Increase the internet speed by merging links
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Hi everyone,
i am new in the world of pfsense and i need help about multiwan.
i want to increase the speed of my internet connection by put together the wan ADSL2+ and 2 usb 4G (Huawei dongles) links.
i did the configuration of a multiwan with load balancing strategy (by following youtube tutos) but only one link work at a time (when i look at the interface monitoring.
who can i "merge" these links to have a unique transparente pipeline to internet (with a pararel download on these links) ?thanks in advance for your help.
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Hi Anis.Sidhoumi
I wanted the same thing and took me a bit to figure out but this is what I did.
- verify that you have both of the wan connections working, and I think that you do.
2.Navigate to System->Routing->Gateway groups and create a new gateway group, call it "Load Balancing" - In gateway priority choose the 2 links that you want to use and then set them to tier three.
- Choose "packet loss or High latency"
- Enter the description if you want one, say Load Balancing and press save.
- navigate to Firewall->rules edit or create the following rule.
Action [pass]
Interface [Lan]
Address family[IPv4]
Protoco[Any]
Source[Lan Net]
Destination[any]
Description [Default allow LAN to Any Rule]- Open advance options and look for the Gate way line and choose the "Load balance gateway" we created earlier.
- run a speed test and see how it works.
Now there are some caveats;
1 some connections don't like multi link connections and you will need to turn on "Use sticky connections " found in System->Advanced->Miscellaneous under load balancing. Actually while you are there turn on "Enable gateway switching" in case one goes down.
2 Some sites in the business world authenticate you via one of your ips and if this is the case then you will need to create a firewall rule to allow them out and a routing rule for the direction.
Hope this helps.
- verify that you have both of the wan connections working, and I think that you do.
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Thanks a lot i will try it and give you a feedback as soon as i can.