Balance One Core Load Balancing

Product Discussion Peplink Balance
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Hi Folks,
My first time on here posting and only just bought a Balance One Core. Was hoping I could get some advice here for setting the device up to load balance 2 x WAN’s (soon to be 4).

I have 2 modem routers connected to WAN 1 & 2, the routers are 4G/LTE devices (Netgear & Huawei) and are connected in DHCP mode. They are both working ok I think with the Peplink and I was wanting to check whether this is an efficient set up, our should I be using bridge mode on the modems ?

The only thing I’ve set up for each of the WAN’s is the max DL and UL speed. Is that all I need to do, and is there a way that the Peplink will dynamically check what the UL and DL speed of each WAN is ?

Thanks,
Andy

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Hi Andy Welcome!

I would prefer bridge mode personally - but it doesn’t really matter.

Yes that’s enough, although I would likely add an outbound policy set to lowest latency (if the balance core supports that algorithm - I think it does).

Not dynamically no.

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Thanks for the reply Martin :slight_smile:

Could you tell me a bit more about the Outbound Policy setting that may help performance ?

Thanks,
Andy

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See here: https://www.peplink.com/technology/load-balancing-algorithms/

Lowest latency or fastest response time as an outbound policy on your balance will help. When one of your links gets saturated its latency will rise, so generally lowest latency is useful for WANs with dynamic bandwidth (like LTE or highly contended fixed lines).

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Thanks Martin,
I’ll give that a go.
Andy