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ADSL Bandwidth Aggregation w/ Multiple Accounts?
kernel_panic writes "Okay, I've been reading up on combining two or more SDSL connections together to give you one big fat pipe, but I haven't seen any references to doing this w/ ADSL. This place even manufactures a nifty little hardware device (ePipe) that combines two WAN ports for the aggregate sum. I've seen the Netopia 7000 Series routers support this capability as well, w/ an add-on card, but all of these places only mention accomplishing this w/ SDSL accounts. I've seen a lot of info on bandwidth load balancing, but I want bandwidth aggregation (inverse multiplexing). Has anyone had any experience doing this kind of thing w/ your Linux/BSD gateway boxen?"
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,14443,00.asp
The Pro800turbo can use the two broadband connections in several different ways. Each connection can be designated as a normal or backup connection. This can be great for spreading out large, multiple connections. In normal mode, the Pro800turbo performs load balancing, spreading the Internet traffic over the two connections. If instead you designate one connection as the primary and the other as the backup, the backup takes over only when the primary connection goes down. (Since each of the two broadband connections has a different IP address, you cannot combine the bandwidth into one superfast connection, however.)