Two Internet Connections Combined

platinum87 · 3 Jul 2008 at 11:30

Long story short, i want to combine 2 different internet connections to a network using both at the same time which should work out much better than paying an insane amount of a decent single connection.

Ive thought about it and basically the only two options are;

1) Two BT phone lines with a broadband service on each line, this should cost 60 pounds a month (15 line rental X2 + 15 16MB O2 broadband)

2) One broadband over phone line + Sky with broadband.

so... how would i connect this all together?

thanks in advance!

tolien · 3 Jul 2008 at 11:38

You can't bond them without ISP support, and neither Sky nor BT support bonding.

J.B · 3 Jul 2008 at 11:42

platinum87 said:
2) One broadband over phone line + Sky with broadband.

Also, sky broadband comes over the phone line as well so thats that idea out!

Firestar_3x · 3 Jul 2008 at 11:56

Load balancing router.

Banzai_Joe · 3 Jul 2008 at 12:41

There is some linux based software that will do this for you. I was given a linux box to try out, but never actually did in the end.
I'll try and dig out the data and post back later.

But...why do you want/need that much bandwidth? and what will it be used for?

edit: try this http://www.pfsense.com/index.php?id=36

lozza23_uk · 3 Jul 2008 at 12:43

Firestar_3x said:
Load balancing router.

yep. all you need.
linksys make one I believe.

parents house uses one for cable modem and ADSL. helps with setting particular machines to particular connections as well.

TaLLyJ · 3 Jul 2008 at 13:07

Yeah... but a router with two WAN ports... I've found it difficult to find one... although there was a few on the famous auction site

Banzai_Joe · 3 Jul 2008 at 13:24

lozza23_uk said:
yep. all you need.
linksys make one I believe.

parents house uses one for cable modem and ADSL. helps with setting particular machines to particular connections as well.

2 different technologies load balancing will surely just push one connecting pc down either one depending on how busy it is.

I think the OP wants to 'bond' his connection to get double the bandwidth. If i understood correctly.

We use Firebox Edge boxes that have dual wan ports, but the 2nd wan port can either operate as a failover or as a load balancer. It wont bond the bandwidth to give double the amount.

Firestar_3x · 3 Jul 2008 at 14:04

Indeed, you can't bond the bandwith since many servers look at the request IP address, it will be different for both lines so he can't download the same thing spaned over both connections.

Tryed it in the past, wasn't of much use otherwise no-one you buy mega expensive lines they would get several cheap ones instead.

Deanje · 3 Jul 2008 at 14:22

Just to echo what's been said, what you're looking for is a bonded line; I think Enta do a bonding service, but you'll probably pay through the nose.

bigredshark · 3 Jul 2008 at 14:35

I have 2x ADSL Max at home, no bonding so I'm running IP sec tunnels to a router in a datacenter, per packet load balancing over the tunnels using OSPF. This depends on:

Having a router in a datacenter
Having a decent (Cisco) router at home
Having a clue what you're doing...

I don't know of anyone else who does it at home or even a business that does it, I only do because I work for an ISP and it doesn't cost me anything...

TaLLyJ · 3 Jul 2008 at 15:04

Oh I forgot to mention... you can use Wingate to do this aswell... setup a proxy... I did this at one point... it worked extremely well... I remember at the time I had 2x 10mbit... and I was actually getting max speeds from Newsgroups

Ronaldo · 4 Jul 2008 at 19:03

TaLLyJ said:
Oh I forgot to mention... you can use Wingate to do this aswell... setup a proxy... I did this at one point... it worked extremely well... I remember at the time I had 2x 10mbit... and I was actually getting max speeds from Newsgroups

hello guys i'm after same thing on the cheap. dual wan routers seem to cost a lot for a decent brand.

i wanna load balance 2 cable connections but i'm using Vista.

Tally, can i have 1 modem to wifi router into nic and 1 modem to nic and do this?

dave-lew99 · 4 Jul 2008 at 19:23

There's another thread on here somewhere, Be* support MLPPP which is proper bonding but you'd have to have both lines from the same people.

But is 24meg properly unlimited not enough? I can't justify paying for another BT line to increase it.

z0mbi3 · 5 Jul 2008 at 13:05

platinum87 said:
£15 16MB O2 broadband

I can get you that for £7.50. Drop me a mail (see trust).

platinum87 · 5 Jul 2008 at 13:42

z0mbi3 said:
I can get you that for £7.50. Drop me a mail (see trust).

well i currently pay 10 pounds for 16meg... as i have the 02 phone discount!

id be interested if you could mess with my mobile contract (for the better) ;D

z0mbi3 · 5 Jul 2008 at 14:09

platinum87 said:
well i currently pay 10 pounds for 16meg... as i have the 02 phone discount!

id be interested if you could mess with my mobile contract (for the better) ;D

Afraid not. If you get another line installed I can get you the bb for £7.50 though.