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Combining 2 Broadband connections?

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aroc8702

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Is there a such thing as a Bandwith Combiner? I currently have 384/128 dsl (far away from the CO). I can now get 1024/128 cable. I'm locked into my dsl contract for another 8 months so Ill have two services. I swear I saw a post on these forms that contained a link for some router that allows you to combine bandwith. Was I dreaming? Will I get full output of both services? Or is the any software that would allow me to switch between the two? TIA
 
Any router that would seamlessly combine the two would cost more than just abandoning the service for 8 months. I suggest you either wait it out or just get the faster service and ignore the other one.
 
The least expensive router I found that would allow you to do this is $320.00 at Tiger Direct. It is the Nexland - Pro800 Turbo Home Router/Dual Line.
 
Depending on what you're trying to do, you may not need hardware. Windows XP should allow you to bridge multiple incoming connections....assuming you have Windows XP mind you.
 
I'm under the impression that bridging ISP connections assumes some measure of cooperation with the ISP, similar to Multilink for dial-up lines.
 
could you have two routers with a cross over cable between them?? but i guess you would have to have seperate modems and lines, and just double of everything, soo sorry stupid post

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I think James2k is talking about having 2 broadband lines come into separate NIC's then make the 2 NIC's a bridge. XP will let you bridge 2 network connections. I'm VERY interested to know if that would work that way.

could you have two routers with a cross over cable between them??
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No... If you had 2 Routers with their own Modems, and no other hardware or software to split up the traffic between them, then the router assigned as the Gateway in DHCP would be the only one that would handle Internet requests.

You could set up a computer as a proxy though. Then have certian programs assigned to use that Proxy and the rest to default to the router assigned by DHCP.

For example tell Kazaa to use the proxy within the programs options. Then have IE set up normally.

I Know that's not the right way to do it, i'm just thinking out lout. Well, not really out-loud... More like thinking with my finders and keyboard. Anyway, i'll stop typing now.
 
You can get Linux box with multipath routing for this, thought if you haven't got much *nix experience you will need someone to set up it for you.
 
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