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Sunday, July 11th, 2021 5:10 PM

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WAN Aggregation on XB7 Router

Hi there. I was wondering if the XB7 router supported WAN aggregation (802.3ad). I understand the XB7 has a 2.5 GbE port, but my current router doesn't include one. The router (Asus RT-AX88U) does support WAN aggregation. I didn't see anything in the gateway that would indicate it does, but thought I'd ask none-the-less. Was curious if that was what the "LAN Ethernet Port 2 - Associate Ethernet Port 2 to XFINITY HOME Network" may have been for. I tried it, but no dice.

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@EG Thank you for the post. While the post mentions taking the XB7 out of bridged mode, I'm not certain if that would allow the WAN aggregation to function properly. Is something to try though. Thank you. :)

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4 years ago

So my experience on this topic as i have a Xb7 and asus RT-ax86u, so i use the dual wan setup, not the wan aggregation, the problem with the asus routers is that even if they are multi gig, one can only access the 2.5 gig port on the lan or wan side, not both at the same time, so that obliviously that an can be a insurmountable problem if you don't think outside the box, so i leave the xb7 in the standard mode not bridge for this to work, so for the dual wan to work properly, it needs to be fed 2 1000 Mbps connections via ethernet ports, the xb7 in standard mode does this perfectly, don't even bother with the 2.5 gig red port , so by delegating the lan side to 1000 Mbps, it then leaves open the option to configure the wan port to use 2.5 gig, it also leaves the red 2.5 port open for other purposes , as some indicated this setup creates double Nat situation, so use that to your advantage, so i now have 2 subnets, 10.0.0 and 192.168.50, so obviously they cant  communicate  with other,  so again use that to your advantage, so i can have the xb7,  in full default mode, single wifi name, managed automatically, works great, so i have two network printers installed on each subnet, so you see where might be a issue printing, so thinking outside the box, i connected to both  subnets  simultaneously, so i am issued a IP on each subnet, have a default gateway on both subnets,  so when i want to print a document, i am giving the option of both printers, beautiful, so i see folks wanting to split the wifi bands for whatever reason, they cant because they are using pods etc, so why not connect the rouge device to the other subnet, it will be issued a IP not associated with the xb7 10.0.0, again the double Nat issue, so depending what devices you need to freely communicate with other, arrange them on the appropriate subnet to make that possible, my main computer i can access both subnets as explained above, so is this ideal, i seriously doubt it, i am sure if you run a elaborate network there will be numerous pitfalls, i myself don't have a fancy setup, There are many other ways to set things up, sorry for the rant....

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4 years ago

Thank you for the thorough answer. I can deal with the double nat (or triple as I have two different routers behind my setup). I'll give it a try and see what results I get. 

My setup would be as follows:

2 x 1 GbE - Bridged to ASUS Router

1 x 2.5 GbE - Connected to Motorola 2.5 GbE MoCA 2.5 Adapter -> Linksys Router

Use one of the remaining ports on the XB7 for the network laser printer so it can be reachable by both networks.  

Keeping the two routers split off the XB7 would result in two double NAT networks.

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@Kleral Well, after some testing I decide to postpone doing this for now. Running latest firmware on the ASUS Router, but try as I might....kept getting the WAN aggregation error. Rebooted multiple times and in different orders (gateway vs router first). XB7 gateway was showing ports 1 and 2 were 1000 Mbps but wasn't able to get it to get running.

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So, in my experiments, on my asus router, Wan aggregation never worked for me, but dual wan worked beautifully

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@jlavaseur Thinks for the tip. Anything special to getting Dual WAN going? I've enabled it in the settings and still get a message about my ISP not handing out DHCP. I assume I would need to take the XB7 our of bridged mode and give it another go?

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yes, out of bridge mode, So you get to specify what port on the xb7 you want as the second 1000 Mbps link, i picked # 4, i wouldn't use the 2.5 gig red port because its wasting it as you only need a 1000 Mbps link, all this being said, i have also purchased a 2.5 gig switch, connected to the red 2.5 gig port, its has 4 2.5 gig ports on it, same speeds, so its basically what your trying to accomplish, I find it overkill to send a email…

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@jlavaseur Thank you. Yes, took it out of bridge mode and got it running with two GbE ports. Plugged my 2.5 GbE MoCA adapter into the 2.5 port as well and ran some speed tests. Was definitely able to exceed 1000 Mbps with both speed tests running at the same time. 

I went ahead and reverted it back to bridged mode as I was having all sorts of issues with port forwarding etc (even though the config I went through should have been good). Was noticing other issues with app updates being blocked on my mobile phone. When I disabled WiFi I had a flood of them come in so something was up. 

I'll roll with it like this for now and look at a possible 2.5 GbE router upgrade down the line. I can just relocate this one upstairs as part of the ASUS mesh. 

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4 years ago

Here is one point I forgot to mention, so the Xb7 default config don’t allow for any static Ip to be added, you can add reserved ips tho, if you look at the dhcp server, the dhcp server range starts at 10.0.0.2 and ends at 10.0.0.254, so there obviously isn’t and open Ips, easy fix, how many do you require? 100? Just edit the the dhcp range to start at 10.0.0.100, you can also add it at the end if you prefer, I’ll look into the port forwarding issue, I don’t use it now, but I was wanting to play around with it at some point, maybe give me a hint why it isn’t working or maybe a error message

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@jlavaseur any update on how yours is working?   I’ve had mine on and your setup has definitely improved my bandwidth.  

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