@mf37

It can’t be in the description because it wasn’t designed that way.

The bonding proxy on the IB2 bundles two Internet channels using Distributed TCP, i.e. the IB2 distributes the TCP packets from a single client to both channels and incoming packets for a client can also arrive at the IB2 in parallel over both lines and are then reassembled by the proxy for the individual client.

The only known limitation for bonding is (at least it was when I had a booster myself) that it really only works with TCP traffic and not with UDP traffic (e.g. access from outside to a UDP-configured Open VPN server).

Had 50 MBit/sec copper + 50 MBit/sec LTE download for two years and never excluded any device from bonding (except the TV boxes, which are blocked by Swisscom by definition) and never had a problem with 100 MBit/sec download on a client as a direct individual download.

If this doesn’t work for you (e.g. for a normal speed test like CNLab), it’s not due to the bonding in general, but must be due to a local limitation.

By the way, you can easily see how many MBit/sec the booster actually delivers in the LAN diagnosis of the IB2’s expert menu during a long-running speed test, provided you have connected the booster to the IB2 via a LAN-Anschluss.

If you are really interested in reliable speed tests:

- Don’t use a browser but rather the CNLab test program installed locally under Windows (free download from the Internet)

- Always test with the PC connected directly to the IB2 via cable

@mf37

If your booster is connected to the switch, or the WLAN is connected to the switch, this would lead to special requirements for the switch in connection with the booster.

If the booster is connected directly to the IB2 with a LAN cable, or directly to the IB2’s WLAN, there should actually be no fundamental configuration problems with the booster…

l@“x”#p567162

It is normal for the throughput on a copper line or LTE transmission to fluctuate greatly over the course of a single second of measurement; what is important is the average over a certain period of time.

With the Cnlab test program, it is best to set the measurement duration in the settings to 30 to 60 seconds as standard, then you will receive relevant numbers.

Since you have the Internet booster on the LAN cable, you can see its current performance during operation directly on the LAN port used for it:

To do this, go to the LAN analysis on the IB2.

It looks something like this:

By the way, the picture is an old Netflix streaming example of mine to show that, unlike Swisscom TV, the Internet booster contributes generous LTE performance for external video streaming (and constantly, even when the copper line is not yet at capacity is, because conceptually speaking, the Internet booster is actually not a “booster” at all, which, as one might assume, is “switched on when you step on the gas”, but rather a constantly running fix coupled “second motor”)

Shown in the screenshot are:

- the Internet-Booster on LAN port 1 as an upload from the perspective of IB2

- The home network with 2 Smart TVs and two running Netflix apps with UHD streams on LAN port 2 as a download

- the UHD-TV-Box, which was switched off at this time, on LAN port 3

(the total LAN traffic of 51.8 is irrelevant)

You should see it in the menu exactly as @Werner has already shown. The traffic that the booster brings should also be displayed. If nothing is displayed, there is no data traffic going through the port.

\=> So yes, seems to be an indication of a problem.

Thomas

@mf37

If the booster never draws data at all, it may be that when you activated your Internet booster, your quota on the LTE mast assigned to you was “lost”, which happened again and again in the pioneering days of bonding.

If this were actually the case, you would only be able to get to the second/third level via support to have the misconfiguration corrected in the background of the LTE network.