From: invalid@invalid.com   
      
   I have a router that I think will do load sharing between two internet   
   connections. It's an ASUS RT-AC66U. The internet connections are:   
   1: Local WISP: Radio on roof feeds through a  Cat 5 ethernet cable to   
   the router's WAN connection. Speeds are slow, 3Mbps max. The WISP is   
   pretty reliable, if slow.   
   2. Hughesnet Gen 5: Dish on roof feeds through another cat 5 cable to   
   port 1 on the ASUS.Speed are usually good, up to 25 Mbps The satellite   
   service is less reliable, heavy rain (I'm in Houston area) causes loss   
   of signal.   
      
   The ASUS software recognizes that there is a connection to a WAN on   
   each port.   
      
   The software gives me the option of setting up as either failover or   
   load sharing. I'd prefer Load Sharing, because one or the other   
   sometimes gets very slow.   
      
   There's another complication.... the Hughesnet service is through   
   their router. The system "works" with a cat 5  from one of the   
   Hughesnet router LAN ports to the ASUS LAN port 1.... but both routers   
   are DHCP servers. So far I've seen no problems with this.... but I   
   haven't run both connected this way for very long.   
      
   AM I likely to have problems due to both apparently assigning DHCP   
   addresses? I could turn off DHCP serving on the ASUS, but then I think   
   the WISP wouldn't be able to serve any computers. I don't see any way   
   to turn off DHCP on the Hughesnet router.   
      
   Is one or the other mode (Failover or Load sharing) likely to be more   
   trouble free? Any advantage to either one?   
      
   My local network consists of three computers, a connection to a Dish   
   network recorder, a connection to a Roku, and occasional access by a   
   couple of tablets and cell phones. Ideally, I'd like to keep   
   everything on one LAN, but if this setup with the one router is likely   
   to have problems, is it possible to have two LANs, with some sort of   
   connections so that the computers in one LAN and communicate with   
   those in the other?   
      
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