Synergy Mode Problem?

I have used Balance 20 & 30 models for over 15 years. At one time I had 3 ADSL lines running together to improve my bandwidth.
Now I have Starlink and a Windstream fixed wireless system I wanted to “bond” and just bought a B-One dual WAN system.
I set up the Starlink as WAN 1 and Windstream as WAN 2 and enabled both as Priority 1. I then enabled Synergy Mode and ran a speed test. Both WANs operated together up and down. Great I thought. Then I tested again and only the slower WS operated. I checked everything and could not get the “bonded” speed. I have to put WS into “Backup” mode to access the SL.
What did I do wrong or is this how it is supposed to work and I goofed up when I was checking the features prior to purchase?
Please keep it simple for this septuagenarian. LOL

Hello @zulu95,
Welcome to the Peplink Community Forum.

Synergy Mode is only for use between compatible Peplink devices; there are details on the Synergy feature here.

You can turn the Synergy feature off when running only a single Peplink Router, as you do not need it.

Happy to Help,
Marcus :slight_smile:

Marcus,
Thank you for taking the time to reply. I found this out after I started a ticket later last night. The “old” devices allowed load sharing without a load of off site activity. That is what I thought I was buying. I now know I was wrong.
Pity my old Balance is not gigabyte enabled.
Cheers,
Z.

Hello @zulu95,
Welcome to the forum.

I think you simply have a confusion of naming, and you may find that the B-one does what you want.

To clarify.
Synergy is for the purpose of combining two (or more) Peplink devices into a single interface. This way the WAN interfaces and other features are on the same pages and you can treat them as a single device. Synergy IS NOT bonding.

To combine 2 (or more) WAN interfaces into a bonded, failover, or smoothed single pipe, we are talking about speedfusion. Depending on what you want, speedfusion can be configured in various methods.

For speedfusion to work (ie. to bond seperate WAN ports) there are some requirements. The most important is that the speedfusion pipe requires an “in” point AND an “out” point.
ie. a bonded service is between two devices running the speedfusion application. So the B-one on one end, and either another peplink device, or the speedfusion hub software on a remote server at the other end.
Peplink as part of the package does have what they call “speedfusion connect” (SFC), where they provide you with a remote server ready for you to use. The SFC is limited by bandwidth consumption, and in incontrol you can see what you have consumed so far (once setup). The B-One comes with a starting allowance, but once used up, you have to purchase more.

I hope this clarifies it for you.

I suggest you do a search on setting up speedfusion connect as there are various help files out there as well as people having made youtube videos about it. This way you can test it, and understand it.

And of course, please do not hesitate to ask if you have more questions!

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