After a few months of failed config after config I think I may have finally made some progress. I have not seen results like these until yesterday. I have been trying to achieve higher throughpout combining the three 1Gbps cable Internet services.
I am using 2 Route10’s, 3 WANs (3 X 1Gbps cable connections), and an Asus ExpertWiFi EBG19P.
My father and I have rg6 cable between our houses and we have installed Screenbeam units to extend and connnect our houses. The Screenbeams communicate at up to 2.5 Gbps.
My father has two seperate 1Gbps cable internet WAN services which are combined using the first Route10. The second route10 is at my house with a single cable WAN which combines my 1Gbps cable WAN with my fathers dual WAN.
I have been working on this for so long I am not sure if I am dreaming when i see these results, either way I am a happy man. I do understand that the speeds are somewhat superficial, however i believe there is a lot of potential.
Sorry if this post is hard to follow, its 5am and i haven’t had my coffee yet. I am sure I have left out a lot of details so if anyone has any questions I am happy to answer them.
Have a great day!
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just a friendly update:
I have removed all of the Asus hardware that i had implemented and am only using the Alta Route 10s now.
I am seeing a combined speed of around 1800Mbps from the combo of 2 1GB cable services.
I am only seeing a few issues that rarely affect performance but are confusing none the less.
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I THINK The route 10 doesn’t like to have more than one public IP address . When i connect both cable modems things start to fail. I am currently using 2 route 10’s, one at each house. The secondary Route 10 assigns a private ip and my modem the public. This seems to be the only way I can get the balancing to work.
Can the route 10 utilize 2 or 3 public IP’s?
( I am taking notes to identify specifics, more info to follow.)
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Speed tests are inconsistent, sometimes I will see the combined bandwidth being utilized but other times it appears the Route 10 is only using one of the 2 connections. A reboot of all hardware and it seems to utilize both connection for a while.
Will there be an included speed test implemented into the software eventually?
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My modem, and the second route10 (parents house) are my WAN’s however on the devices list only the 2nd route 10 (parents house) Shows traffic. The secondary appears to be utilized or prioritized over my cable modem, OR it just isn’t displaying properly. Even though i have selected WAN2 for the secondary, it seems to always be at the top of the traffic list, which is strange because my modems hits 1150Mbps, and secondary gets around 600-900Mbps, however a lot of the time the speed tests are right around 1150 as if the secondary isn’t being balanced.
Is there a way to prioritize the available balanced WANs?
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Speed test (Ookla desktop software) randomly fails to execute test. Displaying no connection available. After a few clicks it seems to respond with under 20ms ping and no packet loss. I am not sure what is causing the failure because i can stream/surf web at same time so I know I have connection.
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I have been unsuccessful trying to figure out how to incorporate the 3rd WAN. It doesn’t appear on any of the devices list nor is it included into the load balanced speeds. On paper, if two connections are achieving 1.6-1.9Gbps then the 3rd connection should push it over 2Gbps, it does not. I think the secondary Route 10 is load balancing the 2 modems on site B(unsuccessful balancing), however I am unable to achieve similar speeds to site A(successful balancing)
All in all this has been a very fun experiment that i will continue to tinker with. I wish there were more available options to customize/display the settings that remain hidden at this time. I have no experience with ssh or a direct connection to the route 10 so my ability is limited to the GUI.
Any feedback is welcomed and of course questions too.
Has anyone else experienced similar issues when load balancing?
Thanks for reading, more info to follow
here is an example of when the load balancing no longer combines the two services. Usually a hard reboot(unplugging the route10), then modem reboot, seems to fix this issue:
Any ideas?
