Hi all,
I've seen some discussion from searching about handling dual ISPs and load balancing, and I'm hoping for some suggestions on the best setup for my particular application. I have a Mikrotik 2011UiAS with firmware v6.47.8.
I have two ISPs that are both bad, but they're my best options where I live.
Viasat - 5-30Mbps bandwidth, 630ms latency, bad reliability
LTE - 3-8Mbps bandwidth, 40ms latency, better reliability?
The Viasat would be fine as my sole ISP (even with the horrible latency and weather-related downtime) except when I exceed 75GB in a given month they throttle me at 0.25Mbps! The LTE seems to have a constant bandwidth of around 5-8Mbps and a 40ms latency, but the bandwidth never goes higher than that. I have no cap on the LTE and no throttling.
I want to put them together to get the best of both worlds but mitigate the worst of both worlds. My initial thought is for the LTE to somehow be accessed for the first ~3 Mbps and the Viasat kicks in after that. That would enable low bandwidth activities (e.g. browsing) to use the low latency connection and preserve some of my Viasat usage on mundane tasks. The Viasat would kick in only when high bandwidth activities are needed which I think would keep me under the 75GB each month.
1) Does this seem like a reasonable strategy or is there a "smart" strategy that I'm unaware of on Mikrotik devices?
2) Is this even possible? If I'm streaming content from Netflix let's say, does it know to switch over to Viasat when the HD content exceeds 3Mbps?
3) Any pointers on the best way to implement this on the Routerboard?