Thanks so much Tony. As always clear and concise. I know this is 2 years old but still useful. I'm getting ready to use Starlink as my backup ISP and need to get this setup.
Hi Dennis, Thanks for tuning in and commenting. Please subscribe, share, and give the video a like. I'm glad you found the content helpful. Let me know eventually how you like the Starlink service. Have a great day.
Hi Tony, thank you for the video! its pretty good! Can you post another video for the ubiquiti USG dual wan setup for failover? That would be a great help!
Great video Tony, I just had to cutover my home network to cellular data when my fiber ONT failed, and I was wondering if my Edgerouter4 could do this kind of operation seamlessly, I have setup Meraki devices with dual wan, and I think maybe a Draytek router as well, but I haven't done it with my Ubi gear at home, great to know this beast of a router can handle it without even blinking. Thanks for sharing, I know this is an old vid, but your photography and lighting were wonderful as well as the content being on point.
Wally John Thank you Wally for taking the time to comment and share your thoughts. Glad you found the video helpful, and thanks for the scribe. Have a great day!
Great videos, just one question, say I want to add a 2nd wan to an existing set up, if I use the wizard, it resets my existing settings (ie static ip addresses, port forwarding etc). Is there a way to add a 2nd wan without using the wizard?
I know this is relatively (pre-COVID) old, but your video provides the best instruction on how to setup failover on the EdgeRouter X. I am using what I believe is the newest firmware, v2.0.9, which has a couple of options missing, but I am assuming these are not necessary for the initial operation. The failover seems to work correctly, but I am not confident the ER X always reverts back to the "primary' WAN when it becomes "stable". I know there are a few other options as can be seen in the config tree, but I will have to do more research for the optimum configuration My setup consists of Comcast as the primary ISP, while the secondary "ISP" is T-Mobile LTE via a MOFI4500-4GXeLTE. Not cutting edge, but it does what I need it to do. There is a slight issue with what I believe is throttling when it switches to T-Mobile. Web browsing can be "painful", but video streaming (RUclips, Netflix, Prime) is good enough. So with all that in mind, thank you.
Thank you Ron for commenting. I’m glad you found the information in this video helpful and still relevant. Have a great day and thank you for tuning in to the channel. :-)
Would it be a fast enough switch if you were gaming and 1 ISP had a hiccup? We got spectrum and it sucks so bad, but its the only ISP that gives us more than 8MB. I was thinking about adding DSL as well for faster pings believe it or not. Spectrum is that bad around here.
Hi! Thanks for commenting. Honestly, not being a gamer myself, I wouldn’t feel comfortable speaking to this inquiry directly. I suggest you go to ubnt.com, then download the pdf spec and check them out for yourself. I’ve seen other videos on RUclips where gamers swear by these routers. However, like I said, it wouldn’t be fair to speak to something I haven’t experienced or tested. Have a great day!
Hi, nice video. Does wan2 start working only if wan1 is physically down (unplugged cable, disabled upstream port, etc) or it works also when let’s say the router is connected but the internet is unreachable?
@@QuikTechSolutions This leads to two questions. First, what is the default mechanism the router uses to detect "loss of Internet connectivity?" And second, can I configure it to use a particular ping responder on the internet. The reason I ask is that ISP1 provider can fail upstream and still have an active link with some traffic even when you cannot reach through them to the rest of the internet. A ping responder will detect that fact (especially if at the same location as the target server you are trying to communicate with. Think SIP trunk provider).
@@Yooper_eh It will failover if the physical cable is unplugged from the router. However, it will also failover if the ISP goes down and there is a loss of Internet access based on a ping. You can configure the ping host and the interval. Here's a link to a help doc. The commands are located under the Optional Load-Balancing section. tinyurl.com/y6s3gp55
hii thanks for the video. can u make one of two edgerouters with redundant link failover, like each router have their own internet but if one fail the other take the internet and vicerversa.
thanks for the video, currently my ERL router is already configure eth0=current ISP, eth1=Lan, it has policies and rules, and couple vLans, if I use the wizard Load Balancing Config, would that erase all my policies, rules and vLans? I'm trying to get a second ISP as backup reason why I'm thinking on load balancing using the eth3, but I would not want to erase all the current setting and having to reconfigure again. thanks in advance for your advise.
Hello Mario. Yes, using the Load Balancing Wizard will erase your existing configuration. What you want is doable via the command line interface, but quite extensive. I recommend you reach out to Willie Howe Technology for this type of configuration. williehowe.com/contact/
Thanks for the video. Do you know if it's possible to enable failover only for WAN 2 without changing to factory default settings? We have our Edge Router already configured and we want to enable failover only. Thanks.
Hi Daniel, thanks for watching. Yes, it is possible, but it takes a little configuring using the Command Line. Here is a video I made on how to do it. Edgerouter - How To Add 2nd WAN Port Without Using the Wizard ruclips.net/video/5LTbCMWhadU/видео.html If you have Vlans setup on the Edgerouter, there are a few extra lines of configuration needed that are not included in this video.
Hi there, I made the setup wizard as video and had both isp connected and I didn't check mark for the fail over option and give it a try I still I get one isp only on speed test check how I do merge both isp speed!!? Plz help
Hello Mohammed, thanks for commenting. It’s not designed for what you’re trying to achieve. The traffic will be load balanced across the two providers. That being said, no single client will exceed the maximum bandwidth for a single connection.
I’m looking to get more bandwidth by combining my 2 WANs. 1 is Verizon the other is Comcast. Both are around 55 down and 7 up. If I load balance with 2 wans does it split the packets between the 2 connections or does it split the devices connected? In my mind I’ll get around 100 down and 10 up by setting something up like this.
Hi Christopher, you won’t double your speed as it doesn’t aggregate the two connections. It just gives you more lanes to travel on. For example - if you have a 2 lane highway with a speed limit of 50 MPH, then add a second two lane highway with a speed limit of 50 MPH. You don’t get to go 100 MPH. You still go 50 MPH, but have four lanes that can go 50 MPH instead of two. Hope this makes sense. Have a great day.
Thank you for your video. However my situation is a little different. I've configured my edge router on eth0 as DHCP and with several vlans on different ports. My client puchased a failover PPPoE and it seems the only way to configure it with the wizard is by blowing the whole thing up. How can I set this up leaving my DHCP, firewall rules VLAN alone.
Hi Patrick, thanks for watching. You would have to have an in-depth understanding the the EdgeOS command line to make the changes manually. Trust me, it’s actually easier to start over.
The failover option doesn't appear to work for me. It just keeps both connections active, and if I do a speed test both connections max out. Does it matter if the eth(X) ports I use are different during the wizard? I used eth9 for the poe option for the main, and eth8 for the failover.
Hi Tony, I have an EdgeRouter-12 and wanna set up fail over only (no load-balancing). But I don't want to run the wizard since it will wipe out all my configuration. Is there a way to do it? Thanks a lot!
If that’s the case, I’m going to strongly suggest you access your router through a VPN. Don’t setup remote access using port forwarding. Security-wise it’s much more secure.
That’s a great question. To be totally honest, I’m not sure. I’ve never tried to make that happen. I suggest you reach out to Ubiquiti support or try the Ubiquiti community. Someone there might have already done this and could possibly help.
Hi Tony, what I would like to know is how to add failover on EdgeRouterX in my EXISTING normal configuration, otherwise with this, I have to destroy all my setup with VLANS, Firewall rules, etc. to start the setup again with Load Balance/FailOver included, and have to configure all over again my current setup. As you can imagine I want to avoid this.
