Plugging more then 1 connection into router mean more speed?

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Hey im wondering if i had say 3 x 10mb internet connections in my house all on differnt lines would i be able to plug them all into like a rounter or a switch of somesort to combine all of the speed to be used as 1 on 1 pc?

If it can be done can you tell me what i would need please :)
 
As cool as that sounds - I dont think that would be possible unless you could give each line a different command. Say in a download to seperate a file and then combine the three seperate files at your end?
 
well my idea was to whip 3 x 10mb internet lines into wireless router or something and broadcast it all over my street for friends to use so we can go anywhere around the area and have internet and have lan games but stay in our own homes lol (lazy) But i wanted 1 signal of 30mb or 3x10mb so i dont need to buy 3 wireless routers
 
I dont think its financially viable for you. Best thing is to get one cable boradband line, ethernet router, then dig up the road and lay the cable :p
 
You can combine lines with a linux box and some software (can't remember the name) but you most certainly won't be able to utilise multiple lines with a router/switch etc..
 
YOu would need a router with three wans, which isn't common or cheap. Also, routing would be a bit of a nightmare - when your computer (presumably behind nat) wants to request something from the web, it'll go down the default route and come back that way. Unless you do something complicated...
 
Theoretically you'd need a load balancing router to use two downlinks, it still won't bond the uplinks, and still won't give you 20mbit as such unless you are talking multiple connections and proxy's ... that's all well and good but here's where it all goes south...

Reselling the connection/provideing it to a property other than the one it is provided to by the cable co is a breach of every aup going and no Cable isp (the only people doing 10mbit afaik) will rent you more than a single modem to one residential property, you can legally buy a non TW/NTL modem but you can't legally connect it to the CC's network and even if you did you are legally required to obtain permission from them and i'm 100% sure they won't give you it and without them adding the MAC to the head end you will not be able to obtain service legally.

In short it can't be done legally so don't do it.


If you only want to play lan games then get a wireless AP and look into bridge/relay options depending how far away you all are, surely you have no need for 30mbit on the WAN?


*edit* WRT54GL with a custom firmware has been reported to support dual WAN but it's all 3rd party w/out official support.
 
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10mb down will be more than ample for multiple people connecting to game servers its when someone is using bittorrent or surfing while others are gaming that will cause lag, could you one of the newer routers that support priority for gaming info (udp packets i believe)

the other issue is upstream 10mb down is more than enough but upstream is important seeing as it will be a lot les that downstream im assuming though that it also will be fine as cable gives you more than adsl.
im on 2mb down and 256k up which has been fine for my self and 2 other computers playing on the same server
 
4 routers would do the job, not cheap though. Three connected to the wans links, one behind those 3 doing the balancing. Run RIP over the routers, and make the default routes on the balancing route point to other routers. As each router will have the same metric (1 hop) it will then load balance. But you'll still be limited to 10mb in any one stream, and sod's law says that you'll still overload one of the wan links, as this kind of set up is only really useful where there are a large bumber of connections. It also won;t result in the wan links being bonded, just used at the same time. Do a goggle search for load balancing using RIP, and it will probably give you some cisco documentation that explains it better.
 
This has been going on for a long time now.

You can either go for a bonded solution which will effectively add several lines together to give you a 'faster' line over all, but not an exact multiple of what you start with as there are overheads, this does require support at your ISP and few are still doing this.

Alternatively you can use multiple lines in a load balanced configuration, it allows you to shift more traffic over all, but no one connection is actually running any faster.

I'm not aware of any cable provider supporting bonded solutions tohugh, only a very small number of ADSL providers.

It is also worth noting that bonding with ADSL Max has not proven to be very effective.
 
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