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In short, I pay for two barely functional internet connections and want to find the best way to make use of them both:
I have owned the CPE pro for around 18 months (previously with Three) and used to get a fairly stable connection with the external antenna with infrequent dropouts. However since Three made changes to their network in the last year or so it has been patchy at best and often hardly works. Hence moving to iD Mobile for a cheaper contract and repurchasing a copper connection.
My current thinking is: buy a channel bonding/failover router (e.g. Draytek Vigor 2862B) and connect the CPE Pro to one WAN port and the copper ethernet to another WAN port and use that as my router.
Questions:
- Copper connection with NowTV - <17mbps down, 1mbps up, often slows down and sometimes cuts out for no apparent reason)
- 5G connection with iD Mobile using Huawei 5G CPE Pro (H112-370) and external antenna Huawei 5G AF9E - ~300mbps down, ~50mbps up when working well, usually more like ~1mbps and often cuts out completely
I have owned the CPE pro for around 18 months (previously with Three) and used to get a fairly stable connection with the external antenna with infrequent dropouts. However since Three made changes to their network in the last year or so it has been patchy at best and often hardly works. Hence moving to iD Mobile for a cheaper contract and repurchasing a copper connection.
My current thinking is: buy a channel bonding/failover router (e.g. Draytek Vigor 2862B) and connect the CPE Pro to one WAN port and the copper ethernet to another WAN port and use that as my router.
Questions:
- Is it possible to use the CPE Pro like that? I'm aware it doesn't have a bridge mode so I'm not sure if that would work
- Would the Draytek router be appropriate?
- Am I missing anything obvious?























