sandyman
Casual Member
I've used draytek 2860Ln for many years, load balancing between a 35M VDSL and an 4G that gets 30-50 (depending...). draytek WAN ethernet connected to LTE router with external antenna . don't use draytek's inbuilt modem as that was quite poor.
recently got some 4G+ and/or 5G reachability on the other side of the house on Three/Smarty, ad-hoc testing with another directional antenna has proved promising, at least 100M seems achievable. And I'd like to have 2 different mobile data networks for failover as well. So.,.. with the 2nd LTE connection, I'm needing to loadbalance 3 WANs... meaning a router upgrade required.
I'll still keep the 2860 in play purely for the VDSL termination and bridge it through to the box that actually manages the network. That router needs to be at least 3x ethernet wan and ideally 4 for expansion. I have multiple VLANS for IOT, Guest etc. # of LAN side ports irrelevant, only need one, I have a big switch. Wifi irrelevant and not required, I have multiple separate APs. Sticking with draytek as a quad-ethernet-wan loadbalancing router would mean their 3910 which is daft money, 800 quid. so I need another vendor...
I am naturally next drawn to TP-link as I have Omada Access Points, with the on-prem virtualised controller, I use the Cloud access to it, which I find works really well. Their loadbalancing router boxes are around the 200 quid and under mark which seems reasonable. Given the bandwidths I'm loadbalancing , 1G ports are all I need, and I'm in the "100M ish is enough" bandwidth camp - we don't 4k stream (still have a 1080p telly, 16 year old Plasma Pioneer Kuro and mostly watch On-Air...) or game, but I will happily go a size up for some future proofing, in case FTTP ever happens or becomes a thing I need...
TP Link ER707? anyone on here use them?
recently got some 4G+ and/or 5G reachability on the other side of the house on Three/Smarty, ad-hoc testing with another directional antenna has proved promising, at least 100M seems achievable. And I'd like to have 2 different mobile data networks for failover as well. So.,.. with the 2nd LTE connection, I'm needing to loadbalance 3 WANs... meaning a router upgrade required.
I'll still keep the 2860 in play purely for the VDSL termination and bridge it through to the box that actually manages the network. That router needs to be at least 3x ethernet wan and ideally 4 for expansion. I have multiple VLANS for IOT, Guest etc. # of LAN side ports irrelevant, only need one, I have a big switch. Wifi irrelevant and not required, I have multiple separate APs. Sticking with draytek as a quad-ethernet-wan loadbalancing router would mean their 3910 which is daft money, 800 quid. so I need another vendor...
I am naturally next drawn to TP-link as I have Omada Access Points, with the on-prem virtualised controller, I use the Cloud access to it, which I find works really well. Their loadbalancing router boxes are around the 200 quid and under mark which seems reasonable. Given the bandwidths I'm loadbalancing , 1G ports are all I need, and I'm in the "100M ish is enough" bandwidth camp - we don't 4k stream (still have a 1080p telly, 16 year old Plasma Pioneer Kuro and mostly watch On-Air...) or game, but I will happily go a size up for some future proofing, in case FTTP ever happens or becomes a thing I need...
TP Link ER707? anyone on here use them?























