Dual WAN bonding and throughput?

[EniGmA1987]

I see there is a dual WAN feature in the routers firmware (I have an RT-AC87U and RT-AC88U) and it can do failover or load balance. I am wondering on the load balance mod, can or does this act similar to bonding the WAN connections? Or does it only load balance between clients connected to the router? And does anyone know what the max real world throughput of the WAN -> LAN data would be? I am hoping to use one of these routers to get as close to 2gb/s WAN speed from two internet connections. Right now I am around 930mb/s up and down whether I have firmware and stuff turned on or off, so I know the router settings isnt really the limiting factor right now and most likely this is simply the max speed I can get through the ISP on my "gigabit" line.

 

[L&LD]

Dual WAN won't allow you to surpass the hardware limitations of the 930Mbps you're achieving now. A router cannot (it's impossible) bond two connections to achieve higher speeds for any one device. And the load balancing mode is not that stable either, ime.

Note that most (all?) routers sold today have a max of ~1Gbps up/down capabilities.

The router you want isn't for sale yet, afaik. The BRT-AC828/M2 is the (next) Asus router you want.

 

[EniGmA1987]

Thanks!