High there, I purchased a Newfi-mini with...pre installed. A flavor of openwrt.
PandoraBox 18.07 2018-07-26-git-e717545 / LuCI Master (git-18.191.64311-165cb77)
I have all the interfaces, software, policies and rules set for dual WAN IPv4 and an interface for IPv6
I noticed that after boot only one WAN connection us used for all traffic and then finally it starts routing all traffic to the other WAN until it "almost" catches up and then it starts switching back and forth between WAN connections sending traffic down only one WAN connection at a time even with multiple devices connected to the LAN assessing different web sites. So, it's clearly trying to balance the WAN's [ISP's] using only one connection at a time. I don't care about balancing the experience to the ISP's Both WAN's are set to metric 1 and weight 1.
Here is the problem and what I purchased the load balancer for...
I want to improve the experience to multiple users connected to the LAN as a load balancing priority.
i.e. I want traffic from "any LAN user" to "any destination" to be routed to the "least active" WAN connection.
Example: If I am watching a YT video or downloading a large file consuming most or all the bandwidth of one connection [I only have 5.5Mb/s + 6Mb/s available] and my daughter turns on the TV to watch Netflix, instead of her getting the pause buffer circle, the load balancer automatically routes her traffic down the other connection so I maintain max single connection download and she gets no buffer circle. Hence improving the overall experience of LAN users utilizing both connections at the same time.
I need a rule or policy to enable this feature to balance LAN instead of WAN priorities.
One would thing that this would be ONE of the fundamental purposes of load balancing.
Bonding would be nice but is out of the question.
Please help me sort this out!