Rick-- many thanks. Been mulling this over. Am so steamed Peplink eliminated the Balance One-- I’ve installed probably 25 over the past few years and would love to have kept on using them. As you said earlier, with this model gone there’s a [massive] hole in Peplink’s lineup, if you ask me. In any event, I think I am going to take this as my cue to move away from Peplink because I really need a GB ETH dual-WAN ETH device in the $500 neighborhood, and there are other (even though less appealing) options. Thanks again.
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I use a Balance 20x
DSL modem in the USB port, Starlink in the WAN port and I’ll be adding a Virtual WAN 25Mbps as soon as 8.3 comes out.
Bang for the buck, 20x is a good deal.
I had a Balance One and it was a great unit. But a combination of T-Mobile Home Internet and Starlink quickly exposed that the 600Mbps rating was wishful thinking. It’s CPU would bottleneck at about 400Mbps. Starlink is great - but man, if you are close to a 5G tower - I regularly get more than 800Mbps from T-mobile 5G home internet. It has relegated Starlink to my hot backup.
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I have a Balance One Core which recently had a near-death experience owing to some salt water intrusion on a rough passage on our sailboat. I was quite perturbed to find there’s not really a replacement in the Peplink line. Fortunately, I was able to solder a new power connection onto the board, so it lives on happily (ever after, I hope), now in a NEMA enclosure. Lesson learned.
My Balance supports an HD1 dome (with SIM injector), WiFi WAN (through a Miktrotik), Iridium and Starlink (with the 5x WAN license). An AP One Rugged provides on board WiFi.
if I had known Peplink would abandon the smaller (power sensitive) end of the marine sector I would have shopped elsewhere. Too bad.