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  1. Broadbond! on Affordably Aggregating ISP Connections? · · Score: 1

    I have written a solution which does exactly this -- http://broadbond.org/

  2. Broadbond on Working With 2 ISPs For Home Networking? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I produce a system that can do this. It's called Broadbond.

    You can bond several ADSL lines, even from independent providers, and it will deliver the combined upstream and downstream bandwidth of the two. All traffic is load balanced across the two lines and can also be transparently compressed. The throughput of the lines is automatically measured to determine the optimal load balancing. Differences in latency on the two lines are compensated for.

    The catch (there's always a catch!) is that you need to have a partnering system co-located with an ISP to handle the far end of the tunnel -- although I can also provide this if you would prefer.

    The system is available as a software package that you can license to run on Linux or OpenBSD and also pre-installed and pre-configured on a couple of small embedded Linux boxes -- very low power (under 5W), no moving parts, good for up to 90Mbit/sec.

    I bond two ADSL lines to my office, 4.4Mbit and 9.6Mbit, and I get around 13.5Mbit on file transfers.

    If you're interested, contact me (details on the broadbond.org web page).

  3. Re:Ridiculous UK power plugs on Taking Apart An Airport Extreme Base Station · · Score: 1

    You're entirely right. The UK 3-pin mains power sockets and plugs are a piece of really clever engineering that isn't truly appreciated because it's such an everyday item.

  4. Re:GO STIK YOUR HEAD IN A PIG on Radius w/ MySQL? · · Score: 0, Troll

    finally someone on SLASHDOT has the sense to give a SENSIBLE REPLY to a STUPID QUESTION. waht the FCUK WARE they TLAKING ABOOT?!

  5. Changi International on Airports As Secure As 802.11b · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Changi International airport in Singapore has free access to the Internet over 802.11b in large parts of the airport. They also have modules with a bunch of power sockets and RJ45 jacks in the center of numerous desks in case you're low on power or limited to wired Ethernet.

    Changi International rules in general, actually.

  6. Re:Shows Nothing. on x86 vs PPC Linux benchmarks · · Score: 1

    Except the MMX Pentium is faster than the Classic Pentium, since its L1 cache was double the size.

  7. Re:Hi People on Parts of the Unreal Engine to be Opened · · Score: 0

    May I ask why you did this?

  8. Performance of 3com vs Becker drivers on 3Com Releases GPL'd Drivers · · Score: 2

    Does anyone know what the performance of the 3Com driver is compared with Donald Becker's driver? I've got a lot of 3Com 3C905B cards (supported by both drivers), and I'm wondering if it'd be worth sticking with Donald's driver, or moving to the 3Com one.