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wsarahan

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Hi guys how are you?

I have a RT-AC3200 and i use here 2 internet links, using as load balance

But i have a problem, one of my ISP make traffic shapping at youtube at some hours, is there any way to send all the youtube data to my sencodary ISP?

if yes can someone explain me how to do at this router?

Thanks
 
I dont think its possible to do selective routing like this on a consumer router, you would need a router like mikrotik or ubiquiti or a very expansive cisco.

heres an example of how it looks like in mikrotik routerOS: http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Per-Traffic_Load_Balancing except in your case you would be routing http traffic to youtube.com IP addresses out your secondary ISP only.
From the looks of it i dont think a consumer router can do that because dual WAN options in consumer routers are limited whereas in routerOS you can have multi WAN in various different ways and you arent limited by physical interface and you can have 10 ISPs if you wanted to all routed by 1 router.

It might be possible to do with merlin firmware but im not sure even. Its just so much easier to do it using mikrotik.
 
Dunno, most dedicated router boxes with dual (or more) WAN links should support it. Doesn't have to be particularly expensive ones either. I am pretty sure that TP-Link's VPN router line supports doing that and they start at around $50. Granted, you are talking only 60-80Mbps performance on the entry level router, but the stepped up $100-120 one can handle I think in the 300Mbps range for routed traffic.

I've been considering it at some point, but I don't currently have dual WAN links, therefore I can't justify it (that and they are not 12v, they are 120V with internal transformers, so the location I'd want to locate a router, I'd have to run a power cord down from my shelf, where as currently I do POE to my wireless router).
 
You can selectively route traffic between your isp and vpn provider, there is a huge thread about it, I don't see how selective routing between 2 wans can be much different??
 
@azazel1024 The mikrotik RB850gx2 can perform multi WAN without losing throughput and costs $120 while youtube requires more than just http reroutes, flash uses its own port and protocol so theres that too. The RB850gx2 has half of the throughput of the RB1100AHx2.

On consumer routers and dedicated dual WAN routers the WAN ports are predetermined whereas in mikrotik routerboards any port can be WAN and how it routes can be determined by you. In some cases routerOS can bond multiple WAN links but if using PPP or VPN than setting the routes weightage to the same will make routerOS load balance the connections based on the best available link available for the packet at that time.

Consumer routers with VPN can route traffic between ISP and VPN but it cannot selectively route traffic between 2 WANs of the same type.

I suggest taking a look at routerOS at http://demo.mt.lv and comparing its capability. You may need to read its wiki to understand how WAN works on it and how it works with different multi-WAN environments.
 
You could potentially load balance based on destination IP address groups - that would catch all Youtube content, including HTTP and Flash. Without being able to put my hands directly on a config though, that's all just speculation.
 

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