Peplink Balance One Core 600Mbps Dual-WAN Router (BPL-ONE-CORE)

After Linksys and Cisco had failed and broken, I tried to find something different. Balance by Peplink has been an excellent choice. I have a rather demanding setting between different operators and I do need some extra arrangements to secure WEB connection. This Balance one has managed to secure connection even when some of the operators have failed.

Very useful device, Settings interface is so simple in use, quick installation and lot of tools to manage - monitor your internet connections.Dashboard also is the best part of this device.

Our router was going out. The WAN connection appeared to be dropping at an increasing rate. After studying the logs I found that it happens when the network is under load. After some calls with the ISP who insisted that their modem was up and running. I concluded it was time for a new network router. I installed these at various of my clients and love these Peplink routers for their super easy user interface and rock solid performance.Still I balked at the price for our own home network, researched the usual consumer grade routers by Asus, Linksys. These things look like stealth bombers and have an endles spec sheet with options no one needs. Knowing that these consumer routers on average start to fail after abour 3 years and the time it would take me to do a proper setup I spend the extra $100 and bought what I recommend my clients. A peplink Balance (I bought the core since we already have Ubiquity Unifi WiFi AP's). Glad I did, installation was quick and easy including VPN service so we can use public wifi while traveling and are still protected by our own encrypted tunnel to our home network.Connected a At&T LTE modem via USB and set it up as a back-up ISP.Improvement was instantanious. Browsing the web is much more responsive. I don't care that much about the speed test results (witch are above spec). What really matters is the quick response when clicking links in the internet. Pages now load in a blink of an eye.Sure enough after 24 hours I checked the router log and did not find a single dropped WAN connection from my cable ISP.

I've been a Peplink customer for several years, initially starting with a Peplink Balance 20. I wanted a good VPN router, to allow me manage my network from anywhere, while providing good firewall throughput, stability and protection. I am an IT professional with over 30 years of experience and well versed in Cisco and other major router manufacturers. After doing extensive research, I chose the Peplink Balance 20. Sitting behind my Comcast router, the Peplink gave me everything I wanted, and more. The few times I needed tech support, they were very responsive. They listen to their customers, and routinely incorporate user-requested feature enhancements. The Balance 20 served me well for years, but recently my ISP (Comcast) increased my internet speed above the 150mbps limit of the Balance 20. So based my great experience with the Balance 20, I upgraded to the Balance One Core. The Balance One Core gives me the same interface as the Balance 20, the same features and stability, but with faster speeds (600mbps) and more Ethernet ports. I am extremely happy with the Balance One Core. Even with a large number of Firewall rules, I am getting full speed, with no degradation in performance. The VPN features are amazing and allow me to connect from anywhere. AND let us not forget the great Dual-WAN features! Having had 2 ISPs (Cable and a DSL backup), over the years my Peplink has flawlessly provided failover between WAN connections, whenever there was an outage, and we never noticed anything had changed. This is a quality product from a quality company that really cares about its customers. For security, performance, reliability and great feature sets, you can't do any better than Peplink.

Wow. I can't tell you how disappointed we are with this product. We purchase this to replace a very old, but very reliable, Linksys RV082, mainly because the RV082 only has 100Mbps ports. At first, we loved the Balance One - fast, easy to configure, great options, and reliable...for about 6 months. Then we started having problems with the router dropping packets, which would increase over a period of an hour or two until it was not passing any traffic at all. The only solution was to reboot. Initially, this issue occurred about once every 6 weeks, but the frequency increased until it was about once a day, some days once every 2.5 hours!!!!We have tried to work with support, but they are saying we are overloading the device with sessions, even though 90% of those sessions are doing nothing. To emphasize how wrong this is, this failure never occurs during peak periods, and in fact, at times has failed on the weekends or late at night when nobody is working (we are a 9-5) shop and this also does not take into account that during one of the failures, I unplugged everything except my laptop to test and normal performance was never restored. The only solution Peplink has provided was to purchase the a faster unit, 3.5 times the cost of this one and since they can't give us convincing reasons to believe this one is failing due to being overused, why would we spend much more money on the same vendor?The old RV082 never choked like this device. Anyway, we've spent countless hours trying to resolve the problem and we're done. We're going to find a replacement and sell these (feel kind of bad selling them to anyone, really).