dual wan router

[maikugalan21]

I have two Internet connection and would like to use the other one as browsing/downloading and the other as games only what router should I buy?

 

[failboat]

what's the speeds type of connections?

there aren't great solutions for what you want.

gaming qos on a very for specific routers works very well. edgerouter X being one (max 100Mbs).
if you have a very stable connection it works very well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-g2P3R84dw

 

[bill001g]

This gets very tricky....how does a router know what a "game" is. A router is a device that make path selection based on IP addresses. It does not even really know about DNS names so it is not going to have a magic way to identify some game traffic....especially when there are many many games on the market.

What you will end up doing is having to tell the router what IP addresses you want it handle special. This means you will likely have to do lots of research on what IP addresses are used by the game company. This can be very complex because many game companies have servers all over the world and their software will select the closest but it will use other as backups if there is a problem.

Realistically how often do you actually download and surf on a machine while you play a game. You really want all the resources of the computer for the game. Maybe the simple solution is to move a ethernet cable between the 2 internet connections or hook different machine to different internet connections.

 

[maikugalan21]

my speed is 150mbps and the other one is 10 mbps ive heard of mikrotik for load balancing of traffic even for dual wan any other options?

 

[failboat]

You have issues with gaming on 150Mbs? Many routers can run limiters. you can setup a 10Mbs port and a 140.

I don't think load balancing will work well with connections that different in size. You can put another nic in your pc and disable one while using the other while playing games.

 

[maikugalan21]

150 mhz speed always disconnect at my location cuz its wireless

 

[bill001g]

It will work but you still have the problem of how does the router know which traffic will be greatly affected by the disconnections on the 150mbs connection.

It is not that it can't be done but it will be a lot of effort to get it to work correctly. The router manufactures think they can use the magic word "load balance" and it solves all problems until you get into the fine print.