2lan ports-internet

[sybertiger]

hi,quick question

my motherboard have 2 lanports

let say i get 2adsl lines-2routers-2accounts
and i i plug both in ,will i get dubble there speed if i set it up in bridge mode

thank you

 

[Messugga]

hi,quick question

my motherboard have 2 lanports

let say i get 2adsl lines-2routers-2accounts
and i i plug both in ,will i get dubble there speed if i set it up in bridge mode

thank you

No, unless you do load balancing and then you'd only double your speed if downloading via multiple connections. Even then you don't really need 2 LAN ports.

 

[sybertiger]

so for youtube/streaming/normal use its uselss as it will only use the data from the one port?

 

[slvR]

pfsense box with 3 NICs and load balancing. Don't expect magic however.

 

[sybertiger]

plan wont work then

thx for the help guys

 

[AlexGouws]

Same way as install 32bit Windows 7 twice will give you 64bit Windows 14

Just kidding! Would be pretty cool if the double internet worked though.

 

[mister]

hi,quick question

my motherboard have 2 lanports

let say i get 2adsl lines-2routers-2accounts
and i i plug both in ,will i get dubble there speed if i set it up in bridge mode

thank you

2 X 10Mbps connections will give you 2 X 10Mbps connections, and not 1 X 20Mbps connection. Also you wouldn't need need two lan ports to do this.

You could get two bonded lines, but this is another kettle of fish altogether.

 

[jcheek]

Similar concept to the the pfsense box mentioned above : you could use a dual-WAN router to bond the two ADSL connections together and feed the output from that router into a single LAN port on your PC, or indeed any PC on a downstream switch fed from the dual-WAN router's LAN port.

There are a few dual-WAN routers around, ranging from something entry-level like the Linksys LRT224, up to something premium like a Peplink Balance 20 (2 WANs + USB wireless modem port) or Balance 30 (3 WANs + USB).

 

[ponder]

...you could use a dual-WAN router to bond the two ADSL connections together...

You can't bond unless you have full control of the two end points, some isps sell this as a service.

 

[jcheek]

Service bonding with a dual-WAN router

Something like the Peplink will happily bond two disparate internet connections together with no special ISP arrangements. Provided you have two working internet connections, the two ISPs - which could the same - will never know the difference. Some dual-WAN routers provide more "combining" algorithms than others : in the case of the Peplinks, these range from the simple "failover", all the way up to sophisticated load-balancing and weighted-balance proportioning.

I use a Peplink Balance 20 to combine a 4G LTE connection on Telkom Mobile, with a 2 Mbps ADSL connection with MWeb. The LTE connection gives me about 30Mbps (but is capped), whereas the DSL connection is slow (2Mbps) but uncapped. The Peplink bonds the two links together and give me about a 20Mbps "semi-capped" connection with failover.

To illustrate, the traffic graph below shows some download sessions where services from the 4G/LTE and ADSL connections are combined in a couple of different ways:



There are some situations where bonding doesn't work as well, eg a secure HTTPS connection where the server expects all packets to originate from the same WAN IP address. But for many other situations, it works very well indeed.

 

[ponder]

Something like the Peplink will happily bond two disparate internet connections together with no special ISP arrangements.

I use a Peplink Balance 20

Peplink does not do bonding, the name says it all, it's a load balancing router.

 

[jcheek]

My apologies - I may be a little loose with my terminology, but in the context of what sybertiger asked, I think we are splitting hairs over a question of level in the OSI network model.

For the user who simply wants to aggregate the throughput of two (or more) different internet connections to give a single, higher-throughput connection, a Peplink will do the job admirably. Notwithstanding product names like "Balance", the Peplink system can do "true" (packet-level) bonding too, although that's probably beyond the scope of sybertiger's question.

 

[sybertiger]

thing is ,i want to get a new line,just for adsl,as my line giving me problems and it used to be fine and telkom says nothing is wrong

so i got the idea to get a new 10mb line,and downgrade the faulty line to a 4mb,then add them together to have 14mbps

or keep the less stable line as is and run at run it at 16mb,that was the idea

 

[mister]

so i got the idea to get a new 10mb line,and downgrade the faulty line to a 4mb,then add them together to have 14mbps

You won't be able to download at 14Mbps. You will be able to download on one line at 10Mbps and on another line at 4Mbps. You can do this with one lan port, however the configuration aspects of balancing across two lines are probably out of scope for you.

Just get the new line installed, and then cancel the old one.