Suggestions for multi-wan setup at home

[berrmich]

Unfortunately the only high speed option I have at my new house is 3 Mbit DSL from Frontier. They do have an option for a second DSL line for 14 bucks more a month. The only problem is that the do not bond lines.

My system:

Supermicro x8si6-f-o
Xenon 3440
8gb Kingston ECC
Norco 4020
Corsair 850AX
5 x 2tb Samsung F4s
128gb kingston SSD

16 port netgear gb switch
DIR 655 wireless router.

Running ESXi with windows home server 11, open indiana with ZFS in raidZ

What I need is a load balancing system. Not as good as bonded but that isn't available. Options that I can come up with:

1. Virtualized Pfsence on the server. I only have 2 NIC's so I'm assuming I would need a NIC card? 2WAN and 1LAN

2. Netgear quadWAN switch/firewall.

3. Peplink 30.

What are the advantages/disadvantages? Is there a better way to do this?
I don't really know much about using more than one internet connection.

-Mike

 

[berrmich]

Should have I posted this under a different section? Maybe a mod could move it to the router section? Not getting any responses here....

-Mike

 

[GregN]

PFsense will do the job, it has multiwan, but not the best load balancing algorithm, just round robin or weighted round robin, and will run under ESXi (done that), you will need that third NIC.

What kind of net traffic do you have? All http? Other?

I can't comment on the other choices, as to compare, if you decide to redo the thread I would ask about each choice, and then do your own comparison, it is difficult for folks to respond if they can't compare all three, have experience with all three (which I suspect is the problem, and the reason I didn't respond earlier)