2x BT Infinity Connections - Bonding?

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Hey there,

Preface:
I live far from my nearest exchange and as a result can only achieve around 16Mb down and 2Mb up (though this is often closer to 13Mb down)

This simply isn't enough bandwidth for a house with a Smart TV in each room, multiple laptops and me gaming, so I've ordered a second BT Infinity connection which is due to be installed on the 19th.

My plan was to just use the second BT Infinity connection for myself alone, however, I am wondering if there is a way to bond the connections to effectively double the download/upload rates?

I currently have an ASUS N66U router and Huaewei HG612 modem (which I haven't unlocked and done anything with yet) which supposedly has WAN Bonding, whether this has what I need, I don't know.
I expect I'll receive a BT Smart Hub with the new order.

Any suggestions or advice?
Does BT even support this / will it work on their network?

I do have a good amount of networking and linux experience, so don't hold back :)
 
You can't really do bonding unless it's supported by the upstream provider or you use a 3rd party provider (or VPS) to provide that service for you. AAISP support bonding connections but since you've already ordered the line you're probably tied into a contract now.

You can, however, do load balancing which will give you pretty much what you want (increased bandwidth). Just be careful that you get a router that supports something like source based load balancing or hash based load balancing. Otherwise you can see issues browsing websites as your external IP address keeps changing. I think Draytek support this.
 
I did think as much re: upstreams need to support it and have it configured on their end.

My area isn't serviced by AAISP unfortunately.

Yes, looked at load balancing and was wondering how the issue of external IP changing is handled, I suppose a proper load balancer or supported router would be required to deal with that.
 
No worries. Not sure how useful all the solutions are in this situation but certainly something to go off.
 
If you can get BT, you should be able to get AAISP. They are reasonably expensive though! (you do get what you pay for).
 
You can load balance, that's about it. Your single-threaded performance will be equal to the maximum throughput of a single connection - but seeing as your objective is to support multiple devices this is unlikely to be a problem in your use case.
 
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