Thread: Load-balancing router

Does any forum member have any experience in using a load balancing router so that bandwidths of two internet connections can be aggregated to obtain greater speed? Please, post your experince and which router you are using. Thanks in advance.

Speed will not aggregate.
The higher speed Isp will dominate.
if it fails the other ISP will keep the connection 'live"
Google search : Loadbalancing router.

Edimax offer Load balancing router with 2WAN or 4WAN...

1. BR-6624 - 2WAN
2. BR-6641 - 4WAN

For more detail on product, visit: Edimax BR-6624 - 2 WAN + 4LAN Load Balancing Router

It will not double b/w for single application console but overall b/w will get doubled.

Some key features (BR-6624)...

Flexible, High-Performance Dual Modem Support
• Integrated load balancing and auto backup connection
• Shared Internet access up to 253 users
• High-Performance NAT Router
• Multiple IP Address support. Fully supports situations where your
ISP allocated multiple IP addresses.
• Advanced NAT features to set up DMZ, DDNS, Remote
Management Routing, Virtual Servers, SNMP, and ARP proxy.
• 5 groups of access filter to LAN users
• VPN support
• Multiple DMZ
• QoS (Quality of Service) support
• Packet filter & block URL
• Easy setup and management

BR,
SJ

@ SJ

What will be the speed if you connect two 512 Kbps connections to it ? Suppose I am downloading using utorrent, What speed will I get for a single torrent ?

Also heard that secure sites won't open in this set up. Is it true ?

Originally Posted by meetdilip

@ SJ

What will be the speed if you connect two 512 Kbps connections to it ? Suppose I am downloading using utorrent, What speed will I get for a single torrent ?

It will be 512Kbps only, It will depend on traffic going out use which WAN port, either it will use WAN1 or WAN2. For torrent, it can use only one WAN port for traffic in/out.

Yes for another computer in same LAN, it can also go up to 512 at same time using WAN2 port, if computer1 is using WAN1.

In other words, one session may go via WAN1 and another to WAN2. It can be defined in configuration by computer IP address or Mac address to pass all or specific traffic using WAN1/WAN2.

Only switching is possible to turn 2 ports into 1 port - 100Mbps + 100Mbps = 200Mbps in the enterprise networking LAN setup, but not possible under ISP
ISPs won;t allow this to happen.

Hence, Load balancer router enable single LAN to get double of its total available b/w but double b/w would not for a single session.

It support fail over function too...

Originally Posted by meetdilip

@ SJ

Also heard that secure sites won't open in this set up. Is it true ?

No issue at all...

Thanks for the info.

Originally Posted by Edimax-India

Edimax offer Load balancing router with 2WAN or 4WAN...
1. BR-6624 - 2WAN
2. BR-6641 - 4WAN

What about DLink DI-LB604? Please, check and reply? Will this router proviede double speed for single session?

If You are Downloading a Single file , then it will not help, But it you are using torrent or a download manager then the bandwidth gets doubled as the LBR (load Balancing router) in Load Balancing mode will use multiple paths to download the data.

I am using DLink DI-LB604 | 1 MTNL DSL Connection and 1 Airtel DSL Connection