Hello im very new to peplink and i need to understand some things.
so ive bought a peplink B ONE 5G and all i want is to bond the 3 connections i have so i can get faster internet speeds! i use 2 starlinks and a cellular 5g card !
in order to bond the connections i need the speed fusion ! i enable it but the speed test is the same ! i change the bonding to weighted bonding but everything is the same ! do i do something wrong ?
Have you tested with multiple streams?
Hello and thanks for your answer! I’m new to this so I don’t understand your question what do you mean streams ??? Live streams ???
With only one connection you will never see better than your fastest network, to utilize the extra speed you need multiple connections between client and server. For the Speedtest.net mobile client this is called multi:
So if I change to multi I see better speeds yes this works great thank you ! But do I have to configure this for my streaming platform (vmix) as well or is this happening automatically in other platforms ? My main concern is that I need to make sure that I use speed fusion bonding with all websites, devices etc. Is there a way to have it always on?
It’s just the way that things work, if the application can use multiple connections it will see more speed, if not it’ll be capped at your fastest connection. However if you have multiple applications or multiple users then this isn’t much of a limitation (ie I have a 500Mb connection but I have the kids set their Steam clients to update at only 200Mb, that way if both are updating games there’s still enough for us to stream 4k TV and browse the web)
If I use a UDM pro Max as a gateway and a peplink router with speed fusion as a provider does this change things at all ?
No, this is just the way that networking works.
When DSL was my connection, I liked speedfusion because it allowed me to utilize the multiple dsl connections with a single client connection, up or down, which was my use case. And it worked well to increase the speed of a single client connection over multiple dsl connections vs. a single dsl connection.
Is your outbound policy sending traffic over the speedfusion tunnel?
Can you try with only the two starlinks?
On cellular I didn’t have as much success bonding two connections to improve speed because any packet loss or delay had a noticeable impact; the dsl connecteions bonded really well for me but they had 0 packet loss and very consistent ping time. With cellular I used it only for unbreakable connection and at one point to use a separate connection for upload where it was faster for upload but slower for download, which was powerful. I didn’t try wan smoothing with 3+ connections to see if that would be useful to increase speed in spite of packet loss or delay on cellular/sat.