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Orbi960 WAN Aggregation question
Hello,
Could you clarify for me what Orbi's WAN aggregation is truly capable of? I've read the Netgear documentation and see it combines multiple network connections from your modem to your router. As a result, an aggregated WAN connection provides seamless connectivity and the maximum possible Internet speed to your home network.
I want WAN aggregation to merge/bond two sources into a single signal or, if not possible, to treat the second source as a failover.
I desire one ISP (microwave towers) as my primary, and then I will add a different ISP (Starlink) as a failover. Alternatively, if WAN aggregation could perform bonding, that would be amazing.
Has anyone used an Orbi960 for two different ISP Modems? I endlessly Google... but come up short. Has anyone seen this model where there were two different Modems?
Question 1: Is the above possible?
What I've tried.
Starlink: Setup Standard dish, Enabled Bypass mode in Starlink App
Orbi: Connected Starlink dongle to Orbi's 2.5ghz port, Enabled WAN Aggregation in Advance > Internet Setup UI, Rebooted device, device saw the 192.168.0.1 conflict and reset itself to 10.0.0.1
The resulting Orbi UI claims "Error: Unable to establish WAN aggregation."
Ugh.
Question 2: If so, what am I doing wrong?
2 Replies
Alas, the basic premise is incorrect.
WAN aggregation was created in that brief period of time before companies started equipping modems and routers with Ethernet ports capable of greater than 1GB speed. When the modem is capable of greater than gigabit, it would provide two gig Ethernet ports. If the router is also capable of 'aggregating' two gig ports together, then WAN aggregation results in greater than gigabit from that one modem.
Currently, modems and routers are shipping with 2.5G, 5G, and even 10G Ethernet ports. This makes WAN aggregation no longer needed.
To bond two separate ISP feeds, or to enable failover if one should quit working, the router itself has to support multiple simultaneous ISPs. No Orbi router does that.
There are routers from other manufacturers that do, such as Ubiquiti's Edge Router. (I believe pfSense might do so as well.)
Sorry.
CrimpOn is correct. The Orbi won't support that.
Wan aggregation isn't dual wan support.
You'd want something that supports dual wan with failover/load balancing.
You'd be getting into business class routers for that.
Although, I think the edge router x line supports it but you'd have to check. They're fairly reasonable.
