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Question of the Day: What's the most interesting small town you've visited in South Africa?
High-speed broadband with aggregation
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mancombseepgood
Executive Member
So we are skipping ADSL 2? 
lilGr
Expert Member
And Cap ??? thats whats gonna rape us. 
DblD
Senior Member
cost is hugely prohibiting factor here chaps..
strictly SMB material we are talking here, it offers a relatively small savings over the diginet lines cost, and if you think ADSL is expensive........
strictly SMB material we are talking here, it offers a relatively small savings over the diginet lines cost, and if you think ADSL is expensive........
I use this howto, in order to "combine" multiple ADSL (or any other) links. Seems to be pretty good actually. The best thing is, is that you use one old machine to do all of your routing and firewalling.
mancombseepgood
Executive Member
We met with the Kinetek guys today and I have just slapped a demo FatPipe unit into our cabinet for some RnD. Unfortunately I only have two ADSL lines, but hopefully I will be able to see if the product works as described.
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The_Unbeliever
Honorary Master
Ekhaatvensters
Executive Member
Spelling mistake?
Haha!
Initial impression. Very easy to setup. I have two links in a round robin setup. So I fired off a download and watched the graphs climb on the one link and then kicked off a second download and watched the graph climb on the second link, so that works. I still need to play with the other algorithms. The one thing to note is if you are not using a multi-threaded download manager (e.g. download in IE or a simple wget) you will only see the max speed of the line your traffic is routed out over.
mancombseepgood
Executive Member
Let us know how it handles authentication sessions. Out delhi office has issues with aggregation on their system - they have 4 lines and an embedded solution... problems arise with accessing mybroadband from there... I have to keep logging in to post and sometimes it even fails after login - prolly cos of the traffic going out on different ip's or something such.
Thanks for the heads-up I will test that.
The solution I posted caters for that, as the person that designed it, had internet banking in mind that doesn't like the session to be from different IPs. So it's not really load sharing, but more session sharing over >1 link.
mancombseepgood
Executive Member
Great - that should sort it then!
Just a technical note...
This is NOT ADSL bonding, it's link aggregation/balancing. Bonded ADSL is a very different concept; basically a modem which takes two ADSL enabled phone lines into it. Instead of having two internet connection and load balancing internet traffic over them (which is what's being done in this solution) the transmission cells are balanced over the line. Makes a much more efficient, redundant connection than aggregation/balancing. That said it needs to be a product offering from the DSLAM (ADSL modem in the exchange) owner so not likely to be a practical solution in many environments.
This is NOT ADSL bonding, it's link aggregation/balancing. Bonded ADSL is a very different concept; basically a modem which takes two ADSL enabled phone lines into it. Instead of having two internet connection and load balancing internet traffic over them (which is what's being done in this solution) the transmission cells are balanced over the line. Makes a much more efficient, redundant connection than aggregation/balancing. That said it needs to be a product offering from the DSLAM (ADSL modem in the exchange) owner so not likely to be a practical solution in many environments.