Home Networking upgrade for two houses
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Can you explain what problem you are trying to solve.
Are you planning a dual WAN setup ?
My friend got it for combining Airtel and Jio with 300Mbps Plan but it didn't work instead the speed was dropping under 200Mbps. But when he tried downgrading the both ISP Plan to 100Mbps then it was combining it properly
I tried using it for 200+250 plan, I get 400+ on speedtest consistently.
200 is its vpn throughput max.
I am using a 605 with 400m and works perfectly.
would recommend using traffic shaper iirc the sqm package in pfsense runs great. would've used a pfsense box if my x86 machine could handle speeds over 140mbps. pfSense is heavy on the resource requirements, if you are thinking of idps/ids using suricata or snort go for atleast 16gigs or more depending on your number of clients.
Yes, I have deployed over a dozen boxes in production so far, plus moved them to virtual as well on esxi/hyperv and now proxmox. Been doing this since 2013. Both homelab and in commerical use cases
The pfsense box I am going to use is a N100 6port 2.5GBE from aasim here on TE
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I am not sure why one would want to use traffic shaping in a home environment unless you have a really low speed connection
Which is kinda rrare these days unless you are in a really remote area.
Its best used in a office setup where you dont want (e.g.) multiple concurrent VoIP calls to face issues because another 500 users are trying to refresh cricinfo continually.
For most home users, the cons of traffic shaping will almost always outweight the pros even with a reasonably powerful router (I use a N100 and have all traffic shaping off)
for the OP, keep it simple
- get a ER605 (or an opnsense box)
- Create two VLANs , one for house A and one for B. Depending on your chosen config above, you may or may not need a separate managed switch here (e.g. VLAN 1 could be on LAN port A , 2 on port B of the opnsense box)
- Now that you have segregated the two home connections in the step above, Build out the preferred topology for each house independently
Also, try avoid using any kind of USB NIC on the primary gateway router machine... its not worth it
My neighbour and I do something similar where both of us have a 300mbps airtel Line as primary each..and a shared ACT 500mbps line as the failover
Which is kinda rrare these days unless you are in a really remote area.
Its best used in a office setup where you dont want (e.g.) multiple concurrent VoIP calls to face issues because another 500 users are trying to refresh cricinfo continually.
For most home users, the cons of traffic shaping will almost always outweight the pros even with a reasonably powerful router (I use a N100 and have all traffic shaping off)
for the OP, keep it simple
- get a ER605 (or an opnsense box)
- Create two VLANs , one for house A and one for B. Depending on your chosen config above, you may or may not need a separate managed switch here (e.g. VLAN 1 could be on LAN port A , 2 on port B of the opnsense box)
- Now that you have segregated the two home connections in the step above, Build out the preferred topology for each house independently
Also, try avoid using any kind of USB NIC on the primary gateway router machine... its not worth it
My neighbour and I do something similar where both of us have a 300mbps airtel Line as primary each..and a shared ACT 500mbps line as the failover