Newbie trying to set up 5G hot failover - am I doing this right?

Product Discussion SpeedFusion Connect
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Hello, I just purchased a BOne 5G with the eSim 20GB option, for the primary purpose of hot failover for a specific machine in my home. I am an intraday trader and need a connection that not only stays live if/when my primary fiber connection goes down, but when failover happens it is seamless and does not result in a pause in throughtput while bringing the backup connection online. For the rest of the devices in my network, I am fine with cold failover.

Here’s how I currently have my router set up, but there are so many features and different videos out there for a variety of use cases, I am not confident I have done this correctly. I appreciate your help!

*WAN1 (my fiber line) is set to Priority 1
*5G Cellular is set to Priority 2
–>5G standby state is set to “Remain Connected”
*SFC server is set to Automatic
→ SFC connection priority is WAN1 high priority and 5G priority 2. All other connections are set to OFF
*Route LAN by client is set to the MAC address of the trading PC and only that device

My desired behavior for the trading PC is that 5G bandwidth is only utilized in any meaningful way (ie beyond keeping the connection/VPN alive) when the fiber connection goes down. I do not want constant bonding of the two connections where a meaningful portion of bandwidth is always passing through 5G.

As for the other devices, I am fine with a momentary lapse in connection throughput as the 5G connection takes over.

Have I done this right? Thanks all.
-Ash

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I am a newbie too, but I believe that you got it correct.

you can test your setup by unplugging the fiber connection and see if you get a smooth uninterrupted failover, you can also watch the sessions and see which interface the sessions are routed when fiber is plugged in and when not.

I am trying to do something a bit more complex to save on SFC data

only one computer is routed via SFC, and only for Zoom/Teams/VOIP/SIP to minimize dropouts and jitter.

the other device is a VOIP desktop handset which is always routed by MAC via SFC

all other devices use “fastest response” (since I have two unlimited ISPs)

I was told not to use the SFC rules, but rather create Advanced → Outbound Policy rules

but I was also told that the router cannot do both by “IP/MAC/SSID” and “By Application”

so I came up with a scheme described here:

https://forum.peplink.com/t/how-to-configure-sfc-for-only-one-computer-and-only-for-voip-zoom-teams/50367