R470T+ WAN Aggregation

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anchit02

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Hello all,
Kind of new to home networking. Anyway, here is my setup:

ISP 1: 10 MBPS connection with static IP
ISP 2: 6 MBPS connection with static IP

Router 1: TL-R470T+ Load Balancer:
WAN 1 Port: ISP 1 is connected and configured with the static IP given by ISP.
WAN/LAN 2 Port: ISP 2 is connected and configured with the static IP given by ISP.
LAN 5 Port: Connected to Router 2
-Router 1 IP is 192.168.2.100, and has DHCP turned ON.

Router 2: TP Link WNDR 3600 wireless router
WAN Port: Connected to LAN 5 port from router 1.
LAN 1 Port: Connected to PC1
LAN 2 Port: Connected to PC2
LAN 3 Port: Connected to 8-port gigabit Smart Easy Switch (TL-SG108E)
LAN 4 Port: Connected to 5-port gigabit Smart Easy Switch (TL-SG105E)
-Router 2 IP is 192.168.2.101, and ALSO has DHCP turned ON.
-Router 2 assignes IPs from 192.168.1.1 till 192.168.1.99
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Now, here is what I would like to do.
1) Aggregate bandwidth of WAN 1 and WAN 2. So that all devices connected to Router 2 can access the aggregated bandwidth.

2)Router 1 has 2 active internet connections, on ports WAN 1 and WAN 2. I want some kind of monitoring software using SNMP (as router 1 has SNMP enabled) to check the bandwidth being used on WAN 1 and WAN 2.

3) Monitor bandwidth on the port LAN 5 on router 1.

Can someone please help and let me know if what I want to do is possible? Please keep in mind that I have no advanced networking knowledge or programming knowledge. I basically google and youtube stuff and figure it out as I go on a trial and error basis.
 
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It is not possible to do what you want.

You can not actually combine the bandwidth from 2 ISP. Your main problem is you have 2 different IP addresses. If for example you want to do a file transfer the server opens a connection with say your WAN IP1. It has no ability to send traffic to a second IP address.

This is one of those fundamental things on how the communication in the internet works.

Your second issue is you can't even really use the device as a load balancer and have it send traffic over different connections. It isn't that it can't be done it is that it involves lots of setup by you. You in theory could download 2 files over each connection. That is simple and straight forward. The problem comes when a...
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An individual device will be limited to 10Mbit at a time. The pool of devices may get greater than 10, but any set of WaN transactions will be limited to EITHER 6Mbit or 10Mbit. A WAN transaction can't be split between the two interfaces.
 
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bill001g

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It is not possible to do what you want.

You can not actually combine the bandwidth from 2 ISP. Your main problem is you have 2 different IP addresses. If for example you want to do a file transfer the server opens a connection with say your WAN IP1. It has no ability to send traffic to a second IP address.

This is one of those fundamental things on how the communication in the internet works.

Your second issue is you can't even really use the device as a load balancer and have it send traffic over different connections. It isn't that it can't be done it is that it involves lots of setup by you. You in theory could download 2 files over each connection. That is simple and straight forward. The problem comes when a site that has many servers is accessed over both connections. The example a lot of people on this forum are familiar with are online games. If for example you were to connect to the login server on your connection #1 but connect to the actual game world server on connection #2 the game company would detect that as hacking and close your connections. This is not limited to game companies, any site that is has a different server for different parts of their site will have issues.

The router has no way to know all these sites and what combinations of ip addresses must be sent over the same connection. Now if you want to spend the time you can put the data into the router but it is extremely tedious.

Pretty much dual wan routers only work well as a primary/backup role. The other thing that works well is to send certain user machines over a fixed ISP every time....then again it is just simpler to plug those machine into the proper ISP router.

 
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