Cable service with cellular failover and external static IP

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I run a couple of electronics repair shops and some of the software that we use is license locked to a static external IP address that the cloud server they connect to is expecting. When I install the software I must send a copy of https://whatismyipaddress.com plus the MAC address of the ethernet adapter on the computer the software is installed on to the admins for them to configure that computer to have access to their systems.

At one of my shops I’m able to get cable modem + 4G cellular backup (Cox Business Internet, bummer not 5G though) with a single static IP address shared between them, however, at the other shop the ISP (Comcast Business) is not able to get me a static IP address when cellular failover is in effect.

The computer that has the software that needs the static IP address is also the highest bandwidth user, regularly doing multi gigabyte downloads. This computer runs three different software packages, but only one of them needs the static IP address and it is a low-bandwidth application.

I could use routing rules to route traffic to the static IP WAN device in the network which could be a cellular WAN device since low bandwidth is okay. Alternately, if a Peplink product is able to provide a static IP address for all scenarios then that would simplify things.

Based on these requirements each store needs a static IP address, but it doesn’t need to support much bandwidth. Actually, I could use a single static IP address to support both stores if the Peplink system is able to do that.

Is B1-5G + SpeedFusion able to support these requirements? What licenses and wireless service would be required?

What’s your recommendation?

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In short, yes, you can easily do this, but you would need to host your own FusionHub to do this. We offer this service and can assist you, but you can also do this yourself.

You would need a FusionHub license (FusionHub Solo is free for one device, and a few other things), a place to host it with access to a public, static WAN IP (such as AWS, Azure, GCP, Vultr, Digital Ocean), and to be able to route the required traffic using Outbound Policy through that tunnel and out of your FusionHub (with the static IP).

As far as service goes, we have some options that support unlimited data on the cellular side and you can use your Comcast Business line in addition to that. Otherwise, you can simply use only your Comcast Business line to achieve the same goal (but of course, without failover capabilities).

Let me know if you have any specific questions and we can help you out.

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