New ISP Issues at CEO's Home
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Unless I am missing something, you need a router with DHCP on the WAN side and set the LAN side to 192.168.1.1/24
Consider adding some firewall protections too. Most firewalls are also routers, so you can do both with one piece of gear.
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@JasGot said in New ISP Issues at CEO's Home:
Unless I am missing something, you need a router with DHCP on the WAN side and set the LAN side to 192.168.1.1/24
Consider adding some firewall protections too. Most firewalls are also routers, so you can do both with one piece of gear.
That is an option I will consider... thank you.
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You need a router between ViaSat modem and switch. From your description it looks like Pepwave is a router/modem, but I'd get dedicated router, Ubiquiti has many options.
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And can't your CEO get Verizon or whoever is in the area to run fiber to his house? Judging by the size of the house it looks like he could afford that.
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@marcinozga said in New ISP Issues at CEO's Home:
And can't your CEO get Verizon or whoever is in the area to run fiber to his house? Judging by the size of the house it looks like he could afford that.
Sure it might only cost a few hundred thousand. . .
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@DustinB3403 said in New ISP Issues at CEO's Home:
@marcinozga said in New ISP Issues at CEO's Home:
And can't your CEO get Verizon or whoever is in the area to run fiber to his house? Judging by the size of the house it looks like he could afford that.
Sure it might only cost a few hundred thousand. . .
I tried using our clout...all they said it "might be end of September" when they get it fixed. He couldn't wait that long...
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@garak0410 said in New ISP Issues at CEO's Home:
I tried using our clout...all they said it "might be end of September" when they get it fixed. He couldn't wait that long...
If you need it running this afternoon, any d-link or netgear router from best buy will get him online until you can get the product you want for the job.
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@JasGot said in New ISP Issues at CEO's Home:
@garak0410 said in New ISP Issues at CEO's Home:
I tried using our clout...all they said it "might be end of September" when they get it fixed. He couldn't wait that long...
If you need it running this afternoon, any d-link or netgear router from best buy will get him online until you can get the product you want for the job.
Luckily, we are still running on the poor Verizon internet and he is at his beach house this weekend, so no rush for today but I did want to try to get it going. Will work on a solution now...
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@marcinozga said in New ISP Issues at CEO's Home:
You need a router between ViaSat modem and switch. From your description it looks like Pepwave is a router/modem, but I'd get dedicated router, Ubiquiti has many options.
So in theory, could I not pull the SIM card out of the Pepwave, bring in the ViaSat connection, route in the PepWave and then send back to the main switches? Wasn't sure if the SIM card would be a problem...I do see you can have a secondary WAN in the settings:
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@garak0410 said in New ISP Issues at CEO's Home:
@marcinozga said in New ISP Issues at CEO's Home:
You need a router between ViaSat modem and switch. From your description it looks like Pepwave is a router/modem, but I'd get dedicated router, Ubiquiti has many options.
So in theory, could I not pull the SIM card out of the Pepwave, bring in the ViaSat connection, route in the PepWave and then send back to the main switches? Wasn't sure if the SIM card would be a problem...I do see you can have a secondary WAN in the settings:
If it is capable of a physical ethernet connection on the WAN side, then perhaps. Would pepwave offer any help in using an ethernet connection for WAN access until the 4g is back online?
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@JasGot said in New ISP Issues at CEO's Home:
@garak0410 said in New ISP Issues at CEO's Home:
@marcinozga said in New ISP Issues at CEO's Home:
You need a router between ViaSat modem and switch. From your description it looks like Pepwave is a router/modem, but I'd get dedicated router, Ubiquiti has many options.
So in theory, could I not pull the SIM card out of the Pepwave, bring in the ViaSat connection, route in the PepWave and then send back to the main switches? Wasn't sure if the SIM card would be a problem...I do see you can have a secondary WAN in the settings:
If it is capable of a physical ethernet connection on the WAN side, then perhaps. Would pepwave offer any help in using an ethernet connection for WAN access until the 4g is back online?
It's worth a shot...it does have a WAN port...
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@garak0410 said in New ISP Issues at CEO's Home:
@JasGot said in New ISP Issues at CEO's Home:
@garak0410 said in New ISP Issues at CEO's Home:
@marcinozga said in New ISP Issues at CEO's Home:
You need a router between ViaSat modem and switch. From your description it looks like Pepwave is a router/modem, but I'd get dedicated router, Ubiquiti has many options.
So in theory, could I not pull the SIM card out of the Pepwave, bring in the ViaSat connection, route in the PepWave and then send back to the main switches? Wasn't sure if the SIM card would be a problem...I do see you can have a secondary WAN in the settings:
If it is capable of a physical ethernet connection on the WAN side, then perhaps. Would pepwave offer any help in using an ethernet connection for WAN access until the 4g is back online?
It's worth a shot...it does have a WAN port...
Go for it. It can hurt..... You will need to configure that port. It looks like it can be LAN or WAN.
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Don't change the working config you have even if the tower is down. When it comes up you still want it working. Your CEO is likely going to want two connections in case one dies.
So try to see if Viasat can put the modem in bridge mode.
Then you need to add a router/firewall that can handle dual WAN configurations, aka redundant internet.
People here like edgerouter.
BTW, when the tower comes up you want to put the pepwave in bridge mode as well. Most devices do have a bridge mode.
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@marcinozga said in New ISP Issues at CEO's Home:
And can't your CEO get Verizon or whoever is in the area to run fiber to his house? Judging by the size of the house it looks like he could afford that.
Yeah he just needs it done right.
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@DustinB3403 said in New ISP Issues at CEO's Home:
@marcinozga said in New ISP Issues at CEO's Home:
And can't your CEO get Verizon or whoever is in the area to run fiber to his house? Judging by the size of the house it looks like he could afford that.
Sure it might only cost a few hundred thousand. . .
I wonder how much of company resources he is using by having his IT people constantly at his house?
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@IRJ said in New ISP Issues at CEO's Home:
@DustinB3403 said in New ISP Issues at CEO's Home:
@marcinozga said in New ISP Issues at CEO's Home:
And can't your CEO get Verizon or whoever is in the area to run fiber to his house? Judging by the size of the house it looks like he could afford that.
Sure it might only cost a few hundred thousand. . .
I wonder how much of company resources he is using by having his IT people constantly at his house?
Since I'm IT in IT, I can say I've lost about 2 days of office time by working on this and I'm behind...
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time to find another job if you dont sort this out
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@IRJ said in New ISP Issues at CEO's Home:
@marcinozga said in New ISP Issues at CEO's Home:
And can't your CEO get Verizon or whoever is in the area to run fiber to his house? Judging by the size of the house it looks like he could afford that.
Yeah he just needs it done right.
Or just move to some place practical.
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@scottalanmiller said in New ISP Issues at CEO's Home:
@IRJ said in New ISP Issues at CEO's Home:
@marcinozga said in New ISP Issues at CEO's Home:
And can't your CEO get Verizon or whoever is in the area to run fiber to his house? Judging by the size of the house it looks like he could afford that.
Yeah he just needs it done right.
Or just move to some place practical.
First world ceo problems for sure
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I've been sent to the house of a former owner before, so this scenario doesn't surprise me. Sounds like it will give you some good experience anyway.
