Advice

[Mlungu]

Hi there. I have a network of 20 computers and would like to add a second adsl line. 10 computers would then use the one, the other 10 the other one, while all being on the same network. Will this be a simple as specifying the gateway on modem 1 on the first 10 computers and the gateway of modem 2 for the other 10? I have heard the term load balancing but am not too sure what that means and if it is applicable to what I want. I don't want to achieve double speed, just alleviating the connection

 

[neobyte]

The connection in theory should work... Load balancing is where you more than likelely have the two connections on a single machine or perhaps two connection on two different machines. You then utilize a load balancing proxy server (prob a Linux flavour) to balance the bandwidth between the two connections. Just for simplicity use the two incoming connections specifying different gatways.

 

[Mlungu]

Tks a lot, will apply for the line and wait for Hellkom to install it..........

 

[loosecannon]

the other way of doing this is having a gateway loadbalance the traffic down the same ADSL line but use a different adsl account (3G) for different subnets...

you can have many connections "3G's" on a single line and as usernames are cheaper than line rental this makes bussiness sense....

the only draw back is the total speed of the system will be 512K but "uncapped"

 

[James]

either way, but so easy to specify gateways, else you could use one line int one line local by setting up a decent proxy.

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