well, it's gonna say hey that connection isn't viable. Let's go over to One two connection to now the problem is as follows, right in order to return a ping You barely need any data. So that shows that like, okay, the connections intact But it doesn't actually tell you much about the quality of the connection because the amount of data to return a ping is tiny The connection could be absolutely terribly slow Your connection be your backup connection could be way way better, but the system is not going to be able to think Okay This connection is still working, but it's really really slow. There's throttling. There's something bad going on So we need to go over to connection B now I'm this I'm talking here about the TP-Link ER 605 and I'm only talking from the best of my knowledge Perhaps there is this feature and if you do know a better way to do this Then let me know in the comments or there is a load balancer which has this feature But in any event this doesn't really happen that often to me typically a connection flat lines for a while and The load balancer does the failover It's unlikely it's uncommon that I have a situation where a connection is viable But it's really slow for the day, but it does happen now and again And I'm going to show you one method of doing of dealing with that in this video So what I do is as follows going into my TP-Link ER 605 here. I have my one one I have my one two and what you can simply do and one one here is my primary, right? It doesn't go it doesn't call it one one two It just calls it one and then one slash one one. That's the first interchangeable one LAN port So what I do is I just disconnect off of One the primary and I go flip go over to the backup connection tab and I go ahead and I now connect this and now it's connecting and That's pretty much it then what you can do is go in and verify who is my ISP So I opened up this before I just did that change and now if I refresh this page It should give me a different ISP gonna do a refresh and this process as I said before it takes a little bit of time Whether it's an automatic or manual failover It's not instantaneous because what's instantaneous on the network layer has to come up to the application layer like Google Chrome So I'm just gonna there we go. Okay, so it's already failed over and now you can see the ISP is X phone 018 and then what I what I can do I can just go back in now. Remember, this is already connected So what I just need to do if I want to say okay the if you know You know your ISP is repairing connectivity or something and you know, it's over the certain time You can go back to the one tab, which is again our primary connection and take on connect And now I've connected back our primary one I'm going to jump back over to who is my ISP and again the process is if it goes well It's going to take probably 20 or 30 seconds But if I do a refresh and just wait for the page to catch up I'll pause the video for a few seconds here. There we go That was actually quicker to go back and now we've gone back to partner communications So even if you're using the failover as intended for automatic failover The purpose of this video really was just to show that it's still Useful that you can do that automatically now my load balancer that you're 605 is feeding an access point It's feeding a Wi-Fi router. It's feeding a whole cascade of infrastructure So if I were to have to do this process manually, I'd be pulling ethernet cables and reconnecting stuff and instead I can log into the online web server for the EWS and do this all Manually I rarely rarely do this But I just wanted to show people who are using this for failover that if you do want to take manual control Over the one interfaces. That's how you can do it and just also to show that it works out pretty nicely In response to a couple of questions. Do I recommend this product? I find it a little bit buggy to set up personally and while it's doing the job and I'm not going to spend a bunch of time ordering another load balancer and Ripping and replacing all the work. I've done probably in a couple of years. I will move to gear from ubiquity or Mickey Mickey truck. I can never remember how to pronounce it because the support I didn't find that great from TP link and it could be because I'm based in Not in the US that it's just channels or something But yeah, I probably on my next iteration of this home networking setup will be going for something slightly different In any event hope this video was useful. Thank you guys for watching and feel free to leave me a comment If you know a better way to do this, please feel free drop me a comment in the comment section And I'll be I'll be happy to benefit from that knowledge too Thanks for watching and if you'd like to get more videos from me feel free to hit the subscribe button