1960s brick built house home network (wired) - dual ISP

[doopydug]

Hi guys - I am looking for some advice.

We are moving house soon and I want to instal network cabling before we decorate.

I have a couple of questions if anyone knowledgeable could assist ?

We will be fortunate to have two fast connections coming into the home - one will be Virgin Media 1.1GB service and the other will be EE Full Fibre 500 Essentials package

The plan is to have the EE router upstairs for work, in my study, and the Virgin Media router is already installed downstairs .

Question is - is it possible to have a switch that can accept BOTH inputs so that I can use the other if one of the ISPs fails / slows down / has slow resolution?

Secondly - is it better to just run cables direct from ISP routers to wall sockets in each room directly (for online gaming) or will a switch alter ping etc? (My son is VERY concerned about this lol)

 

[doopydug]

Whilst I too love drayteks, you'd be better off looking at PFSense/OPNSense to deal with those speeds. It's also infinitely flexible with regards to which traffic goes out of which connection, so you can use both but also have traffic fail over.

Could you give me a model number - I cant seem to find anything at all other than links to firewalls ?