Feedback: any Dual WAN user?

[RMerlin]

Howdy folks,

I was wondering if any of you were using Dual WAN? How is it working out for you, now that the WAN interface selection webui was fixed? What type of WAN setup do you have?

Is automatically switching back from the secondary WAN back to primary on recovery still broken?

If the feedback is positive enough, I would consider moving Dual WAN out of experimental mode and into the main firmware. I know Asus is still actively working on that feature based on the changes I saw in the recent unreleased sources, but I'm curious whether it is already usable enough at this point.

 

[saulos]

Hi Merlin,
I use the DW build now on the 29 so to answer you :
1) WAN interface is OK to setup the second WAN
2) WAN interface is not OK if you want to switch from Wan 1 to Wan 2 setting is stack to WAN 2 setting
3) Failure, if Wan 1 is in use the switch to Wan 2 is properly done but when Wan1 is back you are unable to go back to it unless you turn off Wan2 modem.
4) what I will like: be able to combine the to WAN
5) Traffic monitor not working for Internet ( because it track the second WAN, so no traffic usage )
Feel free to contact me any time, and thanks a lot for your work.

 

[nubyOz]

Hi,
This is an important feature and was one of the reasons I picked the router!!
1. FW 26B experimental
2. Using DUAL WAN (Ethernet and USB).
3. Fail-over mode.
4. tested Fail-over Ok
5. Haven't tested fail-back, not a big issue for me
6. Most important, I accept is still not complete, but its a step forward for those who want to use it without degradation for those who don't.

Fantastic work BTW

 

[RMerlin]

Hi Merlin,
I use the DW build now on the 29 so to answer you :
1) WAN interface is OK to setup the second WAN
2) WAN interface is not OK if you want to switch from Wan 1 to Wan 2 setting is stack to WAN 2 setting
3) Failure, if Wan 1 is in use the switch to Wan 2 is properly done but when Wan1 is back you are unable to go back to it unless you turn off Wan2 modem.
4) what I will like: be able to combine the to WAN
5) Traffic monitor not working for Internet ( because it track the second WAN, so no traffic usage )
Feel free to contact me any time, and thanks a lot for your work.

Please confirm that you are indeed running 354.29 - switching between both WAN interfaces on the webui is supposed to be fixed in that version (at least it did for me when I tested it).

I suspected that failover recovery was still broken, just wanted to be sure. I don't remember if Asus did any change at that level in the 372 code (current latest unreleased code).

I'll see what I can do about Traffic monitoring. Are you talking about the regular (global) monitoring, or the Per Device monitoring?

 

[sddt]

Hi
I have done some testing with the dual WAN function and here are the results!
I've 2 DSL lines so i wanted to combine the speed (over several connections!).
1) The fail-over worked fine for me!
2) The loadbalancing (1:1) was somenthing else! I set up my WAN port with my ppoe connection and the LAN (port 4) also with the ppoe connection. Everything went well. In the network map my both connections get their own ip etc...
But when i try to make several connections, i don't see an improvement of speed. I also noticed that all the traffic is still going over the primary WAN interface. So the secondary does nothing.
I tried to add manually my routes. Connected to that specific IP and then indeed it was going over the secondary. All the other traffic was still going over the primary.
I thought oh it works. No! When i was downloading something through the secondary WAN, i can't do anything else on the primary untill the secondary was done, he switched quick back to the primary.

I don't know if this is a known issue and i hope Merlin or Asus will make it work, because it's a big, nice additional feature !

Hopefully you are something with this feedback! If you have further questions, don't hesitate to ask me

 

[saulos]

Please confirm that you are indeed running 354.29 - switching between both WAN interfaces on the webui is supposed to be fixed in that version (at least it did for me when I tested it).

I suspected that failover recovery was still broken, just wanted to be sure. I don't remember if Asus did any change at that level in the 372 code (current latest unreleased code).

I'll see what I can do about Traffic monitoring. Are you talking about the regular (global) monitoring, or the Per Device monitoring?

