Er605 -> two Starlink dish -> same gateway -> don't work
We have the following set:
2 x starlink antennas ->
1 x er605 router ->
1 x 8 port switch -->
some eap110 and eap225 --> mobile phones and laptops
And with the following details:
1. Two spacex Starlink antennas in bridge mode
2. one is on wan port and the other on wan/lan1
3. each has a different ip, but both are on the same gateway 100.64.0.1 (cgnat starlink)
4. tp-link's er605 pulls a signal from just one of them, it can't pull internet from both simultaneously.
Note: we changed the dns of one of them in the ER605 settings, but before the change it was the same (pulling the signal of only one of them)
We need to make both work together, any suggestions?
Note 2: both antennas are OK, we've tested them directly. Even the er605 sometimes changes the use of their signal by itself, that is, sometimes it pulls the signal only from the WAN other times it pulls the signal only from the wan/lan1; never together, which is our desire
WAN Online
IP Address: 100.102.254.162
Gateway: 100.64.0.1
DNS Server: 198.54.100.14 | 198.54.100.15
Status: Online
Speed: 1000 Mbps
Download Pkts/Bytes: 42 MB
WAN/LAN1
IP Address: 100.60.5.158
Gateway: 100.64.0.1
DNS Server: 8.8.8.8 | 1.1.1.1
Status: Online
Download Pkts/Bytes: 50.47 GB
Update:
I changed one starlink antenna connected to the WAN1 port, taking it out of bridge mode, and putting it in "router" mode, as per the factory default.
Then it looked like this:
- 1 antenna (WAN) in bridge mode
- 1 antenna (WAN1) in router mode (starlink standard)
Objective was to make the ER605 work with 2 different gateways, a bridge mode gateway (100.64.0.1) and the other router mode gateway (192.168.1.1).
Result: the problem continues, it is pulling a signal from only one of them.
Today I'm going to remove the ER605 from the Omada controller system (Omada software controller), leave it in standalone mode to see if it works.
Has anyone gone through this?
Antenna on WAN port
Upload Pkts/Bytes:105512 / 11.35 MB
Download Pkts/Bytes:103737 / 16.91 MB
Antenna on WAN1 port
Upload Pkts/Bytes:7583963 / 3.36 GB
Download Pkts/Bytes:16148399 / 17.80 GB
Like I said earlier, did you run Policy Routing and test it? If you have done that, then it means both WANs are working.
Regarding why one of the WANs is handling the most traffic and bandwidth, that could be a result of sessions.
What kind of traffic do you usually use? If a session is not over, and it continues to send a lot of traffic, then this session will use a lot of data on a single WAN which was used for the first establishment of the connection.
If you are watching videos, there may be multiple sessions established and this may be balanced between two WANs.
I am quite sure that there is no issue with the load balance recently. And we don't add any new features to this recently.
But in your PDF, I found out that the gateway seems to be the same. Both are on
100.X.X.X IP addresses are mostly reserved for mobile services. This is the only thing I found strange. I am not able to say that this is the cause but this does seem to be not ideal.
If possible, can you try to avoid the same gateway? Also, about the DNS, would recommend you use 8.8.8.8 or other famous public DNS IPs for both WANs. Instead of 198.X.X.X so that we can be sure this is not a DNS issue as well.
Good morning,
apparently the TL-ER605 does not work with two Starlink antennas on the Omada Software Controller.
Outside of Omada, we managed to make both antennas work simultaneously.
Outside Omada -> Both antennas work simultaneously.
With Omada -> Only one antenna works.
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Tks
Hi @Cotay
Thanks for posting in our business forum.
How do you configure the load balance? Do you have the link backup enabled?
You may read through this and check if you have any misconfig.
And how do you determine that the load balance is not working?
