Product recommendation please

I’d contact the local Peplink partner for advice.

In the meantime, as background reading:

And a $0.02 worth of personal opinion:

Requirements:

  • 1 Gbps router throughput.
  • 2 WAN ports, each handling a fiber-enabled connection.
  • 1 LTE connection as backup in case the two wired WANs fail.

Musings:
There seem to be two viable (and not-too-expensive) options.

  • Balance 20x + a USB ethernet dongle
    It provides the LTE modem and one wired WAN
    Its throughput is 900Mbps (close to 1Gbps)
    You get the second wired WAN connection by adding a USB-Ethernet dongle.
    Question-mark: How fast the USB-ethernet connection can go.
    I have no real experience with that, beyond occasionally employing a USB-Ethernet dongle on a Balance 380 HW6. That connection (across a 1Gbps fiber) achieved only 335Mbps, where the Ethernet WANs to the same fiber achieved 900+ Mbps.
  • Balance Two + a USB modem dongle
    It provides two full-speed wired WAN ports
    Its throughput is 1Gbps
    You get the LTE fallback using the USB-connected modem

FWIW: The set-up for a home office for one of our people predates the Two and the 20x, and required more than two SpeedFusion connections (it serves as a hub for remote locations of various kinds). She ended up with a Balance 380 (for the two separate ISP WANs - we’re quite risk adverse :slight_smile:) and a MAX BR1 Mini LTE-A connected to the third WAN (could equally well have been connected by means of the USB-Ethernet port) as the cellular fallback.

If we were to do it again today I’d expect her to select the Balance Two (as per the above) with a SpeedFusion upgrade license to handle more than 2 peers, and the USB-ethernet dongle connecting to the BR1 (or a USB-modem dongle, if she did not already have a BR1 at hand).

In any case - contact your Peplink partner.

Cheers,

Z