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    Dual Wan - where to put my public wifi traffic

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      JuantonJohn
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      I'm setting up Dual WAN and looking for advice on how to manage my public wifi traffic.

      Primary is a 20x20 Fiber to Ethernet.

      Secondary is 15x2 cable.

      Should I 'force' the public wifi traffic to the secondary 15x2
      or
      leave all traffic on the same gateway as the business traffic, but force the public wifi subnet to a low traffic priority?

      Anyone have any experience with this?  Thoughts or feedback appreciated.

      End game is to have failover for the business traffic network and reliable public wifi.  Right now I suspect neither WAN runs at full capacity.

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        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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        When you say public do you mean guest wifi?

        I would prob let them just use the secondary link if your not using that in a load balance setup and all your normal business traffic is on the 20x20 without issues.  Once you have to failover to backup I would prob nix all the "guest" wifi traffic all together.

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          JuantonJohn
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          @johnpoz:

          When you say public do you mean guest wifi?

          I would prob let them just use the secondary link if your not using that in a load balance setup and all your normal business traffic is on the 20x20 without issues.  Once you have to failover to backup I would prob nix all the "guest" wifi traffic all together.

          Guest network = guest wifi / VLAN30 - it's a public hotspot using the captive portal.

          Thanks for the input.

          I'm open to other ideas.  We are wanting maximum uptime; CARP/ pfSync - but also not wanting to create unnecessary complexity.

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