What are these dual wan loadbalancing configuration numbers

[kishork]

Hi,

I have dual wan with wan and usb

I want load balancing but i don't properly understand load balancing configuration numbers

So if i write 5 and 1 :

does that means for 5mb on primary it will consume 1mb from secondary ?

Or will that mean secondary will be five times slower in speed ?

Can you please help me understand what those numbers actually mean. .

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[RMerlin]

Load balancing works by spreading connections attempts between both, not by spreading packets. Let's take a simple example, where you download 5 different files through a website. Each download will establish a new connection to the download server.

If you set the balancing ratio to 1:1, then it means downloads 1,3,5 will go through the first WAN, and downloads 2,4 will go through the second WAN.

If you set it to 3:1, then downloads 1,2,3 will go through WAN1, download 4 will go through WAN2, and download 5 will go through WAN1.

Once a connection is established on a WAN interface, it stays there. So if you start only one single download, it will only run at the speed of the specific WAN connection it's connected through. That's why load balancing works better when your two connections are nearly of the same speed, otherwise you'd have some downloads going real fast, and others going slow.

Load balancing works great with torrents, which establishes a lot of connections in parallel - these would all be spread between the two WANs according to the ratio you configured.

 

[kishork]

Many thanks merlin for your help to understand what these numbers of load balancing actually mean. . It is much clear to me now after understanding from what you have described. . Many thanks !!!

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