Boo use recursive routing I hear you shout in the back.
But hear me out. For simplicity say we have 2 connections. Cheap and expensive. Cheap works in some areas and expensive works everywhere.
We really want to be on cheap, even the queues are there to pull back the "expensive" connection even though it's well able to do more.
But we don't want to be on cheap if it's flapping about. This is why ( I think ) netwatch is better here. We can test the cheap connection then switch over. If it fails, and now with the new "early detection" it will switch almost instantly. I was watching a video on a uifi gateway being demoed by an ex ltt staffer and it was 10+ pings? Our swap time is 1 ping.
The reason for this cheap connection flapping about is our router moves. The cheap connection can get to very fringe areas where it's up it's down it's up it's down. That's not the experience we want and it's worth paying more at that point.
So I'm wondering anyone who does use netwatch what are some of the fine tuning on the tests do you use?
Any useful additional scripts to execute rather than changing the gateway priority?
Any tests better than ICMP?