Hello Pedro, sorry for the delayed reply. I get tons of comments and inquiries daily and try tondo my best to keep up. In any event, this can be done through the command line. I’m not really a command line guy as my Linux CLI skills are limited, so can’t really guide you. However, in speaking to my colleagues who are Linux CLI gurus, it can be done for sure. Have a great day!
Great vid! The failover works but how would you configure failback. Case is WAN2 failover is LTE and WAN1 is Fibre. When WAN1 comes back online you'd want to failback to it automatically.
Tony, I need help selecting a dual wan WiFi router for my boat. I want to be able select between WiFi and mifi as a source of internet for my boat network. Currently I have a groove 52HPn mounted on the mast to receive marina WiFi, works great. Now I want to add a netgear nighthawk M1 MR1100 hotspot. I need a WiFi router that will allow me to select between the two internet sources. What do you recommend?
Hi Michal! Thanks for tuning in and commenting. To set up the second WAN as failover only is a very simple process. It’s just a matter of a checkbox during the setup wizard. Please subscribe, share, and give the video a like 👍. Have a great day!
@@michamaykel7108 Hi Michal, I'm not comfortable messing with your existing configuration via the cli. I know when to pass things along to others that are a better fit. You should reach out to Willie Howe for this. I've read a ton of community forums where folks have tried to do this exact thing and have had nothing but issues. Ending up wiping out their routers and running the wizard after all. Have a great day.
@@QuikTechSolutions Hi! I did it. it is very simple. You have to change an option in "Config Tree => load-balance => group => G => interface => eth1 => failover-only" and it works now as failover.
Anyway to connect both WAN connections but give priority to one over the other. I have a 75/75 connection and a 50/15 connection... I have load balancing set at 60/40 but I when trying to watch 4K videos my devices are laggy even with this setup
I have an EdgeRouter X which is already up and running with one ISP on eth0, LAN on eth2, is it possible to ad manualy (without wizard) a secound ISP on eth1 and activate "Failover"? Thank you so much.
Hello, yes this can be done but honestly it is easier to make a backup of your current config, then use the wizard to start over. I understand not wanting to recreate the wheel, but to add a second WAN manually without the wizard takes some understanding of the command line. If you are comfortable with the CLI, you can refer to this help doc - help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/205145990-EdgeRouter-WAN-Load-Balancing.
Quick question on ER-X, I want all ports to route to WAN1 when available, but only certain ports to reroute to WAN2, if WAN1 goes down. Is this possible? If doing a failover to 4G, I need to limit traffic to only critical devices.
Hey David, for something like this to work give consideration to how you design your network. If you group users into vlans, then using WAN_OUT firewall rules, you control traffic when WAN1 goes down.
I realize this is 4 years later. But how would this work if main modem has a static IP and the second router uses Dynamic? I have scripts and routers defined in the edge router to use the static IP for connection from another site for a POS. Am I going to lose POS connectivity during a failover since the modem with the static IP has failed??
Thanks Tony, using this to set up Starlink with a failover with my wisp. Could you please do a video on setting up a wireless router to the edge router after setting it up for failover? I plan to set my wireless router in bridge mode as it is a mesh system (velop). I can’t find any info on how to do this. I’m pretty sure I can do it but would love a generic set of instructions.
I don't have any wireless routers on hand to do something like you're asking. Even if I did, the process would vary by vendor. Try to get in the Linksys community forums and pose the question there. Good luck!
I just did this, sort of. I got what are referred to as a travel router, tethered my mobile to it via USB, and connected the travel router to it with the admin console on the travel router, I then connected one of the travel router lan ethernet ports to my ER on the wan port, this worked, and my home network had WAN (double NAT style) You could do this with a cellular gateway also, but it would be vender specific as to how you would set it up, and how it would activate, but it is definitely something you can configure. I thought about getting a 4/5G routing device and a new sim for it, but my WAN is rock solid, so a "tether to mobilephone" solution is adequate for our house from the cost and pain to configure perspective. The double router took about 5 min to setup when I got the router from amazon and was solid and fast, much more than the bridged wifi/ethernet or the USB/ethernet setup on a laptop I was using last night.
Hello Moz Ky, thanks for commenting. Here’s a great video from Ben Pin. He talks about weight balancing around the 19 minute mark in the video. But, i suggest watching the whole video. Have a great day! ruclips.net/video/0MFXFSZAKbs/видео.html
Thanks for this. I have two WANs / ISPs successfully setup. My cable ISP and my mobile 4G using a netgear 4g modem. The only issue I have is that the failover isn't working. The WAN2 is always on. Always downloading. As if it load balancing maybe? How can I check config to make sure it does not download data when the main ISP is working? Where can I find the fail over settings?
Try using a trace route command to see which WAN interface is being used. Both WANs are up & connected but traffic should only use WAN1, until it isn’t available. On the Mac & Linux is traceroute. On windows use tracert. Have a great night.
I think it has something to do with my vlan2. I just unplugged the tv which is on vlan and my wife is streaming and the download stopped. So the failover is only working for LAN but not the VLAN.
@@QuikTechSolutions Was able to fix it via my Edgeswitch. The vlans in question were what used via the switch. Once I fixed the tags there then traffic stopped. Thanks again! I was a bit worried because the plan is limited to 1.5TB a month.
Is there any way to setup tracking or something similar to IP SLA to track the interface and trigger a failover? My ISPs are connected to modems and I'll always have power and link to the modems so the EdgeRouter may never see the "link" go down but the service itself will be down. Thoughts?
Hi Tony, I just want to ask if edgerouter capable of Loadbalancing with failover setup + separate port traffic like gaming connection routed to wan1 or wan2 specifically?
Hello and thanks for commenting. So the Edgerouter can definitely do load balancing with failover. In fact, I did a video on this. I also did a video on prioritizing certain traffic out the WAN 2 during a failover.
Thanks for the video. I have one question though, how long does it take for the failover to happen? is it instant or is there a timer that can be adjusted for zero downtime?
@@QuikTechSolutions does the router check if the connection is alive via ping or something, I know you disconnected the copper for your test, but that is a specific fail scenario, which is randomly what I encountered this time, but I have run into outages where the copper is fine, but the WAN connect on the device has failed for some reason.
Hi. I see the fail over is working when the wan#1 link goes down but.. what if the problem is at the ISP side and you still have the wan#1 link up? The fail over occur? Sorry I came from the Mikrotik world and in this situation the router is programed to keep pinging and external IP for example 8.8.4.4 and in 10-20s the ping is not working the fail over occurs. This is my first experience with Edgerouter. Great video Thanks!
How fast does failover work, generally? Let's say I'm using Starlink for a video conference and it has one of it's 15 second outages. Will the video glitch if it switches over to my DSL?
Hi thanks for commenting. A ping is sent at a specified interval to determine if the interface is up or down. I think the default interval is 10 seconds, but don’t quote me on this. You may experience a momentary interruption until the switch is made. Hope this helps. Have a great day.
@@QuikTechSolutions Thanks! Hey I have another tech question while I've got you on the line, if you don't mind answering. I'm installing starlink (when it comes) in a building about 75 ft away from my home network. Is there a reliable product I can use to grab the starlink wifi at my house and use it to create a wan for my home router?
In theory, I’m going to suggest you check into a Point to Point solution. I can’t say for sure this would work, since I haven’t tested it, nor will I be. Pinged a few of of my YT tech colleagues, the consensus is if you put the Starlink router in bridge mode, you should be able to come out of it with a PTP solution. Again, this is just in theory. There are many variables, for one, Starlink uses Carrier Grade NAT. If you’re not familiar with CGNAT, just google it. Anyway, have a great day.
