Bonded ADSL via separate ISP's?

[SilverNodashi]

Hi,

does anyone know if it's at all possible, for redundancy purposes to get bonded ADSL via separate ISP's?

We currently have 4x 4MB ADSL lines with load balancing and it works ok'ish, in the sense that the 4 lines are shared between the staff. But it doesn't work so well for CCTV from a single client location. So I realize that I need bonding instead of load balancing, but I don't want to have all 4 lines with 1 single ISP, for redundancy purposes.

Does anyone know if it's possible to have a bonded ADSL solution with 2 different ISP's?

And, who else, apart from Mweb, VOX and openweb (who resells Mweb) offers bonded ADSL with an uncapped option?

 

[rpm]

Hi there

I know that it is 'somewhat' possible through services like Vox's Fishbone (you can plug in any connection and it will work), but for true bonding I think the same ISP is needed. The traffic must be aggregated (at least that is how I understand it), which is obviously not possible through multiple ISPs.

Load balancing, or using a bonded solution with a fallback option for redundancy may be an option to look at as well.

 

[SilverNodashi]

I read somewhere that some guys use a VPN to setup the bonded solution but the posts were 3 years old.

 

[Chevron]

Hi there

I know that it is 'somewhat' possible through services like Vox's Fishbone (you can plug in any connection and it will work), but for true bonding I think the same ISP is needed. The traffic must be aggregated (at least that is how I understand it), which is obviously not possible through multiple ISPs.

Load balancing, or using a bonded solution with a fallback option for redundancy may be an option to look at as well.

That is correct.

What you could do is bond two lines each with different ISPS.

 

[Tim the Techxpert]

Hi There,
I found this article on Bonding and some of the issues behind it which makes a good general read on what you need to look out for in doing this.
As far as ISP's in South Africa it looks like Mweb and Openweb will be able to assist you

Regards

Tim

 

[Aquadyne]

For business-critical systems, I would go with equal pairings of bonded adsl lines from different ISP's. Thereby allowing for throughput, load balancing fail over benefits. Inhouse use the best networking hardware you can afford - that will be your bottleneck.

For home use, you can look at Connectify Dispatch, that will virtually create a software router and combine several different connections - ADSL, LTE, 3G.

 

[SilverNodashi]

That is correct.

What you could do is bond two lines each with different ISPS.

That is possibly a way of doing it but we only have 3 lines nows, so another line for this purpose will cost another say R3K (4MB uncapped, unshaped business account)

Hi There,
I found this article on Bonding and some of the issues behind it which makes a good general read on what you need to look out for in doing this.
As far as ISP's in South Africa it looks like Mweb and Openweb will be able to assist you

Regards

Tim

I would prefer not todo business with Mweb and Openweb resells the Mweb solution so that doesn't give me much redundancy if both the Mweb and resold mweb bonded solution goes down.

For business-critical systems, I would go with equal pairings of bonded adsl lines from different ISP's. Thereby allowing for throughput, load balancing fail over benefits. Inhouse use the best networking hardware you can afford - that will be your bottleneck.
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I've got a Cyberoam UTM for this pupose and it works quite well. the question is which ISP's can offer me something like this? Other than Mweb