Dual WAN at home? Anyone have stories on their experience?
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Moving into a new home next month and I can actually get Verizon FiOS and Comcast Xfinity Blast. I have a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite sitting in a box that I plan to break out for this use case. I work from home and it's imperative that I have Internet access at all times to do my job, furthermore, work reimburses me for my Internet up to $100, so I'm not too worried about the cost. Will likely be about $110 total before taxes and fees.
I am considering getting a subscription to both Comcast and Verizon and setting up the ERL in Dual WAN mode, getting up to 150 Mbps down from both providers, what kind of performance can I expect to see? Any caveats or suggestions before I go down this road? Has anyone else done this? How is your performance? Just looking for some anecdotes on how well or horribly this might work.
Thanks in advance!
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@shepherdkai You'll get 150 Mbps unless you do something funky and force some trafic down one WAN and other traffic down the other.
You'd be better off getting 150 Mbps for the main WAN and less for the backup IMO and setting up gateway groups.
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/routing/gateway-configure.html
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@shepherdkai said in Dual WAN at home? Anyone have stories on their experience?:
I have a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite sitting in a box that I plan to break out for this use case.
Just curious... If you're going to use that box as your main router/firewall, why are you asking these questions on a pfsense forum?
