Speedfusion hot failover configuration question

Product Discussion SpeedFusion Connect
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Good afternoon,

I “think” I’ve got hot fail-over setup properly, but had a quick question on the configuration.

I’m running a live stream where we’ll be at a client’s venue. This is kind of a no-fail situation. We’ve previously used other solutions, that were not working out.

So I put a fushionhub (solo) server up and that’s functional. If I test here at home with my own WAN (Ethernet) and WiFi, fail over happens instantly. LTE seems to be a little slower to pickup.

So here are the few questions I’ve got:

  1. On the Dashboard I’ve configured WiFi to be Always-on (priority 1) and LTE is set as backup (priority 2) Ideally, we’ll fall back to WiFi but LTE is more likely. Will hot fail work (and not drop my session) if LTE is in backup? or does it need to be always on? Does this send data down the LTE route constantly consuming my LTE data plan? Or does it just sit there waiting? It appears (to me atleast) that for hot fail to work without killing my session, the backups need to be in Priority 1.
  2. In speedFusion VPN configuration two settings leave me with a question: WAN Smoothing. Normal says it uses up to 100% bandwidth. Does this send that additional bandwidth down the primary WAN or is that sent over LTE as well? If you can’t tell I’m worried about my data plan
  3. Similarly, Forward Error correction, is that sent of LTE or the primary WAN?

thanks for any help you’re able to provide.

I’m also a little confused on how Fushion connect wraps into this. I originally understood this as not requiring a server. Does that mean I don’t need to purchase connect packs?

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I’m sorry, but I wanted to give this a little bump.

I’m still scratching my head a little bit.

If I’m using SpeedFusion Connect Protect, is fushionhub required for hot failover?

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  1. You want all connections that will be used for hot failover to be in priority 1 on the dashboard. Assuming you have the cellular in P2 in your SpeedFusion profile, only healthcheck data will be sent down the cellular link under notmal conditions.

  2. WAN smoothing sends double the data on two or more WAN links that are being actively used for data traffic when in normal mode. By default if you only have a single active WAN it won’t duplicate traffic.

FEC adds parity packets to your traffic, so you will consume more data (up to 30% more I think, I tend to see 15-20% extra).

SpeedFusion Connect Protect, is a hosted Fusionhbu service from Peplink. You don’t need to have your own FusionHub. Connect Protect LTE is their on demand cellular data (eSIM).

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Perfect,

thanks for the reply and clarifying.

Rob

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Okay, Got a little tied up but been testing this again.

I don’t seem to have failover protection.

Is there a good tutorial somewhere that walks through out to properly configure Peplink device and SFC for failover.

I’ve tried plenty of different ways and can’t seem to make it work.

One interesting note is in incontrol, when I look at SpeedFushion VPN, I can see the remote peer, and only One WAN is green (green box) even though right now I’ve got 3 WANs all connected.

Still feel like I’m missing something here