MultiWAN tier setup (different speeds)
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hello,
In a client, we have 3 WANS, 2 VDSL x50 Mbps (5 upload) and one ADSL ~18 Mbps. The client had a TP-Link Load Balancer before pfsense, and he was using speedtest.net app to check the combined speed. With the old lb he had 100+ Mbps download and 10 upload, all the time.
Using pfsense in an APU.1D4 - 4GB, msata along with a Ubiquiti ES-48-Lite EdgeSwitch (2 WANs setup as VLAN in OPT port), he gets around 75/8 (with all WANs grouped as tier 1). Using the fast WANs only as tier 1 he gets less all the time (60-65).Is there a way to set the tiers to achieve all the speed of the 3 WANs (at least at speedtest, even though I know you will say its not accurate enough).
Best regards
Kostas
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Run a tcpdump and check if all the wans are actually used.
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Thank you,
No need, they are used, I can see it in the Dashboard. Also, the change is visible when you put the 3rd WAN along with the others.
Best regards
Kostas
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With different WAN speeds you use "Weight" to "distribute" the traffic according to each WAN speed, not "Tier" ;)
https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Multi-WAN#Weight
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Correct, thank you very much!
Based on the document and other search, I see examples only for 2 uneven WANs.
In my case, since the lowest WAN is almost 1/3 of the 2 faster WANs, how is propose to set them?Best regards
Kostas
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Mmmm… try 3,3,1 or 5,5,2 ???
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Thank you!
Will try and get back.
Best regards
Kostas
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You have 118 Mbps total. The 18M circuit is 15.2% of that. I would try a weight of 3 on each of the 50M circuits and a weight of 1 on the 18M circuit. That should put 1 state out of every 7 (14.2%) on the 18M circuit.
It is going to be pretty rare to get a speed test site to show you an aggregate of all the circuits on a load-balanced group. It just doesn't work that way. iperf3 with something like -P14 might get you closer.
Load Balancing works really well with lots of users and lots of states coupled with realistic expectations.
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Thank you,
I will try the suggestions.
Best regards
Kostas
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Out of curiosity, for all I know the APU has three interfaces. Does that mean your LAN connection is wireless?
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Please read the topic ;), I am using one interface with VLANs in order to have 2 WANs from one physical.
Best regards
Kostas
