Looking for user friendly dual wan router

[al2813]

Hi, I have at home 2 internet connection - a main cable one and a secondary DSL. The main connection is plugged into my Airport Extreme which acts as a DHCP server and main WIFI router. Behind it I have a main GB Switch that distributes all wired LAN traffic. I have two smaller switches behind (living room and first floor).

When I move to backup (the cable connection has great bandwidth but gets sometimes saturated at peak times resulting in higher latency and unstable bandwidth), I simply plug out the cable modem router (in bridge mode) and plug in the DSL modem router (also in bridge). I am looking now in moving to a new setup where I will have a dual WAN router that can do this switch automatically, or even aggregate the links in load balancing mode. As I am a novice in this and also don't have much time to tweak this, I am looking for an alternative that has a powerful GUI allowing me to configure stuff relatively easy. the Synology router looks the one with the best interface by far, but I am concerned about its WIFI performance. Asus routers seem to have the opposite - great WIFI but GUI not as good, plus the dual WAN function has had many remarks in the forum. I also looked at wired routers and getting a separate system for WIFI, but this makes the whole thing very expensive.

Any recommendations are welcome - experience shared etc.

 

[L&LD]

RT-AC1900P (Best Buy exclusive) or RT-AC68U (if BB is not available in your area). Use Dual WAN feature in Load Balance mode. With, RMerlin firmware, of course.

 

[RMerlin]

I've had good experiences in the past with Cisco's RV product line. You will have to connect a separate wifi AP to it however to provide Wifi connectivity.

Asus's Dual WAN support is hit-or-miss. I used it for a few days at work while rebuilding our dead Linux-based firewall, and it was problematic.

 

[L&LD]

Have used Dual Wan for over 2 years with different customers setups. No issues with Load Balance mode.

 

[al2813]

What about the synology. Anyone used it?

 

[RMerlin]

Have used Dual Wan for over 2 years with different customers setups. No issues with Load Balance mode.

That's why I said it was hit-or-miss. In our case, we had random page load failures while in load balancing mode. I didn't waste any time trying to troubleshoot it since it was just a temporary setup, until I could get our new Shorewall box prepared, so I just reverted back to single WAN for the duration.