Recent content by PanamaJoe

I understand the concern of being able to interfere with the other's LAN when sharing a WAN (which would happen only in case of failure of my own ISP). The idea to ask my ISP for a second WAN address for a month may work where you live, but not in Panama. Contracts have to be made for at least a...

L&LD, I appreciate your comment. As coxhaus says, we do not intend to share each other's LAN. Indeed data security is an important concern. If this cannot be reached, maybe the whole idea is not doable. I admit that my networking knowledge is very basic and the more I learn about it, also...

And this is the actual WAN setting and Routing table.

Here are the last 2 screenshots.

Thank you for your thoughts. You are correct, I would not want my neighbor to snoop in my network and this is indeed is a concern for me. Especially because he is going to rent his apartments to other people whom I probably won't even know. So the goal is to use both ISPs while being able to...

Thanks Trip, I am aware that it should be "layer". Don't know what made me write "level", other than that both start with "L". I have researched various brands and I agree, from customer reviews the Peplink seems to be best in this category. Re double NAT, I checked and from what I understand I...

Thank you coxhouse for this answer. You are correct, I should at least start with a solution that is as simple as possible. I have also looked up info about level 3 switches and what seemed suitable is quite expensive for our non professional situation. And although I understand what a VLAN is...

Wow, love this answer. Short, precise and to the point. Thanks a lot. This is basically what I imagined, but I was not sure whether it would be possible to do the cross linking that you describe. My doubt was that this way I might risk backcoupling of the packets. But thinking it over well, it...

1) You are correct, we only want to back up the internet connections. We do not want to share each other's local area network. Sorry if I wrote anything that makes you think differently. 2) I certainly do not have the knowledge to set up an equipment that has only been described vaguely like...

Could you please explain this a bit more detailed? I am not very experienced in networks, just have basic knowledge, sufficient to set up a router in a simple LAN. What I understand is that you propose not to use 2 dual WAN routers but 2 normal routers instead. Then connect a layer 3 switch to...

This appears to be the answer to one of my own questions. I stumbled upon this thread looking for something else, but looks I am lucky. But I am not exactly sure if I understood the procedure correctly. If I may, let me describe my project, which is somewhat similar to the one discussed here...