Know this is late to party but in case anyone else is looking for answer to this:-
Say the ratio is 3:1. It will send 3 requests down primary wan then 1 down secondary, then 3 down primary, then 1 down secondary....
So if say primary wan is faster or secondary wan has a smaller data cap (if...
If 1 of the wans goes down (is actually disconnected from router) then it will reroute everything to the remaining wan.
However you need to be wary because my 2nd wan is a 4g usb dongle and when it runs out of data quota my isp blocks traffic...it is STILL connected though...so router still...
Each brand does load balancing differently, all are pretty basic.
https://www.asus.com/support/faq/1005714/
So Ausus states the balancing is a proportion of transmissions. It does it sequentially...it is pretty easy to test assuming you can setup so only 1 pc is connecting to your router...
No they are not. RTFM. If you set the load balance to 5:5, for example, then if only 4 outgoing requests are made they will ALL use the primary wan.
If there were 8 outgoing requests then the 1st 5 are handled by the primary wan and the remaining 3 would be handled by the secondary wan.
So if...