Using 2 DSL line in a single LAN

[holyghost]

Can I use 2 DSL line in 1 LAN? Can I join them up and make as one? Will that make the internet connection faster? How can I make the workstation automatically switch line if one DSL line is down?

 

[Tazanator]

umm comercial router but salty price tag. normally if DSL line drops it is a phone company problem they power the lines themselves, and second DSL line will drop too. Most people use T1 line at that point and second T1 line is thru different company for redundancy. What you want can be done but the price is going to be high the commercial router wil be ~$2300 for router and 2 DSL cards but a T1 router can be as cheap as $1500. the other side is the lines the 2 DSL in my area is ~$90 a month a single T1 line is ~$300 so a lot more money but a lot more bandwidth.

 

[JackMDS]

May be this can Help.

Link to: Combining two Internet Connections - Combining Bandwidth, or and Load Balancing of two Internet connections.

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[holyghost]

Originally posted by: Tazanator
umm comercial router but salty price tag. normally if DSL line drops it is a phone company problem they power the lines themselves, and second DSL line will drop too. Most people use T1 line at that point and second T1 line is thru different company for redundancy. What you want can be done but the price is going to be high the commercial router wil be ~$2300 for router and 2 DSL cards but a T1 router can be as cheap as $1500. the other side is the lines the 2 DSL in my area is ~$90 a month a single T1 line is ~$300 so a lot more money but a lot more bandwidth.

You mean I need a high end router if I want my 2 DSL lines to be redundant?

 

[JackMDS]

No, you need $50.

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[miston]

From EZlan:
Let assume that you have two 3Mb/sec. connections each capable to download at 300KB/sec.

With Combined Bandwidth you should be able to download one file at 600KB/sec.

With Load Balancing one single file will not exceed download speed of 300KB/sec. However you can download 2 files at 300KB/sec. or 3 files at 200KB/sec. etc.



I don't understand how Load Balancing can let you d/l 3 files at 200KB/s? That 3rd file would have to get 100K from each of the broadband source....THAT would be Combined Bandwidth.

am I missing something?