Dual wan on my ax88u has been rock solid but on my ac88u it was definitely hit or miss for most of the time I was using it until Asus got it right. The biggest issue was fall back which almost never worked until I manually disconnected the 2nd ISP. The be92u not only stuck on the 2nd ISP but throughput was like 1200 baud dial up.
I did submit a report to Asus before I reset and returned them.I was going to test my iPhone as a 4G source, but I decided to pass because I don't have good enough signal in the apartment with the phone to make it worth it. Calls work fine, and I've set up WiFi Calling, but for data when it gave me any kind of speed test results it was about 37 Mbps down and 0.2Mbps up. So, for running the whole network, I don't think that would go very far. I do have 5G on my plan but there again, my I have to change locations before the phone changes to 5G instead of using LTE.Dual wan on my ax88u has been rock solid but on my ac88u it was definitely hit or miss for most of the time I was using it until Asus got it right. The biggest issue was fall back which almost never worked until I manually disconnected the 2nd ISP. The be92u not only stuck on the 2nd ISP but throughput was like 1200 baud dial up.
My primary is xfinity 943mbps at my location and my secondary is at&t vdsl so there's a huge difference in performance between the two. I periodically telework and need redundancy because from time to time somebody digs without calling 411 beforehand severing optical trunks killing xfinity for hours on end. I could plug my phone into the usb slot as I do get around 800mbps here but for productivity work vdsl is fine.
My root cause of my stability issues was a configuration error on my part. I had put everything on one MLO SSID and forgot I had “smart” devices that are only stable with WPA2. The resulting churning was consuming processing resources. So I pulled the 2.4GHz network out of the MLO and put it on a separate SSID with WPA2. I’ll get back to the Dual Wan testing at a later date.
My current setup is 3 separate SSIDs for 2.4, 5, and 6GHz. Don't have any WiFi 7 devices yet, so haven't set up MLO for now. I have set up 2 iOT networks under network. 1 for my lights, and one for the smart plugs. Everything seems to play nice with this setup for me. Currently I don't need Dual WAN, but did have issues with the default settings of WAN Auto detection, so manually set the port I want used. The only iOT devices on my main 2.4 and 5G networks are the smart speakers. Amazon Alexa (Echos) and Google nest audio. They don't have the issues the lights have with being kicked off and needing to be isolated for stability, otherwise I'd have everything on the main network as they my devices have features that only work if they can commnicate with the app directly on the main network in terms of setup and specific features. For cloud only control they work fine on an isolated guest network since I've already paired them.
I was going to ask about that. Can MLO do 5 and 6 Ghz only and have a separate SSD for 2.4? Also can I keep my 3 Separate SSiDs and add a separate MLO one ?
1) Not if you try to configure it via Wireless|MLO. Enable MLO at Wireless|MLO and configure a SSID for MLO and 5/6GHz on the Network tab.
Thanks will keep it in mind.
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