Axe 16000 WAN Aggregation

[houghton19]

Not an expert when it comes to this type of thing, I’m in the unfortunate position where I live we still haven’t got fibre/FTTP. Now I know it’s coming, and fairly soon, I bought the 16000 in preparation a few months ago, since then it seems two providers are hitting our village hard. So the one that looks like it is going to be here first is virgin media (uk) and when Openreach install their FTTP i can get a good discount on their gigabit package. If i was to take Virgin first, and was tied into a 12/24 month contract, AND then took out a line with an alternative network running on openreach network, does WAN Aggregation let me combine the two to get a overall speed of 2gig (1 from each) or does it just act as like a fall over?

So basically the two questions are, can I use 2 different ISPs?

Does the speed combine or just help support.

Thanks.

 

[drinkingbird]

Not an expert when it comes to this type of thing, I’m in the unfortunate position where I live we still haven’t got fibre/FTTP. Now I know it’s coming, and fairly soon, I bought the 16000 in preparation a few months ago, since then it seems two providers are hitting our village hard. So the one that looks like it is going to be here first is virgin media (uk) and when Openreach install their FTTP i can get a good discount on their gigabit package. If i was to take Virgin first, and was tied into a 12/24 month contract, AND then took out a line with an alternative network running on openreach network, does WAN Aggregation let me combine the two to get a overall speed of 2gig (1 from each) or does it just act as like a fall over?

So basically the two questions are, can I use 2 different ISPs?

Does the speed combine or just help support.

Thanks.

If I'm remembering Asus' terminology correctly, WAN aggregation lets you use two gig ports (along with a compatible ISP modem) to get >1 gig from a single ISP when they don't support 2.5GIG or 10G ports.

What you are talking about is dual WAN where you can have some stuff go out each ISP and/or fail over. You can't combine them into a 2 gig single connection, that's not how networking works, but you can divide devices between both.

I may be confusing the Asus terminology though, long story short, no you can't make it a single connection with the combined bandwidth, but you can make use of both connections by spreading your clients between the two (and also having failover in case of an outage). But each client would see a max of 1 gig.

 

[ColinTaylor]

So basically the two questions are, can I use 2 different ISPs?

@drinkingbird's explanation is correct. You cannot use WAN aggregation with two ISP's but you can use Dual-WAN in either load balancing or failover mode.

 

[houghton19]

Thanks for the replies. I’m not sure why but I did comment ages ago saying thanks but for some reason it hasn’t worked

So thanks again!!!!