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Draytek 3g Failover

Draytek routers have a wide range of excellent features such as failing over to a second connection if the primary fails, you can even failover to a 3g mobile broadband dongle and the following steps show you the relevant screens and how to configure it:

You will need the APN (Access Point Name) of your network provider, we have found the following work for us but you should check with your provider:

Network	Plan	APN
BT Mobile	All	btmobile.bt.com
O2	Pay as you go	m-bb.o2.co.uk
O2	Contract	mobile.o2.co.uk
Orange	All	internetvpn
Three	All	3internet
T-Mobile	Pay as you go	general.t-mobile.uk
Virgin	All	goto.virginmobile.uk
Vodafone	Pay as you go	pp.internet
Vodafone	Contract	internet

 

 

 

Using the 3g for failover in this way ensures connectivity, however you should remember that Firewall’s, VPN’s and other such services may require modification to make use of it.