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Backup internet - Failover - Homes, farms, business
Backup internet and failover that keeps you online when your main connection goes down.
Protect payments, phones, cloud apps, remote work, and day-to-day life with a second internet path built for your site.
UBB designs backup internet and resilience solutions using 4G, 5G, fixed wireless, Starlink, StarCare, and multi-path setups. Whether you need a low-cost backup plan or a higher-uptime failover design, we help you choose the right fit for your address, current service, and level of risk.
- From $119/month starting points
- Automatic failover options available
- Local support for real-world outages
Local support
Talk to real people who understand your address, setup, and outage risk.
Right-fit design
We match the solution to the site instead of forcing a one-size-fits-all plan.
Automatic failover options
Designed to cut disruption when the main path drops.
Built for uptime
From affordable backup to higher-availability designs for critical sites.
Why backup internet matters
Downtime costs more than the connection.
When internet drops, the impact is rarely just browsing. For homes it disrupts work, security, and daily life. For businesses and farms it can stop payments, communications, cloud systems, and remote monitoring. That is why backup internet and failover are often easier to justify than a single unexpected outage.
Protect business and farm operations
Maintain cloud access, site monitoring, remote support, staff connectivity, and critical workflows with less disruption.
Keep households reliably connected
Support remote work, schooling, streaming, smart devices, and day-to-day communications with a second path online.
4G / 5G
Fast, practical backup internet for lower-cost failover starting points.
Starlink / Wireless
Strong backup options where fibre alternatives are limited or rural coverage matters.
Managed failover
For customers who need more than a spare connection and want stronger uptime outcomes.
Who this is for
Backup internet for homes, farms, rural properties, and business sites.
The right setup depends on how disruptive downtime is for you. Some sites just need an affordable backup path. Others need managed failover, capacity planning, and a more advanced resilience design.
Households and remote workers
Best for families and home offices that need a simple backup internet option to stay productive during outages.
- Remote work and video calls
- Schooling and streaming
- Smart home and security devices
Farms and remote properties
Designed for rural sites where primary options are limited and downtime affects communications, visibility, and operations.
- Rural homes and sheds
- Monitoring and connectivity gaps
- Alternative pathways where fibre is not available
Business continuity
For offices, retail, hospitality, and cloud-reliant teams where internet loss quickly turns into lost sales and lost time.
- EFTPOS and payment continuity
- Phones, bookings, and cloud apps
- Remote staff and shared systems
Higher-uptime sites
For customers who need a stronger resilience design built around failover behaviour, uptime expectations, and service layering.
- Managed failover paths
- Multi-service backup designs
- More advanced site planning
Backup internet options
Compare your backup internet and failover starting points.
Pricing is only the starting point. The best backup internet option depends on your address, your existing connection, what must keep running during an outage, and how much capacity you need when failover kicks in.
Base backup
$119 /month from
4G / 5G backup
Simple backup internet for sites that need a practical second path.
- Great entry-level failover option
- Good for lower criticality sites
- Useful where continuity matters but budget is tighter
- Strong fit for essential backup needs
Best for customers who want affordable backup internet to keep core services online during outages.
Ask about 4G / 5G backup
Most popular
$129 /month from
Starlink backup
Strong resilience option where alternative pathways are limited.
Good fit
Rural homes, remote properties, and business sites where a satellite backup path makes more sense.
- Excellent for rural and remote locations
- Useful for homes and business continuity
- Can be paired with managed support
- Ideal where uptime matters more
Wireless resilience
$129 /month from
UBB Wireless backup
Fixed wireless backup internet designed for local site conditions.
- Professionally designed for real-world resilience
- Can be paired with fibre or Starlink
- Great for homes, farms, and businesses
- Ideal where local wireless is the right fit
A strong option if you want a dependable backup path with local design and installation support.
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Managed option
$129 /month from
StarCare and managed failover
For customers who need more than a backup line and want stronger uptime outcomes.
