In reply to a post by kam67:

What is it about human nature - that it seeks conflict for the sake of it?

What is it about political correctness (PC) these days that means people can no long handle other peoples opinions when they post on a public forum.

Am I missing something here?

get a managed switch and then a number of vlan capable APs.

Connect each of routers to a different port on the switch, tag each router connection a different vlan ID, and then allowed that tagged traffic to the APs, and assign a different SSID per vlag tag?

Or just buy an expensive route which supports 3 WAN conenctions, and set up fail over and then use a single SSID.

https://www.draytek.co.uk/products/business/vigor-39...

Edited by mbames (Wed 22-Feb-23 16:58:00)

Thank goodness! Someone finally suggested a triple WAN router (well actually Quad WAN but who's counting 😁)!

The Wifi bit is well-covered in this thread, but if the OP wants failover to ensure a reliable Internet connection then a triple WAN router - a built in VDSL modem for his FTTC connection and two ethernet WAN ports for the FTTP and Virgin Connections, with the virgin modem in bridge mode would do nicely. Or three Ethernet Wan ports and a separate VDSL modem, as suggested above.

Just for full disclosure, at home I use a Draytek dual WAN router (Vigor 2862) with FTTP and a backup FTTC connection for similar purposes. I use a TP link Omada mesh system (3x EAP245(EU) v3.0) for WiFi with a CAT5e wired backbone. It is not the cheapest arrangement but is extremely reliable. And sounds like it might meet the OP's needs.
NB, My Draytek device will be a bit underpowered for the OPs FTTP speeds. It can just about handle 400MBps but only with traffic analysis switched off.

And goodness me, those Omadas don't half pump some Wi-Fi signal out. I think their antenna arrangements must be very good indeed.

Edited by albany11 (Wed 22-Feb-23 17:20:29)

In reply to a post by albany11:

Thank goodness! Someone finally suggested a triple WAN router (well actually Quad WAN but who's counting 😁)!

Great if the OP wants to wire the house with cabling. Not sure that was in the plan, or that they needed automatic failover, moving an RJ45 plug is quite easy

I managed to get hold of a very capable network engineer who will be putting together a setup which will be utilising a UDM Pro as its foundation (and allow me to switch between my FTTP and Virgin connections as needed).

Edited by kam67 (Wed 22-Feb-23 23:49:41)

If a manual fail over is acceptable then by far the easiest solution would indeed be a single Mesh wireless network that connects to the current Internet router via an ethernet cable. If you need to switch to a different provider connection due to problems then just unplug the ethernet cable from the router and plug it in to the one you want to move to. If all of the routers have the same IP address DHCP range then it should just pick straight up without anything needing to reconfigure.

In reply to a post by kam67:

I managed to get hold of a very capable network engineer who will be putting together a setup which will be utilising a UDM Pro as its foundation (and allow me to switch between my FTTP and Virgin connections as needed).

Sounds like you got it sorted, UDM Pro supports dual WAN ask your IT guy if he can set up the dual was, and you can have two ISP connected at the same time.

Is this the "very capable network engineer" that is asking on the Ubiquiti forum about how to do what you want?

Thanks Copex - Yes I’ve already requested dual WAS and he has agreed.

In reply to a post by MHC:

Is this the "very capable network engineer" that is asking on the Ubiquiti forum about how to do what you want?

Hi MHC - can you provide me with a link for that post? Now you’ve got me a bit worried and very slightly paranoid 😂