| | |  | Computer & Multi-use Cases | Home » » » » » DUOLINKS SW24 2PORT DUAL WAN LOAD BALANCING ROUTER | | | | | | | Description: | | 2 x 10/100Base-TX WAN, 4 x 10/100Base-TX LAN | | | Features: | |
• Intelligent Load Balancing : Use two WAN ports simultaneously to increase the available bandwidth.
• Multiple Connection Options : Use broadband access from any broadband provider including leased T1 l
• Secure Management : Secure access to the configuration interface locally from within your network or
• SPI Firewall : Industry standard protection for any network using built-in Stateful Packet Inspectio
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| 1.96 pounds | | Package Length:
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| 3.85 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
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25 of 25 found the following review helpful:
 Solid Load Balancing OptionOct 13, 2008
By Margaret
It's hard to find a load balancing router for a smaller business that is simple and easy to integrate into the network, provides security and the necessary backup connectivity that is beneficial to a business without breaking the bank. Recently, we purchased the Duolinks SW24 2PORT Dual Wan Load Balancing Router for less than $140. It was promptly delivered and easy to setup right out of the box. We didn't have to call in a "pro" to integrate the unit into our network. Basically, over 95% of the work our business processes require internet connectivity through portals and websites. We need a solid router that provides security as well as uninterrupted internet connectivity. This router does the job. We're using it with cable and DSL. The unit easily balances our traffic across these connections. During the few months it has been in service, at least one of the connections has had trouble or failed but with the router in place, it was a seamless blip that did not impact our business. The unit "failed over" to the active connection without interrupting the network. The router is easily configured through a browser interface and has many different functions we are still learning and utilizing. It provides a good firewall for security as well as the ability to block inappropriate traffic. We're extremely happy with our choice and look forward to learning more about the router and its capabilities. All this makes it extremely affordable for the home or small to medium business that doesn't need the complicated Cisco routers and the highly paid contractors needed to install and maintain them.
18 of 19 found the following review helpful:
 Didn't work for meOct 24, 2009
By Jeff W. Eschman
I bought this router for our small office... we depend heavily on reliable internet connectivity, and have incoming cable (primary, DHCP) and DSL (backup, PPPoE) connections.
Setup was fairly straightforward (I'm no networking expert, but have set up 8 or 10 other routers), and we were up and running in under an hour. I didn't use load balancing, because our cable is much, much faster than the DSL... we'd rather just use that whenever it's available, and failover to the DSL only when the cable goes down. The SW24 seemed to handle link "health checks" and automatic failover just fine.
Where we had problems though was on more mundane NAT routing functionality. We had frequent dropped SSL connections and browsing failures (IE "cannot load the page"). Invariably, these were momentary failures, and a browser refresh (or re-logging in to secure sites) would immediately succeed... but when it happens on an hourly basis to multiple users, it's just not tolerable. Syswan tech support was responsive and helpful, and we determined that it was most likely related to a DNS caching problem in the SW24. Passing internet DSN servers (openDNS or Level3) to our DHCP clients (instead of just giving them the router's 192.168.1.1 address as the only DNS server) reduced the frequency of dropped connections, but didn't solve the problem.
Tech support suggested a new/beta firmware that allows the router's internal DNS caching to be disabled. This firmware was supposed to be emailed to me, but wasn't, and I decided I was tired of messing with it. So after fooling with this router and tolerating unstable internet connectivity for several weeks, I gave up, returned the SW24, and bought a Peplink 20L. Peplink just worked straight out of the box... much happier with it.
Obviously others have had better luck with this router, but for whatever reason, it didn't work reliably in our situation.
8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
Great dual-homed router; fantastic customer supportAug 26, 2009
By Shane
This does exactly what it claims to do, and does it well. I have two internet connections, and this lets me use the combined bandwidth reliably. The firmware is difficult to work with, but it's well organized and I can't really see how it can be improved given all the very granular options that are available. The VPN connection works very well, but you do have to purchase the client after the trial period is over. Fortunately, it's not expensive.
When I ran into a problem with advanced configurations, it took me no time at all to get a technical support person on the line. Better yet, they didn't stick me with some first-level tech. Instead, they connected me directly with someone that knew *everything* about the router and the most recent version of the firmware. They walked me through the advanced options, and even offered to log in remotely when I couldn't solve the problem myself. When all was said and done, they spent a couple of hours on the phone with me and were amazingly patient the entire time. They even followed up to make sure it was working properly. I wish more companies offered this level of support. If you're looking for a dual-homed router, this is the one!
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
With a little help...Mar 09, 2009
By Bugabago
After a little work and help from some tech support, I am totally happy with this router.
My setup: I have 2 DSL lines into my house. I set it up without too much headache. I set each DSL modem to "bridge mode" and then I setup the SW24 router for each WAN port to be PPPoE and entered my DSL username & password for each WAN port. I found plenty of help for this online by Googling.
After setup, I left everything else the default and the router would invariably "pick" one WAN port over the other and I would see 99% traffic on one WAN port (I didn't see any rhyme or reason as to which port it used).
I emailed support and gave them the username & password to login to my router (I turned on "remote setup" in my router to give them access). Within 24 hours, they had logged in and changed some settings, and presto-magico everything is working great!
I expected a little work to get going, but their email support took care of the things I was stuck on. I would recommend this, especially if you are comfortable with tinkering with network stuff. Allow a few hours to get it working and possibly a few more days to get the kinks worked out.
By the way, I also schedule the router to reboot every night while I am asleep. I have no idea if this helps, but I've never had to force a reboot any other time (unless I update a setting).
8 of 9 found the following review helpful:
so far so goodDec 22, 2008
By S. Schoenherr
"Technology Freak"
short on time, short review.
I am overall happy with this product. I especially like the email notification feature if one of the WANS goes down.
One thing odd about it is that I have the balancing set to 50% for each device but the actual usage tends to be 96% WAN1 and 4% WAN2. This could be because some of my stuff depends on the STATIC IP (WEBSERVER) of WAN1 and would need to use that interface, but I don't think I generate that much traffic. Our pleasure surfing and other work related Internet usage can and should go out on either connection. I haven't yet figured out how this thing works regarding this. When I connect a single computer or device to the Internet, is that IP address given the same WAN resource for the entire session, or is it based on individual programs (traffic types) or ports? I am really not sure. Like, when I turn on a computer, is it using WAN1 the whole session for email and everything else, or may it be using WAN1 for Firefox and WAN2 for email. Or does each request get balanced out on WAN1 or WAN2, say, in a single Firefox instance. This would be nice to understand how it manages traffic.
All I can say is that it works and it works well. If I pull the plug on one connection it almost instantly jumps to the second. Sure, VoIP calls are dropped due to the nature of VoIP if it is using WAN1 and WAN1 goes off during a call. But then Vonage connects right up to WAN2 for the next call.
I am a computer person by trade and it was average as far as difficulty setting it up for such a product. I think the common folk may need some help optimizing it somewhat or even just getting it to work right.
I like it and recommend it.
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