Router 4G-AC68U - problem with Dual WAN connection

[Mojo1019]

Hi guys, recently I have bough a new router, the 4G-AC68U, and I was planning to use it with the Dual WAN connection in Load Balance mode. At the moment I am stuck at home in the countryside with my parents and I am able to connect to internet with two different methods: 1) with a cable connection, it is stable but really really slow (4 Mbits down, 1 Mbit up), 2) trough the 4G mobile connection that is faster (20-25 Mbits down, 10 Mbits up) but suffers sometimes of little disconnections. The problem is that, if choose the Load Balance mode on the ASUSWRT with a ratio of 4:1 the things get faster and stable, but I can't connect to Steam, Blizzard.net, League of Legends, ecc. probably because in this way I use two different ISP with two different IP addresses. I have also tried to set up a connection to a VPN (NordVPN) in the ASUWRT settings to mask my double IPs with one from NordVPN but apparently this trick doesn't work. Do you have any suggestion? Thanks you so much

 

[2984839]

I'd recommend failover mode instead, with the fast connection as your primary and the slow cable connection as a backup. Then your traffic should go through one ISP and only switch if that one drops out.

 

[hobowankenobi]

Tuff one. Yes, failover would help with the IP issue...but you possibly lose your better performance, and, when failover does happen, you still have an IP address swap problem again.

No help. Let's see if anybody else has something to add.

 

[Mojo1019]

Tuff one. Yes, failover would help with the IP issue...but you possibly lose your better performance, and, when failover does happen, you still have an IP address swap problem again.

No help. Let's see if anybody else has something to add.

I'd recommend failover mode instead, with the fast connection as your primary and the slow cable connection as a backup. Then your traffic should go through one ISP and only switch if that one drops out.

Thank you anyway!

 

[2984839]

If simple failover does not work for you, then you probably would need some sort of SD-WAN setup which becomes your next upstream hop and provides a single IP. There are services will do that, but they are geared towards businesses and I don't know the costs (I have not used the company below).

Same & Single IP Failover - Bigleaf Networks

With Bigleaf, when one of your Internet circuits has an outage, you don’t. Your IP address doesn’t change. Your VPN, remote desktop session, SSH session, VoIP call, web presentation, and every other application stays up!

www.bigleaf.net

Without an SD-WAN setup, you'd probably need a provider-independent IP address, and then dive into BGP. Not something you can just do in a weekend.

 

[Mojo1019]

If simple failover does not work for you, then you probably would need some sort of SD-WAN setup which becomes your next upstream hop and provides a single IP. There are services will do that, but they are geared towards businesses and I don't know the costs (I have not used the company below).

Same & Single IP Failover - Bigleaf Networks

With Bigleaf, when one of your Internet circuits has an outage, you don’t. Your IP address doesn’t change. Your VPN, remote desktop session, SSH session, VoIP call, web presentation, and every other application stays up!

www.bigleaf.net

Without an SD-WAN setup, you'd probably need a provider-independent IP address, and then dive into BGP. Not something you can just do in a weekend.

Thank you for the advise. I will take a look at it.