[SOLVED] Dual network provider Single Wireless router

[drewex]

Hello all, I live in a rural area where no wired connection available, so I have 2 seperate network providers I pay for to get data connections I need over LTE.
One with unlimited data with limited to 10mbps connection.
And one with monthly 200gb data cap 100mbps.

I currently have a tp link AX1500 Wi-Fi 6 Router connected to the unlimited one so i can access internet wider area in the house and the 200gb has its own wifi router.

I am guessing this doesn't exist but is there a wifi 6 router that can use both data providers limit the total usage on thae 200gb and push the non high speed required tasks to (maybe based of device preference) other unlimited service provider.

 

[SteveRX4]

Just choose which wifi to use and swap back and forth as you want.
If it comes out at 10mbps then you can't speed it up.

 

[drewex]

Just choose which wifi to use and swap back and forth as you want.
If it comes out at 10mbps then you can't speed it up.

yeah I can do this myself but not everyone in the family know which wifi to use. They might just drain out the 200gb without even knowing. I don't want to not allow them to use it either. I want to give them a set limit if possible or overall limit and have my devices outside the rule.
I know i am asking a lot i doubt there is anything that can do this.

 

[SteveRX4]

Can you plug the 200gb into your PC with ethernet cable then?

 

[drewex]

Can you plug the 200gb into your PC with ethernet cable then?

Thanks for trying to help. Like I said I know my request is a long shot. It would be beneficial for everyone if I had single point of control for all connections single router. Save them the hastle picking right network. And still have high speed internet for the quota they get individually. Including my devices too. Not just a laptop

 

[SteveRX4]

You can change the passwords on the wifi.

 

[bill001g]

What does "non high speed required tasks" actually mean. Its not like you can type that into a router and even here on the forum it means very little.

There are a number of dual wan routers problem is all work poorly for this type of application. What they really work well for is if the main internet would fail they move to the backup.

They also work ok if you send the traffic based on the device./source-ip. You could say devices a,,b,c use ISP 1 and the rest use ISP 2. You might as well just plug them into 2 different routers.

The largest issue is that the 2 connections have 2 different IP addresses. The example I give that most people on this forum understand is say I log into a games authenication server using ISP1. I then attempt to connect to the game world server using ISP2. Because the IP are different the game company will think I am hacking and drop the session.

How could a router possibly know about all the possible game companies that have this issue not to mention all the web sites that use different servers for their credit card processing.

You can if you have a very limited number of sites use the secondary connection and the rest use the main. The problem is you have to keep the router updated with any changes so too many sites make it impossible.

Your added requirement to have a quota system makes this even harder. Almost all consumer routers do not have any place to store data. What would happen if you lost power in the middle of a month. There is 1 third party firmware called gargoyle that could do this but I have not kept up with how current they have kept it.

What you are asking for has extremely low demand in the home user market so there are very few consumer devices that can even partially do this. There are lots of boxes sold to business but are extremely expensive because they do must more than you want...ie load balancers.

If you want to do this you are best off using a small PC. You still have the very messy problem of how do you keep the different iternet IP stuff straight. For wifi you could just use any consumer router running as AP.

Be careful about chasing wifi6. Wifi6e is already on the way and it will make wifi6 devices somewhat obsolete.