[Bloat] Dual WAN home router with decent SQM?

David Lang david at lang.hm
Mon Jun 5 12:20:28 EDT 2023


you aren't going to bond two differnt ISPs for faster upload.

you may setup tunnels over each of the ISPs and bond them together.

Even with a full BGP link, any given connection is very unlikely to use both 
ISPs.

David Lang

On Mon, 5 Jun 2023, Luis A. Cornejo wrote:

> I’ve done the multi wan with mwan3 and it works fine for load balance or
> failover.
>
> But if you are trying to improve your upload then the best you can get is
> one upload vs the other. You won’t get both uploads to the same stream,
> that is bonding, which is a little harder to do.
>
> -Luis
>
> On Sun, Jun 4, 2023 at 9:35 AM David Lang via Bloat <
> bloat at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
>
>> any router that you can run OpenWRT on will do the job
>> look at the mwan3 package to mange the multiple ISPs
>>
>> at 100Mb, you don't need an especially beefy router.
>>
>> David Lang
>>
>> On Sun, 4 Jun 2023, John D
>> via Bloat wrote:
>>
>>> Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2023 09:48:21 +0100
>>> From: John D via Bloat <bloat at lists.bufferbloat.net>
>>> Reply-To: John D <j.w.r.dexter at gmail.com>
>>> To: bloat at lists.bufferbloat.net
>>> Subject: [Bloat] Dual WAN home router with decent SQM?
>>>
>>> I want to set up a new home router with SQM support to alleviate (mostly
>>> upload) bloat.
>>> However I would also like dual ISP support, more for backup/failover than
>>> load sharing.
>>> I can see affordable multi wan "load balancer" routers eg TP-link, and
>>> affordable SQM routers such as ubiquity Edgerouter, but I'm struggling to
>>> find a single device providing both.
>>> Just after any advice on a) am I better having two separate components b)
>>> if so any suggestions which product/brand?
>>> Two devices means more configuration but possibly more flexible and
>> cheaper.
>>>
>>> My internet speed is looking to max out around 100/20mbps so I don't need
>>> Gbit performance. Thanks for any help.
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