I want to set up WAN Aggregation to effectively bond two WAN connections and double the throughput, similar to how the TP-Link TL-ER5120 would do so.
One of the WAN connections is an Inseego Wavemaker Pro fw2000, which uses 5 GbE ethernet. This has routing functionality, but I don’t want to use it. IP Passthrough is available on this, and I assume that I would need to enable it.
The other WAN is from a NetComm NDD-0300 FTTC modem which would normally plug up to the WAN connection on a basic router. I believe this is locked with IP Passthrough on as it is only a modem and cannot perform routing tasks.
I wondered if it was possible to use the Netgear Multi-Gigabit Ethernet Smart Switch (MS510TX)
I have limited networking knowledge so I’m unsure if this switch is suitable.
You can load balance outgoing connections, or you can create a pair of tunnels to your some well connected machine you control that can server as a jumping off point to get to internet for you, and then loadbalance packets across those two…
Which one are you after (if former e.g. mwan3 on OpenWRT, if latter then something like https://www.openmptcprouter.com could maybe help).
How much throughput do you need to router?
How many users are there?
Hello! This is awesome that you are trying to do this, very exciting!! If I understand correctly you want to take two wans and give them to your network and let the router figure it all out. With that said, what you will need simply put is either a dual wan capable router (ie business grade - unifi TPLink Cisco etc…) or a DIY home router (like PFSENSE for example). With the busines grade router, look at ebay for the second hand enterprise market and use it to hone some network skills for that brand (each does it different - different places in software to configure per vendor). With the DIY route, I personally am only familiar with PFSense, so can’t speak to many of the other projects. For PFSense you just need any PC and said PC to have 3 NICs. Then with PFSense specifically its some buttons in the web portal to configure (or CLI if you wanted). I hope this helps get you going on this journey some! Lots of great guides out there on this kind of thing, very common on the enterprise side. Best of luck!