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I have been looking at this company since I live in AZ. I would love to have a mattress that really cools my body. The problem being is I wish there were a way to fake or enable offline operations. Run it via a home assistant or a controller like a Rpi.

It seems the issue for my router was that "Offload" was not enabled. Fixed my issue completely. Getting close to the 900mbs through 3 switches via Speedtest.net. I am pretty happy with that. Solution Link

The router was set at 50/50 before, for the split by default. I changed it to 20(DSL)/80(Coax) and no change. still limited to about 300~350 due to CPU constraints it seems.

My config on the Edge router is a 50/50 split. So all connections will tap equally most of the time. My old setup 2 DSL lines 125D/10U for both and Starlink ~140D/30U. With those three I would see the max out of all of these without CPU bottleneck. I use Steam to benchmark usually. Just download a good sized file and after about 20-30 seconds it would stabilize to max download. I would log into the router and could see them all pulling about the max rate from each line. I get about 1100-900Mbps from directly connecting my 2.5Gb modem(coaxial) from my server with 2.5gb. Starlink is about the same as stated before. Maybe what I could do is have two VLANs. First for the coaxial line for all wired devices, and a second VLAN for wireless devices that don't need the latency benefits and have them run from starlink. Could I setup two VLANs and have them failover to each others connections? Maybe with a pfsense application?

I have tried pfsense, and I do have a spare computer to power it. I just find all the options immensely overwhelming. Also I could not find a reliable way to have my Plex server work outside of my network. I will think about fail over, my problem is that starlink is quite expensive to have just as a fail over(if you leave the service you have no guarantee of being allowed back on ). I will be using it for traveling soon.

Yes load balancing is a fickle one... It has worked fine for me for about 2 years without issues but I have not had as high bandwidth. I would love not to use fail over since starlink is quite expensive. I could maybe get away with manually assigning devices(vlan?) that don't need better latency to go through starlink instead of load balancing?That would kill my fail over option though.. Upload has actually had no issues with sharing for me(then again I was using two dsl lines before with same latency.) DSL ~30 ping Coaxial ~15 ping Starlink ~ 40-80 ping that I have noticed.

I will definitely look into that, it looks promising. As long as the UI(routerOS7) is good enough for me to fudge my way through I'll be happy! I might as well just buy a 10G port for my server!

Ya, I was looking into that. I assume that if you use the 2.5gb wan though they disable the ability to load balance. It probably is my next option to try if bestbuy has it available, easier to return to them vs Amazon.

Hello all, I did not find anything related to my use case so here is my dilemma. I have 1 WAN Coaxial >Motorola Modem(2.5G port~1100mbps from ISP) 2nd WAN DSL(1G port ~125mbps) 3rd Starlink(1G port ~200mbps) I want to combine all three into my network. As a load balancing setup. Or at the very least the Coaxial and the Starlink. My Coaxial company is very well know for outages and slowing speeds so I want the second WAN. I currently have a EdgerouterX, which has been working great when I had 2 DSL lines and Starlink ~400mbps down. I noticed though since I got the 1g Coaxial that my router cannot keep up. It will ping at 99% usage for CPU during speed tests with throughput of about 300-350. Even with no load balancing it only hits about 600-700 throughput. Could any of you recommend a good router as a replacement? All the higher end edgerouters seem to be sold out/marked up that I see. Also I am afraid if I don't go higher end I might loose out on bandwidth. Budget around $500-700. I would love a 2.5G port+1G port that can be WAN-Load balanced and a secondary 2.5G port for my home server(or link aggregation would work too.) I would rather go overkill than under since I am crazy about my network but have no good skills in the matter

Also I found this site that is really helpful for showing how many transcodes a GPU can handle. At the top you can change the conversion. Not sure about the sites trustworthiness due to my Pi-hole blocking it out of the box... https://www.elpamsoft.com/?p=Plex-Hardware-

Not a problem! I limit my outside to 4Mbps per stream so that i could at least get 3 streams for my family going at a time. The big hits are my 4k edits that i haven't created a 1080p edit for. I am hoping to get my pfSense router working right and buying a Cable connection as well as my current DSL line to get around 40 Mbps combined. (I live pretty far from good services unfortunaly....but i have unlimited upload and download bandwidth!)

Usually with my Transcodes they go from 1080p 24mbps to 480p-720p 1-2mbps bitrate (To WAN). My experience that takes quite a bit of power. Original File and size: 31 Mbps stream Transcoding from Directly play to 720P 2Mbps stream, Again for outside use only would it ever transcode(except for external subtitles). It is pinned basically at 100% CPU. With a 4 core 8 Thread CPU. Transcoding via GPU instead. Almost instant start of streaming. and almost no hit on the CPU. GPU hit is 8 % for video encoding. So i could do that transcode about 9 times more until the CPU would have to step in. Almost all of my files are around this size and or larger with 4K. The Video decode is from me remoting into my plex server and looking at the Task Manager.

Gotcha, Sorry. New to forums. I have the GPU in there for two reasons. 1.) I got it free from a Youtube streamer. 2.) It helps a lot with Live Transcoding especially with how slow my Upload speed is(15mbps). Via CPU it would take almost 40% for a 1080p bluray rip to transcode and it would buffer for quite a long time ~1min(if i had subtitles enabled even longer!). With the 1660 S and the Turing Nvenc encoder it can handle ~20 Transcodes at a time if i remember from my research.

So i tried as hard as I could to get the Pi-hole running on my Pi3 i could not. So i went the Docker route on my Plex Server. This worked without issues! Still a bit odd that pfSense is blocking queries from Pi3. UPDATE: I noticed that Wifi traffic does not get ad's blocked.... im not sure why.

Once i upgrade to 4-8 new hard drives i will definitely go hardware route. I have an i7-3770 with nothing actually running on it mostly(Direct play a lot on Plex) so i am not too worried about a small CPU hit.