Bonding Lines

[jeinnor30]

I am hoping that someone could shed some light on this. Is it possible to Bond 2 lines using seperate ISP's If so could you share ?

I am a reseller for Fortigate and it has an option to have 2 ADSL lines, so I would like to BOND them please? Would also prefer NOT to use Mweb or Openweb for various and possibly obvious reasons!

 

[psion]

No. bonding needs to happen on the isp side as well.

You could however use load balancing, but this means that your internet traffic gets split over the lines, as bandwidth peaks on one the rest go over to the other.
This by no means makes you get double the speed on say one download (except for using a download accelerator with multiple connections)
For example if you do a speed test, it is one connection, you will get the speed of whatever line it chooses first.

 

[Segg]

Doesn't connectify have a program that bonds multiple internet connections, or are they balancing?

 

[kianm]

I think your option on Fortigate units is load balancing any available ISPs on wan1 and wan2. I actually am doing this but for a failover configuration rather, so I keep wan1 (fiber) as active and then wan2 (adsl) for auto failover and these are totally different ISPs. You also have the option to configure policy routes where you can specify certain traffic criteria to always use a certain ISP. So yes there are ways of utilising two different ISPs