How can I force my B One to use a specific carrier more frequently? Here’s my situation. I have 50GB/mo of Verizon data and 100GB/mo of AT&T. Often, both have similar acceptable latency but often Verizon is better so it seems that SFC uses Verizon as the primary. How can I adjust the balance to use more AT&T or vice versa? Or more proportionally? The reason it matters is that we move every week or two (we travel full time in our RV) and often we end up in an area where only one carrier works, so I want to ensure I always have some of both left over.
At the simplest level, you can set priorities. Beyond that, you can configure your cycle dates and allocated data per-SIM and limit the device to use those under those limits. You can set up your SFC tunnel to weight links within the tunnel differently as well, but you may lose some other functionality there.
I tried the priorities in SFC but it seems I have to set all WANs to Priority 1 for both to be used for bonding. When setting one to P1 and another to P2, only P1 is used in the SFC - so I guess that’s just for failover.
I have 3 external WAN sources and none internal to the router, so I don’t think I can use the SIM limit features you mentioned.
So that leaves using SFC weight links. I looked at the different options I could find but didn’t see anything like that. Can you point me in the right direction for that?
Hi…
Do you try to adjust " Outbound Policy"?
Using:
Overflow - Traffic will be routed through the healthy WAN connection that has the highest priority and is not in full load. When this connection gets saturated, new sessions will be routed to the next healthy WAN connection that is not in full load.
OR
Lowest Latency - Latency checking packets will be periodically sent to all selected healthy connections. Latency will then be determined by the response time of the second and third hops. New traffic will then be routed to a healthy connection with the lowest average latency during that detection period.
OR
Fastest Response Time - Traffic will be duplicated and sent to all selected healthy connections. The connection with the earliest response will be used to send all further traffic from the session for the fastest possible response time. If there are any slower responses received from other connection afterwards, they will be discarded. As a result, this algorithm selects the most responsive connection on a per session basis.
Thanks for sharing the options. First, I should mention that I need to use SFC for most types of data because we’re often in remote locations with iffy data and conducting Zoom/VoIP for our business. When I try those 3 options or “weighted balance”, SFC is not an option. Seems that only “Priority” and “Enforced” allow that. How can I have these same types of options when using SFC?
Thanks. Very interesting. This appears to allow you to distribute between SpeedFusion tunnels OR between WAN sources when not using SpeedFusion. Trying to figure out how to set up load distribution of WAN sources within a single SpeedFusion tunnel. Thinking this over to see what I can get to work… Thanks for all the ideas.
