TP-Link TL-R470T+ Load Balance Router Network Help

Oct 3, 2013
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Greetings,

I have some questions on the TP link load balancing router that I would really be thankful for any help or clarification.

Here is my scenario, I work at an advertising company which currently has 2 ISPs each of them are ADSLs, so basically they have 2 Routers, Router A and Router B

Router A >> Switch A >> connects all the computers in the studio room
Router B >> Switch B >> connects all the computers in the marketing department

Router A >> Switch A>> Backup PC 1( Basically a PC with lots of hard drives acts like a data backup center )
Router B >> Switch B >> Backup PC 2 ( Same thing as 1 )


My 1st Question here is, can I combine the 2 ADSL connections using the TP link load balance router and then hook it up to a single switch and connect the 2 departments together so that they can access the 2 Back up PCs at the same time ?

2 ADSL Routers >> TP Link Load Balancer >> 48 port Switch

Switch is connected to the 2 Backup PCs and the 2 Departments at the same time

Will they all be able to see each others on the network ?

2nd Question, Can I set a defined number of users for each Router, Like say for example when 20 users are connected they all use Router A ( With ISP A ) , and when some other 5 users join in, the 2nd router, Router B, comes into play so that they don't interfere with one another.

3rd Question, When trying to access Shutter stock and other sites that require signing in, will this setup conflict the IP addresses being sent to the site at logging in, like if someone try to login to shutter stock, will he be able to do so without any weird errors like different IP that may cause maybe getting Banned or something like that ?


Note : The reason why there is 2 ISPs is that each of them is at the maximum bandwidth available for that specific ISP, which is 8 Mbps each, there is no optical fiber or any kind of these fast connections in my country, so we're limited to slowy ADSLs :/

Thanks in advance.
 
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The TP-Link is now a pretty old device and would not have the throughput to handle 20 computers.

I would suggest a ubiquti edgelite 3 router: https://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-EdgeMax-EdgeRouter-ERLite-3-Ethernet/dp/B00CPRVF5K
https://help.ubnt.com/hc/en-us/articles/205145990-EdgeMAX-Dual-WAN-Load-Balance-Feature

You may also want to look into getting a VLAN capable switch so you can compartmentalize your computers on separate VLAN's but allow the communication to your backup servers on both VLANs. The TP-Link easy smart series would give you VLAN capability without having to spend top dollar on cisco or other fully managed layer 2 switch: https://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-24-Port-Gigabit-Ethernet-TL-SG1024DE/dp/B00CUG8ESM
The TP-Link is now a pretty old device and would not have the throughput to handle 20 computers.

I would suggest a ubiquti edgelite 3 router: https://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-EdgeMax-EdgeRouter-ERLite-3-Ethernet/dp/B00CPRVF5K
https://help.ubnt.com/hc/en-us/articles/205145990-EdgeMAX-Dual-WAN-Load-Balance-Feature

You may also want to look into getting a VLAN capable switch so you can compartmentalize your computers on separate VLAN's but allow the communication to your backup servers on both VLANs. The TP-Link easy smart series would give you VLAN capability without having to spend top dollar on cisco or other fully managed layer 2 switch: https://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-24-Port-Gigabit-Ethernet-TL-SG1024DE/dp/B00CUG8ESM
 
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