D-Link Load-Balancing Router: 2-in-1 DSL Router

Found this at the PC Express website:

“The DI-LB604 is the newest addition to our range of routers that includes the industry’s latest technology. It provides all the functionality needed to establish a reliable high-speed Internet link while at the same time protects past investments,” said Mr George Wong, Marketing Director of D-Link International Pte Ltd.

The Load-Balancing Router with features 2 WAN ports for load-balancing and a fast-acting fail-over mechanism for dropped Internet connections. 4 Ethernet ports provide wired connections to up to 4 computers. Thus, users can set up a high-performance network that offers the fastest and most reliable speeds, without sacrificing their past investments.

Advanced Network ProtectionWith SPI and NAT firewall with DOS attack protection, the DI-LB604 provides secure and reliable network connections. System logging, ACL and VPN pass-through protects the network against outside threats.

Easy Management and SetupThe DI-LB604 can be easily configured using its web-based management interface.

The DI-LB604 Link Load-Balancing Router will be available soon at all PC Express branches.

If from what I understand here is right, this means you can hook up two DSL accounts and combine them into one router and get an effective connection rate equivalent to the sum of both broadband connection.

So, I have an existing PLDT myDSL at 1.2Mbps and another Smart Bro account at 386Kbps. If I use the DLink DI-LB604 router, I could have 1.586Mbps connection speed on my network. If one is down, the other is still hooked up. Cool! I want one!

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

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41 Comments

Kiven says:

19 years ago

anybody with real life benchmarks/performance evals of this thing?

oops…google is your friend…. =)
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vance says:

19 years ago

ahhh…. wrong calculation! heheh, 386 ba ang smart bro kala ko kasi 128 lang yun eh ahahaha. I don’t care about them Bayantel na ako eh haha.

oh well astig if you have two DSL connection like say 2×512 KBps connection from two different providers like globe and PLDT astig…
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mish says:

19 years ago

I’m often leery of “appliances” like this… often turning out non-secure, feature-locked, and horribly broken down the line.

IMO you’re still better off with an old Pentium I class machine (or even lower) with 3 NICs… WAN1, WAN2, LAN, (or the optional 4th NIC for WLAN) doing all the goodies: loadbalancing, failover (CARP), auth, packet filtering (or “SPI” in the ad’s corpspeak), NAT, etc. Total Cost: laughable.

All this with OpenBSD and pf. Or if you’re a Linux guy, I’m pretty sure it’s also possible but I’m not familiar with the penguin-ish approach
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Dave Starr says:

19 years ago

I’m happy to see this device released and being publicized. Mish’s comment that there might be a better way with a dedicated server/network controller are fine, but it’s a network engineering project that the average blogger/small-time Internet business owner is not likely to have the skill set or time to implement. The D-Link solution is “plug and play”, so great for its intended market.

The issue is that for years and years we’ve all been operating “single string” … our business lives or dies based on one ISP. All ISPs will fail someday. The time has come, if we want to change a hobby activity into a sound business is develop ways to work around failures and D-Link’s offering is a great step forward.

Due to the way HTTP and the ‘Net in general works there is another advantage in load sharing. Most of the time spent waiting for a page to load is not caused by the raw speed of the connection or even the server serving the page. It’s caused by latency in all the other points along the network that packets have to transit. So 2 separate 265 kbps DSL connections could work out to be faster overall than 1 single 512 kbps “pipe” for example … because when one network drops to zero throughput due to some congestion, the other side may still be delivering packets. Alternating between all-half-all-half-all may add up to more total bits per hour than all-zero-all-zero-all.

Anyway, something to consider.
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Jess says:

18 years ago

Has anyone used it? Also, are there any other company that provides similar routers?
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bluenux says:

18 years ago

D-Link DI-LB604 is fake, no automatic backup if one connection fails, you have to manually remove the other wan connection enable to regain the other connection.
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Aki says:

18 years ago

If from what I understand here is right, this means you can hook up two DSL accounts and combine them into one router and get an effective connection rate equivalent to the sum of both broadband connection.

So, I have an existing PLDT myDSL at 1.2Mbps and another Smart Bro account at 386Kbps. If I use the DLink DI-LB604 router, I could have 1.586Mbps connection speed on my network. If one is down, the other is still hooked up. Cool! I want one

how do you configure two connection in 1?…

can u tell me pls T_T
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bluenux says:

18 years ago

mr or mrs aki, i told you that D-Link DI-LB604 is fake.
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moot says:

17 years ago

I think it just load balances but can’t do the additive bandwidth. It sounds difficult given the constraints of the TCP/IP protocol.
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ninetails says:

17 years ago

flash it with the latest firmware m0r0ns.
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