Peplink AP Pro AC Setup

Peplink AP Pro AC Setup

Tutorial - Setting up a Balance20X!

In this video, Peter West shows you how to set up a Balance 20X!

Enabling cellular:

Click "Network" in the menu
In the 'Connection Name' area, click on Cellular

Go to Operator Settings and set it to Custom
Peter sets the APN name to "atlanwifi"
Enable Data Roaming by clicking the checkbox, set to 'Any Countries'
Select 'Save' at the bottom right. Select Apply Changes in the menu.

Setting up LAN:

Click "Network" in the menu
Select Untagged LAN Network Settings
He changes the IP Adress to 10.1.10.1
Changes DHCP IP Range to "10.1.10.2 - 10.1.10.253"
Save and Apply

Adding device to InControl2:

In InControl, go to settings and click 'Add Devices'
Enter serial number

To support SpeedFusion Cloud:

In the menu, go to Settings and click Firmware Policy. Make sure the correct firmware is being used, so in Peter's case 8.1.1

How to use the device with SF Cloud:

Go back to the router
Select SpeedFusion Cloud in the menu, and click "Get Your Activation Key Now"
Select 'ACTIVATE via Care Plans'

This will bring you to all your routers, so then select the group for this device
Select checkbox, then click Activate
Now the device is activated to SpeedFusion Cloud

Choosing Cloud Location:

go back to router
on the menu, go back to SpeedFusion Cloud
Select 'Choose Cloud Location'. He selects Automatic for Cloud Location. hit save.
Once you hit save, under SpeedFusion Cloud net to Cloud Location, and SFC button will appear. Click SFC.

On this page, you can change your settings.
At the top of Tunnel Option, hit the '+' button and it will add a profile. Then, go to Tunnel Name and choose your desired name. For example, Peter creates two profiles: WAN Smoothing and FEC
For the WAN Smoothing profile, go to WAN Smoothing option in the Tunnel Options, and he selects 'Normal' for Overall Redundancy Level

For the FEC profile, go to Forward Error Correction option in Tunnel Options, and he selects 'Low'
Save and Apply Changes

Optimize Cloud Application

Go back to SpeedFusion Cloud in the Menu, and Select 'Optimize Cloud Application'
For SFC WAN Smoothing, peter adds 'Google Workspace', 'Lifesize', 'Microsoft 365', and 'Zoom' under Cloud Application
Save and apply

Outbound Policy

In the menu, go to 'Network'
Go to Outbound Policy in left menu, select Add Rule
Peter sets Service name to 'Video Stream', then sets the destination IP to 5.4.2.3
He then changes the Algorithm to 'Priority'
sets the Highest Priority to only "Cloud: SFC (3 - FEC)"
Then he changes the setting ' When No Connections are Available' to Fall-through to Next Rule.
Save and apply

Enabling SpeedFusion between MBX and 20X

(Note: If you plugged in WAN, that would bond with your Cellular which would be how you achieve SpeedFusion Cloud.)

For his particular set up, he instead wants to do SpeedFusion between an MBX and the Balance 20x.
First, go back to IC2 and click on the Balance 20X. Now, click edit

Now scroll down to 'Find My Peplink Service' and hit ON.
Under that, 'Find My Peplink Address', he changes it to 20xdemo.
(20xdemo.mypep.link)
Scroll down and save

Go back to group settings, in the menu go to PepVPN/SpeedFusion and click configuration
Enable SpeedFusion Bonding by clicking the checkbox

Scroll down and select 'Add Profile', select Star and click Next
Then you will want to choose your Balance 20X as your Device
Remove all public IP's from "Hub device IP Addresses / Host Names" and keep the 20xdemo.mypep.link

After you click Next, in End Point Devices, he will select the MBX by clicking the checkbox, then click Next
In Profile Options, set Profile Name to SpeedFusion. Then click Next, Finish, and then Save.

Finished

Now, go back to the Balance 20X and refresh the page. You should now have two sets of tunnels, SpeedFusion Cloud and PepVPN with SpeedFusion.

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