Great Video. I tried it but I had a problem, actually looks like the router is just checking for the physical connection and not internet access. My ISP when down, but the port on my router was still connected and it didn't switch to the back up ISP because of that, any idea what could I try ? Thank you.
Carlos, the router will failover when the ISP goes down even if the cable remains plugged into the port. It’s based on a ping test out to an internet host. Check out this help doc for reference: help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/205145990-EdgeRouter-WAN-Load-Balancing
Hi, i have edgerouter x with firmware 2.09. I use wan 1 and wan 2. Wan 2 is starlink. Normal speed in wan 2 is 200mbit of download and 20 of upload. With my ubiquiti router the speed came limited to 60/70 mbit in download, why ? I have enabled/disabled ipsec and hwnat but the problem is always the same. Thanks a lot for the help.
Thanks for the video, very helpful. Noticed a few people in the comments are using this as a backup for Starlink. As am I.. I failover to a cell connection when Starlink goes down, but it doesn't fail back when Starlink becomes available again....is this possible? This is a domestic application, I am not worried about loss of connection for a few secs on fail back. Thanks!
Hi Michael, Thanks for tuning in & commenting. I'm going to refer you to a thread in the community that talks about the Flush Conntrack Table. There's a script that takes care of this each time an interface change is detected. It may be a little confusing, but here it is: t.ly/tkpl Scroll down to the response from smyers119 Good luck!
Hi Tony, is it possible to be notified (text, email or anything else) by the Edge Router when one or the other ISP goes down? If not ,what would you suggest instead? Thanks in advance!
Haven’t come across any way to do this. MYbe someone with scripting ability can write a caution script, but that’s not me. Let me know if you come up with anything like that.
IPv6 is slowly being implemented and not really sure if already implemented by my ISP. Would you have something regarding IPv6 setup on ERX? Btw, this video is very helpful and have this saved for when a different ISP provider becomes available in my neck of the woods.
Thanks Arnold! Glad you found the video somewhat helpful enough to save it. I currently don’t have anything in reference to using IPv6. Check other channels like Willie Howe or Tom Lawrence. have a great day!
Great video as always. Question: what if ISP1 can only give me 100Mbps and I need 200Mbps. So I get a 2nd line? Now I have 100Mbps on ISP1 and 100Mbps on ISP2. Can you configure the EdgeRouter to take adventage of both WANs? Like if more than 100Mbps is being used, to start using the 2nd WAN/ISP all the way up to the full potential IS1 + ISP2 = 200Mbps ?
Great question. If you don’t enable the Failover option, then the EdgeRouter will route traffic across both Internet connections. The more users on a network, the more bandwidth being shared amongst these users, so the router will distribute the traffic accordingly. However, it will only be 100 Mbps in each connection. It doesn’t bond the two to become a total of 200.
@@QuikTechSolutions So do you simply set both WAN1 and WAN2 as regular ... WAN ports? And do NOT do the failover configuration? How would that be setup on a new EdgeRouter? I am going to be using the newer ER‑6P. Thank you !
The Edgerouter X with HWNAT=disable transports a totsl of about 400Mbps switchable packets at 94% CPU. When HWNAT=enable then it switches about 900Mpbs at 3%CPU. These numbers were collected when my ERX was configured for failover with only one WAN port active. I'm not sure what happens in a load balanced environment.
Unfortunately not all outages are going to present themselves as a cable or power outage. If your ISP is off the air or somewhere farther upstream there will still be a carrier detect and traffic may still be pinned to the primary.
True. But i have a situation where we have a remote site in Lesotho (Africa) with primary ISP being Sat and failover being 3G cell network. So this works well when the Sat ISP fails every time a thunderstorm rolls through the valley, but the local cell network, which while being expensive and ultra contested, still gives us the ability to function.
Hello, thx for that very good presentation for the edge router possibilities. It is very clear presentation, I loved it. Maybe you can send me an advice so as the expert you are ? I have a Fibre connection 192.168.1.1 far away from my home (don't have the net at home) and I bring the internet possibilities with two radio links for 3,5 Km with 2 radio ubiquiti 5ghz (192.168.1.5 ---> 1.6) and 2 mikrotik 60 ghz (192.168.1.3 ----> 1.4) . I have a lot to bring for , that was I use two links and it is more security if one stops for example too. At the second point, the arrival of those two radio links, here is my edgerouter poE5 to organize my new lan network as 192.168.72.1 . Witch choice of wan settings you propose to me to choose into the wizard ? If you can send please an advice for... I ve tried as 2 wan Eth0 (192.168.1.200 static) and Eth 1 (192.168.1.201 static too) but it doesn't work properly. My lan at home is block.I can use just one radio link not the boths. Im searching a solution that my home network ,the edge router, can use those 2 radio links as two Wan ways . Hope my english is understanding. Thx for read if it is the case...Patrice from France.Regards
Hello Patrice! You’re English is fine! Based on what you’re saying and if I’m interpreting correctly, I would suggest the Dual Wan with Failover option. I wish you luck! Have a great day and thanks for watching!
Hello Arthur, thanks for commenting. Glad you found the video helpful. If you check out some of my more recent videos, you’ll notice I’ve eliminated the music altogether. It’s all about trial & evolution. Have a great day!
Tony, Great video. Question for you. Why doesn't my edge router 4 (v2.0.9-hotfix2) allow me to select the failover option? I have a traditional cable modem (cox) plugged into eth0 and I have a tmobile wireles router plugged into eth1. LAN is on eth3. When I select and apply the "failover" option the router just hangs and says that it is failing to connect to my device. Really curious why that might be happening. Any insight on that?
Hi and thanks for tuning in. I'm not sure, but I suspect it possibly could have something to do with the cellular router. I have had issues with getting Edgerouters to work with cellular routers as the main WAN ISP. Is there any way you can try configuring the failover port with something other than the Tmobile router?
@@QuikTechSolutions I will give it a shot. However, I think you are correct. I wonder if this will be a problem when we get starlink in our area later this year. Thank you for your time.
nice video sir tony,very informative but im a bit confused/curious of the fail over feature,what if i have a two isp with 5mbps each,what if i did not check the "only this interface if the other one fails" can i achieved a 10mbps simultaneously?
You are mentioning two different configurations. The Edgerouter can be configured in multiple ways for multi WAN. What you're confusing and describing is load balanced dual WAN. This means that both ISP's are active, doubling your bandwidth. If one ISP goes down you've lost half your bandwidth but will still function. But in a failover configuration, you are wanting to use your primary ISP only and not draw data on your failover ISP. Say you have super fast main ISP but need to have a backup via a 3G/4G modem for when your main ISP goes down. This is handy for mission critical situations without racking up a huge cost in data plans etc.
Thats very helpful. I'm from italy and during lock down the main connection doesn't always provide enough bandwidth due to high traffic . Immagine I'm looking netflix and the stream starts to be affected by poor bandwidth by my main connection. Can a secondary connection with load balance ( no fail over of course) help the main one to substain the netflix streaming requirement? Thumbs up for you of course 👍🏼
Hello Tomas, thanks for commenting. Great question! So, load balancing will designate certain traffic over Wan 1 and other traffic over Wan 2. However, it doesn’t split traffic packets over both connections. So, in other words, the Netflix traffic will travel either over WAN 1 or Wan 2, but not both simultaneously. So, basically, load balancing doesn’t combine your bandwidth from the two ISPs, it simply directs traffic. Think of a traffic cop sending traffic down one street and other traffic down a different street. In your case, if the poor bandwidth on the main is due to external circumstances, (neighbors, community use) then most likely a second Wan will not make a difference. However, if the poor bandwidth on the main connection is caused by internal network traffic, a second Wan connection may help in the sense that some of the network traffic could be routed to Wan 2, easing up the load on Wan 1. Hope this makes sense.
