Hey, so I currently have the following set-up. One Virgin 1gb line which usually runs at 1.1gb and one Onestream 1gb line (Vodafone I believe). This was set up as failover on an ASUS GT-BE98. I thought it was a waste just having it set up as failover so I started using loadbalancing instead. I then realised that my two Virgin boxes would not work if they want out over the Onestream line (the boxes need to be on the Virgin line to work, must need access to specific servers that are only accessible on their network?).
I have a QNAP box with a 10GB card in and I installed Sophos home on it which I believed would do the loadbalancing better and I also have a 10gb switch so I had some wired devices and then the rest on WiFi. I started going totally around the houses to be honest with the set-up and then got to the point where I had that much hardware running it was costing a fortune in electricity!! I then started auto shutting down things over night and auto turning them back on in the morning but say I wanted to stay up and hour latter and I forgot, things would start shutting down, I't swear at them and either boot it all back up or go to bed!!
I think I would like to go all WiFi really, so much easier. I have numerous devices, phones, tablets, PS5, loads of Shelly stuff running plugs, bulbs etc.
What I would ideally like to end up with is something like this - both WAN connections being used, but if either goes down then all traffic uses the other. I realise that if the Virgin line goes down then the Virgin boxes will wobble. There is no way around that I can see. 3 SSIDs, maybe 4 - one that has to have the Virgin stuff on that is usually routed out via the virgin line and then probably all the IOT gear out on one line with all the regular browsing traffic and then one other SSID with the other traffic, IPTV, streaming, PS5, or maybe that is all better being loadbalanced.
I also live in a shared house and I am good friends with the people in the other flats. They have some shared garbage line so it maybe that I would carve them up some of my bandwidth down the line, I know on the Sophos box you can do that but that would mean bringing that back into the mix.
Like I said I have gone round and round in circles and I am kind of back where I started. I have look all over the internet to try and find a suitable solution but am a bit stuck. There is a lot of people saying that the ASUS dual wan is not amazing and that maybe putting something like a Mikrotik in to handle the loadbalancing would be better, I would like to keep all the WiFi on the ASUS as I also have a couple of Aimesh nodes hooked up to it, maybe keep the DHCP on there also?
I am open to suggestions really, whatever would work that wouldn't a) cost a fortune to run in electricity b) purchase loads more hardware to get it all working!
Please could somebody see what they think would be possible? I can give any more info needed. I mean if it could all be done on the ASUS ideal, I would just leave that running all night.
Cheers.
I have a QNAP box with a 10GB card in and I installed Sophos home on it which I believed would do the loadbalancing better and I also have a 10gb switch so I had some wired devices and then the rest on WiFi. I started going totally around the houses to be honest with the set-up and then got to the point where I had that much hardware running it was costing a fortune in electricity!! I then started auto shutting down things over night and auto turning them back on in the morning but say I wanted to stay up and hour latter and I forgot, things would start shutting down, I't swear at them and either boot it all back up or go to bed!!
I think I would like to go all WiFi really, so much easier. I have numerous devices, phones, tablets, PS5, loads of Shelly stuff running plugs, bulbs etc.
What I would ideally like to end up with is something like this - both WAN connections being used, but if either goes down then all traffic uses the other. I realise that if the Virgin line goes down then the Virgin boxes will wobble. There is no way around that I can see. 3 SSIDs, maybe 4 - one that has to have the Virgin stuff on that is usually routed out via the virgin line and then probably all the IOT gear out on one line with all the regular browsing traffic and then one other SSID with the other traffic, IPTV, streaming, PS5, or maybe that is all better being loadbalanced.
I also live in a shared house and I am good friends with the people in the other flats. They have some shared garbage line so it maybe that I would carve them up some of my bandwidth down the line, I know on the Sophos box you can do that but that would mean bringing that back into the mix.
Like I said I have gone round and round in circles and I am kind of back where I started. I have look all over the internet to try and find a suitable solution but am a bit stuck. There is a lot of people saying that the ASUS dual wan is not amazing and that maybe putting something like a Mikrotik in to handle the loadbalancing would be better, I would like to keep all the WiFi on the ASUS as I also have a couple of Aimesh nodes hooked up to it, maybe keep the DHCP on there also?
I am open to suggestions really, whatever would work that wouldn't a) cost a fortune to run in electricity b) purchase loads more hardware to get it all working!
Please could somebody see what they think would be possible? I can give any more info needed. I mean if it could all be done on the ASUS ideal, I would just leave that running all night.
Cheers.
