I’m in the middle of my first PepLink B One deployment and trying to understand how to best configure. I’ve got two ISPs. One is a typical cable/fiber provider that gets about 100/100 up/down, the other is an 5g LTE that gets about 250/20 most of the time.
I figured out how to implement SpeedFusion Connect and have been testing, but I am starting to doubt I need SFC at all. Here’s why: I configured the two internet sources like this without a SpeedFusion Connect source at all. When I do a speedtest, I get the faster download from the LTE and the faster uplink from the fiber. Neat!
Further, I did an outbound voip call to leave myself a message where I count to 20 and unplug the fiber ISP at 10. It recovers pretty quickly, between one and two seconds. Which is honestly just fine. Adding SFC means piping traffic over their VPN and dealing with the things that don’t like that, not to mention whatever the traffic limit is thru that service.
So, seeing that the PepLink seems to be doing a bang-up job of what I want even w/o SFC, I’d like to ask the community here what additional benefit(s) I could gain by using SFC.
Welcome to the forum! I actually meant to respond to your Reddit post but it’s Sunday and I forgot 
Are you sure you’re not using SFC? Based on what you’re saying, I think you are, mainly, the quick VoIP failover of 1-2 seconds. Regardless, SFC has a few main qualities such as hot failover and bandwidth bonding (seems like this may not be required). If your device is failing over between those links efficiently, or in a way that is good for you, there may not be a reason to use SpeedFusion.
I’m sure. Note the rule I posted has no reference to an SFC connection, just the WAN links themselves. I had a conversation on reddit where some users chimed in, so I understand it better now. It comes down to SFC would give me instant failover, not the ~1.5 seconds I’m getting now.
In my testing (VOIP, zoom, etc) you can tell something happened but it doesn’t end the session. And that’s good enough for my purposes. If I do anything where absolutely solid connection with no blips at all is required, I’ll dust off what I’ve learned and use SFC.
The B-One is a welcome entry in their product line. I’d looked at PepLink before and getting the right feature mix for my typical environment was too expensive for me to recommend, but the B-One hits the sweet spot. This one is going to one of my firm’s 4 partners, and I want to have one at all 4 eventually.
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