TP-Link SafeStream TL-480T+ 10/100 Broadband Desktop/Rackmount Loadbalance Router, 150M NAT throughput, 30k Concurrent Sessions, VLAN, Multi-NAT, 4 WAN Load balance or auto failover

I work at home, and due to the rotten cabling in my apartment building, neither Time Warner Cable nor Verizon DSL can do better than 80% uptime on any given day, both of them disconnect at random times, for short periods (3-4 minutes) to obscenely long outages (4-5 hours). So they're now both plugged in to this thing, along with two FreedomPop "Burst" 4G modems. Then my Asus RT-AC66U router in Access Point mode plugs in to the dedicated LAN port on the TP-LINK TL-R480T. GENIUS. 100% uptime, all the time! It was easy as pie to setup, and the "Bandwidth Based Routing" option makes it pretty easy to stretch the 10GB/month of the FreedomPop units across the entire month. Disable the "Application Optimized Routing" feature and webpages will load blazing fast, as the many requests for images and other assets that comprise a typical page will be distributed across all available WAN connections. This does interfere with some specific and unusual network applications, but if I run into one of those (has happened once in the month I've had this unit and I don't even remember what the app was), I just temporarily attach directly to the Wifi of the Verizon DSL modem/router (if the Verizon is up!)

This TP-Link TL-R480T+ is a really affordable 4 WAN router with a dedicated LAN port and Console port (which I'll probably never use). Setting this up was a snap. I recommend if you're load balancing and want to use a download manager to combine the bandwidth of both WAN's to un-check "Enable Application Optimized Routing" under Advanced, Load Balancing, Configuration.Keep in mind you have to have a source that allows multiple connections for this to work. It won't double your bandwidth on everything you do, but if you want to try to get more then bit-torrent and download managers can help increase the throughput. This router has some basic QoS features and VPN features that I've yet to try because I just bought this to balance two DSL connections, in which it does perfectly.This may not be the best and most feature rich multiple WAN router on the market but so far it's doing it's job nicely. I do wish the LAN information for bandwidth consumption was in Megabytes or Gigabytes instead of just Bytes, it's kind of a pain to convert but not the end of the world. It's just minor nuances that keeps it from being perfect. I'd still recommend it however.

I'm very pleased with the unit; I use it strictly as a failover device between 2 WAN sources. It allows pinging of a stable internet location (I use Google) to determine the viability of each WAN; if doing so fails on the primary it switches to the secondary.Customer support is overall poor; the unit is a very unusual, and frankly, I don't think they sell enough of them for all the customer service reps to understand them......and, in their defense, there is a lot to understand.Various versions of the firmware disallow the config file from a previous version to be imported....in other words, they are not backward compatible. New versions will likely require a rebuild of the setup. Keep screen shots of the old one.Mine ran for about 5 years and then more / less quit; I had a spare of the same version so transition was seamless. My new spare is a new version, and I suspect it won't be quite so easy next time.Overall, I'm very happy with the unit, as it serves an unusual need elegantly.

Absolute turd of a router. Very little configuration options. Can’t even manually release a DHCP client.It is flakey, connections drop. The login to the router UI often fails with bad username and password error, even though I am pasting in a password that just worked.

Using it to load balance two LTE data connectionsthat I use as my rural home internet. So far so good. Setup was pretty easy although I do have networking experience.I put my linksys wireless router in bridge mode and used the DHCP on the tp-link. It load balances the two connections nicely so far, time will tell. One of my LTE routers dies randomly, so this should hopefully help with that and also to if I want to have a big download of one of the connections.I am glad I got this model over the 470 as it can supposedly handle more connections. The CPU does run pretty high and spikes to 60% quite often and does hit 100% from time to time. I'm also glad I picked this over the linksys and Cisco. I wasn't wanting to spend over $100 on this type of device as I've already spent so much on the LTE setups.

The router works as advertised, but has the following limitations/quirks which I wish it did not have:* The built-in URL filtering only works with HTTP. No proper per-domain HTTPS filtering support. This is a major nuisance as the world continues to transition away from HTTP. A lot of the blocking is useless, and the Application Control Database is very out of date. There is an option to upload a new one, but there is no new one available, the existing one cannot be downloaded, and the format is not documented anywhere. You can probably extract the file using something like binwalk, reverse engineer it, modify it, and upload a new one, but that should not be necessary.* The clickable table headers that allow sorting do not show up on Chrome (many versions) on Mac OS X (10.11 - 10.13)* Some of the tables have silly sort defaults (IP packets: lowest to highest), are are small and cannot be resized* Although you can name and group devices, the UI insists on showing IP or MAC addresses most places instead of names, requiring extra mousing around or consulting printouts or another pane to determine exactly what device is doing what. Any device should have mouseover hovertext that shows MAC/IP/Name, or something.* Not compatible with open source router firmware like dd-wrt, OpenWrt, or Tomato, so you're stuck with all the above limitations.