TP-Link Tl-R470T+ Single_Band Load Balance Broadband Business Router with Up to 4 Wan Ports, Pppoe Server, Advanced Qos and Strong Firewall

Funciona muy bien para balancear entre Infinitum e Izzi. El cambio gateway es muy rápido cuando falla algún proveedor. Puede funcionar en modo activo activo o activo pasivo. Se aprovecha mejor el pagar dos servicios en modo activo activo. Al revisar por donde salen los equipos conectados encuentro que se distribuyen entre los dos isp

What an absolute gem. As soon as you hold it in your hands it screams premium with all metallic chassis and heavy weight. Setup is simple and intuitive. You just need to select number of WAN ports you’re gonna use, supply them with connection parameters and you are set. You can use this in many ways, Load Balancer across multiple WAN connection where you can specify how much traffic should go out of one connection over another (you can specify the ratio), as a hot standby device where secondary WAN only kicks in if first one goes down or WAN Aggregator (which I am using) where you can combine the bandwidth of all WAN connection you are using. Make sure to disable “Enable Application Optimized Routing” from Advanced -> Load Balance -> Configuration if you want to aggregate WAN bandwidth.

I am using an Airtel DSL line with 16 Meg Down and 1 Meg UP and Excitel Cable connection with 20 Meg UP / Down. I am constantly getting 36 Meg Down / 21 Meg UP with this.

There are few reviews online for this, however, I recommend one from Mr. Barnacules Nerdgasm :[…] . This is the one which made me buy this device.

Totally recommend it

All, Couple of thoughts, I would like to share on this product.

1. Excellent Product, but needs basic to intermediate level networking knowledge to customize to your requirement. GUI is very easy to use for standard load balancing algorithms. in my case i have a high-speed internet connect and a 4G+ router, so i need my 4G+ connect to be used only when my primary connect goes down due to latency and pile size. but I was not able to configure that with standard options.
I used policy based routing to get this setup and removed all the load balancing rules i created.

2. Bad Supplier – i had to order this and return and order again. twice I had to order and both the times i got broken box, first time the device and items inside the box was haphazard – i was sure it was used product. Amazon need to take of these issue – i had no patience 2nd time to send it back and wait for 2 more days – so I accepted the product. i have Pics if you need

First, I reall wished to buy a gigabit WAN router for future proofing but all ISPs commonly have a 100mbps max connection speed. My home of office LAN is all with gigabit Ethernet.

This router is well made, solid metal build. Setup was a breeze. I’m using this with one static IP connection & the second with a PPPoE ISP. With load balancing that helps bandwidth aggregation. Works well without any packet loss.

Recieved a newly made product dated April 2019 V6.0 but firmware updates ended until June 2018.

Will post a follow up review a month later.

Update: (June 2020) a year later…..
Recently recieved a 2020 firmware update last month. Router has been very functional and link aggregation has been working great. I’ve been using Airtel xstream, ACT Fibernet & Excell broadband with different protocols each like DHCP, PPPoE & Static IP configurations. Only drawback is that the link speed limit is only 100mbps which isn’t helpful for future use if I get a faster internet plan ( 50+40+40mbps currently).

I can recommend this router for internet users who don’t have current plans of not greater than 25-40mbps.

We have configured 3 Internet Connections into this router (ACT, Jio AirFiber and Airtel DSL) and the router is working flawlessly to split the traffic among the connections as per the defined splitting ratio we have set. The router cannot accurately determine when a particularly ISP goes down (mostly because the Router is connected to the Routers provided by individual ISPs and the ISPs have denied pass-through configuration, but by and large it works. The CPU seems under-powered and torrenting by even a single computer makes the CPU usage jump to 100% and service very slow for other users on the network. The router also does not remember the traffic statistics and resets to zero after every restart (for example after power failure). Its easy to configure DHCP settings and DHCP assignments, but I did not see an option to re-direct domains. I may have to set-up a PI-HOLE server using a Raspberry Pi for that.

The load balancer is good in itself but I did a mistake while buying it, i missed the part where it said that it’s only 100 MBPS load balancer, which defeats the purpose of having the load balancer with high speed internet.

I only use it when my primary ISP is down.