Useing two braodband connections?

[Massimo]

If have two Broadband connections in the house can I use both at once to download faster?

If so howw?


Thanks.

[tystar]

They need to be connected using different methods. Ie wireless & wired. Then goto your internet connections and bridge them.

I've done this myself and it works fine.

[Pepp77]

If have two Broadband connections in the house can I use both at once to download faster?

If so howw?


Thanks.

Only if you have them bonded together by the ISP.

There are routers that can do load balancing, but these dont do exactly what I suspect you want.

With a bonded solution both internet connections are seen by your computer as one connection and so all the bandwidth of both connections can be used on a single download, with a load balancing router each connection is treated seperately so a single download can still only use the maximum bandwidth of one of the connections, it just means the second connection would then be available for a second download.

So say you have two 8meg connections.

With bonded you could download one file at a maximum of 16mbps, but with the load balancing solution you would be able to download one file at a maximum of 8mbps and then a second file at a maximum of 8mbps as well.


They need to be connected using different methods. Ie wireless & wired. Then goto your internet connections and bridge them.

I've done this myself and it works fine.

Really - this is new information to me. Have you got any links to information on how it works as I would be interested too.

[Massimo]

Think i have a wireless card somewhere in the house i will test it out useing wired and wireless and bridgeing them togeather and se if speed improve :)

[Spaceboy]

Pepp speaks the truth! The only way to use both connections as a single fat pipe is to have them both provided by the same isp and have them join them together.

[tystar]

Oooppsss my bad I mis read it. Although u can bridge it to use 2 seperate connections but that is for using 2 seperate networks as 1.

[Hax]

For BT across their 21CN network, they do not officially support MLPPP anymore. Some ISP's may still offer it though but is bound to be expensive.

The best you are going to get without MLPPP is per packet balancing. Must use same ISP for all lines. They must allow your IP's to traverse any of the pipes and route your packets how you specify. Your router will have a hard time though as packets inevitably will arrive out of order.

Another solution is to run a multilink type of vpn to a router/server you have access to for it to 'join' it together again at the far end.

I have looked into this a lot and I can't find a reliable solution. Yet.. Hmm, I wonder how much it would be to get 1U of rack space at the exchange and be a private LLU (Probably too much...)

[BringTheRain]

I have line bonding with be. It's expensive. But no cable here :(