How to load balance with 2 Internet Connection 2 TP-Link Router 3 pcs in a Network
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Buy a dual wan router or load dd-wrt on one of your tplink routers if it supports it. This just allows you deal with the load balance headache in the router rather than do it in each pc. You can of course do it in each pc.
It still tends to be a manual process the software in consumer routers is really stupid. If you have a extra $10,000 laying around Bigip makes F5 load balancers that are smarter but they do not solve all issues.
Still you can't do what most people want this feature for. If for example you had 2 1m dsl connections. You can not combine them to say watch a netflix movie using 2m. You can though make it watch 2 1m netflix movies one on each connection. This is because the 2 connection have different ip addresses.
So what you can do is say certain users use connection1 or connection2 or you can say certain applications like netflix always uses connection 1 and youtube always uses connection 2. It is a matter of defining all these rules that is the huge pain. You can either use the ROUTE command in a pc to tell it which router to use or do a similar function in a dual wan router.
Be very careful of the stupid software that claims it can do all this for you. Both router software and pc packages claim to be able to do this but most work very poorly. A example most people are familiar with. I want to play some game. There are generally 2 servers involved the login server and the actual game server. So if I were to login to the login server via ISP 1 and then attempt to access the game server using ISP 2 the game company would see 2 different IP addresses and assume is it security issue and deny access. So somehow the load balancer software would have to figure this out and make sure all the traffic for both is sent over the same ISP. You have banks and even this site that have multiple servers behind the covers. How could any software ever figure this all out........this is partially why F5 cost so much they have much more smarts built in but you still must manually configure a lot of this.
It still tends to be a manual process the software in consumer routers is really stupid. If you have a extra $10,000 laying around Bigip makes F5 load balancers that are smarter but they do not solve all issues.
Still you can't do what most people want this feature for. If for example you had 2 1m dsl connections. You can not combine them to say watch a netflix movie using 2m. You can though make it watch 2 1m netflix movies one on each connection. This is because the 2 connection have different ip addresses.
So what you can do is say certain users use connection1 or connection2 or you can say certain applications like netflix always uses connection 1 and youtube always uses connection 2. It is a matter of defining all these rules that is the huge pain. You can either use the ROUTE command in a pc to tell it which router to use or do a similar function in a dual wan router.
Be very careful of the stupid software that claims it can do all this for you. Both router software and pc packages claim to be able to do this but most work very poorly. A example most people are familiar with. I want to play some game. There are generally 2 servers involved the login server and the actual game server. So if I were to login to the login server via ISP 1 and then attempt to access the game server using ISP 2 the game company would see 2 different IP addresses and assume is it security issue and deny access. So somehow the load balancer software would have to figure this out and make sure all the traffic for both is sent over the same ISP. You have banks and even this site that have multiple servers behind the covers. How could any software ever figure this all out........this is partially why F5 cost so much they have much more smarts built in but you still must manually configure a lot of this.
Try to make 2 pcs of split cat6 cable..one end (rj45) all 8 color straight.the other end are split to 2 pair color(WO-Orange/WG-Green)(WB-Blue/WB-Brown)Both of these 2 pair be crimp in RJ45 at No.1,2,3 6(Wo-O/WG-Gr).or just simply create 2 pair color in one single cable both end have 2 rj45..connect ur 2 router (Pair1) to WAN1 Port1 the other router Pair2 to WAn2 Port2 ..then start setng up to both dynamic detection.Port3 will be ur LAN Going to ur swithch Hub( GIGABITSwith)
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