2009/11/10 Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com>: > 2009/11/10 Andrew Oakley <andrew.oak...@hesa.ac.uk>: >> I'm moving out of The Sticks, slightly to the west of nowhere in the >> Cotswolds - which nevertheless already has 2.5Mbit ADSL - to the urban >> metropolis that is a satellite village near Tewkesbury. With this comes >> wonders of the modern age, the likes of which I have never experienced near >> my home, such as street lighting, paved footpaths, gas that comes in pipes >> instead of bottles, mains sewerage and 3G coverage. >> >> Given that I already have my Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server set up as a NAT router >> for ADSL broadband, how difficult would it be to set up a cheapo 3G modem as >> a fallback? >> > > I would wait till you find out whether it is an issue, failures should > be very rare. Certainly for me they have not been often enough to > justify the effort of an automated fallback system. (A couple of > times in three years). > > Colin >
I know this is not quite what you're after but you can buy ADSL modem/routers that will do this for you. The Draytek Vigor 2800/2900 for example has a USB port that accepts a variety of 3G modems and uses that as a fallback (I think there's a Billion model (7800?) that does the same too). Jonathon -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
