Hi all,
I’m trying to figure out the best combo setup for my off grid property in Canada. I don’t have cell service at my location. I need to be on zoom calls almost all day for work, so I’m looking at peplink specifically because it looks like it will solve the problem where if starlink drops out and I switch to the Wireless ISP, my zoom call doesn’t drop out.
Monthly bandwidth limits on the WISP are pretty low. ~200GB or so, so I’d like to use it as a backup with Starlink as the primary. Is that a possible setup? Most of the docs suggest that the two connections are used in parallel?
I have other Cisco Meraki gear for my WAP and switch, so I’m not concerned about that end of everything. I may add 4G later on, but having a built in LTE in the router isn’t a requirement for me. Is the Balance Two the right choice for me, combined either with running Fusionhub in Azure or paying for Speedfusion Connect?
Thank you!
A Balance Two is a solid choice for that requirement. That is what I use at home. (Cable + DSL + WISP)
You could add a cellular modem to the USB port later on.
In my campervan I use BR2 Pro with Starlink RV plus other wans. (2x Cellular + Starlink + WISP)
I use Speedfusion with home and with my van setup. Zoom and gSuite go over speedfusion. I never have drop outs.
You can also do basic failover with Peplink devices but zoom sessions will fail+reconnect when one WAN fails. You need to be using speedfusion to get no drops.
I have my parents setup with standard Starlink and they have LTE backup which is very solid. They dont care about sessions dropping and reconnecting so they dont use speedfusion.
Factor buying speedfusion add-on license into your Balance Two purchase. For reliability your going to want it.
Thanks - that makes sense! Speedfusion is 1:1 for all active WAN connections? Meaning, all outgoing packets are sent on both WAN links as opposed to being able to configure say 25% over one?
There are different levels of control depending on the situation.
Normal outbound policy you can setup traffic to be 1:1 or 1:4 or 1:10. With “weight balance” rules.
Traffic that is going through a Speedfusion tunnel you dont get as much granular control (within the tunnel). The tunnel can be configured to use both active-active. Or you can make it active-passive. The tunnel has a choice “bonding” or “weighted bonding”. Weighted bonding doesnt have the same slider controls as weighted balance. I have tested both and find bonding gives me more total raw speed.
Here is the difference between the two
I use a Priority rule to route work traffic to the tunnel.
I use Speedfusion for traffic I dont want to fail. Then I use a combination of Priority, Enforced and Weighted Balance rules for everything else.
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Awesome! Thanks so much. I have some reading to do 
