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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 route...
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.