speed test when load balancing is enabled

Happiman
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speed test when load balancing is enabled

Hello,

 

I have two ISPs

 

a) WAN1 - CenturyLink  Ethernet 100/20

b) WAN2 - AT&T Fiber Hand-off 50/50

 

If I run a speed test with my Uplink setting, "primary uplink" is WAN1, and Load Balancing is enable, what am I supposed to get from the test?

 

Will my Upload 150 and download 70?

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Tadpole86
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Im pretty sure the load balancing is flow-based, meaning that all traffic for the speed test will be sent down one WAN link only. 

 

So I would expect close to 100 or 50 Mbps on the download. Definitely not 150Mbps

 

 

Happiman
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My favorite speed test website is http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest.

 

There are multiple servers that respond to my "speed test" request. So I guess there are multiple flows for the test. If that's the case, shouldn't it be 150 and 70? I"m not sure about upload speed though.

Tadpole86
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What do you actually get when you test this? 

 

If you getting 150 Mbps on your speed test because of unique flows then great

 

From the speed tests I have used previously, I would expect either100 or 50 Mbps

 

 

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