Hi there, I’ve been looking into load balancing, but I think I have a case that wasn’t mentioned here.
One ISP is offering fiber links with speeds up to 4.5/1gbps, but their ONT only has 1gbps ports. Their explanation of why such speeds exist is that you could connect 4 LAN devices (with 1gbps each) and you could get the rest with wifi. But setting up the ISP router in bridge mode, I can’t use anything more than 1gbps.
My question is:
Could I somehow use several ports from the ISP router to connect to my HAP ac2, and use all of them to provide connection and speeds over 1gbps at the same time?
1 port for the AP, 1 for my NAS, everything else is irrelevant (speed wise). If it’s doable but the hardware is constraining, I might consider switching to a more powerful model.
You also need to take into account if you have multiple 1 Gbps connections towards you ISP, any single connection you make from within your network, will never be able to go over that speed. You can not split a single TCP IP stream. You can split multiple connections over multiple ISP connections (load balancing). But not single to many.
Make a drawing first on what you want to achieve. Things will become more clear then.
Thanks for the reply. I’m aware that a single connection cannot make use of load balancing, but having multiple connections should (in theory). In my home network, I have several clients, most notably a NAS with 1gbps LAN connection to the MT router, and a Ubiquiti AP (same). There are some cases when the NAS is downloading large amounts of data with very high speeds that I could see my wifi speed going down because of it. But, using “load balancing” (under quotes because I believe that this is not really load balancing) I presume I could be able to max out two 1gbps ports, or at least get 1gbps on the NAS and 500-800mbps on the AP.
Is that doable? I wouldn’t say it’s essential for me, but I like tinkering and wanted to know if it’s possible or not.
How would that splitting into multiple connections work on ISP part ?
Would that be several ONTs each with their own IP address ?
If separate ONTs, it’s perfectly possible to have 1 (or multiple) dedicated connection for NAS traffic and 1 (or multiple) dedicated connection to AP traffic and/or the rest.
What I meant is having multiple connections i.e. multiple devices connecting to the internet via the same router (ONT). What I expected that could be done:
Sorry for my incompetence when it comes to drawing. So two ports from ONT to two ports on MT, then one port to NAS from MT and one port to AP from MT. In my head, I want MT to utilize 2x1gbps ports on the ISP ONT. Have no idea if that is possible.
Max 1gb bridged connection, MT gets the public IP.
Max 4x1gb connection ( four lan ports, into four WAN ports on MT) you get 4gb total throughput via private IPs from ISP modem/router.
As noted you dont have the right router to handle this load… but any one session would still only get 1gig max throughput.
