[SOLVED] TP Link R470T+ Load Balance Router Setup Help

[anchit02]

Hello all,
I have WAN port connected to my TP Link R470T+ Load Balance Router in WAN 1 & 2 ports, and my wireless access point connected to the LAN port. What I want to do is send ALL traffic to YOUTUBE (from browsers and mobile device apps) via WAN 2 only from all the devices connected to the LAN port via the wireless AP, and all other internet traffic on WAN 1. Is this possible to do with this router? If so, can someone help me set this up?

 

[bill001g]

Wouldn't it be nice if the router was smart enough to take english sentences as configuration.

The part of the router you likely want to use is called policy routing. It is actually very complex to setup, mostly because it has so many options.

I am not sure if you can make selection based on a particular lan port. It may not be directly a option but you likely can use the option of assigning a different subnet and vlan that port. That way you use different IP address for devices connected to that lan port.

In any case you need to define a group of source IP addresses that the rules are applied to. You then need to get define the output IP. I don't think you can just use the name youtube. You will have to find the ips being used. You can see in in the network tab of the resource monitor. The actual IP is different in different parts of the world and even between cities. There maybe more than 1 ip addresses partially I think this is for their advertising but you need to see which ip are being used.

After you have these lists of ip you just put in a rule that send the traffic to wan 2 and make sure you have it set so wan 1 is the default interface.

It has been years since I played with one of these routers. They have massive amounts of features.

At least your question is not what we commonly see here with people thinking they an use this router to combine ISP for more bandwidth. What you want to do is very possible it is just rather tedious to get configured.