PfSense Load Balancing

[Mornincupofhate]

So I've been reading up on loading balancing with PfSense by combining two DSL lines and it's pretty interesting. The only thing I'm having trouble understanding is that someone told me that it won't help with single streams like buffering a video, playing games, etc. Is this true?

[unidentical]

Well with load balancing you're balancing connections between lines. So if you have a lot of connections to the outside then it could help by spreading the load. But if it's one person in an apartment playing a game, the connection will only use the one DSL line. 

[Mornincupofhate]

Just now, unidentical said:

Well with load balancing you're balancing connections between lines. So if you have a lot of connections to the outside then it could help by spreading the load. But if it's one person in an apartment playing a game, the connection will only use the one DSL line. 

Interesting. Say there's an incoming DDoS attack. Will it take more bandwidth on their end to saturate all of the lines to make me go offline?

[unidentical]

Well that would be going after your outside IP, which would be the modem so it would only hit one of the DSL lines. 

 

Are you often the recipient of DoS attacks?

[rEaGeNeReary]

For home users, it will help if you sort your connection depending on usage. Example is assigning outgoing connections (TF2, CS:GO, etc) to go to WAN1 only and the rest of traffic (HTTP, SSL, etc) to WAN2. That will make your game latency to be lower since if you ever want to download or stream videos it will only use up bandwidth on WAN2 and not use bandwidth on WAN1 where your game connections are happening. You can use your imagination on what you can do with it.

[Mornincupofhate]

14 minutes ago, unidentical said:

Well that would be going after your outside IP, which would be the modem so it would only hit one of the DSL lines. 

 

Are you often the recipient of DoS attacks?

Yeah, AT&T static ip kek

[Mornincupofhate]

16 minutes ago, unidentical said:

Well that would be going after your outside IP, which would be the modem so it would only hit one of the DSL lines. 

 

Are you often the recipient of DoS attacks?

So basically if one of the modems goes offline, will it also act as a failover and keep me online with the other one?

[unidentical]

In any failover I've ever seen, you get an interruption of service, the connection is lost may have to log back in. The point of the failover is to maintain connectivity, not the individual connections.

 

My guess is this is not going to do what you want it to do.