Over the years I have read that the Asus WAN Failover does not work very well especially when the primary WAN connection comes back up. This weekend Brightspeed suffered a major failure somewhere in its system. I got a report on my mobile from my electrical system monitor that it had lost connection about 1230 Saturday. I was was away at the time and I figured the ISP would have the problem fixed by the time I got home. Wrong! The FIOS was dead. Calling the ISP I learned that the estimated repair time was 1700 Monday. Great. A weekend without internet. I enabled mobile hotspot on my iPhone 14 running iOS 26 beta and tethered it to the AX86U Pro. Voila! The router detected the phone and I had internet even though it was at a poor LTE rate. That was Saturday night. The FIOS connection came back on sometime early Monday morning and the AX86U Pro switched back to the WAN port connection and put the tethered iPhone connection into standby.
Connection failures like this have not happened here since we got the FIOS. But, when It happens again I will be ready... Thanks Asus!
Connection failures like this have not happened here since we got the FIOS. But, when It happens again I will be ready... Thanks Asus!
