Advice on adding a second internet connection to a business

joey1211

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We have an ADSL line with a download speed of around 6.5Mb/s, with a static ip address.

I have been asked to look into adding a second internet connection as our current connection is sometimes unusable due to clients sending us large files via email etc.

So, I'm thinking of getting a Draytek Vigor 2830 Router which has 3 WAN ports (2 cabled, 1 for a 3g USB dongle) and using the load balancing and QoS features. I have zero experience of using these, so...

Load balancing, does this allow a user to download files using both connections simultaneoulsy? How effective are the QoS options?

Users currently use OWA and remote access to work from home. Will having two ip external ip address affect this in any way?

Any other pitfalls that I haven't forseen?

Were also looking at Shareband, but they want £20 per line per month. Is this just paying out for something that can be achieved internally?

Thanks
 
It's not so much that the connection is bad, but when a big download is in progress it chokes the bandwidth for everyone else.
 
We have Microsoft SBS 2003 which is accessed externally using OWA and Remote Web Workplace. This is accessed via it's ip address as only a few users have access.
 
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Cheers Bremen1874

As we're a small company, I might get someone in to help with this. Day-to-day running I'm OK with, but the time researching this and any problems that occur is beyond me

Thanks again!
 
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