Thank you Tony. Wonderful video!! Here's are two questions: Using the same configuration. Say Internet #2 goes out. Will Internet #1 still provide internet? Question #2: Can both internets be used simultaneously (dual wan) and if one goes out (doesn't matter which one) the functional one takes over? (7/19/2021) Latest firmware 06/21 "EdgeRouter X v2.0.9-hotfix.2". Thank you beforehand!
Hi Alex, thanks for tuning in and commenting. Great questions. Response to Q1: If ISP2 is down, ISP1 will still provide Internet. Response to Q2: With failover enabled only ISP1 is active. If you disable failover, the EdgeRouter will load balance the two connections. However, it does not combine or bond the connections. Some people think if each connection is 1 Gig, then the result would be 2 Gig. Nope, doesn’t work that way. It simple routes some traffic over ISP1 at 1Gig speeds, and traffic over ISP2 at 1 Gig speeds. Hope this answers your questions without confusing you. Please subscribe, share, and give the video a like 👍. Have a great day!
Hi, great video. One question is it possible to choose the same port ex eth0 in the wizard for "first internet port" and "second internet port" using static configuration for both having different gateways for each? This is the configuration: Isp Router 1: 192.168.10.1/24 Isp router 2: 192.168.10.2/24 LAN: 192.168.21.0/24 Router IP from LAN: 192.168.21.254 DHCP: 192.168.21.100 to 192.168.21.200 on LAN The isp routers are connected to a switch and only one cable goes on eth0 of the edge router X. Thank you.
Hello Tony, I hope you can help me with my problem. In a small company, we have 2 ISP, and our router is a ubiquiti edgerouter x with firmware v1.10.5, which I have configured to load balance with fail over, everything worked fine, until users complained about 2 things , #1 problems wanting to enter a secure page, example online banking, which is HTTPS, and #2 is problems when checking emails through outlook, they take too long to receive and I do not know if this will have something to do, As they also have the emails configured on their phones, they realize that the emails have arrived, but not in outlook, the phones navigate through the internet of their sim´s. The rest of the navigation like youtube or spotify work well. Our provider 1 is an antenna with symmetric 3 MB, the second one is a 10 MB ADSL download and 1 MB upload ... Thank you very much
johnrejo Hello Jonhrego, Sounds to me more like it could a bandwidth issue. Is the 3Mb provider your primary ISP? If so, you may want to make the 10Mb the primary and the 3Mb the failover.
@@QuikTechSolutions configuring the 10mb primary ...the oulook stop working properly when you tried to send emails...because IMAP... i now the problems get solve with bandwith increase..but we are far from the city abd receive internet trough antena...and this kind of service it's cost us a pretty penny..
@@johnrejo That's where your problem is that you are not using a high enough bandwidth. Easily if you have employees watching HD videos on RUclips you can be running at the maximum bandwidth allocated to your facility. What zipcode are you in to check if there are plans for dark fiber in the area.
most devices have load balancing per TCP Session, so no device can use both links at the same time for the same application. Check devices manuals to clarify this behaviour.
First, WHY i have to use different ip address in the beginning? I have 192.168.1.1 to start and not configuring everything again.. Second, 0 for fiberoptics, 4 for mobile 4G, when i connect port 4 everything stops, even if i take plug away, maybe it comes up, but i have to power off Edgerouter X. It shows few seconds connected in browser but Edgerouter stops working, not responsing at 192.168.1.1. After power off (and taking port 4 cable off) all is good again.
the proper way to test fail over is not polling the plug from the port....instead you have to disconnect internet connectivity with out removing any wire....
Nice instructional use of the ER. Can’t believe how easy the set up is on the router.
Thanks Michael. I appreciate your feedback. Have a great day.
Thank you so much Tony. The best step by step explanation out there. You help me so much.
Thank you Mischa!
Thanks so much Tony. As always clear and concise. I know this is 2 years old but still useful. I'm getting ready to use Starlink as my backup ISP and need to get this setup.
Hi Dennis, Thanks for tuning in and commenting. Please subscribe, share, and give the video a like. I'm glad you found the content helpful. Let me know eventually how you like the Starlink service. Have a great day.
Just bought a Edge Router X to hook up to star link and will use my crap LTE provider as fail over. Thanks for the video.
Hi lawdawg1942, thanks for commenting! I hope Starlink works out for you. Please subscribe, share, & give the video a like. Have a great day!
Tony, thanks for the video, well done and very easy to understand! Keep up the great work!
Thank you for watching Donald. I appreciate your kind words.
Hi Tony, thank you for the video! its pretty good!
Can you post another video for the ubiquiti USG dual wan setup for failover?
That would be a great help!
Great video Tony, I just had to cutover my home network to cellular data when my fiber ONT failed, and I was wondering if my Edgerouter4 could do this kind of operation seamlessly, I have setup Meraki devices with dual wan, and I think maybe a Draytek router as well, but I haven't done it with my Ubi gear at home, great to know this beast of a router can handle it without even blinking.
Thanks for sharing, I know this is an old vid, but your photography and lighting were wonderful as well as the content being on point.
Thank you. I appreciate you watching! Have a great day!
Thanks Tony, very easy to follow your tutorials!
Wally John Thank you Wally for taking the time to comment and share your thoughts. Glad you found the video helpful, and thanks for the scribe. Have a great day!
Is it possible in this example to have 3 specific network devices always use WAN2 while everything else uses WAN1?
I would like to know same thing
Great videos, just one question, say I want to add a 2nd wan to an existing set up, if I use the wizard, it resets my existing settings (ie static ip addresses, port forwarding etc). Is there a way to add a 2nd wan without using the wizard?
Hello Andrew, Take a look at this Ubiquiti help article - help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/205145990-EdgeRouter-WAN-Load-Balancing
I know this is relatively (pre-COVID) old, but your video provides the best instruction on how to setup failover on the EdgeRouter X. I am using what I believe is the newest firmware, v2.0.9, which has a couple of options missing, but I am assuming these are not necessary for the initial operation. The failover seems to work correctly, but I am not confident the ER X always reverts back to the "primary' WAN when it becomes "stable". I know there are a few other options as can be seen in the config tree, but I will have to do more research for the optimum configuration
My setup consists of Comcast as the primary ISP, while the secondary "ISP" is T-Mobile LTE via a MOFI4500-4GXeLTE. Not cutting edge, but it does what I need it to do. There is a slight issue with what I believe is throttling when it switches to T-Mobile. Web browsing can be "painful", but video streaming (RUclips, Netflix, Prime) is good enough.
So with all that in mind, thank you.
Thank you Ron for commenting. I’m glad you found the information in this video helpful and still relevant. Have a great day and thank you for tuning in to the channel. :-)
Would it be a fast enough switch if you were gaming and 1 ISP had a hiccup? We got spectrum and it sucks so bad, but its the only ISP that gives us more than 8MB. I was thinking about adding DSL as well for faster pings believe it or not. Spectrum is that bad around here.
