Dual WAN aggregation to double WAN throughput - Is it possible?
Hello,
I am looking to set up WAN Aggregation for two WAN connections using the Netgear MS510TX switch. I wondered if it was possible, and if someone would be kind to share how I would go about setting it up.
I read that the TP-Link TL-ER5120 Gigabit Multi-WAN Load Balance Router can aggregate two WANs and effectively double the WAN throughput. The issue is that I require 5 GbE support as one of the WAN connections uses this standard, hence the need for the MS510TX.
The first WAN is the Inseego outdoor 5G CPE device that uses a single 5 GbE port. This modem has routing functionality and has the option for IP Passthrough: https://inseego.com/products/fixed/fw2000/
The second WAN is the NetComm NDD-0300 VDSL2 modem. The NetComm is strictly a modem only as far as I know and requires a router for routing.
Thanks in advance!
Steve
Model: MS510TX|8-port Multi-Gigabit Ethernet Smart Managed Pro Switch with 10G Copper / 10G SFP+ Fiber Uplinks
I read that the TP-Link TL-ER5120 Gigabit Multi-WAN Load Balance Router can aggregate two WANs and effectively double the WAN throughput.
Leaving alone this device is EoL, and coming with a bunch of Gigabit Ethernet ports ... unless you have two real plain IP connections on Ethernet (probably also some PPPoE or the like on two xDSL links) and your ISP is actively supporting bonding of two or more Internet connection links, there is no magic "doubling" of the throughput. A single connection session (e.g. TCP) does always connect and flow over one Internet connection only.
Depending on the algorithm implemented, typical multi-WAN routers allow to combine multiple Internet connections in this class keep one IP on one WAN and Internet connection. So only a second computer can take an advantage of the second Internet connection.
The issue is that I require 5 GbE support as one of the WAN connections uses this standard, hence the need for the MS510TX.
... The first WAN is the Inseego outdoor 5G CPE device that uses a single 5 GbE port. This modem has routing functionality and has the option for IP Passthrough: https://inseego.com/products/fixed/fw2000/.
Had to check it, this CPE does really come with a 5 GbE port. Again leaving alone of the network this CPE does connect to will ever deliver this kind of performance, to reach the theoretical 4.14 Gb/s down and 660 Mb/s up, you need a device able to deal with these >4Gb/s so a computer with a 5 GbE Ethernet port (or faster). If the aim is sharing this theoretical peak bandwidth to multiple systems, the MS510 Series switches could deal with this.
To make use of this with a MultiWAN router, the device would need to become a pure "modem" only, providing the public WAN IP only.
Re: Dual WAN aggregation to double WAN throughput - Is it possible?
Had to check it, this CPE does really come with a 5 GbE port. Again leaving alone of the network this CPE does connect to will ever deliver this kind of performance, to reach the theoretical 4.14 Gb/s down and 660 Mb/s up, you need a device able to deal with these >4Gb/s so a computer with a 5 GbE Ethernet port (or faster). If the aim is sharing this theoretical peak bandwidth to multiple systems, the MS510 Series switches could deal with this.
To make use of this with a MultiWAN router, the device would need to become a pure "modem" only, providing the public WAN IP only.
@schumaku I was hoping to use the MS510 and its L3 functonality to bond the two WANs. I have not found a Multi WAN router that supports 5 GbE connections, Do you know of any suitable Multi-WAN routers with Multi-Gig support?
Re: Dual WAN aggregation to double WAN throughput - Is it possible?
For serving the 5G router to the LAN, both switches are fine.
The point is that you need a true Dual- or Multi-WAN NAT router offering the required bandwith (and Ethernet technology), Internet CPEs able to provide a plain IP connection (no NAT, no routing, ...) and for the xDSL ones the ability to handle the protocol encapsulation (like PPPoE). These are all not features available on almost "any" switch.
Re: Dual WAN aggregation to double WAN throughput - Is it possible?
I think the draytek vigor 3910 ticks all of the boxes. I could use its Dual WAN function and rely on SFP+ modules to support 5 GbE for the CPE and 10 GbE to my main computer. This router would also handle the xDSL side.
What do you think? I hate the price tag and I'm hoping that there is another much cheaper Dual WAN router with 2 - 3 SFP+ modules so that I can do the same thing
