I'm jealous of this level of geeking out! 🤓 I'm on a mission to help my neighbors save some money without sacrificing quality. COX has a monopoly on direct connected internet in our area and treat us like 💩. Canceled yesterday and already set up dual wan w/ load balancing and fail over. Next step, bonding. Thanks for your efforts and making my research enjoyable 🤣
Awesome video Nate. Do you know if it possible to exclude a certain WAN from load-balancing? I have 2 fiber optic connections and a 4G modem. Normally, I want to load-balance only fiber optics, and leave 4G only for backup. Do you think it can be done on TP-Link Omada VPN routers?
Is it possible to connect 2 T-Mobile Home internet gateways on a multi-WAN router? You used a static IP for one connection. Is this from a business account?
Could someone tell me how this differs from the R470T. I purchased the R470T and connected two separate WANs from two different ISPs. All worked well for approximately 5 minutes and actually increased my speed, then 5 minutes later I start getting DNS errors when trying to load any website. After a few minutes it starts working again and then goes again. Just looking to find out if this unit will do the same or does it handle things differently. Someone said the router is getting confused about what ISP the packets are being sent through and received from. This is resulting in the DNS errors. Would anyone be able to give me their experience using this with multiple WANs? Do you get any issues or loss of connection, even briefly? I want to put this into a live broadcast environment where we cannot lose the stream and where maximum upload speed is essential, hence multiple WANs. I’d really appreciate anyone replying here 🙂
On My Omada Controller, the Verizon WAN shows offline (even though its working) through the Omada interface. I click 'connect' and it gives an error. Have you had this issue?
@@NaterTater Ok I found the solution (Reddit to the rescue) You have to turn off Link Backup for a proper Routing Policy to work. Otherwise it uses your second (third, fourth, fifth, sixth in your case) as a backup and not an active WAN. However, the secondary WAN is always active, and is transmitting data, the Omada shows it offline.
@dominator5498 ah. Yes the link backup does give the surprising "offline" status vs something like standby/hot-standby. But i'm still surprised you're saying it's sending traffic through a link backup wan when the primary is active. Thanks for sharing your findings.
@@NaterTater It’s active and sending data while showing offline if you have a group policy to use the secondary WAN such as IOT or a specific client device.
I tried Speedify so that I could failover to my phone if my tmobile disconnected. It worked but added 100ms of latency and wouldn't go back to tmobile once it reconnected and the extra 100ms is really bad for gaming.
Its a "business expense" for me since i need these for the various testing and reviews I do on my channel. I certainly could not justify the cost for personal use.
ok you just tests 1 isp in one pc then you tested 6 isps on multiple devices, the question is if i did load balance with 3 isps and tested it in 1 Device will I get full Speed of these 3 ISPs ? Like a Wan Aggregation ?
I had all 6 load balanced when testing 1 device yet a single device still only uses 1 ISP so you never get 6x the speed on a single device. Load balancing simply gives you more bandwidth (not speed) so that more devices can individually achieve closer to the full single ISP speed when all using data at the same. In contrast to getting 1/6 of the single ISP speed without load balancing.
Nate, you totally nerded out.
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Now I know why our internet went out here in Macomb County!! Nate was testing again!! LOL Very detailed - great Video Nate :)
Haha, I try to test at non peak hours to limit the size of the outage I cause. 😉
I'm jealous of this level of geeking out! 🤓 I'm on a mission to help my neighbors save some money without sacrificing quality. COX has a monopoly on direct connected internet in our area and treat us like 💩. Canceled yesterday and already set up dual wan w/ load balancing and fail over. Next step, bonding. Thanks for your efforts and making my research enjoyable 🤣
@@LivingTheReaume thanks, hope it goes well!
See my full TP-Link setup video: ua-cam.com/video/34NZwJh4N84/v-deo.html
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Indoor AP EAP670: amzn.to/48IsKVy
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Outdoor AP EAP650-Outdoor: amzn.to/3LQPGZ8
Omada hardware contoller OC300: amzn.to/3F7CATi
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5-port 2.5G POE switch: amzn.to/48KKP5u
2-port POE splitter: amzn.to/46iXeMp
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SFP to rj45 ethernet adapter (1G): amzn.to/3R4vENP
You gave me about 4 new insights I didn't learn from other vids. Thanks Nate!