Hi! Thanks for commenting. Honestly, not being a gamer myself, I wouldn’t feel comfortable speaking to this inquiry directly. I suggest you go to ubnt.com, then download the pdf spec and check them out for yourself. I’ve seen other videos on RUclips where gamers swear by these routers. However, like I said, it wouldn’t be fair to speak to something I haven’t experienced or tested. Have a great day!
Hi, nice video.
Does wan2 start working only if wan1 is physically down (unplugged cable, disabled upstream port, etc) or it works also when let’s say the router is connected but the internet is unreachable?
Thanks. WAN2 kicks in when the router senses a loss of Internet connectivity on WAN1.
When ping is not successful then link is considered down
@@QuikTechSolutions This leads to two questions. First, what is the default mechanism the router uses to detect "loss of Internet connectivity?" And second, can I configure it to use a particular ping responder on the internet. The reason I ask is that ISP1 provider can fail upstream and still have an active link with some traffic even when you cannot reach through them to the rest of the internet. A ping responder will detect that fact (especially if at the same location as the target server you are trying to communicate with. Think SIP trunk provider).
@@Yooper_eh It will failover if the physical cable is unplugged from the router. However, it will also failover if the ISP goes down and there is a loss of Internet access based on a ping. You can configure the ping host and the interval. Here's a link to a help doc. The commands are located under the Optional Load-Balancing section. tinyurl.com/y6s3gp55
@@QuikTechSolutions That looks like just the thing I needed to know. Thanks much!
hii thanks for the video. can u make one of two edgerouters with redundant link failover, like each router have their own internet but if one fail the other take the internet and vicerversa.
Hi Tony, thank you for the video! it is pretty good!
All help from you WELCOME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for tuning in & commenting. Glad you found the video helpful. Please subscribe, share, and give the video I like 👍. Have a great day!
thanks for the video, currently my ERL router is already configure eth0=current ISP, eth1=Lan, it has policies and rules, and couple vLans, if I use the wizard Load Balancing Config, would that erase all my policies, rules and vLans? I'm trying to get a second ISP as backup reason why I'm thinking on load balancing using the eth3, but I would not want to erase all the current setting and having to reconfigure again. thanks in advance for your advise.
Hello Mario. Yes, using the Load Balancing Wizard will erase your existing configuration. What you want is doable via the command line interface, but quite extensive. I recommend you reach out to Willie Howe Technology for this type of configuration. williehowe.com/contact/
Is there any IP SLA config? Or what about packet loss, when the ISP 1 WAN is up but having packet loss? Is possible to setup auto failover?
Check out this UI community thread.
community.ui.com/questions/IP-SLA-feature-for-Edgerouter-4/fe8ec8d3-e6c6-4956-9223-d513f6e1c449
Thanks for the video.
Do you know if it's possible to enable failover only for WAN 2 without changing to factory default settings?
We have our Edge Router already configured and we want to enable failover only.
Thanks.
Hi Daniel, thanks for watching. Yes, it is possible, but it takes a little configuring using the Command Line. Here is a video I made on how to do it.
Edgerouter - How To Add 2nd WAN Port Without Using the Wizard
ruclips.net/video/5LTbCMWhadU/видео.html
If you have Vlans setup on the Edgerouter, there are a few extra lines of configuration needed that are not included in this video.
@@QuikTechSolutions Thanks for the reply. We do have Vlans.
Wow much easier than I imagined. Thank you so much!
Thank you for commenting. Glad you found the video helpful. Please subscribe, share, & give the video a like. Have a great day!
Hi there,
I made the setup wizard as video and had both isp connected and I didn't check mark for the fail over option and give it a try I still I get one isp only on speed test check how I do merge both isp speed!!? Plz help
Hello Mohammed, thanks for commenting. It’s not designed for what you’re trying to achieve. The traffic will be load balanced across the two providers. That being said, no single client will exceed the maximum bandwidth for a single connection.
I’m looking to get more bandwidth by combining my 2 WANs. 1 is Verizon the other is Comcast. Both are around 55 down and 7 up. If I load balance with 2 wans does it split the packets between the 2 connections or does it split the devices connected? In my mind I’ll get around 100 down and 10 up by setting something up like this.
Hi Christopher, you won’t double your speed as it doesn’t aggregate the two connections. It just gives you more lanes to travel on. For example - if you have a 2 lane highway with a speed limit of 50 MPH, then add a second two lane highway with a speed limit of 50 MPH. You don’t get to go 100 MPH. You still go 50 MPH, but have four lanes that can go 50 MPH instead of two. Hope this makes sense. Have a great day.
@@QuikTechSolutions yeah that’s what I figured.
Thank you for your video. However my situation is a little different.
I've configured my edge router on eth0 as DHCP and with several vlans on different ports. My client puchased a failover PPPoE and it seems the only way to configure it with the wizard is by blowing the whole thing up.
How can I set this up leaving my DHCP, firewall rules VLAN alone.
Hi Patrick, thanks for watching. You would have to have an in-depth understanding the the EdgeOS command line to make the changes manually. Trust me, it’s actually easier to start over.
The failover option doesn't appear to work for me. It just keeps both connections active, and if I do a speed test both connections max out. Does it matter if the eth(X) ports I use are different during the wizard? I used eth9 for the poe option for the main, and eth8 for the failover.
Hi Tony, I have an EdgeRouter-12 and wanna set up fail over only (no load-balancing). But I don't want to run the wizard since it will wipe out all my configuration. Is there a way to do it? Thanks a lot!
Hi Apache Cai, thanks for commenting. Here’s some documentation from Ubiquiti that walks through the manual configuration. Have a great day.
Is it possible to have options to load-balancing but of them do not failover to other Eth if it's down? Thanks.
Yes, just don’t select the failover option during the setup wizard.
Thanks for the video. I made dual wan setup on my er-x following the video. How can I enable wan management in a dual wan senario?
Thanks for watching! Glad you found the video helpful. Are you looking for remote access to the router when you’re away from the net work?
@@QuikTechSolutions yes.
If that’s the case, I’m going to strongly suggest you access your router through a VPN. Don’t setup remote access using port forwarding. Security-wise it’s much more secure.
@@QuikTechSolutions see. I set up a wireguard vpn on my other er-x with one isp. Is the process of setting it up on the dual wan router the same?
That’s a great question. To be totally honest, I’m not sure. I’ve never tried to make that happen. I suggest you reach out to Ubiquiti support or try the Ubiquiti community. Someone there might have already done this and could possibly help.
Does using the wizard wipe out the previous settings? or will it just add on the failover?
Hello, thx for watching. The wizard will wipe out the existing settings. Have a great day.
Hi Tony, what I would like to know is how to add failover on EdgeRouterX in my EXISTING normal configuration, otherwise with this, I have to destroy all my setup with VLANS, Firewall rules, etc. to start the setup again with Load Balance/FailOver included, and have to configure all over again my current setup. As you can imagine I want to avoid this.
Hello Pedro, sorry for the delayed reply. I get tons of comments and inquiries daily and try tondo my best to keep up. In any event, this can be done through the command line. I’m not really a command line guy as my Linux CLI skills are limited, so can’t really guide you. However, in speaking to my colleagues who are Linux CLI gurus, it can be done for sure. Have a great day!
@@QuikTechSolutions Hi Tony, thanks for the reply. I will be changing to Mikrotik, maby you can start to make some videos about it.
Hi Tony. Will port forwarding and Vlan setup etc have to be configure for both primary the secondary Wan. Or just primary?
Great vid! The failover works but how would you configure failback. Case is WAN2 failover is LTE and WAN1 is Fibre. When WAN1 comes back online you'd want to failback to it automatically.
