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RAXE450 - Dual WAN Aggregation vs Load Balancing setup
I have a RAXE450 router and my ISP is Verizon 5G Home and they provide a ASK-NCQ1338FA gateway router. The signal kept going up and down so I got another line with an additional gateway routers. ...
A couple things.
1. that gateway from verizon is a modem/router combo device. It causes a double nat. Not much info on it so I'm not sure if it has a passthrough mode. If it does, you can try that. If it doesn't either try putting the netgears IP address into its DMZ (if it has one) or put the netgear in access point mode.
2. While the RAXE supports wan port aggregation, it doesn't support load balancing. What that means is the wan ports only accepts multiple wan sources if those sources are from 1 source. (some modems have multiple gigabit ports, allows them to get greater than gigabit speeds while only having gigabit ports). So having 2x ISP's isn't a benefit with the RAXE
I considered the Peplink and Mushroom Networks bonding/SD-WANs, but almost had a heart attack after seeing the prices.
So I'm gonna bite the bullet and order the TP-Link ER605 and shove that in between the RAXE and the two modems, purely as a load balancer.
Does NETGEAR make anything similar to the TP-Link ER605? I'm pretty sur heaving two different ecosystem/platforms between hardware will be another pain.