 Hi guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel Daniel Rosa here for another video about the TP-Link TLR470T plus load balance broadband Rider really really rolls off the tongue doesn't it? So what I'm using this for and what I want to show in today's video is how to change from those default Online detection setups now I'm using this load balancer for the sole purpose of failover So what I'm doing is putting in two ones into it. It's got my ISP connection And it's got my cellular connection and the only thing I want this load balancer to do I'm not even using load balancing. All I wanted to do is to handle failover as quickly and well as possible and I like the fact it has multiple ones because if I really wanted to go all out and have like two Internet connections, let's say I wanted to have two ISP lines or What I'm doing now is cellular plus ISP or satellite etc. etc. You can do everything The only caveat being that this is this old piece of hardware TLR470T the ports are 10100 So what I'm going to do is as soon as I can get carbon fiber fiber optic in my area I'm going to upgrade to a better load balancer that will be able to support those speeds But for the moment with my humble DSL connectivity, this does the job just fine Now what I'm what you want to look at here is you've got your link backup settings worth just mentioning those while we're Taking a look through the features here and the mode I actually have is backup when all primary ones fail now I don't think there's really any difference if you've only got one primary and one backup then You can see there's two options here Well actually three, but if we take exclude timing these look very similar But there they are a little bit different failover is the first option here is enable backup links When any primary one fails so think about that if you had two ISPs running into this load balancer and you had a cellular Router or a satellite rider or whatever the case may be if any of the ones go even if the other There's a viable one intact. That's labeled primary. Well, we're gonna go to backup the second one says Wait for all the primaries to fail and only then go to backup So there is actually a difference there But if you've only got one primary unless I'm really missing something there is gonna be no difference So that's what that is and I've just set up that backup rule and it's enabled and all is looking good now in online detection This is if you click into the operation mode, you can see I've swept swapped over to Manual mode here and it was by default in automatic mode and I've manually configured a Server that's Google DNS server there a point eight point eight point eight and For DNS look up a point eight point four put put point four point four you could use, you know One one a different completely different DNS servers or different infrastructures. I just Kept it simple and I did test a failover on this and it worked just fine I'm going to do a test comparison between the automatic mode and this mode now You can actually go for always online, which as the name suggests will tell your The software here. Well, that's always up This connection is always good. You don't need to ping at all. Just assume. It's always in place Or auto and I'll just bring up the user documentation in a second So that's what I've done here and I've also done here. You can use different ones for each one or the same ones Lots and lots of options Now here is what TP link have to say about this Always keep a copy of the user manual saved somewhere on your computer or in the client because you never know when these things vanish and who needs paper when you have Digital PDFs or that's my that's my thoughts on the topic. So and here you can see it's got a guide And it gives you a bit of info about what the different modes do It says in auto mode the DNS server the one port will be selected as the destination for DNS lookup. So what that is saying is that it's going to inherit inherit the The DNS there from the one itself and that's going to be how it's testing itself now in manual mode You can configure the destination IP for ping and DNS lookup to manually detect whether it's online and always online The status of the port will always be considered to be online and just gives you Info here for ping with manual mode selected specified the destination IP for ping the corresponding port will ping the IP address to detect whether the one ports online 0.0.0.0 means ping detection is disabled So you cannot you can also pass that in there just as a workaround. I don't see if you've got two different Servers to ping why not use to you've at least got you giving yourself a tiny bit of Redundancy by doing that and DNS lookup with manual mode selected specified IP of the DNS server the corresponding port will perform the DNS lookup Using default DNS domain name to detect whether one ports online and you can do the same trick here with your 4-0 So hope that video is useful. That is how you can manually change for the link online detection there over from the automatic automatic DNS Servers to ones of your choosing You can choose to keep one online or all the time or you can disable one of these options as well And just be pinging away at one server or you can ping away at two servers and each one can ping something different Very exciting. Thank you guys for watching if you'd like to get more bit more videos for me on tech Linux backup all these all these topics feel free to subscribe to the channel