Hi Carl! Thanks for commenting I’m glad you like the video. The fail back as you say should happen automatically when WAN1 comes back up online.
Tony, I need help selecting a dual wan WiFi router for my boat. I want to be able select between WiFi and mifi as a source of internet for my boat network. Currently I have a groove 52HPn mounted on the mast to receive marina WiFi, works great. Now I want to add a netgear nighthawk M1 MR1100 hotspot. I need a WiFi router that will allow me to select between the two internet sources. What do you recommend?
Hi Tony! How to setup first WAN as master and second as backup only? If there is Loadbalancing still on, some of the sites doesn't work properly.
Hi Michal! Thanks for tuning in and commenting. To set up the second WAN as failover only is a very simple process. It’s just a matter of a checkbox during the setup wizard. Please subscribe, share, and give the video a like 👍. Have a great day!
@@QuikTechSolutions I currently have some routers already set up. Can this be changed without reconfiguring?
@@QuikTechSolutions can U help?
@@michamaykel7108 Hi Michal, I'm not comfortable messing with your existing configuration via the cli. I know when to pass things along to others that are a better fit. You should reach out to Willie Howe for this. I've read a ton of community forums where folks have tried to do this exact thing and have had nothing but issues. Ending up wiping out their routers and running the wizard after all. Have a great day.
@@QuikTechSolutions Hi! I did it. it is very simple. You have to change an option in "Config Tree => load-balance => group => G => interface => eth1 => failover-only" and it works now as failover.
Anyway to connect both WAN connections but give priority to one over the other. I have a 75/75 connection and a 50/15 connection... I have load balancing set at 60/40 but I when trying to watch 4K videos my devices are laggy even with this setup
I have an EdgeRouter X which is already up and running with one ISP on eth0, LAN on eth2, is it possible to ad manualy (without wizard) a secound ISP on eth1 and activate "Failover"? Thank you so much.
Hello, yes this can be done but honestly it is easier to make a backup of your current config, then use the wizard to start over. I understand not wanting to recreate the wheel, but to add a second WAN manually without the wizard takes some understanding of the command line. If you are comfortable with the CLI, you can refer to this help doc - help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/205145990-EdgeRouter-WAN-Load-Balancing.
Quick question on ER-X, I want all ports to route to WAN1 when available, but only certain ports to reroute to WAN2, if WAN1 goes down. Is this possible? If doing a failover to 4G, I need to limit traffic to only critical devices.
Hey David, for something like this to work give consideration to how you design your network. If you group users into vlans, then using WAN_OUT firewall rules, you control traffic when WAN1 goes down.
Quik Tech Solutions L.L.C Good deal, thx!
You’re welcome. Decided to do a vid on this. Being released this Saturday.
Nice! I’ll watch for it!
I realize this is 4 years later. But how would this work if main modem has a static IP and the second router uses Dynamic? I have scripts and routers defined in the edge router to use the static IP for connection from another site for a POS. Am I going to lose POS connectivity during a failover since the modem with the static IP has failed??
Based on your configuration, yes that seems to be the case.
Thanks a lot Tony..... can we have triple WAN connection..
Thanks for commenting Ajit. Yes, you can. The option to add an additional Internet WAN port can be done in the setup wizard. Have a great day.
Thanks Tony, using this to set up Starlink with a failover with my wisp. Could you please do a video on setting up a wireless router to the edge router after setting it up for failover? I plan to set my wireless router in bridge mode as it is a mesh system (velop). I can’t find any info on how to do this. I’m pretty sure I can do it but would love a generic set of instructions.
I don't have any wireless routers on hand to do something like you're asking. Even if I did, the process would vary by vendor. Try to get in the Linksys community forums and pose the question there. Good luck!
I just did this, sort of.
I got what are referred to as a travel router, tethered my mobile to it via USB, and connected the travel router to it with the admin console on the travel router, I then connected one of the travel router lan ethernet ports to my ER on the wan port, this worked, and my home network had WAN (double NAT style) You could do this with a cellular gateway also, but it would be vender specific as to how you would set it up, and how it would activate, but it is definitely something you can configure.
I thought about getting a 4/5G routing device and a new sim for it, but my WAN is rock solid, so a "tether to mobilephone" solution is adequate for our house from the cost and pain to configure perspective.
The double router took about 5 min to setup when I got the router from amazon and was solid and fast, much more than the bridged wifi/ethernet or the USB/ethernet setup on a laptop I was using last night.
How do i set up the router to use more bandwidth from one link than the other?
Hello Moz Ky, thanks for commenting. Here’s a great video from Ben Pin. He talks about weight balancing around the 19 minute mark in the video. But, i suggest watching the whole video. Have a great day!
ruclips.net/video/0MFXFSZAKbs/видео.html
Thanks for this. I have two WANs / ISPs successfully setup. My cable ISP and my mobile 4G using a netgear 4g modem. The only issue I have is that the failover isn't working. The WAN2 is always on. Always downloading. As if it load balancing maybe? How can I check config to make sure it does not download data when the main ISP is working? Where can I find the fail over settings?
Try using a trace route command to see which WAN interface is being used. Both WANs are up & connected but traffic should only use WAN1, until it isn’t available. On the Mac & Linux is traceroute. On windows use tracert.
Have a great night.
I think it has something to do with my vlan2. I just unplugged the tv which is on vlan and my wife is streaming and the download stopped. So the failover is only working for LAN but not the VLAN.
@@QuikTechSolutions Yes I did that it using the ISP / LAN everywhere except the VLAN
@@QuikTechSolutions Was able to fix it via my Edgeswitch. The vlans in question were what used via the switch. Once I fixed the tags there then traffic stopped. Thanks again! I was a bit worried because the plan is limited to 1.5TB a month.
Great piece of troubleshooting. Glad you figured it out.
Is there any way to setup tracking or something similar to IP SLA to track the interface and trigger a failover? My ISPs are connected to modems and I'll always have power and link to the modems so the EdgeRouter may never see the "link" go down but the service itself will be down. Thoughts?
Hi Tony, I just want to ask if edgerouter capable of Loadbalancing with failover setup + separate port traffic like gaming connection routed to wan1 or wan2 specifically?
Hello and thanks for commenting. So the Edgerouter can definitely do load balancing with failover. In fact, I did a video on this. I also did a video on prioritizing certain traffic out the WAN 2 during a failover.
Thanks for the video. I have one question though, how long does it take for the failover to happen? is it instant or is there a timer that can be adjusted for zero downtime?
Hello and thanks for watching. It’s pretty quick, like maybe 4-5 failed pings before the backup kicks in.
@@QuikTechSolutions does the router check if the connection is alive via ping or something, I know you disconnected the copper for your test, but that is a specific fail scenario, which is randomly what I encountered this time, but I have run into outages where the copper is fine, but the WAN connect on the device has failed for some reason.
Hi. I see the fail over is working when the wan#1 link goes down but.. what if the problem is at the ISP side and you still have the wan#1 link up? The fail over occur? Sorry I came from the Mikrotik world and in this situation the router is programed to keep pinging and external IP for example 8.8.4.4 and in 10-20s the ping is not working the fail over occurs. This is my first experience with Edgerouter. Great video Thanks!
If the ISP goes down, the WAN should go down not stay up.
How fast does failover work, generally? Let's say I'm using Starlink for a video conference and it has one of it's 15 second outages. Will the video glitch if it switches over to my DSL?
Hi thanks for commenting. A ping is sent at a specified interval to determine if the interface is up or down. I think the default interval is 10 seconds, but don’t quote me on this. You may experience a momentary interruption until the switch is made. Hope this helps. Have a great day.
