I have a Balance 20X with Starlink on the WAN port and a VDSL FlexModule Mini. It all works fine, except for the way it uses the bandwidth of the WANs.
The VDSL service I have is 20M/3M, but the B20X seems to assume that it is 1G/1G. The Starlink varies, but I typically get 100M/10M. So for most things, I want the B20X to use Starlink but it mostly uses VDSL. There doesn’t seem to be a way to set the Upload Bandwidth or Download Bandwidth for VDSL, unlike the WAN port (Starlink).
Am I missing something? Is there a way to fix this? Thanks.
Try setting different Outbound Policy, by default it’s using Lowest Latency algorithm, which will prefer the lowest latency connection, which normally is the VDSL.
Bandwith set is not something the default balancing algorithm takes into account, even if one would be 10Gbps, if it’s higher latency it would be selected less.
Related to this thread, I moved from an external DSL model to the VDSL FlexModule and notice that I now have limited options in my outbound policies.
Before I could set the uplink and downlink bandwidth of the Ethernet port with the DSL modem to use in the “Least Used” policy along with my Starlink connection. However it seems the VSDL FlexModule 1) doesn’t have that manual setting for the connection and 2) doesn’t appear to use the the “Line Rate” or “Attainable Rate” negotiated by the VDSL module for use by the “Least Used” policy.
Is this a bug, or something that Peplink has done intentionally? I’m becoming disappointed by the VDSL FlexModule, and am pondering switching back to the the external DSL modem.