- Managed support around the service
- Designed for business and critical use cases
- Can sit inside a broader resilience design
- Good fit for higher-uptime requirements
Best when your site needs a managed failover approach, not just another connection sitting there.
Ask about managed failover
Alternative satellite and multi-path designs
Some sites need a less common backup pathway, a different satellite option, or a more advanced combination of fibre, wireless, Starlink, and mobile failover. We can scope that around your location and risk level.
Need near-continuous connectivity?
We can design a stronger resilience solution around failover behaviour, service layering, and the real impact of downtime at your site. That is usually the right move for business-critical and revenue-critical locations.
How failover works
Simple to understand. Powerful when it is needed.
A good backup internet design should feel invisible until the moment your main path fails. Then it should reduce disruption fast, whether that means keeping essentials online or maintaining a more advanced operating state.
Your primary connection fails
Fibre, wireless, or another main service drops. That outage becomes immediately visible to staff, customers, devices, or critical systems.
Your backup path activates
Depending on the design, 4G, 5G, fixed wireless, Starlink, or another resilience layer takes over to keep traffic flowing.
You stay connected with less disruption
That means less downtime for payments, phones, remote access, cloud apps, monitoring, and day-to-day work.
Important: the right failover setup depends on what must stay live when the main service is down. Some customers only need a lightweight backup path. Others need capacity planning, device configuration, and managed resilience around the connection.
Why choose UBB
Built around the site, not pushed into a generic plan.
A lot of backup internet pages stop at price. The real work is deciding what service mix makes sense for your location, what must stay online during failover, and how much operational risk you actually want to remove.
What UBB brings to the design
- Multiple pathways: 4G, 5G, fixed wireless, Starlink, StarCare, and more advanced combinations.
- Practical scoping: built around location, current service, uptime requirements, and budget.
- Support that understands the site: local advice instead of generic online-only fulfilment.
- From simple to advanced: from a basic backup path to stronger resilience for critical operations.
What that means for you
- Clearer recommendations on whether 4G, wireless, or Starlink is the right backup option.
- Better alignment between cost and outage risk.
- Less guesswork about automatic failover and service behaviour.
- A resilience plan that fits home, rural, business, or critical site needs.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about backup internet and failover.
What is backup internet?
Backup internet gives you a second connection if your main service goes down. That backup path might use 4G, 5G, fixed wireless, Starlink, StarCare, or a more advanced multi-service setup depending on your site.
Who is backup internet best for?
It is a strong fit for businesses, EFTPOS sites, farms, rural homes, remote workers, cloud-reliant teams, and any address where downtime creates real disruption.
Does failover happen automatically?
In many designs, yes. The exact failover behaviour depends on the equipment and solution chosen. UBB can advise what level of automation makes sense for your site.
Can I add backup internet to an existing fibre or wireless service?
Yes. Many customers add backup internet and failover around an existing connection. The best approach depends on the address, service type, and what needs to stay online during an outage.
What backup internet option is best for rural properties?
That often depends on local coverage and service availability. Starlink, fixed wireless, and 4G / 5G can all play a role. We recommend choosing based on your address and how critical uptime is for the property.
Can UBB design a more advanced resilience setup?
Yes. For higher-uptime sites, UBB can combine fibre, wireless, 4G, 5G, Starlink, StarCare, or other pathways into a broader resilience design that better matches the impact of downtime.
Talk to our team
Get a backup internet recommendation for your address.
Tell us whether this is for home, farm, rural property, or business, and what your current service is. We will help you work through the best backup internet or failover option for your site, your uptime needs, and your budget.
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FIT
Right-fit recommendations We will recommend the most sensible path based on your address, service type, and how disruptive downtime is.
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SPD
Fast next steps Ideal if you are comparing 4G, wireless, Starlink, or managed failover and want clarity quickly.
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SUP
Local support If you prefer to talk now, call 0800 000 945.
Good to include in your enquiry
Your address, what service you use today, what goes offline during an outage, and whether you want a simple backup plan or a stronger failover design.