Hi everyone!
First of all, I apologize if this post is repeated. I tried searching for similar issues, but I just couldn’t ask the right question to Google or this forum. Also, I believe is important to clarify that I’m super new to Mikrotik, I’m trying to learn as much as I can but my free time is very limited.
I have a hAP AC Lite TC: https://mikrotik.com/product/RB952Ui-5ac2nD-TC
I live in a rural area, in which there are no broadband services available. So I bring the internet to my home via LTE services, using a SXT Lte Kit: https://mikrotik.com/product/sxt_lte_kit.
Of course all LTE services in the area have data caps, and speeds are not wonderful. Specially at my place, with the SXT I get 4G-LTE signal (50Mbps tops, 10Mbps stable), and with my phone I only get H+ (4Mbps tops). Even though the speed difference between them is significant, I thought it would be a good idea to DUAL balance both connections in order to combine the speeds and also the data caps. Also, some services like Play Station Network downloads only work at 5Mbps on my LTE connection, so with the Dual balance I draw 5Mbps from the LTE + 4Mbps from the Phone (pretty neat).
I manage to get internet from my Phone to the hAP AC Lite TC using USB Tethering. Explanation here (very useful and it works): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejj0gHn1svE&list=WL&index=9&t=0s.
So, to the point.
I configured my hAP AC LIte TC to use PCC to Dual Balance + Failover the two connections using this tutorial: https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:PCC.
WAN1 = LTE connection from the SXT in ether1.
WAN2 = H+ connection on lte1 interface on the hAP AC Lite TC (which only appears when the phone is connected and USB Tethering is active).
It works perfectly.
The only problem is that, when I take my phone from the hAP AC Lite TC (and the lte 1 interface disappears) I expect the entire network to rely on or fall over the LTE Service (WAN1), which pretty much happens, except for my torrent downloads. When the phone leaves the PCC, torrent downloads go flat deat (there’s some upload activity, but downloads are dead). When I checked in
/ip firewall connection
I saw that a lot of connections are still marked as
traffic-WAN2
(
ISP2_conn
in terms of the PCC Tutorial), even though WAN2 doesn’t even exist anymore.
I tried manually deleting the connections to see if the Mikrotik “figures a way out through WAN1”, didn’t work. Of course I tried rebooting the Mikrotik entirely, to see if all new connections are through WAN1, also didn’t work. What I didn’t try was to reboot Windows, but I did do
ipconfig /flushdns
.
What I’d like the Mikrotik to do is, when my Phone leaves the network to forget that it even existed, and to act like the only ever existing connection is WAN1.
I really appreciate the Dual Balance, mostly due to the “double” PSN speeds I managed to achieve. So getting rid of that would not necessarily be my desired solution.
I hope this question makes sense, and I apologize for making it so long, I figured it was best to be detailed oriented to make sure my question is understood.
Any help or opinion is most welcome!
Have a great day guys!