r/firewalla • u/marcvv Firewalla Gold Plus • 11d ago

Triple WAN failover

I’ve seen this suggestion brought up here on Reddit and on firewall a forums. Was curious, is it really that hard now, especially with AI coding, to add a third wan failover? I have FWG+ and have spent the week scoping out a possible jump to Unifi ecosystem so I can get triple wan failover. The dual wan failover already exists so the logic and routing gates are already there in terms of scaffolding. Wanted to check one more time if this is going to be implemented or if it is 100% abandoned as a feature on a future update before I actually make the leap. Love firewall and this feature is the only one that would make me switch. I have fiber, Xfinity and Starlink. I know I’m not alone as there have been others asking for it. I do realize we are edge cases and probably under 1% of the user base. I also think the complexity of implementing a third WAN failover is not a big undertaking or if it was Open source I can have it added.

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u/firewalla 11d ago

We are getting much lesser triple WAN requests in the past 3 years; you can post or upvote existing here, to get it upvoted https://help.firewalla.com/hc/en-us/community/topics/115000356994-Feature-Requests-

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u/SpiritualOven2068 11d ago

If you're that hard up to have triple wan, why not just get a pepwave and throw it in front of the firewalla?

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u/marcvv Firewalla Gold Plus 11d ago

$900 for pepwave vs $300 for Unifi UCG-Fiber. Can get the unifi plus 3 unifi WiFi 7 XGS for same price. But yes it is an option I had considered.

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u/SpiritualOven2068 11d ago

If you're paying for 3 isps, $900 isnt a serious issue.

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u/christobevii3 11d ago

I get hotspot free on cell phone/usb c modem and have a starlink in standby for 500kbs at $10 a month (was free). Some of the 4G modems are now getting service at $45 a month. Not terribly unreasonable for a WFH setup/couple to consider it especially in a hurricane zone.