Affordably Aggregating ISP Connections?

An anonymous reader writes "Has anyone setup a system to aggregate multiple ISP connections to form a high bandwidth site-to-site link? Load Sharing SCTP looked interesting, but it doesn't look like it has been widely adopted. Multi-Link PPP appears to be more widely supported for clients, but I can't find any good guides for setting up both sides of the connection for a site-to-site link. The hardware solutions I've found are expensive for a small business. Does anyone have experience using hardware solutions from Mushroom Networks (Virtual Leased Line, p2 of this document), Ecessa (site-to-Site Channel Bonding), or others?"

Comments

What are you really trying to do?

[BadAnalogyGuy]

What you have presented us with here is a "B C" problem. You want to achieve C, so you ask us how to do B. Unfortunately, you never specify what A is, so the best we can do is give you some pointers for B which are probably going to be irrelevant and useless to what you are really trying to achieve.

Most of the comments will probably be about trying to figure out what your A problem is. To that end, why don't you just get a faster line in the first place and forget about this line aggregation stuff you're asking about?

Re:Don't be so cheap

[adolf]

All of them?

Um, yeah: Whatever you say, kid.

We usually just use a Roadrunner account for the main office, just like all the other small business out there. It's faster and cheaper than a T1, and has better reliability than the PRI that handles our phones. (We also have a freebie account with a local WISP that we do some business with for manual fail-over, but we haven't had to use it in years.)