Dear community,
I have the following setup:
Internet box with 5G booster connected via PowerLine (I know it is not ideal but no other option for now). The clients directly connected to the internet box (default subnet - 192.168.1.0/24) are getting “boosted” (download speed ~60 mbit/s compared to 4 mbit/s without booster)
Behind internet box I have an internal router which serves few subnets (10.x.x.x/24) and that router has a site-to-site IPSec tunnel with a 2nd site in order to replicate my NAS. All devices in ineternal subnets do not get boosted at all, even for traffic not going through the IPSec tunnel (standard internet access from the devices in one of the subnets routed by my intenal router)
There isn’t a lot of technical information publicly available about how the booster work “together” with the internet box, and what configuration is needed on the network to get it working…
Even to access the booster from the subnets behind my router or from my remote location was a bit challenging. I ended up doing S-NAT on the internal router as the booster itself seem to be able to communicate only on layer-2 (didn’t find a way to open a shell or CLI and the WEB interface is just… useless)
Last but not least, both the internet box and booster seem to have IP address 192.168.1.1/24, and both seem to act as DHCP server. I don’t really get the point how that really works and how the load is then “splitted” between the internet box “WAN” port and the booster “WAN connection - LTE/5G”
Do somebody have a better view than me about how the booster does it’s job, or/and how I can “boost” my subnets behind my router which is “behind” the internet box ?
