Two router home network

[Ben Deacon]

Hi all - new to this forum and after some advice.

I have a new EE Brightbox broadband router (8Mbps down, 1 up) and a 4G router (Netgear LB1110 -100EUS - 60 down, 8 up but limited data!) both connected to a powerline network. I'd like to use the slower router to serve the TVs (that use a lot of data) and the faster connection to serve the laptops / other devices. Ideally when/if the 4G router runs out of data I'd like a failover onto the broadband modem.

I'm unable to physically connect the routers, other than through the powerline network (one upstairs, one downstairs). In terms of wireless networking, I have two APs - the laptops / other devices will almost always connect to these.

I'm struggling to find out how to make this work - any ideas?

Many thanks,

Ben

 

[Samir]

To do something like this, you need to use a multi-wan router as well as one that has some sort of quota monitoring. Unfortunately, the easiest thing to do is simply turn off dhcp on one of them, put both into the same IP subnet and statically assign IPs to those devices that will use the connection without the dhcp server.

 

[thiggins]

You said devices connect via Wi-Fi, but the routers are connected through powerline. Please explain how powerline is used.