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Channel bonding to combine 5G and copper connection?

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In short, I pay for two barely functional internet connections and want to find the best way to make use of them both:
  1. Copper connection with NowTV - <17mbps down, 1mbps up, often slows down and sometimes cuts out for no apparent reason)
  2. 5G connection with iD Mobile using Huawei 5G CPE Pro (H112-370) and external antenna Huawei 5G AF9E - ~300mbps down, ~50mbps up when working well, usually more like ~1mbps and often cuts out completely
I can't get fibre currently for building/location reasons, despite having tried many times.

I have owned the CPE pro for around 18 months (previously with Three) and used to get a fairly stable connection with the external antenna with infrequent dropouts. However since Three made changes to their network in the last year or so it has been patchy at best and often hardly works. Hence moving to iD Mobile for a cheaper contract and repurchasing a copper connection.

My current thinking is: buy a channel bonding/failover router (e.g. Draytek Vigor 2862B) and connect the CPE Pro to one WAN port and the copper ethernet to another WAN port and use that as my router.

Questions:
  • Is it possible to use the CPE Pro like that? I'm aware it doesn't have a bridge mode so I'm not sure if that would work
  • Would the Draytek router be appropriate?
  • Am I missing anything obvious?
I would very much welcome any other suggestions or potential solutions if anyone has any. Thanks a lot!
 
I used to load balance an ADSL line and 4G using a Vigot 2860n+ - it worked OK, with a few issues. The different latency between the two paths caused problems with some applications, so I had to set rules to limit some traffic to one or the other. Note that it is load balancing and not bonding (which needs equipment at both ends), so you will only get the max speed of the fastest link for a single device. Multiple devices can use the full bandwidth of both links between them.
As soon as I was able to get EE 4G at ~80Mbps I dropped Three, and then the difference in speed was so great the ADSL didn't add anything (other than lower latency, but the upload was unusable) so I dropped that too.
Personally, I would work on making your 4G more reliable - sometimes a more distant cell with a directional antenna can be better than a closer cell if you are on the fringe of the area it covers.
 
I use a draytek 2925 for line balancing two 4g routers, as long as the download is multi threaded, as most are, then you will see download speeds of both WAN's combined. If the source is single threaded then you only see one and the one you see seems to be picked at random. Three can be a problem at peak periods for surfing so I direct all surfing traffic on ports 80 and 443 to my EE router, with failover this rule is ignored and it reverts to Three..
 
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Thanks for the helpful comments.

Personally, I would work on making your 4G more reliable - sometimes a more distant cell with a directional antenna can be better than a closer cell if you are on the fringe of the area it covers.
This is something I have spent some time messing with but have limited options on direction due to living in a flat in a city. Will have another play around with the antenna (aware that it's not directional and this may be why I have had issues with the connection dropping, possibly switching masts).

I use a draytek 2925 for line balancing two 4g routers, as long as the download is multi threaded, as most are, then you will see download speeds of both WAN's combined. If the source is single threaded then you only see one and the one you see seems to be picked at random. Three can be a problem at peak periods for surfing so I direct all surfing traffic on ports 80 and 443 to my EE router, with failover this rule is ignored and it reverts to Three..
Thanks kommando, this is very helpful.

Isn't IDMobile on THREE? so probably suffering from same issues. Possibly time to retest to find best primary provider at your location then look for best deal on that network.
Yep, but unfortunately the CPE Pro is locked to Three's network (with no way to unlock). I also bought the external antenna and don't want to drop >£300 on a new 5G router/antenna set up if I can avoid it.

I'll try out an older second hand model (e.g. 2820vn) which I can nab for around £20, and rethink the plan if that doesn't work. I do have a NAS which I imagine may have issues with the dual WAN set up, but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.
 
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