I am due to take delivery of a MikroTik Chateau 5G R16.
I opted for this device over the Chateau 5G ax as it has the newer Quectel rg520f modem in it. Which has a higher throughput, and better carrier aggregation:
Max. data rates of 4.0Gbps (DL) / 900Mbps (UL)
However, the router board only has 1Gbps NIC’s. Well, four of them
In the unlikely event that I could achieve 1Gbps+ from the modem, I would be throttled on a wired interface to 1Gbps.
Could I create a bonded connection from this to my CCR1009 to work around this limitation?
I realise obtaining 1Gbps+ on LTE/5G is probably unrealistic anyway, but you never know what the future holds!
With bonding, a single connection (TCP session, UDP stream) always uses only one of the bonded paths - unless you use the round robin (balance-rr) mode but that causes other issues. But the aggregate throughput may reach the sum of the bandwidths under favourable conditions (a sufficient number of individual connections that are diverse enough that the hash strategies would spread them across all the available paths).