Strange, I will reinstall the 354.29 and clear the VRAM just to be on the safe side and let you know.
Going to traffic monitor is the first tab "Internet", after you add the second wan it's stop recording traffic, but if you wait a little you can see on the bottom grid some traffic going on very little so I suppose he get linked to the second wan, I will test that also and let you know when I'm back home

 

[sddt]

I can confirm that it's the global monitoring (not tried the per ip yet) that has the issue. It record just the secundary WAN.

 

[RMerlin]

Thanks for the global feedback folks. Looks like Dual WAN still isn't ready for primetime, so it will remain an experimental feature for the time being.

 

[saulos]

Hi Merlin,
I can confirm you was right on point 2 , now after the full reset WAN interface is OK can switch from the two WAN with no problem.
The other issue are still present

Thanks

 

[teknojnky]

I could not get the loadbalancing to work with dsl + clearspot.

Failover seems to work, though it worked fine all along anyway.

I am really looking forward to a working loadbalancing release.

 

[saulos]

I can confirm the Internet is monitoring only the second wan, I switch WAN1 Modem off and bang the monitor is giving the information on the traffic.
I also notice that if I turn off the router , turn on the WAN1 mondem so all modem are ON , then turn router ON all traffic is still on the WAN2 , to go back on WAN1 I need to trun WAN2 modem OFF.
So it seem to me that is recording in the NVRAM wich is the running connection so after restart he go straight to the last used.
Hope these info help on fixing this issue
Have a good week end.

 

[teknojnky]

Hi, been awhile since checked in, do we have any working builds for dual wan/usb load balancing yet?

 

[connorm]

ya personally im just curious about failover if dual wan will switch back to the main connection properly after failing over to the second, without having to reboot the asus router or the modem, but having to reboot the modem is less a pain. if this works i can look into getting a second backup dsl line. tho i plan on doing this eventually anyway once i get an edgerouter lite and switch my rt-ac66u to an AP. would be cool to know i could do it sooner. i got my network on a UPS now so all i really need to save my but is a second connection from another isp, most likely will be dsl with telus, 15 or 25.

 

[saulos]

As today this is the situation ( at list on my box) :
1) failover recovery still broken you have to do it manually
2) Loadbalancing it work so so , it broke the connection ( game ) after few minuts and generate lag on web browsing but download goes at max speed so I use it only when I need it

 

[venanx]

Special need for Dual WAN

Hi Merlin,

The Dual WAN feature is essential for since my RT-AC66U has the WAN and LAN Port 1 damaged (not working) , so I can use a LAN Port as my way to internet world .

I'm successfully using it as a "Wireless router mode (Default)" :

But I'd like to use it in "Access Point(AP) mode", I've tried to configure it but with no success, my guess is that in AP mode the router looks to WAN port.

Sorry because I'm talking about a broken hardware and if it's too specific to my scenario, any help will be appreciated.

Venanx.

 

[RMerlin]

Hi Merlin,

The Dual WAN feature is essential for since my RT-AC66U has the WAN and LAN Port 1 damaged (not working) , so I can use a LAN Port as my way to internet world .

I'm successfully using it as a "Wireless router mode (Default)" :

But I'd like to use it in "Access Point(AP) mode", I've tried to configure it but with no success, my guess is that in AP mode the router looks to WAN port.

Sorry because I'm talking about a broken hardware and if it's too specific to my scenario, any help will be appreciated.

Venanx.

Why not get the defective router replaced? Asus routers come with two years of warranty.

 

[venanx]

Thanks Merlin, since I live in Brazil, the process will take longer, but in February I'm going to USA and should got my router replaced. Thanks again.

 

[tifozi]

Any of the ports (WAN and LAN) can function as WAN in these builds in any combination you want! It is configured in the WAN -> Dual WAN section.

Since your WAN port is damaged, you can choose Primary WAN = LAN, then choose one of the functional LAN ports from the drop down. All nvram changes happen automatically after this. Truly a great/handy feature.

 

[venanx]

Thanks tifozi, I got the idea of any of the LAN working as WAN and have it working, the problem is combine this with the "Access Point(AP) mode", that not worked for me.

 

[tifozi]

It should work. You are going to fake a DUAL WAN config with only one of the connections up and running. Can you take a screenshot of the Dual WAN config page and post here?