TP Link Load Balancer

Mason64

Mason64

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Hey All

Just seen a TP link TL-R470T+ is it designed to do the following

i have 3 internet connections i want to load balance to one connection for all my devices.

They are all with BT on bt routers - main question is do i need to make sure the routers have a wan port and then put a cable from each routers wan port to the wan ports on the load balancer?

Thanks for any help.
 
WAN side of each connection's router/modem to the outside world. LAN side of those routers/modems to the load balancer's WAN ports.

Making no judgement on whether the load balancer will do what you want. This sort of kit often doesn't provide the results people expect.
 
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When you say load balance do you mean spread the load out across all three connections or you want to aggregate the connections?

Are you aware this is 100Mbps maximum through any port?

If you want to load balance up to 100Mbps worth of connections then yes, this will do that. If you have more than 100Mbps in total then your WAN will be limited to 100Mbps maximum.
 
am after spreading the load over 10 devices if thats possible with something like this or should i b e looking at something different for doing this?
 
WJA96 said:
When you say load balance do you mean spread the load out across all three connections or you want to aggregate the connections?

Are you aware this is 100Mbps maximum through any port?

If you want to load balance up to 100Mbps worth of connections then yes, this will do that. If you have more than 100Mbps in total then your WAN will be limited to 100Mbps maximum.
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ah so i need to find a 100/1000 one as my connection with 3 connections should give me around 200mb
 
bremen1874 said:
WAN side of each connection's router/modem to the outside world. LAN side of those routers/modems to the load balancer's WAN ports.

Making no judgment on whether the load balancer will do what you want. This sort of kit often doesn't provide the results people expect.
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Basically looking to have 3 connections on 1 network sharing the connections speeds i dont expect to get 200mbps on 1 device but be happy if i use 70mb for example other devices still have 130 to play with

i hoe that makes sense
 
Mason64 said:
ah so i need to find a 100/1000 one as my connection with 3 connections should give me around 200mb
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To be clear, each of the three WAN connections remains independent and cannot be aggregated or bonded so this device won’t split a data request over multiple connections, it will apply it to the least used connection that has available bandwidth, or it will reduce the bandwidth of a request to fit it into the bandwidth available on one or your three WAN connections. So, if you have 4 PCs then it will give all the bandwidth of WAN1 to one PC, all the bandwidth of WAN2 to PC2 and split the bandwidth of WAN3 between PC3 and PC4. And it’s dynamic so if PC4 suddenly go high requirement, it will move PC3 onto whichever of the other WAN connections is least utilised and split the bandwidth accordingly. It’s most useful with lots of PCs and lots of low-ish capacity WAN connections.

So, in theory your total LAN-side traffic could be up to the maximum speed of the LAN port but your WAN ports will never exceed the speed of the fastest of the individual WAN connections.

It absolutely will increase ping times, because it has to think about how it’s balancing the load and your users may see fairly massive swings in perceived speed as they get prioritised and shared between the WAN connections.
 
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