How to know if your router is overloaded?

[dragon2611]

@Michael234

a 15GB file from one LAN side device to another. This causes a Surf SOHO to run at 100% cpu. Not sure if this would be true for the Balance One too, but just be aware that moving lots of LAN data can also impact cpu usage.

Another option is having a router/firewall behind the peplink and sticking either a static route in the peplink or using OSPF, then intervlan traffic can be routed without putting load on the peplink device, if you don’t need firewalling a L3 switch may even be an option.

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@MartinLangmaid

In places I would have used a B580 in in the past (for bonding 5 LTE connections or 4 DSLs) I’d now deploy a Dual WAN solution because they can generally get 70Mbps on fiber and 50-100mbps on LTE-A.

That’s exactly our scenario, but still we need more than 2 Internet connections (4 x 70Mbps + 1 LTE WAN cold backup). Unfortunately over here we get only symmetrical dedicated 1GB/s FTTH, which would cost us 1500€/month

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@dragon2611

Another option is having a router/firewall behind the peplink and sticking either a static route in the peplink or using OSPF, then intervlan traffic can be routed without putting load on the peplink device, if you don’t need firewalling a L3 switch may even be an option.

Good idea, I could keep the Balance One for WAN traffic only, despite the fact the Balance One should be required to handle 200 clients for Internet access. It might be worth it to upgrade the router as a whole