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
superczar
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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
i dont have a powerful enough x86 machine to handle 600mbps and low on budget, will check the vlan route if not will pickup a cheap x86 box.
Traffic shaper also mitigates bufferbloat which is pretty bad for indian ISPs, regardless of your bandwidth. and i am kinda paranoid that my bandwidth will always hit 100% so i need it A+ lol
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superczar
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A). Indian ISPs do not necessarily have bad bufferbloat. What they do have is typically a low end router which struggles to route packets on time when loaded.
Assuming you are on a decent ISP, Try using a decent wired router (and not a low end typical two-in-one router) and you will no longer have a bufferbloat problem.
(If your ISP has poor quality upstream, nothing you do at your end will help anyway)
B) You are trying to apply a heavy multi user scenario solution on a home network where the typical % utilization will be small.
FQ_Codel will help improving bad bufferbloat to acceptable in a scenario where you have a lot of users competing for limited bandwidth and provided your run it on a half decent machine (a rpi4b with USB NIC is far from half decent).
It is highly unlikely your home network will have anywhere near this kind of scenario.
I guess what I am trying to say is that don’t just assume forum posts from pfsense or servethehome as the right solution for your use case.
Also, try figure out the right solution for the budget .
Trying to use a Rpi 4b with USB NICs as a LB/ wan aggregator , that too with traffic shaping enabled on will almost certainly give you worse results than even a bare-bones ISP provisioned router
i have a ax73
B) This will be a heavy multi user scenario with a household of 8 people where both will have a lot of teams sessions and 4k netflix streams and my jellyfin server streaming from kolkata to mumbai,and i am trying to mitigate the use of usb nics by using a managed switch and the stock broadcom rpi4b nic to not have issues, i have used terrible asix nics for both openwrt and pfsense and they work horribly.
also i have a limited set of budget can only spend 2k max right now since they are not willing to spend on the installation or anything. im using whatever leftovers i have the armored cables the keystones and the rpi4b these i already own and im looking to just cook something up as a stopgap till i can spend on a i3 6100 based box that ive been eyeing on for a while already have a 2 port intel nic, i have used pfsense since 6-7 years on a old celeron based box but had to stop using it now since i moved to over 200mbps. its easier for me to use, openwrt is kinda difficult for me to get a good understanding
A) I have AX73 on a wired connection still got a D (ISP is BSNL)
B) This will be a heavy multi user scenario with a household of 8 people where both will have a lot of teams sessions and 4k netflix streams and my jellyfin server streaming from kolkata to mumbai,and i am trying to mitigate the use of usb nics by using a managed switch and the stock broadcom rpi4b nic to not have issues, i have used terrible asix nics for both openwrt and pfsense and they work horribly.
also i have a limited set of budget can only spend 2k max right now since they are not willing to spend on the installation or anything. im using whatever leftovers i have the armored cables the keystones and the rpi4b these i already own and im looking to just cook something up as a stopgap till i can spend on a i3 6100 based box that ive been eyeing on for a while already have a 2 port intel nic, i have used pfsense since 6-7 years on a old celeron based box but had to stop using it now since i moved to over 200mbps. its easier for me to use, openwrt is kinda difficult for me to get a good understanding
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