Question : Draytek Vigor 2820 - x2 PPPOA ADSL connections

Hi,

I hope someone can help me. At a customer site, I have 2 ADSL connections, currently running through two seperate routers. These are fed into media converters and patched via fibre to a seperate comms unit. My plan is to replace these two routers with a single Draytek Vigor 2820 though it looks like I might have a problem. As far as I can tell, I cannot run two PPPOA connections through this router. Is there anyway around this? The two routers currently onsite are Linksys WAG54G2's.

Thanks,

Zak

Answer : Draytek Vigor 2820 - x2 PPPOA ADSL connections

Hi Moorhouse. My solution is outlined below.

My setup is:

- x2 PPPOA ADSL connections from different suppliers.
- x1 ADSL goes directly from the wall, through the Micro-filter and into WAN1 on my Draytek Vigor 2820
- x1 ADSL connection goes from the wall, through the micro-filter and into my Draytek 120 Modem.

- The connection from my Draytek modem goes to WAN2 on my Vigor 2820.

As I had previously mentioned, I planned to set devices using each seperate connection on a seperate subnet but was having issues with this. I then decided it wasn't necessary in this setup as long as I set the load balancing policy correctly.

- Under WAN > Internet Access I have the WAN1 connection setup as normal, and have WAN2 setup as PPPOE with the ADSL login details entered.

- I've bound IP's to MAC addresses for the devices being used, then setup the load balancing policy so the relevant devices use the relevant WAN connection (with failover).

In my setup (if anyone is interested), one of the LAN ports is conected to a media converter to convert the data to fibre. It is then patched to a seperate comms room, through another media converter and into a switch. Sockets in this switch are then linked to the relevant wall ports in the patch panel.