Multiple High Speed connections

[MattCo]

For a month or two I will have access to a cable and DSL connection, and I am wondering is there a way to combine the two for double the bandwidth. I looked at TechNet and WinXP simple network bridging but I was wondering if you guys have any ideas. I do know there is a corporate product that would accomplish what I am looking for but I don't have $50k to drop on it. Thanks,

-MC

 

[MedicBob]

There are a few routers that can use 2 lines, but only as failover. I haven't seen any consumer level routers that can use both services to double the bandwidth.

 

[spidey07]

never used it but this product is "supposed" to be able to do it.

http://www.nexland.com/

 

[skyking]

single computer, or multiple computer setup? If you are talking a few computers on a lan, take yours off the router and hook it to the fastest connection. Very difficult to do the other things, but this is easy and you get the max bandwidth.

 

[MattCo]

You would think that someone has come up with this before. It seems like a computer with 3 NICs running some homemade linux app would be the way to go.

-MC

(For some reason the nexland link isn't working for me)

 

[isaacmacdonald]

There are actually load balancing routers that take advantage of multiple connections. It's not exactly network raid, but it should increase overall throughput but it won't do anything about latency. If you're currently hitting an upload celing, this should have a pretty big impact. For download, it might be negligable.

 

[spidey07]

The problem lays in how IP works and how IP routing works. IP is like a phone number, it identies you. The Internet then understand how to get to you via routing. Even if it had two paths to your single IP address, only one path would be chosen.