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    2 Wans with different providers, different speeds, goes only via slow.. [SOLVED]

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      toomeek
      last edited by

      Hello,

      I have successfully configured dual wan on pfSense for 2 x DSL from SAME provider with SAME up/down link speeds. www.speedtest.net shows double speeds.
      Now I'm testing same way for 2 x wifi networks with DIFFERENT providers:

      • both providers have assigned IPs from RFC 1918 networks:
        10.10.x.x - ISP1
        192.168.1.x - ISP2
      • both have DIFFERENT gateways and DNS servers
        10.10.x.x - ISP1 GW
        192.168.1.1 - ISP2 GW
      • both have DIFFERENT up/down link speeds
        512/256 - ISP1
        1024/254 - ISP2

      Now, I connected single box to pfSense. When testing speeds, only SLOWER link is used (not both at same time, even if I open multiple websites, connections…). I don't know if it depends on "TIER" setting, but tried different combinations (1/1, 1/2, 2/1) without success.
      Even if I manually set DEFAULT GW to ISP2 pfSense still uses slower link of ISP1.

      I disabled options:

      • Block private networks
      • Block bogon networks
        for all interfaces.

      ISP2 is on OPT1 iface.
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        Nachtfalke
        last edited by

        I'm not sure, if I'm right with what you mean, but remember:

        If you have WAN1 with 2MBit/s and WAN2 with 3MBit/s and you are starting one download, you do NOT have 2MBit/s + 3MBit/s = 5MBit/s
        LoadBalancing can not double your download speed, it only could double your bandwidth.

        With LoadBalancing (pfSense uses Round Robin) you can start in the example above one download with 3MBit/s and a second one with 2MBit/s.

        Further, have you tried, if both WAN connections were used? You can do this by refrshing this site multiple times:
        http://www.pfsense.org/ip.php

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          toomeek
          last edited by

          Ok thanks, that cleared my mind ;) Yes, IP is changing.
          I was wondering why can summarize speeds when using 2 DSL for single download and cannot for different ISPs..

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