online I have seen suggestion for omada but wondering if people have any good suggestions for a multi wan router. I’d expect it to be able to handle at least 2 1gbps wan connection, load balacing and failover. vpn would be a good to have too.
would appreciate any suggestions or if anything I should keep in mind while deciding.
Consumer routers, I can think of ASUS routers, may be even any router compatible with openwrt. But do note that they may be able to handle ipv6 for only 1 WAN. Prosumer/SME routers, Ubiquiti is decent, Omada, maybe even Grandstream. I only have Asus and Ubiquiti, good impressions. 1 Gbps WAN probably wont be an issue -especially if not PPPoE (I only tested upto 400Mbps). Also check if some of the routers can do 1Gbps on each WAN same time, some routers only have 1G ports to switch. (example Ubiquiti UCG ultra, backplane limited to 1Gbps, so, you wont be able to max out 1Gbps dual wan. If you are expecting VPN speeds of 1Gbps, you may be disappointed with consumer routers, as VPN is CPU intensive. If VPN speeds are a priority, may be business equipment, or N100/N150 based opnsense.
Thanks for the response. I actually listed the requirement of what I assumed any multi wan router should be able to do, however, my requirement are actually fairly simple.
I am looking for something for home use. I have airtel fiber at the moment which doesnt give me public ip but service is reliable so dont want to drop it. Instead looking to add another connection from local ISP provider for public IP and would want the connections to be able to failover (or combine, although as far as I unedrstand thats trickier and might need enterprise equipment). I dont currently only have 200mbps and looking to another connection with 300-500mbps to speeds shouldn’t be an issue, I think.
VPN, I would look to add in coming days too and would want it to work at reasonable speeds. not sure how I should look igure out how much cpu overhead I would need. Woulda mini running opnsense be able to work as a router? 0 experience in using that so far but can try out stuff if it could work out better in terms of performance.
If you’re technically inclined, a mini with 4-6 2.5G ports can be had for ~15K. Switch+Access point extra. If you’re not stressing the VPN part, and only need consumer router,switch,wifi all in one, may be an ASUS (with merlin support) for ~6K -13K. Prices may have changed since I last looked for one. If you only need dual WAN, maybe TP-Link has some non wifi routers starting 3.5K ish. Look at fgtechstore for networking equipment. Some ppl have reported good availability. If you only need a public IP, then try working Airtel support, asking them to enable bridge mode (without static IP), that may assign you a public IP, instead of CGNAT. Or just use ipv6. Less cables, less things to break, happy wife (the last one is important I tell you)
Edit: Some people had better luck with a D-Link M30 Aquila, and flashing openwrt on it. I personally haven’t tried mwan on openwrt. Was happier on ASUSwrt.
Thanks man. appreciate your comments.
You can consider MikroTik routers if you are open to learning router os.
I have hEX refresh, purchased from fgtech Mikrotik E50UG The Classic HEX Refresh With ARM CPU - Double The Performance - FGTECH STORE.
It is configured in dual WAN with recursive failover mode. Both connections are symmetric 200Mbps fiber connection. This particular router can do upto 1Gbps with fasttrack enabled.
I have also enabled their back to home VPN.
Working beautifully for my requirements. Zero complaints.
If you can be ok with OpenWRT then look into banana pi r4 or even the r3.
I have used this TP Link ER 605 in the exact same configuration as you desire and trust me, it was easier to set up than you’d think. Although it doesn’t truly combine the connections, multi-threaded downloads like torrents and Steam can use the combined bandwidth of both connections with zero extra setup beyond just configuring the two WANs in load balancing mode.
The only issue is that it doesn’t have Wi-Fi, so you’ll need another router or AP to enable wi-fi. But other than that, it’s relatively cheap, easy to configure, and perfect for a simple home setup.
Thanks. will look into it.
yes, I have 3 Deco M9s which I use for wifi mesh so dont need wifi. this seems to be like 3k so most cost effective I think ( this is the correct one I hope: https://www.moglix.com/tp-link-er605-omada-gigabit-vpn-router/mp/msne9j832qp09d?s_kwcid=AL!10177!3!!!!x!!&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_network=Performance_max&utm_campaign=21123901864&adgroup_id=&keyword=&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21113767884&gclid=Cj0KCQiAi9rJBhCYARIsALyPDts4HNvFzjviEIqKFOVaSoDX0idyGBxFX7U-xB09pX1aFNNaooVaVakaAoNnEALw_wcB).
Thank you for your suggestion.
if budget upto 15k, then look into Flint 2, I just imported it and expected cost is around 12k total, it it fits the bill perfectly for you with 3 fallover WANs, vpn, dns, and first class openwrt support and 1gb of ram and 8gb of storage. Plenty of juice to run anything you want.
Though the best thing would be something like a nanopi R6S and then using cheapo mesh routers to increase coverage
would you choose nanopi R6s over using like P330 tiny with opnsense? Please pardon me if they are not serving the same function but feels like a tiny would have much more power and seems to be in the same price range?
I use an Asus router with Merlin firmware, but I think even out of the box, most mainstream Asus routers support Dual WAN through one of the LAN ports with failover and load balancing while usually being the cheapest option.
P330 tiny for sure, nanopi is just smoll, has 2 2.5GBE ports and is very low power. but if you have the space for p330, then tiny any time
they are overpriced af, even their cheapest offering is like 14k, meanwhile you can import something like flint 2 for that price, and its hands down one of the best consumer grade routers and easy comparable to Asus’s flagship series while being less than a third of the price
Haven’t been tracking prices, routers are not something you buy everyday. Probably should have said easy available rather than cheap.
Flint 2 does make more sense if price is comparable.
afaik, airtel provides static ip for 200 rs + gst
Yeah, airtel give me static IP but their support can’t configure it. Requested and got alloted static IP twice but last time when I lost internet for 4 days while technicians were changing settings from backend but couldn’t figure out, i gave up on Airtel.
I would love if someone here can help me sort out with airtel. Airtel technicians and support staff is shit where I live.
If your requirement is 200 Mbps + 200 Mbps, Unifi UCG Ultra can handle it easily. It has 1 Gbps throughput with IDS/IPS on and 600 Mbps throughput with Wireguard VPN. Comes at around 12.5k INR.
Why do you need static IP instead of something like tailscale or a VPN server?
I don’t trust tailscale. Currently running wireguard server on a vps to connect to my services but having public IP is just easier and also for few things, port forwarding via vps doesnt work and you need public ip. Also lower latency while streaming (hopefully).