Thank you all for the support in this forum, now i’m a little confused with MikroTik load balance type to choose from the below
• Bonding
• Policy routing
• PCC
• Bandwidth based
as we have 4 (pppoe) clients and we need to combine all of them to get as much bandwidth as we can, so which one should we choose?
one more question, as i tried alot with the PCC, can i know is the bandwidth depend on the number of users or just a test with (http://www.speedtest.net) can tell me if my configuration is working?
because when test it with one computer the main load in going for one pppoe connection
From my point of view the decision which one is the most suitable depend on some factors.
For e.g. how many users, how many connection per user, is the bandwidth / latence of all WAN connections equal ..
PPC is most recmommended.
NTH may be prefered in szenario with less users
Bandwitdh may be prefered if WAN connections are different
Best solution would be to bond all WAN connections to one big connection. But if your ISP not support bonding you need an external router as gateway → RouterBoard / Device in colocation or RouterOS running on vServer.. also configuration, debugging and fail over is more complicated.. but that’s a different story..
In general it is not possible to bond WAN connections if your ISP not support that (MLPPP bonding).
This mean traffic of an internet connection (Source IP/Port <> Destination IP/Port) need to flow and stick to an single WAN line. The balancer could balance connections between the WAN. So if you have one PC / User with one connection to internet it will use one WAN line unit bandwidth is reached.
1 User / PC one connection 1MB use one WAN line 1MB
That what you described only work if you bond the lines togehter than the traffic could split and flow thru all WAN lines
1 User / PC one connection 4MB flow use 4x WAN each 1MB
If you ISP not support MLPPP it is possible to bond the lines only with an external Mikrotik Router as Gateway. That router will know all your WAN lines an could configured to splitt the traffic over the lines to your home router. All your internet traffic will need to flow thru that gateway.
i can understand what you mean, we have nearby 50 users and they all will connect to the same router, so the load balance will just divide them between the WAN connections (pppoe).
how can i know i the ISP support MLPPP or not?
note: the 4 pppoe connections every 2 connections from a different ISP.
You need an external router as gateway. This mean you need an Mikrotik Router in a Datacenter / Colocation or may be as vServer running RouterOS x86 (for e.g. EDIS vServer).
Than it is possible to connect your ‘home’ mikrotik router to that external router via Tunnels. One Tunnel per WAN Line. The external router is than your gateway to the internet. So all Internet Request need to go to that router. The requestet packets are send back to the external router, the external router could split the traffic an send it thru the tunnels back to your home router.
I actual bond 4 DSL Lines from different ISP’s with that kind of setup.