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Multiple Broadband Connections at Home?

Posted by Cliff on from the hardware-bonding-solutions dept.

Another Web Monkey asks: "I am a typical geek. After working all day on the computer, I come home and get right back on the internet. But unlike my corporate office, I don't have multiple internet connections. I know there are others not happy with a single DSL/Cable connection, but can't afford T1's. Some dual broadband routers are starting to appear on the market. I want to know what others are doing to satisfy, even if temporarily, their cravings for faster connections at home? Has anyone tried these routers, or have another solution?"

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  1. Re:I was thinking about this by droyad · · Score: 5, Informative

    Good idea, wrong technology

    Multi-link PPP must be configured on both sides of the connection, you can't have Multi-link PPP to share a connection to two different ISPs.

    Would would work is having a multi-homed host with 1 connection to the LAN and two to the internet. The NAT firewall would have to be configured with 2 external IP addresses and be programmed to load ballance.

    Remember you will have 2 global IP addresses. This means that if you only have one connection open, only one of the links can be ever used. This is because of the way TCP works, it uses the global IP address to identify a connection. So it would not be possible to download a large file over both connections sumiltaniously.