Comments on: D-Link Load-Balancing Router: 2-in-1 DSL Router

By: douglas donoghue

douglas donoghue — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:34:28 +0000

I have this router installed in Tacloban, Leyte but have not been able to get it running in any reasonable fashion. It does not perform at rated speeds on a single provider nor balance anything. It is hooked to Globe and Bayantel

By: rybaxs

rybaxs — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 05:53:46 +0000

“So, I have an existing PLDT myDSL at 1.2Mbps and another Smart Bro account at 386Kbps.”

That’s totally wrong..
You’ll just end up with 1.2Mbps

By: ninetails

ninetails — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:45:34 +0000

flash it with the latest firmware m0r0ns.

By: moot

moot — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:06:05 +0000

I think it just load balances but can’t do the additive bandwidth. It sounds difficult given the constraints of the TCP/IP protocol.

By: bluenux

bluenux — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 15:20:10 +0000

mr or mrs aki, i told you that D-Link DI-LB604 is fake.

By: Aki

Aki — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:55:42 +0000

If from what I understand here is right, this means you can hook up two DSL accounts and combine them into one router and get an effective connection rate equivalent to the sum of both broadband connection.

So, I have an existing PLDT myDSL at 1.2Mbps and another Smart Bro account at 386Kbps. If I use the DLink DI-LB604 router, I could have 1.586Mbps connection speed on my network. If one is down, the other is still hooked up. Cool! I want one

how do you configure two connection in 1?…

can u tell me pls T_T

By: bluenux

bluenux — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 07:18:01 +0000

D-Link DI-LB604 is fake, no automatic backup if one connection fails, you have to manually remove the other wan connection enable to regain the other connection.

By: Jess

Jess — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:31:29 +0000

Has anyone used it? Also, are there any other company that provides similar routers?

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By: Dave Starr

Dave Starr — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:27:25 +0000

I’m happy to see this device released and being publicized. Mish’s comment that there might be a better way with a dedicated server/network controller are fine, but it’s a network engineering project that the average blogger/small-time Internet business owner is not likely to have the skill set or time to implement. The D-Link solution is “plug and play”, so great for its intended market.

The issue is that for years and years we’ve all been operating “single string” … our business lives or dies based on one ISP. All ISPs will fail someday. The time has come, if we want to change a hobby activity into a sound business is develop ways to work around failures and D-Link’s offering is a great step forward.

Due to the way HTTP and the ‘Net in general works there is another advantage in load sharing. Most of the time spent waiting for a page to load is not caused by the raw speed of the connection or even the server serving the page. It’s caused by latency in all the other points along the network that packets have to transit. So 2 separate 265 kbps DSL connections could work out to be faster overall than 1 single 512 kbps “pipe” for example … because when one network drops to zero throughput due to some congestion, the other side may still be delivering packets. Alternating between all-half-all-half-all may add up to more total bits per hour than all-zero-all-zero-all.

Anyway, something to consider.

By: mish

mish — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 02:09:19 +0000

I’m often leery of “appliances” like this… often turning out non-secure, feature-locked, and horribly broken down the line.

IMO you’re still better off with an old Pentium I class machine (or even lower) with 3 NICs… WAN1, WAN2, LAN, (or the optional 4th NIC for WLAN) doing all the goodies: loadbalancing, failover (CARP), auth, packet filtering (or “SPI” in the ad’s corpspeak), NAT, etc. Total Cost: laughable.

All this with OpenBSD and pf. Or if you’re a Linux guy, I’m pretty sure it’s also possible but I’m not familiar with the penguin-ish approach

By: vance

vance — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 15:33:12 +0000

ahhh…. wrong calculation! heheh, 386 ba ang smart bro kala ko kasi 128 lang yun eh ahahaha. I don’t care about them Bayantel na ako eh haha.

oh well astig if you have two DSL connection like say 2×512 KBps connection from two different providers like globe and PLDT astig…

By: Kiven

Kiven — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 14:19:38 +0000

anybody with real life benchmarks/performance evals of this thing?

oops…google is your friend…. =)