Awesome!
Awesome video Nate. Do you know if it possible to exclude a certain WAN from load-balancing? I have 2 fiber optic connections and a 4G modem. Normally, I want to load-balance only fiber optics, and leave 4G only for backup. Do you think it can be done on TP-Link Omada VPN routers?
@AK-nobody you can reserve any of the WAN for backup only. Omada calls it "link backup". Not sure on VPN router, have to look up exact model specs.
Is it possible to connect 2 T-Mobile Home internet gateways on a multi-WAN router? You used a static IP for one connection. Is this from a business account?
You can easily. I have 2 TMHI and one tmobile business. I dont have a static WAN.
What WAN is the external IP showing? On another note you should be running a Pihole on your network.
The external WAN will be whichever WAN your computer/device is routed through. The router itself if seeing all 6 external WANs.
By percentage you saw approximately a 50% improvement on the download between 1 and 6 WANS and a 300% improvement on the upload.
I think you mean 300% on upload
Yes, sorry still waking up and sipping my coffee.....lol@@NaterTater
Love it 👍🏾
Thanks!
I'm hope you port channeled all 6 over to see only 1 device
ThankYou For The Intuitive Nate. 😊
Could someone tell me how this differs from the R470T. I purchased the R470T and connected two separate WANs from two different ISPs.
All worked well for approximately 5 minutes and actually increased my speed, then 5 minutes later I start getting DNS errors when trying to load any website. After a few minutes it starts working again and then goes again.
Just looking to find out if this unit will do the same or does it handle things differently.
Someone said the router is getting confused about what ISP the packets are being sent through and received from. This is resulting in the DNS errors.
Would anyone be able to give me their experience using this with multiple WANs? Do you get any issues or loss of connection, even briefly?
I want to put this into a live broadcast environment where we cannot lose the stream and where maximum upload speed is essential, hence multiple WANs.
I’d really appreciate anyone replying here 🙂
On My Omada Controller, the Verizon WAN shows offline (even though its working) through the Omada interface. I click 'connect' and it gives an error. Have you had this issue?
Is this a multi-WAN setup? You might try changing the omada wan ip address for verizon to a static IP and set a custom dns like I show in the video.
@@NaterTater Ok I found the solution (Reddit to the rescue) You have to turn off Link Backup for a proper Routing Policy to work. Otherwise it uses your second (third, fourth, fifth, sixth in your case) as a backup and not an active WAN. However, the secondary WAN is always active, and is transmitting data, the Omada shows it offline.
@dominator5498 ah. Yes the link backup does give the surprising "offline" status vs something like standby/hot-standby. But i'm still surprised you're saying it's sending traffic through a link backup wan when the primary is active. Thanks for sharing your findings.
@@NaterTater It’s active and sending data while showing offline if you have a group policy to use the secondary WAN such as IOT or a specific client device.
@@dominator5498 ah! Sneaky.
I tried Speedify so that I could failover to my phone if my tmobile disconnected. It worked but added 100ms of latency and wouldn't go back to tmobile once it reconnected and the extra 100ms is really bad for gaming.
How could a person afford that many isp’s or have a line or optic to run it
Do well in our area to get 25 down 5 up
Its a "business expense" for me since i need these for the various testing and reviews I do on my channel. I certainly could not justify the cost for personal use.
😂 this guy... would be nice to need it at various locations too though
ok you just tests 1 isp in one pc then you tested 6 isps on multiple devices, the question is if i did load balance with 3 isps and tested it in 1 Device will I get full Speed of these 3 ISPs ? Like a Wan Aggregation ?
I had all 6 load balanced when testing 1 device yet a single device still only uses 1 ISP so you never get 6x the speed on a single device. Load balancing simply gives you more bandwidth (not speed) so that more devices can individually achieve closer to the full single ISP speed when all using data at the same. In contrast to getting 1/6 of the single ISP speed without load balancing.
@@NaterTater Aha I c and what it if I need to merge the speed of these ISPs to double the speed do you know how to do it ?
@Esmaeel91 that's called bonding and is much less common. More expensive. Pepwave offers it as well as mushroom networks and others.
I don't think you are testing the load balancing appropriately if all of these devices are connected to the same wifi. Better to be done wired
@@HZ-sm6ww why is that?
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