Alternative connection on a FritzBox
Hey guys,
So i got the following problem:
The house was built around 1970. The cables are as old aswell. We get regularly connection errors resulting in complete internet failure up to 80 times a day.
Now i called our provider quite some times and in the end the service technician stated that, as i already said, the copper cables are old and not suitable for VDSL and high speed internet. Now we are planning to renovate the house in the near future but until then we are stuck with an occasionally non existing internet connection.
We are using a FritzBox 7590 v8.20. This router offers an option to use an alternative connection if the main connection fails. Explanation is quite easy to understand, so i went, bought a SIM-stick (DLink DWR-932), made a separate cheap contract for a sim-card and connected it to the router. I went into the settings and changed them accordingly.
The incident report said that the main connection failed and ist activating the alternate connection but.... thats it. The router wont actually switch to it. It waits until it can reconnect to the main connection and will tell me that the main is succesfully reconnected and will switch back, only to loose the connection a minute later and doing it all over again.
I tried troubleshooting for well over 2 months now but it just doesnt want to work whatsoever.
Disabled Pin-Lock for the Sim.
Made sure the router actually recognised the stick.
Tried different settings (Instant switch to the main/alternate connection or timed like a minute or five minutes later.
I tried a different sim-stick (DLink DWM220W) but the same problem.
Anyone here with a possible solution apart from restart your router shenanigans?
Help would be greatly appreciated.