Multi-thread downloading with dual WAN connection -

[Grepawking]

If I setup a dual WAN connection (pfSense router - load balancing) will I be able to use the aggregate bandwidth to download HTTP/port 80 for larger files? I know my download manager splits large files into segments and download the files in parts. So if it is a 1GB file, it currently splits it into 4 250MB files and downloads them simultaneously - but this is on a single WAN connection.

So will the dual wan setup use both connections to download?

 

[millwright]

So is it dual WAN or not, you said "If I setup a dual WAN connection", then " but this is on a single WAN connection", then "So will the dual wan setup use both connections to download"

If you only have 1 internet service coming into the house, it won't speed anything up.

 

[Grepawking]

So is it dual WAN or not, you said "If I setup a dual WAN connection", then " but this is on a single WAN connection", then "So will the dual wan setup use both connections to download"

If you only have 1 internet service coming into the house, it won't speed anything up.

2 current services on 2 seperate networks. I was thinking of setting up one network to have access to both if it was of advantage. So the new router would feed one network with a connection to both WAN's and the other network will remain with a single connection.

 

[millwright]

The literature say it will use both.

If the 3dr LAN is in use, it will slow down of course.

https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Multi-WAN_2.0

 

[bill001g]

Maybe....but likely not.

This is the whole issue with any load balancing. If you were using something like bit torrent that uses lots of separate sessions to download the file it would likely work.

The problem occurs when you try to download a single file from a single source. Some software will open multiple sessions but now you add the complication of having 2 different IP addresses. It really depends if the software will tolerate what appears to be 2 different users downloading the same file. There is no clear answer but the vast majority of sites do not allow this.

This is why no matter how hard you try you will never get the speedtest sites to ever show more than the speed of one of your connections.