Inquiry About ADSL Line Bonding Using Peplink

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Hello,

I would like to inquire about the possibility of using Peplink to bond ADSL internet lines in a way that combines both upload and download speeds across all lines to maximize total bandwidth.

  • Does Peplink support bonding for both upload and download with the required specifications?
  • Can it be run on a Virtual Machine (VM)?
  • What is the cost of the license for this service, and what is the duration of the license validity?

This matter is very important to me, and I would appreciate a detailed response to these points.

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

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Hello, and welcome to the forum!

Does Peplink support bonding for both upload and download with the required specifications?

Yes it does, you would need a DSL modem for each DSL connection, but that could connect to the WANs of the Peplink device you have.

SpeedFusion is the technology, some great information here about how it works as bonded and wan smoothed Bandwidth Bonding Technology SpeedFusion - Peplink

Can it be run on a Virtual Machine (VM)?

to make this work you need a Fusion Hub or another Peplink device, the Fusion hub can be run at a VM, Virtual Appliance for SMBs FusionHub Solo- Peplink

What is the cost of the license for this service, and what is the duration of the license validity?

FusionHub Solo is free, if you want to continue to use the monitoring in InControl2 there is a small yearly cost. You can also just redeploy a new FusionHub Solo each year.

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Hi…

Are you using PPPoE with ADSL?

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I did this for a couple years and it worked great for me.

My DSL modems had two options: bridge mode or dhcp nat ip via ethernet with double nat, and either way worked well for me for speedfusion.

I bonded two 15 mbps / 1 mbps dsl connections which had consistent 35ms latency.

The result was a 25 mbps / 1.5 mbps connection with 35ms latency.

(It made a big difference for me going from 1 to 1.5 on the upload side as this was what I was waiting for, so at the time I was extremely pleased with bonding via speedfusion)

You can run a fusionhub on a $5-6/month cloud instance. You get a fusionhub solo license for free which allows a single device to do a speedfusion connection to it. This was a big appeal of peplink over competitors when I got started.

On your local device side, some peplink routers came with speedfusion perpetual license, other routers you have to either buy the speedfusion license for the router itself or subscribe to the annual primecare for the router itself, so look at that cost in addition to the purchase price of the router.

If your latency is variable on connections, or if you have packet loss, I found speedfusion bonding to be a less effective for additive speed. It worked well for me on the dsl connections because they had the same latency and consistent latency.

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