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Serkan-mx
Dec 03, 2022Aspirant
I have 2x1000 mb internet =2000mb internet
Hello I have 2x1000 mb internet I want to combine it and get 2000 mb internet as a single output ? Are these devices suitable for this? Rax120-Rax200 or is there a device you can recommend for m...
Razor512
Dec 04, 2022Prodigy
While more tangentially related. when using a dual WAN router with 2 different ISPs, you will not get 2Gbps on everything. For example, many services that need a connection to a single server, or a single TCP or UDP connection, or any services that uses some form of DRM to ensure only subscribers are connecting, will typically only use one of the connection. The router will simply load balance the connections.
The way this will look to the user, is you may see a steam game only download at 1Gbps even though you have 2Gbps worth of internet connections. but if a second user also starts a steam download, that may also end up going at 1Gbps. On the other hand, you may notice that some more P2P related stuff may benefit from both connections, in addition to other traffic that will make a large number of connections.
PS if you plan to run any servers, e.g., a game server, then you may be forced to restrict the load balancing on a client by client basis so that sessions remain more sticky when it comes to remaining on the same WAN interface.