Piste Basher wrote:
Ah I see, you were including the possibilities for wifi WAN connections and USB dongle WANS in your list.

If you only have one WAN connection (presumably it's an ethernet one) then that's the only one that needs to be enabled. As above, if you don't have more than one then there's nothing to "balance".

edinburgh wrote:
This is a known bug on Draytek products that they report something as enabled that is disabled and vice versa, but this confusion comes from Draytek referring to as a default option. So, essentially, when you see '0', it's default, but then this default can be either 'on' or 'off', depending on the function (see further explanation below).

To be honest: in relation to the management of your line, a lot of depends on what is enabled/disabled at the exchange: you can try to change some things and they won't have any effect at all.

If you want to know an actual state of things: my recommendation is to get a different router.

To get Draytek to *attempt* to switch on/off bitswap, you can have to enter the following command:

vdsl optn bitswap on

Please note that if it's reported '0' means that it's default (which is on); 1 is on; 2 is off. So, effectively, there are three options here, not two: default, on, off, where for default = on (but when it comes to other options, default can be off, even though it's displayed as '0').

edinburgh wrote:
Well, you could try and look it up. It says clearly in the manual - which I quoted here - that it's either on or off, and that the default option is on. The syntax is what in the manual quotes and I'm not making this up. The values are: on, on and off.

Other than that, I'm unsure what it is that you want to achieve here. Also, remember that your line will be managed dynamically and so depending on the connection quality, the exchange will apply specific settings, one of which is bitswap. By the looks of it, you already have bitswap enabled (which is its default value).

Why do you need bitswap anyway? Do you have any problems with the connection quality?

If you're unsure what you're doing (which kind of makes me think is the the case here), I'd stay away from changing any DSL related settings as you can easily make the line inoperable.