I have one year old RB953 Running with one LTE miniPCI as LTE AP second mini PC is 2,4 GHz Wifi
I plan to remove 2,4 GHz wifi and put there second R11e-LTE modem switch off 5GHz Wifi and use them in load balance mode as 1 Ethernet only WAN port. Two other porta are not going to be used.
Is there any catch, with it, or router OS expect to use of Two LTE modems and there will be somepreconfigured possibilities?
Thanks
Yes that should work fine, we use the RB953 with two modems all the time. You need to make sure you set “USB type” to “miniPCEe” in /system/routerboard since that’s a common mistake - but if you already have a WiFi card, you should be okay.
RouterOS does NOT have an “QuickSet” like thing to use multiple modems or any built-in “bonding” or anything “automatically” deal with two modem… but ECMP load balancing configuration to split connection between the two modems is likely what to look for to search for examples - basically you create a default 0.0.0.0 route that has both LTE interfaces list as destinations to use ECMP, which then uses connection tracking to keep connections following the same path they started on. Now you might need to do more if you want incoming connections to be “sticky” etc. by doing some firewall marking.
But that’s basically it.