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Eircom DSL to 3g failover dongle

sheepsh4gger · 2020-06-27 09:41:50

There's a fairy tale going around about being able to use the USB port on your Eircom modem to plug in a 3G dongle. The idea is for the modem to fail-over to mobile broadband when the DSL cuts out. While in theory this is possible and part of the Eircom manual for each modem - I'm pretty sure you can't just plug it any…

27-06-2020 9:41am

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There's a fairy tale going around about being able to use the USB port on your Eircom modem to plug in a 3G dongle. The idea is for the modem to fail-over to mobile broadband when the DSL cuts out.

While in theory this is possible and part of the Eircom manual for each modem - I'm pretty sure you can't just plug it any kind of 3G dongle. I bet there's a narrow list of compatible dongle manufacturers and models.

Have anyone here ever set up say an Eircom D1000 modem with a USB 3g dongle? What make and model is it? Does it reliably switch over to 3g?

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