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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. ...
I did have both the modems with IP Passthrough setup and bridge mode into the router. Overall, I think the dual port features are a bit useless for any of my scenarios. Thanks for trying to help out though.
When in that mode, you connect the router The ASK-NCQ1338FA offers an IP pass-through option that allows you to avoid a double NAT.
Since the Verizon router has 2 LAN ports, it will inform you of which LAN port to use to connect your router to.
In that setup, the Netgear router will have to be placed in its normal router mode (same as if you were using just a modem).
The Verizon 5G router does not use 2 LAN ports at the same time when in passthrough mode, and it is also not rated for service speeds over 1Gbps, thus it would have no need for LACP.
When in passthrough mode, the Verizon router will automatically disable its WiFi radio.
As for the RAXE450, it doesn't support dual WAN, instead it offers LACP or the use of a 2.5GbE port as the WAN port.
(Below only applies if you are trying to have multiple separate internet connections on a budget)
If you need to use multiple separate WAN connections without jumping to a full on business class router to avoid the business class, then you will be stuck with devices like the UISP EdgeRouter 6P as it will allow you to specify multiple WAN connections (e.g. cable internet + the Verizon 5G home internet), configure automatic failover, as well as the option of binding sessions to their initial WAN connection (useful if hosting a game server on a network with dual WAN + failover). Though with that solution, you will need a separate AP, as well as at least an unmanaged switch if you also use a NAS or other multiple other devices that will be saturating their gigabit LAN connection simultaneously. The reason for this is that the Ubiquiti Edgerouter products do not have a built in switch even though they have multiple Ethernet ports, and while you can select a few ports to act as a switch, all of their traffic has to go through the CPU, thus total switching performance will be lower than a proper switch.
Such a setup will also require a separate AP, (either configuring other routers to behave like an AP or getting single function APs).