Ubiquiti USG is OK, but I prefer Mikrotik for better flexibility with routing, load balancing and VPN applications.
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Ubiquiti USG is OK, but I prefer Mikrotik for better flexibility with routing, load balancing and VPN applications.
Dan C
Honorary Master
I use a TP-Link R470T to do the loadbalancing. It has 4 WAN portsI want to see what it can do when I throw torrents at it.
3 x 1Gbps WAN ports. It has 5Ghz and 2.4Ghz wifi. All that for R992. Not bad
Dan C
Honorary Master
Haha not really. It's only R700 odd bucks.Show off
Is it possible to bond a 100mbps Fiber line with rain 5G ?
Where could I get that router? Does it have dual WAN?
It has 3 x wan ports. So yes you can.
I got mine from The Networking Warehouse in Midrand
BeerIsNotGood...
Executive Member
If only all routers could have bandwidth controlWorking as expected!
WAN 1 = 200/100 Openserve Line LAN1 on ONT
WAN 2 = 50/25 Openserve Line LAN2 on ONT
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Suggestion for dual wan?
Mikrotik does dual wan quite easy, PCC load balancer https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:PCC
Only problem I found with this was the banking sites dont like your ip switching between the 2 connections, but you can white list those
powermzii
Expert Member
Is there a limit to the number of WAN links you can have on a tik when load balancing?
I have done 4 WAN's , depends on how many other firewall rules you have as its limited by CPU on the firewall
powermzii
Expert Member
My firewall fules are pretty basic and currently CPU doesn't go over 10% unless I'm torrenting
Will try this later tonight, already have Rain and Vodacom active so will try add my PPPOE on CISP as a 3rd
powermzii
Expert Member
Aaah OK, thanks for that headsup.. I actually currently have 1 and 2, will renumber them so that I have 0, 1 and 2PS I made the silly mistake of numbering the first PCC as connection 1, its actually 0, and the second is 1
Unifi Udm pro - dream machine pro
.. will be overkill but I want one.From ubiquiti there is the edgerouter line then the unifi ecosystem where for a router I suppose you can go for the USG pro - unifi security gateway.
If you buy into the whole unifi ecosystem the setup can be quite slick (but pricey).
Else mikrotik Rb4011- but not as user friendly..which you can pair with some unifi APs
Been researching setups for a while now..best to read up extensively before you buy to see if it will meet your needs. I'm not an expert so need to do my own reading to try and figure out if things will meet my requirements.
Hmm so 5g line with the soon to be 40mbps on vumareach. Adding this to my to do list lol.
Is it possible to set the lines for both loadbalancing and failover?