Combining two ISPs on OpenServe

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I have a PPPoE account on Openserve from Cool Ideas and one from Vox on a 40 Mb/s link. If I use any by themselves I get 40 Mb/s but when I use both then
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Are you running 2 separate Openserve ONT's (Router doing dual WAN/WAN Aggregation) or are you dialing 2 PPPoE sessions from one ONT (thought they locked it to one active PPPoE connection)?
 
S.Claus said:
Are you running 2 separate Openserve ONT's (Router doing dual WAN/WAN Aggregation) or are you dialing 2 PPPoE sessions from one ONT (thought they locked it to one active PPPoE connection)?
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Think it's 2 pppoe's. On ADSL you could dial multiple connections simultaneously but were limited to your line speed. He is exceeding his line speed by 25%
 
r00igev@@r said:
I have a PPPoE account on Openserve from Cool Ideas and one from Vox on a 40 Mb/s link. If I use any by themselves I get 40 Mb/s but when I use both then
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Doesn't the combined cost of those get you one account from either provider that's much faster?

Still an interesting concept, just not sure why one would get 2 slow accounts instead of one faster one...
 
S.Claus said:
Are you running 2 separate Openserve ONT's (Router doing dual WAN/WAN Aggregation) or are you dialing 2 PPPoE sessions from one ONT (thought they locked it to one active PPPoE connection)?
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You can run multiple simultaneous pppoe connections on the same line. It's usually just limited by the speed of the line or account which ever is lowest.

To do this is simple. You throw a very cheap 1Gbps network switch between the ONT and the router. Plug the devices you wish to dial a separate pppoe session for into the switch and then dial the pppoe sessions on the devices. If you have a fancy router that allows pppoe passthrough then you can enable that and dial pppoe session even from devices on wifi.
 
How does the line speed limitation enforcement work?
 
S.Claus said:
Are you running 2 separate Openserve ONT's (Router doing dual WAN/WAN Aggregation) or are you dialing 2 PPPoE sessions from one ONT (thought they locked it to one active PPPoE connection)?
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Yes. I have bonding on two separate ISPs dialing up 2 PPPoE accounts at the same time. I used the Vox Black Friday special.
 
Budza said:
Doesn't the combined cost of those get you one account from either provider that's much faster?

Still an interesting concept, just not sure why one would get 2 slow accounts instead of one faster one...
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The Openserve last mile rarely fails. It is usually the ISP that has a hiccup. Two is better than one.
 
r00igev@@r said:
Yes, I'd like to know how they do it? Is it some Cisco kit or Huawei kit????
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Huawei as far as I know. Interesting, I’ve tried testing a PPPoE account with higher thresholds (remember the ISP sets queues) on a smaller line (openserve rate limiting), and always hit line speed, but never tried two sessions simultaneously.Will give this a try
 
websquadza said:
Huawei as far as I know. Interesting, I’ve tried testing a PPPoE account with higher thresholds (remember the ISP sets queues) on a smaller line (openserve rate limiting), and always hit line speed, but never tried two sessions simultaneously.Will give this a try
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I've only been able to do this with two accounts from different ISPs.
 
So I was finally able to test and get about 75 Mb/s using iperf3. Any speedtest.net type of server is influenced by the algorithm against one IP address and it cannot measure the aggregated throughput from two accounts. The best speed that is possible on a speedtest.net server is 56 Mb/s. The link is an Openserve link with a CI 40 Mb/s account and a second account using a Vox 1TB Black Friday special.
So if you have two PPPoE you can use both and each is capable of 40 Mb/s but dependent on the application and steering the results might vary on aggregation. A determining factor is also the network stack being used on the server doing the testing.
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r00igev@@r said:
So I was finally able to test and get about 75 Mb/s using iperf3. Any speedtest.net type of server is influenced by the algorithm against one IP address and it cannot measure the aggregated throughput from two accounts. The best speed that is possible on a speedtest.net server is 56 Mb/s. The link is an Openserve link with a CI 40 Mb/s account and a second account using a Vox 1TB Black Friday special.
So if you have two PPPoE you can use both and each is capable of 40 Mb/s but dependent on the application and steering the results might vary on aggregation. A determining factor is also the network stack being used on the server doing the testing.
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I find this strange, I know previously I could dial two PPPoE accounts out of a single Openserve line on pfSense - I tried to do this now but as soon as one came up, the other went down and it caused my router CPU to max out as it constantly tried to reconnect...
 
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