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What about 2 dual wan routers:
1st Dual wan router: to split 2x adsl lines
2nd dual wan router: to split a 3rd ADSL line and the 1st dual wan router
make sense?
1st Dual wan router: to split 2x adsl lines
2nd dual wan router: to split a 3rd ADSL line and the 1st dual wan router
make sense?
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Froot Said I Should Do This:
Only on the enterprise side. You then get either 1,2 or 4X WAN ports. But then you will pay around 5-6 digits for your router
If you want 3 lines then I'd suggest you get a Dual-WAN port router and a regular router, then use a Dual PPPOE setup to split local and international (2x for intl and 1x for local). There would not really be another solution for you. Even speaking from a technical side. Except of course if you managed to afford an enterprise router.
For 3 Lines
Doesn't sound even remotely likely to work. A router takes a phone line input and gives a network output. That's pretty much what happens. Now if you have dual WAN-> network output and another Dual WAN with one input, where's your other input coming from? Exactly.
The cost for you will be the following: closer5 (R650?) and for each extra line, (R125 line + R416 adsl (or whatever it costs). Just remember you will have closer on only one line. So use that line to phone/set alarm/whatever.
The cost for you will be the following: closer5 (R650?) and for each extra line, (R125 line + R416 adsl (or whatever it costs). Just remember you will have closer on only one line. So use that line to phone/set alarm/whatever.
if i had to get 3 lines how would i set it up with a normal router and dual wan router?
You would have two options: either use some way to split your traffic between local and international (I'd use Dual for intl and single for local), using either an IPCOP server, or use a single WAN input single output (the routers that only have one LAN port) and a Dual WAN single output and connect that to another (Dual WAN router with a switch)- This would allow you to get all three lines into one ethernet connection. This gets messy but that's the sad truth about it.
Only on the enterprise side. You then get either 1,2 or 4X WAN ports. But then you will pay around 5-6 digits for your router
A Draytek 3300 will support 4x WAN ports and it's about R4k or thereabouts.
I may even have a second hand one coming up very soon. Talk to me.
will it support what i want to do?
does load balancing double the speed if 2 lines is connected or does it just use 1 line as a backup if the other disconnects
You get backup lines (ie uses ADSL if available else uses dialup), then you get load balancing that allows you to utilise the max of several lines. But instead of only using the next line if the first is full, it divides the packets amongst the lines.
so that means that if both lines is connected and lets say i do i normal speed test then it should get around 8mb if both lines sync at 4mb?
are you 100% sure about this? as i dont want to order a new line for nothing
Yes and no.
Technically no, as this is just load balancing, but yes because when you're doing a lot of downloads, some will come via WAN1 and others via WAN2 so in effect it's 8Mb but not in the real sense.
Do you follow all that?
