Multiple adsl's to 1 big line

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n_kip

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Does anyone know a an internet connection that has joined multiple adsl routers together to get one big line? I fould this router that does just that

http://www.firebrick.co.uk/faq-bonding.html
It should work even if you are on dynamic IP, coz you adsl router will handle that.
This problem is how to get it. Is there an alternative that is available loaclly?
 
What are you trying to achieve? There are several ways of doing this
 
n_kip I need to know what you are trying to do. eg:
Do you have 50 users in an office and you want to make browsing faster or do you have a web server and want to get more speed for folks browsing that via your ADSL line(s), or what exactly are you trying to do?
 
well the matured way, ie. bonding/multilinking of adsl wont work in SA, since multilinking at the isp side is disabled.
 
noone - multilinking is not possible, when the isp side disable support you can have x amount of accounts, it wont work.

Sure there is alternative ways of getting a similar setup, but the easiest way ie. simple multilinking is not possible.
 
I can confirm what clipse is saying.

To bond two ADSL lines so they act as one 2mb line you use MPPP.
Telkom disabled this on their network towards the end of last year.
People had figured out some exploit using MPPP.
 
Why can't you just have some device that is able to split the request down the two lines? Why do you have to have all this multilinking? Is it not possible to have seperate IPs and have all the internet traffic being managed on your side between the two lines?
 
well yes it is possible, then you have to share the load of work over both ip's, thing is, then any max speed for 1 connection is the max speed of 1 line, not both combined, you can't have 2 x 1 meg lines, and have streaming video coming in at 2megs, it will only come down one of the 1 meg lines, if you used something like download accelerator though and it opened more than 2 conections to a file to download it, it could use both lines simultaneously,if your load balancing thingy was doing its job properly!

mppp, or whatever it is, actually allows you to combine your lines to have an effectice 1 huge line.

doing it all other ways, just allows you to balance your traffic over multiple lines!
 
mppp, or whatever it is, actually allows you to combine your lines to have an effectice 1 huge line.
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? You mean like ISDN 64+64 for 128? but with DSL?
 
well never had any isdn experience, so wouldnt know!

but it becomes 1 logical line( lets say 3 physical lines, 1 x 1024, 1 x 512, and 1 x 384) combine with mpp, you still got 3 physical lines, but you get 1 ip, and downstream speed of (1024+512+384=1920).... etc etc... as far as your pc is concerned, you got a 1920 line!
 
If you combine per packet load balancing and natting using a modified linux kernel it works quite well but its not perfect, some stuff (usually secure stuff) which is session based wont work. You do however get close to 2 Mbit on two 1Mbit lines...

If you go the session based load balancing route you dont get an even spread of traffic and the whole thing just isnt woth the effort unless you have a high number of small sessions
 
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