MikroTik

Hi,

I'm from Australia and I have a RB3011UiAS-RM with 2x NBN (wan) hfc connections from telstra to my house. Both are 100/40 mbs connections. I have been follow this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeuuNE3EPBA on youtube. However, I'm unable to max out two connections. The fail over works but that's about it. I always get one connections even when downloading multiple files. The internet speed test at www.speedtest.net always show my maximum of one connection (This site is multi threaded speed test). Please help

Regards,

Mark

Hi,
maybe you should try this guide: https://blog.linitx.com/load-balancing- ... nnections/

It also uses PPC like the video you had, but maybe there are some differences? (did'nt watch the whole video).

I'am pretty new to mikrotik devices but got a nice load-balancing working with the guide from my link.

Hi,
maybe you should try this guide: https://blog.linitx.com/load-balancing- ... nnections/

It also uses PPC like the video you had, but maybe there are some differences? (did'nt watch the whole video).

I'am pretty new to mikrotik devices but got a nice load-balancing working with the guide from my link.

Hi az1984,

Thank you for your reply, I have tried your load-balancing link. It is the same method as the video on youtube. It still doesn't work for me. I'm getting internet but it is coming from WAN1 and not WAN2. If I disable WAN1, WAN2 will work (fail over works). The distribution is not working.

Regards,

Mark

Hi,

I'm from Australia and I have a RB3011UiAS-RM with 2x NBN (wan) hfc connections from telstra to my house. Both are 100/40 mbs connections. I have been follow this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeuuNE3EPBA on youtube. However, I'm unable to max out two connections. The fail over works but that's about it. I always get one connections even when downloading multiple files. The internet speed test at http://www.speedtest.net always show my maximum of one connection (This site is multi threaded speed test). Please help

Regards,

Mark

Hi Mark,

If you are trying to aggregate/bond your connections so that you can get 200/80, this will not work on standard residential connections. This is because outbound traffic expects to return back to the same network, on the same IP it went out on. It can be done on business/enterprise-grade connections, but I believe that will not be relevant to you as your ISP would prohibit it.

Regards,
Christopher Hawker

If you are trying to aggregate/bond your connections so that you can get 200/80, this will not work on standard residential connections. This is because outbound traffic expects to return back to the same network, on the same IP it went out on. It can be done on business/enterprise-grade connections, but I believe that will not be relevant to you as your ISP would prohibit it.

I can't confirm this. We use two standard ADSL-connections and it is working fine. Sure you have to check, that all outgoing traffic returns to the right IP, but this is done by the mikrotik via connection marks. So this should'nt be a problem here - as mentioned...we have this setup in our company and it's working.

Can you force some connections to use WAN2 (via mangle rule) or will WAN2 only become active if WAN1 is'nt connected?

If you are trying to aggregate/bond your connections so that you can get 200/80, this will not work on standard residential connections. This is because outbound traffic expects to return back to the same network, on the same IP it went out on. It can be done on business/enterprise-grade connections, but I believe that will not be relevant to you as your ISP would prohibit it.

I can't confirm this. We use two standard ADSL-connections and it is working fine. Sure you have to check, that all outgoing traffic returns to the right IP, but this is done by the mikrotik via connection marks. So this should'nt be a problem here - as mentioned...we have this setup in our company and it's working.

Can you force some connections to use WAN2 (via mangle rule) or will WAN2 only become active if WAN1 is'nt connected?

I know this is a bit old, but I'll still reply for future readers.

az1984, there is a difference between aggregating WAN links to increase your speed (as I mentioned above) and running connections in an active-standby or active-active scenario (where it picks a connection with the least traffic on it. If you have redundant carriers who are announcing the same prefixes then it is possible that it could go out over ISP A and return via ISP B as the IP addresses are the same. But when we start talking about these sorts of connections, this is high-end business and datacentre services.