Questions about dual WAN load-balancing routers

I'm wondering how well these devices work for

  1. reliability, since apparently loss of one WAN puts all the traffic on the other so no loss of internet access.

  1. Bandwidth, does the dual WAN setup result in twice the bandwidth, or put another way, is download speed doubled assuming there's only one user? Or is it simply that 2 uses can each reach maximum download speed on each WAN.

  2. Can it be configured so that a particular user primarily uses one WAN and another user primarily the other? Or can individual users be "throttled" by the admin?

Obviously I'm a novice at this, so any help is welcome, including links where I might learn more.

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Posted 5 years ago by Charlie Hoffpauir in Wireless Networking

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