I have an unreliable, very high-speed cable connection and a very reliable poky DSL connection

I've needed dual WAN routers in the past in order to get a reliable internet connection, since disruptions of my network connection affect my income!I was looking for instructions on how to make my current wifi router do dual WAN, and clicked on the ad for this mostly out of curiosity

This was something that I wished to test now, so as not to have a false sent of security thinking that everything would work as I wished whenever I lost my primary Internet connection

If I do get connected and use the internal diagnosis tests, the external connections are fine, but if I run the same tracert from my command line, it times out

Most of the home devices that supported redundant Internet connections were more for failover, that is, the secondary Internet connection was not used unless the primary one failed

If I set up only one WAN port my max speed was about 14 mbs, with both ports set to load balance, 14 mbs was the fastest connection and it only lasted about 25 seconds, then slowed to 1.5 mbs.

It took about 10 minutes to configure my two static WAN connections from my two different ISP's

I use this to combine 2 slow and unreliable business internet connections.

The real issue was the lack of internet speed due to our ISP, and it's the fastest connection available here,

It sits on the more reliable connection and does not really benefit from a faster connection -- so all is well

It drops connection or slows down to unusable

Everyone always uses the fast connection unless it becomes unavailable

There's a quick install guide and the complete documentation is on CD.I would definitely recommend this product for those who want a redundant-load balanced Internet connection in their house.

As it turns out this is a non-optimal implementation because when primary WAN failure is detected the router then has to first connect to the secondary WAN device, get an IP address and wait until the connection is stable

Has been great for locking down Internet access, applying bandwidth limits to clients and combining multiple incoming ISP connections into one much faster connection for my users.

and I installed this router to provide us a fail-safe connection to another ISP in the event the DSL goes down.

and I installed this router to provide us a fail-safe connection to another ISP in the event the DSL goes down.

Using a fully wired router to share the wired outlet from the wall is, by far, the fasted connection I can achieve

I download a lot of torrent files, and it sometimes slows down my internet connection through out the house

This TP-Link throttles the Roku and kids connections while sending data out over the DSL or cable modem

The only problem I have had is my wifes work computer is running xp and it seems to have trouble holding the connection through this unit

Most of the home devices that supported redundant Internet connections were more for failover, that is, the secondary Internet connection was not used unless the primary one failed

I have it connected to 3 very slow (3Mb) DSL connections currently, as where I live, that is the ONLY option.

in that case everyone uses whatever connection is available, namely the secondary WAN connection

I have an unreliable, very high-speed cable connection and a very reliable poky DSL connection

So your best connection speed won't improve

I decided to get this to have a redundant internet connection for my house.

I wanted certain traffic to go via 3G (low latency) and most traffic to go via satellite (lower cost) and redundancy as both connections are really flaky (bad weather, infuriated gods)

Great inexpensive non-wireless router that easily combines my two ISP addresses into one super fast connection

Each connection will only take advantage of

so if our phones are tethered, it uses that (unlimited) connection,

in that case everyone uses whatever connection is available, namely the secondary WAN connection

I have a slow internet connection at my house, so I need two DSL lines.

Old tech (but it still works for what most home users want)SO, if you find yourself battling slower connections at home that are over-utilized, it may be a better option to use more than one connection, rather than emptying your wallet on the high end connections offered by some ISPs.

For the most part it will negotiate with the sources ( DHCP ) and make a successful connection unaided.

I bought it to take advantage of the two WAN connections available at my SOHO and to make it more reliable

This is ideal for anyone who works from home and needs 2 'affordable' Internet connections to maximize uptime.

When restarted it will connect and stay for a few hours and then the connection stops working

Everyone always uses the fast connection unless it becomes unavailable

I worked with it for days and was unable to get things working using both connections

As it turns out this is a non-optimal implementation because when primary WAN failure is detected the router then has to first connect to the secondary WAN device, get an IP address and wait until the connection is stable

, I pass on the following to anyone wishing to use their TL-R470T+ in its fail-over (Link Backup) mode (as opposed to Load Balancing mode).

All is working as I