Hello everyone
We have some APs for P2MP to provide the internet for customers.
This APs join to the NAS with the main links with 100Mps capacity so when the costomers on the APs are increase main link has not enough capacity.
We like to add the parallel link near the main link to increase the 100Mps.
I use the bonding with balance-rr mode in the mikrotik to bond the traffic of two link simultaneous.
The bonding is work fine but the traffices are very low on each link.
The total traffics for APs are 160Mps but when I use bonding on mikrotik each link has a 40Mps trafiic…!!!
We are Internet Provider and just use Mikrotik devises.
On the Accesspoints we use QRT5 and Omnitik 5.8Ghz and my customers use SXT Lite5.
Now we have much more customers on the Accesspoints but my main link between accesspoints and NAS are not enough capacity we like to make a parallel link for main link to increase the capacity of the main links. like 2 qrt5 ac or 3qrt5 ac to give a 300Mps throughput.
By use bonding in the mikrotik we can not get the good expireince to bind this links in layer2 we like to divide the packets pr connections on the main links like as: (30% Link A and 70% link B)
myazdian - well you have several options available to you.
You can start by optimizing your singular links. No NAT, No Filters, disable multicast package. Utilize fast path. If your signal levels are in the -50 to -65 range and the noise floor is low enough you should be able to get a single link to 150 - 200mbps.
Use two QRTs, not bonded. Instead stick a Mikrotik multiport non-wireless router on each end of the backhaul behind/in front of the QRTs (Ethernet side). Just use dual gateway routing in each of the multiport Mikrotiks, since the link is in the ‘middle’ no server will care which QRT link it came over. Dual gateway/equal cost multi-path (ECMP) - this will simply route the packets over each QRT like this - first one goes ‘this way’ and the second one goes ‘that way’, no need for PCC or “nth”.
This is a bit more complex but it sounds like you have plenty of room and RF spectrum if you can stick up to 5 QRTs at a site… First part is similar to two above with the added multiport Mikrotik device on each end, then you add a third QRT. We’re going to simulate a full duplex link. Two of the QRTs would be handling data TO your customers. The third QRT would handle FROM your clients. It is not a symmetrical full-duplex link, but in my experience the FROM clients load is much lower than the TO clients direction. No need to use any fancy routing methods like BGP or OSPF, just setting the weight/distance of the route in the routing table(s) will do the trick. The added advantage is if one link dies then you would still have two links, though slightly slower in speed…
Bonding is picky, you can only go as fast as the slowest link X2. Best way with wireless is set the link speed to ONE speed. Only issue with this is if the parameters change (noise, etc) then neither of the links may work…so it’s a little dicey doing it this way but this way will guarantee X2 the speed of either link (in a perfect setup).