@@QuikTechSolutions Thanks! Hey I have another tech question while I've got you on the line, if you don't mind answering.
I'm installing starlink (when it comes) in a building about 75 ft away from my home network. Is there a reliable product I can use to grab the starlink wifi at my house and use it to create a wan for my home router?
In theory, I’m going to suggest you check into a Point to Point solution. I can’t say for sure this would work, since I haven’t tested it, nor will I be. Pinged a few of of my YT tech colleagues, the consensus is if you put the Starlink router in bridge mode, you should be able to come out of it with a PTP solution. Again, this is just in theory. There are many variables, for one, Starlink uses Carrier Grade NAT. If you’re not familiar with CGNAT, just google it. Anyway, have a great day.
@@QuikTechSolutions Thank you so much!
Excellent video!!!
Hi Ryan, thank you and thanks for commenting. Glad you found the info useful. Have a great day.
Great Video. I tried it but I had a problem, actually looks like the router is just checking for the physical connection and not internet access. My ISP when down, but the port on my router was still connected and it didn't switch to the back up ISP because of that, any idea what could I try ? Thank you.
Carlos, the router will failover when the ISP goes down even if the cable remains plugged into the port. It’s based on a ping test out to an internet host. Check out this help doc for reference:
help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/205145990-EdgeRouter-WAN-Load-Balancing
Hi there, thankyou for your useful and interesting video.
Do you know how to setup Fallback to default WAN after Failover ?
Should switch back automatically once the link becomes active again.
Hi, i have edgerouter x with firmware 2.09. I use wan 1 and wan 2. Wan 2 is starlink. Normal speed in wan 2 is 200mbit of download and 20 of upload. With my ubiquiti router the speed came limited to 60/70 mbit in download, why ?
I have enabled/disabled ipsec and hwnat but the problem is always the same.
Thanks a lot for the help.
Great work!
Thank you.
Thanks for the video, very helpful. Noticed a few people in the comments are using this as a backup for Starlink. As am I.. I failover to a cell connection when Starlink goes down, but it doesn't fail back when Starlink becomes available again....is this possible? This is a domestic application, I am not worried about loss of connection for a few secs on fail back. Thanks!
Hi Michael, Thanks for tuning in & commenting. I'm going to refer you to a thread in the community that talks about the Flush Conntrack Table. There's a script that takes care of this each time an interface change is detected. It may be a little confusing, but here it is:
t.ly/tkpl
Scroll down to the response from smyers119
Good luck!
Hi Tony, is it possible to be notified (text, email or anything else) by the Edge Router when one or the other ISP goes down? If not ,what would you suggest instead? Thanks in advance!
Haven’t come across any way to do this. MYbe someone with scripting ability can write a caution script, but that’s not me. Let me know if you come up with anything like that.
I know Meraki devices can do this, but they are not inexpensive.
What if I wanted true load balancing? I have 2 30/5 connections I switch back and forth to depending on the time of day.
You can do that. Will need to script it to change them on a schedule.
Will this work with the EdgeRouter Lite?
Yes. Just not sure what ports will be offered as WAN ports in the wizard.
IPv6 is slowly being implemented and not really sure if already implemented by my ISP.
Would you have something regarding IPv6 setup on ERX?
Btw, this video is very helpful and have this saved for when a different ISP provider becomes available in my neck of the woods.
Thanks Arnold! Glad you found the video somewhat helpful enough to save it. I currently don’t have anything in reference to using IPv6. Check other channels like Willie Howe or Tom Lawrence. have a great day!
Thanks Tony
You’re welcome. Thanks for watching.
Great video as always. Question: what if ISP1 can only give me 100Mbps and I need 200Mbps. So I get a 2nd line? Now I have 100Mbps on ISP1 and 100Mbps on ISP2. Can you configure the EdgeRouter to take adventage of both WANs? Like if more than 100Mbps is being used, to start using the 2nd WAN/ISP all the way up to the full potential IS1 + ISP2 = 200Mbps ?
Great question. If you don’t enable the Failover option, then the EdgeRouter will route traffic across both Internet connections. The more users on a network, the more bandwidth being shared amongst these users, so the router will distribute the traffic accordingly. However, it will only be 100 Mbps in each connection. It doesn’t bond the two to become a total of 200.
@@QuikTechSolutions So do you simply set both WAN1 and WAN2 as regular ... WAN ports? And do NOT do the failover configuration? How would that be setup on a new EdgeRouter? I am going to be using the newer ER‑6P. Thank you !
That’s the idea! On the a new Edgerouter, simply run the load balancing wizard and don’t enable failover.
@@QuikTechSolutions Thank you very much! I will give that a try.
The Edgerouter X with HWNAT=disable transports a totsl of about 400Mbps switchable packets at 94% CPU. When HWNAT=enable then it switches about 900Mpbs at 3%CPU. These numbers were collected when my ERX was configured for failover with only one WAN port active. I'm not sure what happens in a load balanced environment.
I would look at a burlier Edgerouter if you want the router to be working hard, the X is pretty underpowered. I bought the 4 for exactly this reason.
Unfortunately not all outages are going to present themselves as a cable or power outage. If your ISP is off the air or somewhere farther upstream there will still be a carrier detect and traffic may still be pinned to the primary.
True. But i have a situation where we have a remote site in Lesotho (Africa) with primary ISP being Sat and failover being 3G cell network. So this works well when the Sat ISP fails every time a thunderstorm rolls through the valley, but the local cell network, which while being expensive and ultra contested, still gives us the ability to function.
By default ping to put ng.ubntn.com is used as a probe for route health. So if your provider has issues, u still be routed to second link.
Hello, thx for that very good presentation for the edge router possibilities. It is very clear presentation, I loved it. Maybe you can send me an advice so as the expert you are ? I have a Fibre connection 192.168.1.1 far away from my home (don't have the net at home) and I bring the internet possibilities with two radio links for 3,5 Km with 2 radio ubiquiti 5ghz (192.168.1.5 ---> 1.6) and 2 mikrotik 60 ghz (192.168.1.3 ----> 1.4) . I have a lot to bring for , that was I use two links and it is more security if one stops for example too. At the second point, the arrival of those two radio links, here is my edgerouter poE5 to organize my new lan network as 192.168.72.1 . Witch choice of wan settings you propose to me to choose into the wizard ? If you can send please an advice for... I ve tried as 2 wan Eth0 (192.168.1.200 static) and Eth 1 (192.168.1.201 static too) but it doesn't work properly. My lan at home is block.I can use just one radio link not the boths. Im searching a solution that my home network ,the edge router, can use those 2 radio links as two Wan ways . Hope my english is understanding. Thx for read if it is the case...Patrice from France.Regards
Hello Patrice! You’re English is fine! Based on what you’re saying and if I’m interpreting correctly, I would suggest the Dual Wan with Failover option. I wish you luck! Have a great day and thanks for watching!
@@QuikTechSolutions Thank You taking time to answer me :-) !!!
Excelenr info, saves me time figuring it out, just could lose the noise (music), very distracting
Hello Arthur, thanks for commenting. Glad you found the video helpful. If you check out some of my more recent videos, you’ll notice I’ve eliminated the music altogether. It’s all about trial & evolution. Have a great day!
Tony, Great video. Question for you. Why doesn't my edge router 4 (v2.0.9-hotfix2) allow me to select the failover option? I have a traditional cable modem (cox) plugged into eth0 and I have a tmobile wireles router plugged into eth1. LAN is on eth3. When I select and apply the "failover" option the router just hangs and says that it is failing to connect to my device. Really curious why that might be happening. Any insight on that?
