Dual Broadband Access???

[Citadel535]

Hey,

I have a pretty good cable modem connection but its reliability is sometimes culprit and I was wondering if there was a way to do this:

My bro wants to get another internet connection. I was thinking DSL but its not available yet, so he will get another cable modem. Our entire family is connecting through a Linksys router.

1. Will there be better speed since it connects to the same trunk/HFC/whosiwatsit anyway?
2. Is it possible to get a router that will tell which connection to use if available/pick the best connection or at least easily switch over?

Please let me know! Thanks! And yes we are both addicted to the Internet!

 

[JackMDS]

You might look here: Nexland 800 Turbo - Review

 

[MedicBob]

Kinda dumb thought here, bear with me...

Wouldn't you need 2 completely seperate cable connections to do this? Or are you just trying to set-up a back-up cable modem?

 

[Citadel535]

We want twice the speed (maybe) and/or redundancy. But my question is, do we get the same speed through the two modems as one since we are going through the same trunk?

That is why I wanted to have a cable modem plus a separate DSL connection. Whichever is faster would be the preferred connection or at least have a failover to maintain uptime.

Edit: BTW JackMDS, that is exactly what I was looking for. Now if only I can figure out if the speeds/connection will work out... THANKS!

Also, medicBob are u really a medic? so is my bro he is a paramedic!

 

[alrox]

I'm not sure if your cable company will sell you two lines/two modem connections to one house, but you can try. Also, if the line to your house is at fault, it will probably take both modems down with it.

 

[Citadel535]

Yes Cablevision will provide two lines! They are a vacuum for my money! As long as I get blazing fiber internet speed!

 

[lobadobadingdong]

On a broadband trunk everyone who is connected to that branch will share (broadband=many users using same data throughput) the total available bandwidth, if the problem you are having is when everyone in the neighborhood is on and you notice your thoughput drops, then it will not be likely that adding another cable modem will fix you up. Sorry to hear you can't get baseband (xdsl) in your area, 2 lines will exactly double your thoughput with baseband unlike broadband. You might get better performance if you just used one cable modem and subscribed to whatever plan offers data priority. That way your packets get priority over everyone elses packets in on the branch you belong to.

 

[JackMDS]

I don?t think that the Nexland that I mentioned will double the speed.

Doubling speed is not a process that can be achieved by you locally by ordering two or more accounts.. You need an ISP that is rigged for it, since without synchronicity on the ISP side the connections will not work as one fast connection.

The hardware that associated with it is much more expensive then the one that I mentioned.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

That's what I like about Jack he uses the kiss it methodology to networking I sometimes go overboard and overexplain things .
ditto on what he said.

 

[Daniel]

Originally posted by: JackMDS
I don?t think that the Nexland that I mentioned will double the speed.

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That's my understanding as well, it will do a fall over redundant connection or allow you to specify what internal IPs will use what connection but it won't just bind the 2 together for double the download rate.

 

[Fuzznuts]

www.midcore.co.uk has a piece of software called midpoint that will alow you to bundle any type of connection to make a bigger pipe in past for testing purpose i have used it with 2x512k adsl 2x64k isdn and 1 1024 cable it did what it said on the tin

its a bit of a ah heck to get setup how you want it but it will give your what you require + redunacy on the lines if one goes down the other will carry on. of course you are simply moving your point of failure to the software but if its not misson critical that shouldnt be a problem

 

[BML]

I run two Toshiba modems on Road Runner at my House.
One in my room and one in my roomates room.
Before this we shared one modem through a router and it was bad.
He was a Kazaa freak and would max our speeds out until it would knock of my IM and connection some times.
Now we have two modems one on each computer, and we have no problems at all.
After that i installed to nic cards on my windows xp machine and connected both modems to the machine.
Windows XP created what was called a bridge. You know the icon that shows each network connection,
it turned both of those icons into a bridged icon. I tested my speed and didnt find any speed increase but
i did find that i had more bandwith to work with. I could download twice as many things without losing any speed what so ever.

Now im not telling you this as a fact, im telling you this from my own personal tests and experiments.

 

[jonmullen]

Yea, do you remember those old dial-up setups that would have like 2 or four modems thus 2x of 4x your speed. Problem was you had to have an IPS that suppoted it.

 

[JackMDS]

Originally posted by: BMLNow we have two modems one on each computer, and we have no problems at all.

Do you have two modems on one account, or two accounts?

 

[Citadel535]

Well we were just going to add another modem for $20 more a month.

 

[PeeluckyDuckee]

Two cable modems to the server will not give you any redundancy if there's problem with the line. With cable and dsl together, you can get that failover support. How would you bind your web/ftp services though? Can you leave it as unspecified or use any available connection? What about if an email server was thrown into the mix as well?

This is interesting and would seem to complicate things. So on one nic you would have whatever router the attached modem's (dsl) is on as the default gateway, and same for the other? Or just a direct connection two modems to two nics.

Does XP/2000 have the capability to bind both phsyical connections into a single logical connection?