cheap load balancing switch?

233 · 9 Apr 2017 at 21:57

currently have 2x talk talk fibre connections at home (1 business 1 home) both 80 meg/second

is there any options out there for a cheap load balancing switch I can plug both routers into ?

ideally something with gigabit and 8 ports to save me daisychaining another switch

alexx · 9 Apr 2017 at 22:17

Could you bond it first at a software level?

http://speedify.com/desktop-vpn/

Not clued up in this area at all but thought I'd share the little knowledge I had

bremen1874 · 9 Apr 2017 at 23:31

If you're expecting to be able to plug those two 80Mbps connections into something and end-up with an 160Mbps connection you're onto a hiding to nothing, especially if it isn't a multi-user scenario.

What are you trying to achieve, and what are you expecting the end result to be?

233 · 10 Apr 2017 at 01:21

Ideally a bit or hardware that will split demand between the 2 separate lines I don't expect 160 meg but it would be nice to be able to utilise both connections better without having to have 2 separate networks

pcfarrar · 10 Apr 2017 at 08:40

You need to use a router with load balancing, pfsense, draytek etc.

Steveocee · 10 Apr 2017 at 12:50

MikroTik Hex RB750Gr3

**Has everything except 8 ports. You could go for an RB3011 but that'd be more than 3 times the price.

bledd · 10 Apr 2017 at 14:29

Edgerouter lite plus a switch.