WAN Aggregation

[epete]

Due to Covid, everyone in our community is online at the same time. I have no issues with downlink but my uplink is horrible. I have the RT-AC5300 that seems to support a second WAN. In my case I don't want a second WAN as a fall over when the main goes down. I would like to purchase a second cable modem service and aggregate the two uplink bandwidths to improve my speeds. Does anyone know if this is a possible configuration and how to set it up (if it is)>

 

[L&LD]

You can't aggregate two ISP for higher speeds. You can have them in a load-balancing mode, however.

This means that two 50/50Mbps up/down ISP connections won't net you a 100/100 up/down connection for a single client device. But it will give you 100/100Mbps up/down as a theoretical possibility with many (multiple) clients.

 

[epete]

thanks, so in my situation, both cable modems would be on the same coax so if I had poor upload on one, I would have poor upload on the other and no advantage from the set-up. I suppose I could look into a 5G LTE modem but I think that would be cost prohibitive.