My Home's Outbound Policies and SpeedFusion tunnel setup

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I have been dabbling with traffic routing for nearly a decade with varying degrees of success. I just recently started to explore the SpeedFusion stuff. I have been doing some trial and error learning, and I think I can say that - “I kind of understand some of this stuff some of the time.”

First - my connections are like this…

Balance One Core - LAN router, Backup WAN, AP Controller

    • IP Passthru from WAN1 to LAN1 on Balance 310X (ALL LAN to WAN traffic takes this route)
    • WISP1_Backup - 15/6 (warm standby via priority outbound policy)
      Balance 310X - WAN router, SFC tunnel initiator
    • WISP1 - 40/16 - low latency, high jitter during peak hours, moderate capacity
    • StarLink - 200/20 - low latency, high jitter, high packet loss, high capacity
    • DSL - 4.5/1.5 - higher latency, low jitter, high packet loss under load, low capacity

Here are my favorite Outbound Policies - in order

  1. AppleUpdates - Overflow - WISP1, StarLink - Source: Any - Dest: aaplimg.com - TCP:443
  2. Discord_UDP - Priority - SFC, WISP1, StarLink - Source: GamingDevicesGroup - Dest: Any - UDP:50000-60000
  3. Apex_UDP - Priority - SFC, WISP1, StarLink - Source: GamingDevicesGroup - Dest: Any - UDP:37000-49999
  4. Gaming_IP - Priority - SFC, WISP1, StarLink - Source: GamingDevicesGroup - Dest: Any - IP:1
  5. HTTP_Balance - Weighted Balance (1 : 1 : 0) - WISP1, StarLink - Source: Any - Dest: Any - TCP:80
    6: 8080_Balance - Weighted Balance (1 : 1 : 0) - WISP1, StarLink - Source: Any - Dest: Any - TCP:8080
  6. Youtube - Weighted Balance (1 : 1 : 0) - WISP1, StarLink - Source: Any - Dest: youtube.com - Any port
  7. Guest - Priority - Starlink, WISP1 - Source: GuestVLan - Dest: Any - Any port
  8. Manager - Priority - WISP1, StarLink - Source: ManagerDeviceGroup - Dest: Any - Any port
  9. Streaming - Priority - StarLink, WISP1 - Source: StreamingVideoDeviceGroup - Dest: Any - Any port
  10. HTTPS_Persistence - Persistence by src (1 : 3 : 0) - WISP1, StarLink - Source: Any - Dest: Any - Any port
  11. Default - Weighted Balance (1 : 1 : 0) - StarLink, WISP1

My SFC config is to minimize latency across the three WAN links…
Tunnel_1 - Gaming
Wan smoothing - Maximum Overall Redundancy Level
Max Level on Same Link - OFF
Forward Error Correction - OFF
Receive Buffer - 0 ms
Packet Fragmentation - Always
Dynamic Weighted Bonding
Low congestion level
Ignore Packet Loss Event - true
Disable Bufferbloat Handling - false
Disable TCP ACK Optimization - false
Packet Jitter Buffer - 0 ms
All three WANS set to High Priority

This allows my house to function with a bunch of IOT devices, streaming video devices, multiple gaming PCs and consoles, etc. It works extremely well. Please let me know if you have any really good outbound policies to share that have served you well over the years.

*Edited to remove some emojis that popped up.

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