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Our router was going out. The WAN connection appeared to be dropping at an increasing rate. After studying the logs I found that it happens when the network is under load. After some calls with the ISP who insisted that their modem was up and running. I concluded it was time for a new network router. I installed these at various of my clients and love these Peplink routers for their super easy user interface and rock solid performance.
Still I balked at the price for our own home network, researched the usual consumer grade routers by Asus, Linksys. These things look like stealth bombers and have an endles spec sheet with options no one needs. Knowing that these consumer routers on average start to fail after abour 3 years and the time it would take me to do a proper setup I spend the extra $100 and bought what I recommend my clients. A peplink Balance (I bought the core since we already have Ubiquity Unifi WiFi AP's). Glad I did, installation was quick and easy including VPN service so we can use public wifi while traveling and are still protected by our own encrypted tunnel to our home network.
Connected a At&T LTE modem via USB and set it up as a back-up ISP.
Improvement was instantanious. Browsing the web is much more responsive. I don't care that much about the speed test results (witch are above spec). What really matters is the quick response when clicking links in the internet. Pages now load in a blink of an eye.
Sure enough after 24 hours I checked the router log and did not find a single dropped WAN connection from my cable ISP.
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| Price | — | $599.00 | $299.00 | $999.00 | $999.00 | $499.00 |
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| Sold By | — | Amazon.com | Amazon.com | West Networks LLC | Amazon.com | Amazon.com |
| connectivity tech | Wi-Fi | 5G, Wi-Fi, LTE, Ethernet, USB | Wi-Fi, Ethernet, USB | 5G | WAN, LAN | Ethernet, WAN, LAN, 5G, LTE |
| number of ports | 11 | — | 6 | 3 | 7 | 3 |
| data transfer rate | 600 megabits per second | 1 gigabits per second | 1 gigabits per second | 1 gigabits per second | 1 gigabits per second | 300 megabits per second |
| wireless standard | 802 11 N | 802 11 AX, 802 11 AC, 802 11 N | 802 11 AX | 802 11 AX | 802 11 AC | 802 11 A |
| frequency band class | dual band | dual band | dual band | dual band | dual band | dual band |
| lan port bandwidth | 1000 Mbps | 1 GBps | 1 GBps | 10/100/1000 megabits per second | 10/100/1000Mbps | 1 Gbps |
| max upstream rate | — | — | 1000 megabits per second | 900 megabits per second | — | 300 megabits per second |
| security protocol | WPA3-Personal, WPA2-Enterprise, WPA2-Personal | WPA3, WPA2-Enterprise, WPA2-PSK | WPA3, WPA2-Enterprise, WPA2-PSK | WPA3, WPA2-Enterprise, WPA2-PSK | WPA2-Enterprise | — |
| frequency | 5 GHz | 5 GHz | 5 GHz | 5 GHz | 5 GHz | 5 GHz |
| operating system | — | RouterOS | Peplink | Peplink InControl | Peplink OS | Proprietary firmware or embedded operating system |
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Peplink Balance One - exceeds all expectations
I spent days reading reviews, trying to decide between different products from ASUS, TP-Link, Cisco, and Peplink. I ended up going with the Balance One router, and am incredibly happy with my purchase. I work from home and cannot afford to have WebEx or Skype communications with clients be interrupted by internet outages. Changing over connections manually is better than nothing, but those are costly seconds when you've got a client on the line. I needed something faster & better.I've got the Balance One hooked into my cable internet connection (Brighthouse) on the WAN1 port, and my Samsung Pro (SM-V100T) T-Mobile hotspot on the USB (this model is not offically supported by Peplink, but it works fine. I just needed to change the hotspot's USB mode from "media device" to "USB Tethering", and it detected fine when I plugged it in). If I hard-disconnect the cable modem and the Ethernet link drops, the router will fail over to the hotspot in around a second. If I soft-disconnect the cable modem (unplug the coaxial cable, but leave the Ethernet connected), the router takes around 5 seconds to notice and re-route my traffic. This is with the default settings. It's possible to adjust these and I may consider that in the future - but 5 seconds is much quicker than the time required to manually change the connection.The 802.11 "Wifi" 2.4Ghz range is not as good as my previous Asus RT-N16 router, but given that this unit has internal antennas I'm honestly surprised the performance is as good as it is. Areas I used to get -50 dBm are now around -60 dBm which is a significant decrease but still very good. The coverage is adequate for my entire house, despite me having the Balance One on a metal shelf in a closet.Edit 4/16/2015I got my DSL installed yesterday. Failover works exactly as well as before, but the "load balancing" works much better than expected. I frankly didn't think this was possible (especially since my connections are through different ISPs), but somehow it's aggregating the speed from both connections - with a 85 mbps cable connection and a 15mbps DSL connection I'm getting 100mbps when I run speed tests, or when I download large files. I figured I'd have 100mbps of throughput, but only for simultaneous connections (download 1 file at 85mbps and download another at 15mbps at the same time) - I am extremely pleasantly surprised the Balance One can do this!
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