Hi and thanks for tuning in. I'm not sure, but I suspect it possibly could have something to do with the cellular router. I have had issues with getting Edgerouters to work with cellular routers as the main WAN ISP. Is there any way you can try configuring the failover port with something other than the Tmobile router?
@@QuikTechSolutions I will give it a shot. However, I think you are correct. I wonder if this will be a problem when we get starlink in our area later this year. Thank you for your time.
I think you’ll be fine with Starlink. Several folks have set it up as failover successfully on Edgerouters.
Once eth0 is again up will internet rollback to eth0 or stays on eth1.
Roll back
what if isp1 just fails i mean a random situation when isp1 for example runs of out internet. will it switch to isp2 automatically ?
Hi Kamil, if you lose Internet on ISP 1, ISP 2 will take over.
nice video sir tony,very informative
but im a bit confused/curious of the fail over feature,what if i have a two isp with 5mbps each,what if i did not check the "only this interface if the other one fails" can i achieved a 10mbps simultaneously?
You are mentioning two different configurations. The Edgerouter can be configured in multiple ways for multi WAN.
What you're confusing and describing is load balanced dual WAN. This means that both ISP's are active, doubling your bandwidth. If one ISP goes down you've lost half your bandwidth but will still function.
But in a failover configuration, you are wanting to use your primary ISP only and not draw data on your failover ISP. Say you have super fast main ISP but need to have a backup via a 3G/4G modem for when your main ISP goes down. This is handy for mission critical situations without racking up a huge cost in data plans etc.
Thats very helpful. I'm from italy and during lock down the main connection doesn't always provide enough bandwidth due to high traffic . Immagine I'm looking netflix and the stream starts to be affected by poor bandwidth by my main connection. Can a secondary connection with load balance ( no fail over of course) help the main one to substain the netflix streaming requirement? Thumbs up for you of course 👍🏼
Hello Tomas, thanks for commenting. Great question! So, load balancing will designate certain traffic over Wan 1 and other traffic over Wan 2. However, it doesn’t split traffic packets over both connections. So, in other words, the Netflix traffic will travel either over WAN 1 or Wan 2, but not both simultaneously. So, basically, load balancing doesn’t combine your bandwidth from the two ISPs, it simply directs traffic. Think of a traffic cop sending traffic down one street and other traffic down a different street. In your case, if the poor bandwidth on the main is due to external circumstances, (neighbors, community use) then most likely a second Wan will not make a difference. However, if the poor bandwidth on the main connection is caused by internal network traffic, a second Wan connection may help in the sense that some of the network traffic could be routed to Wan 2, easing up the load on Wan 1. Hope this makes sense.
That is exactly the answer I was looking for. Thanks a lot great job here
I have failover checkbox selected for link eth1, but traffic still hits eth1...
Any idea?
Thank you Tony. Wonderful video!! Here's are two questions: Using the same configuration. Say Internet #2 goes out. Will Internet #1 still provide internet? Question #2: Can both internets be used simultaneously (dual wan) and if one goes out (doesn't matter which one) the functional one takes over? (7/19/2021) Latest firmware 06/21 "EdgeRouter X v2.0.9-hotfix.2". Thank you beforehand!
Hi Alex, thanks for tuning in and commenting. Great questions. Response to Q1: If ISP2 is down, ISP1 will still provide Internet. Response to Q2: With failover enabled only ISP1 is active. If you disable failover, the EdgeRouter will load balance the two connections. However, it does not combine or bond the connections. Some people think if each connection is 1 Gig, then the result would be 2 Gig. Nope, doesn’t work that way. It simple routes some traffic over ISP1 at 1Gig speeds, and traffic over ISP2 at 1 Gig speeds. Hope this answers your questions without confusing you. Please subscribe, share, and give the video a like 👍. Have a great day!
What if one of the 2 Internet ports are on a VLAN..?
Load Balancing doesn't show you the feature which 2WAN-2LAN does..
Thanks for the video.
You’re welcome Kyle! Glad you found the information helpful.
Hi, great video.
One question is it possible to choose the same port ex eth0 in the wizard for "first internet port" and "second internet port" using static configuration for both having different gateways for each? This is the configuration:
Isp Router 1: 192.168.10.1/24
Isp router 2: 192.168.10.2/24
LAN: 192.168.21.0/24
Router IP from LAN: 192.168.21.254
DHCP: 192.168.21.100 to 192.168.21.200 on LAN
The isp routers are connected to a switch and only one cable goes on eth0 of the edge router X.
Thank you.
I’m not sure what your asking is achievable.
when p1 connects again will the router continue on p2 until p2 fails?
This is the case with the older firmware. I believe with V2 or later it does revert back to p1. But honestly, haven’t tested this to confirm.
Good explanation, but Please lower the background music volume. To distracting
Thanks and thanks for the suggestion.
Thanks!
Thanks for watching
Gracias. Muy util Tony. :-)
Hello Tony, I hope you can help me with my problem.
In a small company, we have 2 ISP, and our router is a ubiquiti edgerouter x with firmware v1.10.5, which I have configured to load balance with fail over, everything worked fine, until users complained about 2 things , #1 problems wanting to enter a secure page, example online banking, which is HTTPS, and #2 is problems when checking emails through outlook, they take too long to receive and I do not know if this will have something to do, As they also have the emails configured on their phones, they realize that the emails have arrived, but not in outlook, the phones navigate through the internet of their sim´s.
The rest of the navigation like youtube or spotify work well.
Our provider 1 is an antenna with symmetric 3 MB, the second one is a 10 MB ADSL download and 1 MB upload ...
Thank you very much
johnrejo Hello Jonhrego, Sounds to me more like it could a bandwidth issue. Is the 3Mb provider your primary ISP? If so, you may want to make the 10Mb the primary and the 3Mb the failover.
@@QuikTechSolutions configuring the 10mb primary ...the oulook stop working properly when you tried to send emails...because IMAP... i now the problems get solve with bandwith increase..but we are far from the city abd receive internet trough antena...and this kind of service it's cost us a pretty penny..
@@johnrejo That's where your problem is that you are not using a high enough bandwidth. Easily if you have employees watching HD videos on RUclips you can be running at the maximum bandwidth allocated to your facility. What zipcode are you in to check if there are plans for dark fiber in the area.
Does it support DoH?
I have a problem with the configuration so that some hosts using only one WAN
most devices have load balancing per TCP Session, so no device can use both links at the same time for the same application. Check devices manuals to clarify this behaviour.
First, WHY i have to use different ip address in the beginning? I have 192.168.1.1 to start and not configuring everything again.. Second, 0 for fiberoptics, 4 for mobile 4G, when i connect port 4 everything stops, even if i take plug away, maybe it comes up, but i have to power off Edgerouter X. It shows few seconds connected in browser but Edgerouter stops working, not responsing at 192.168.1.1. After power off (and taking port 4 cable off) all is good again.
Hi Pasi, it’s just a suggested best practice not to use 192.168.1.1 because everyone uses it. Are you using the latest firmware?
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the proper way to test fail over is not polling the plug from the port....instead you have to disconnect internet connectivity with out removing any wire....
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Its a long road tony
Has a big ass microphone next to him and I can still barely hear him lol
SEVERE WARNING: Running the wizard COMPLETELY wipes out any previous config. I have lost my static DHCP map instantly!
Yes, that is correct. Always download a backup prior to changing any config.