Two LTE Routers - One ISP

[Bucks_Fizz]

Hi all,
Apologies if in the wrong thread or already discussed.

I have two Huawei 315 LTE routers. Both have active LTE Sims to Telkom
Is there a way of combining the two into one Internet gateway?

THanks all and have a great day

 

[nemisiz]

http://www.tp-link.com/us/products/details/cat-4910_TL-R470T+.html

 

[Neo_X]

i utilized a old machine gathering dust,and loaded pfsense. multi wan on it works perfectly. need at minimum two ethernet interfaces, but three will be better

 

[Genisys]

i utilized a old machine gathering dust,and loaded pfsense. multi wan on it works perfectly. need at minimum two ethernet interfaces, but three will be better

Router on a stick. That is all I'll say.

 

[DMNknight]

Hi all,
Apologies if in the wrong thread or already discussed.

I have two Huawei 315 LTE routers. Both have active LTE Sims to Telkom
Is there a way of combining the two into one Internet gateway?

THanks all and have a great day

As suggested above, it can be done. However the question is, should it be?
LTE runs on a certain spectrum for it's bandwidth and putting 2 modems right next to each other, connecting to the same tower is not really going to up your throughput as they modems will be contending with each other and everyone else on the same tower for bandwidth in the same spectrum.

I could arguably increase uptime should your link be dropping a lot but even that is minimal because you're connecting to the same tower.

What is your purpose in trying to combine the modems in this way?

 

[Bucks_Fizz]

HI all. THanks for the feedback. My reason was to enquire whether i could combine the two LTE signals to one network with the hope of accessing the bandwidth of both LTE from 1 Network point.

Thinking about it, perhaps set them up in different parts of the house each with it's own Wi-FI SSID. Laptop on one, streaming on the other?

 

[DMNknight]

You will definitely have "more" bandwidth available if you want to use it that way. Your overall throughput won't necessarily increase but you will have a little more dedicated bandwidth for each device.

With a pfsense firewall & 3 NIC's you can make it work quite nicely. Provided you switch off the wifi on both routers and leave the wifi connectivity to an actual access point.
I can't see a way to use one of them as an Access point AND combine both modems into shared bandwidth.

If you do split them make sure they're on different channels and have different SSID's so they don't interfere with each other on the wifi spectrum.