Suggestion: Load Balance for AP Mode

[Guardian Hope]

One of the things I learned from my most recent experience with "Router Mode" on an RT87R is that "Load Balance" for WAN improved performance quite a bit. Currently, it's only available in "Router Mode." My suggestion is simple: "Load Balance" for "AP Mode." Since AP Mode already uses the WAN port anyways (while I am certain the coding may be a little more complicated), why not have it for AP Mode for when you need to shove a lot of data through the proverbial pipes? Just designate which LAN port is the load balancing port, and have the other settings like ratio for LB that's in "Router Mode."

Or is there an actual technical reason this cannot be done? These routers are pretty capable in terms of performance - they just need a tooling upgrade and I don't see why "AP Mode" can't benefit from LB like "Router Mode."

 

[Nullity]

AFAIK, the precise functionality you want is impossible in AP mode.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model

An AP is technically just a layer-2 switch. No router functionality.

For WAN load-balancing to be available to the LAN, said device must be acting as the gateway router (layer-3).


You had 2 internet connections and WAN load-balancing improved performance?

 

[Guardian Hope]

AFAIK, the precise functionality you want is impossible in AP mode.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model

An AP is technically just a layer-2 switch. No router functionality.

For WAN load-balancing to be available to the LAN, said device must be acting as the gateway router (layer-3).


You had 2 internet connections and WAN load-balancing improved performance?

Indeed, I am aware of the OSI model but I have seen Load Balancing being done on Layer 2 although understandably they were enterprise switches (and thus may be an non-reasonable request for a consume device) balancing two 10GbE links in.

However, yes, in a way you could say I had "2 internet connections and WAN load-balancing improved performance." Actually, with FiOS on MoCA things get a little messy. The router was technically on a different VLAN (10.0.0.0/16) and the Quantum Gateway (127.25.0.0/16) and both had operating DNS servers since MoCA LAN wouldn't otherwise get DHCP leases (I don't think; I would have to look into it; Quantum Gateway "bridging" is a bit of a frontier for FiOS users right now).

Under load balance, operable performance was about 227Mbps down and up while non-load balanced operable performance varies between 157-200Mbps down and up.

 

[pete y testing]

Under load balance, operable performance was about 227Mbps down and up while non-load balanced operable performance varies between 157-200Mbps down and up.

this would be with multi thread downloads right as its load balancing not link aggregation