Cyndee
join:2001-02-03
Chicago, IL
| [Xincom] Setup for Xincom 502 with cable & DSL connections max s
I'm using a Xincom 502 router with cable (Comcast 8 mb/s up) and DSL (Earthlink 3 mb/s) connections. I'd like to know how to set up the load balancing to maximize use of the Comcast speed (3 PCs on the network -- usually 2 online at a time). I'd like to mainly have them on the faster Comcast with the Earthlink to kick in as a back up if Comcast goes out. Should I turn Load Balancing off? Or set it to a very high percentage (if so what?) on the Comcast connection? Also, if I should be using load balancing, which version of it should I choose: Bytes Tx + Rx; Packets Tx + Rx; Sessions Established; or IP Addresses.
Main usage is web browsing while one computer sometimes does some day trading.
I'd appreciate whatever advice those more experienced than I can provide. Thank you. |
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Cyndee
join:2001-02-03
Chicago, IL
| Re: [Xincom] Setup for Xincom 502 with cable & DSL connections m
A little more on the above question. In the past few weeks (I've had the router for around 2 years), I've seen frequent slow downs that I can't explain. At first everything seems fine, pages changing quickly, then suddenly it slows to crawl, pages take forever to change, and sometimes I get page not found errors. Usually a page refresh then brings it back quickly. Before the past few weeks this did not happen. I had not made any changes. Since this started happenning I tried assorted different load balance settings with no help. I then also updated the firmware on the router to the lastest version, but no change.
In addition to the above questions, what should I be looking for to find the cause of these slowdowns? Thanks. |
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polarisdb
join:2004-07-12
Assonet, MA
| reply to Cyndee
I have a similar cable/DSL setup and initially just went with a 99% bytes rx+tx load on my faster cable connection. I had some VPN and https issues with a couple of PC's with that configuration and ended up using Xincom's loose WAN port binding functionality to force them to use the faster cable connection when it was available. |
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Cyndee
join:2001-02-03
Chicago, IL
| Thank you. What is "loose WAN port binding functionality" and where are the settings for it. I don't find anything like that under the load balancing options -- is it someplace else?
I really don't know a lot about this, only what I've discovered here, so if you could explain fully it would be very helpful. |
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polarisdb
join:2004-07-12
Assonet, MA | Under the ancient firmware I'm running (2.1 Rel 2O), it's under the "Host Network Binding" section in Advanced Setup->Host IP |
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Cyndee
join:2001-02-03
Chicago, IL
| Thank you. In poking around, I found it my firmware under Advanced Port > Port Options > Transparent Bridge Options, and I set it there. I then also found it where you indicate and find that where I set it carried over to the same setting there, so hopefully that should do it.
Any ideas on my slowdowns? |
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polarisdb
join:2004-07-12
Assonet, MA | reply to Cyndee
Nope, haven't experienced the slowdown issue you're seeing. I would try using one WAN connection at a time to see if the slowdown could be isolated to one of them. |
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Cyndee
join:2001-02-03
Chicago, IL
| Actually I've been playing around with just that. It seems to me that somehow the router is slowing down the Comcast connection drastically. Comcast is fine if I connect directly to the modem bypassing the router, but if I use it as WAN1 enabled with Earthlink on WAN2 set to backup, it is very slow.
Any idea how to fix this or to troubleshoot it?
Thaks for your help. |
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