Need help combining xDSL + LTE with loadbalancing
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11 Oct 2016, 10:54
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For everything else except for gaming my internet is total garbage and it's time to step up and upgrade my connection. Therefore I am looking to combine the internet connections of my xDSL Modem and a LTE Modem, which I'm going to purchase soon.
My situation right now is that I share my internet togheter with my girlfriend, who often watches her university lectures per stream as well as vlogs. At 6mbit/s download and 200kbit/s upload it always ends up in a total mess.
The modem is connected to a port switch, and 4 devices (TV, Laptop, PC, PS4) are connected by LAN, while a printer is connected per WLAN directly to the modem.
Basically I would like to use the DSL connection for gaming on my PC only, while using the LTE for everything else,
so that my gf's laptop doesn't connect with the DSL at all. All the applications on my PC should run by LTE while I play, let's say CS:GO for instance simultaneously on the DSL connection.
Now where you guys come into play is helping me out with the requirements needed and how to setup all of this properly.
I am very grateful for any advices and also willed to pay something if someone is eager to help and spend time on it
actually getting it to work properly!
For everything else except for gaming my internet is total garbage and it's time to step up and upgrade my connection. Therefore I am looking to combine the internet connections of my xDSL Modem and a LTE Modem, which I'm going to purchase soon.
My situation right now is that I share my internet togheter with my girlfriend, who often watches her university lectures per stream as well as vlogs. At 6mbit/s download and 200kbit/s upload it always ends up in a total mess.
The modem is connected to a port switch, and 4 devices (TV, Laptop, PC, PS4) are connected by LAN, while a printer is connected per WLAN directly to the modem.
Basically I would like to use the DSL connection for gaming on my PC only, while using the LTE for everything else,
so that my gf's laptop doesn't connect with the DSL at all. All the applications on my PC should run by LTE while I play, let's say CS:GO for instance simultaneously on the DSL connection.
Now where you guys come into play is helping me out with the requirements needed and how to setup all of this properly.
I am very grateful for any advices and also willed to pay something if someone is eager to help and spend time on it
actually getting it to work properly!
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Connect both modems to the Pfsense router, set-up dual wan and make rules for traffic that you want to use for a specific connection. If would advise you to use the Pfsense forums if you can't figure it out, it's a helpful community.
Only downside, you will need some hardware, but for those connections you can run PfSense on low-end hardware, you just need to have at least 3 network connections, or use vlans(but that will make it a lot more complicated) PfSense can also be used as a virtual machine, if you want to test it.
Another option perhaps is something like the Draytek Dual WAN router https://www.draytek.com/en/products/router/broadband/ but I don't have experience with that. Some consumer routers can also do Dual WAN, but don't have the options to define traffic.
Another option is https://www.ubnt.com/products/#routing like the Edgerouter Lite, but you will need to configure most things like this https://help.ubnt.com/hc/en-us/articles/205145990-EdgeMAX-Dual-WAN-Load-Balance-Feature
I can understand your frustration. I have a virtual Pfsense router at home with a 500Mbit fiber optic connection
I also have pfblocker package installed https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Pfblocke You can block IP's (Poland) with this and use the DNSBL feature to block ads with DNS.
Look for this on pfsense forum and look in the Multi-WAN section and you will get more answers. You will need a firewall rule to match CS:GO traffic it should work with destination port or outbound port. There is just a lot of configuration necessary and sometime adjusting it to make it work like you want. With pfsense you an adjust the firewall rules with no downtime.
Pfsense also have aliases that you can use in your firewall rules
for example make an alias with (ports for DSL connection for example) and you can just add all ports that will be used on the DSL line and reference that alias in a firewall rule, than you only need to have one rule instead of 50 and if you want to make adjustments just change the alias.
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