Hi there. I have a very simple home/office network that I believe will benefit from the installation of a Peplink Balance product. I have two LTE modem/routers for my Internet access. One of the devices typically has speeds of approximately 47Mbps down (22Mbps up) and the other typically has about 19Mbps down (19Mbps up). I really don’t envision needing any type of elaborate routing policies with certain types of traffic to one WAN device versus the other. I just want basic load balancing to keep total data usage fairly equal between the two devices and also gain some additional speeds if bonding/caching is possible.
I currently use a TP-Link TL-R470+ that seems to be working, but I definitely don’t see a speed increase, quite the opposite actually. I connect to my employers corporate network using a Cisco VPN software client which I might want to specify that connection to use a specific WAN for.
Can someone please tell me what to expect if I choose the Balance 20 in terms of performance versus one of the more expensive models? Thanks for your help!
@tekuhn The difference between Balance 20 and other higher tier models are mainly the number of recommended users they support, routing throughput, and a couple of advanced features like inbound load-balancing and speedfusion which doesn’t apply to your scenario.
There’s the thing about how you test your speed increase as well. For example, the VPN client that you use for connecting to work won’t have any increase in performance regardless of what products you used, as this depends very much on how the traffic behaves.
Thank you! Since my post, I have purchased a Peplink Balance 20. So far everything is working great using only the default “Persistence” algorithm. I have had a couple times where a cell phone didn’t seem to be behaving well. I live in a rural location with very poor cell coverage so I have the “WiFi Calling” feature turned on for our iPhones. Should “WiFi Calling” require any special rule to be properly supported?
Hi Tom. Typically the only thing we do in such a circumstance is try to set devices which use wi-fi calling (and another applications sensitive to latency and jitter) to use the “best” WAN [Network | Outbound Policy). You may find that one carrier typically performs “better” than the other vis-a-vis these variables and that’s the one I’d prefer for VOIP/VoLTE/etc type applications.
In the Outbound Policy section, just below the Persistence is a default rule, that is set to Auto by default, which uses lowest latency algorithm. If you haven’t made any changes here so far, everything should work just right for you.