How do I combine 2 internet connections?

[CriticalConsumer]

OK here is the story:

I have iBurst and I have Neotel.

- The iBurst is connected to a Linksys ADSL gateway.
- The Neotel connection is wireless with a built in router.
- My nVida chipset has 2 Gigbit LAN ports

I have connected both internet connections to the 2 LAN ports; Vista Home Premium recognises it as multiple netwroks but the iBUrst has limited connectivity...

Question
How do I combine the 2 connections to boost my d/l speed or for redundancy?

 

[stroebs]

I'm not 100% sure but you might be able to use RouteSentry but I dont think it applies to iBurst and Neotel. I might be wrong

 

[LFX]

you cant bond those two lines but you can set up a routing table to use both

 

[CriticalConsumer]

Thanks for the responses.

Now for the education part...how do I set up the routing table?

 

[LFX]

use routesentry, coz to do it manually is very time consuming

 

[konfab]

What Neotel Device do you have ?

 

[Nuro]

It's gets tricky. If you try to route packets for the same connection over two different routes, it will never work. The best you can do is to route individual connections over the different connections. This works better than expected. If you take a web page for instance, the browser creates a lot of connections to load a single page. You might get one picture over the neotel connection, while some flash animtaion comes over the iburst line. For downloads, you can use a download manager that creates multiple connections. Torrents will also work since they use multiple onnections.

The only way i have seen it work, was a linux box running squid. All the connection requests gets sent to squid, that will in turn divide them up between the two connections. I'm sure there must be other software that can do this as well. I have only worked partly with it, so my knowledge is limited I don't know routesentry, but it might do the job.

 

[CriticalConsumer]

@ Konfab: You will see / hear / read about it on Monday 19th Jan 2009.

@ Nuro: Thank you for the insight.

@ rest of the guys: Thank you, I will try your suggestions.