@RTouris, could be done, but you should enable MAXtream to avoid Hidden Node Problems. Of course, MAXtream adds protocol overhead occupying a (small) part of the bandwidth.

@R1D2 Thanks for the quick reply...Do you have any suggestions as to how the load balancing router would be properly setup in such a ...setup?

@RTouris, not sure what you mean, isn't the load balancer already in place serving the subscriber lines down to the common CPE AP?

@R1D2 There's a thought to install a load balancing router on the remote site, which in turn will be connected to the two CPE510s...there's no such equipment installed yet.

So you mean two clients CPEs connected to the load balancer providing a wireless uplink to a single CPE in AP mode which is connected to DSL? IMO this could work only with two DSL modems / DSL routers connected to the main CPE (AP mode), since AFAIK a load-balancer needs two different WAN networks, either two PPPoE uplinks (transfer networks to the modem) or two separate IPs in the same network (if using routers). If I still didn't get it, can you please post a short diagram?

But what excatly is your goal with such a setup? Both CPEs in STA mode would need to share the same 5 GHz channel to the AP anyway.

@R1D2 That's my exact initial thought...I'd essentially be asking from the other active WiFi systems to overprovide need-for-traffic on that specific 20mhz channel width which in turm would theoretically allocate more airtime between the one AP and two CPEs in STA mode. On the load balancing front that would only be installed on the receiving end of the field (remote site) to combine the streams of the two CPEs in STA mode. Still trying to figure out if this makes sense at all though ;)

The way it's usually done is this:

But I don't know whether TL-R470/480T can be configured in this way – it would require to configure one side as a load-balanced WAN and the other as a load-balanced LAN. As far as I know the TL-R470/480T only support load-balancing on the WAN network.

...hence the necessity of what this thread originally is all about ;)

Pretty sure the load-balancing router can be used on a single-configuration mode with two WANs serving a sole LAN though...

Right, but it won't work with only one AP. Even if it would, the AP still would not get more AirTime than what is left by other devices active on this channel. The only change I see is to use faster CPEs, but still the AC-mode CPEs are not available on the European market.

@R1D2 Which is why I'm thinking of deploying twice as many CPEs in STA mode to force overprovisioning of AirTime. A chicken and egg situation surely, not at all sure if it works though?