One big Fat Pipe

[RazorSharp]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Are you on DSL? Cable? T1? All of the above? This technique, "multi-homing", plus a download accelerator, will create a virtual Fat Pipe. Think multi-mbps.

While you won't be able to use the combined bandwidth with a single file download, any applications using multiple simultaneous connections will. The scenarios are many; you can use the combined bandwidth even if you have only one PC behind the router doing multiple downloads -when downloading a web page with graphics for example, when you use a "download accelerator", when you manually start downloading multiple files at once, or when you use a peer-to-peer file sharing program. Of course, if there are multiple machines behind the router accessing the internet at once, the benefits are obvious.

This type of linking of two connections into one is often referred to as "Multi-Homing" and also "connection teaming", it is different from "bridging" where it would require some work on the ISP side to split a single IP address connection between two physical links.

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[mithrandi]

Wow, that's like such an incredibly new concept. Gee, the Inquirer is really on the forefront of networking technology here.

 

[martin]

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[Karnaugh]

Wow, gee, I'd never think of doing something like that. I mean who would have thought of connecting a router to more than one point on the internet...

... How does the internet work again?...

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[armitage]

Gee billy bob eyes didnt know that u could connect more than one pc per connection to the internet now that i know this ill sure to hook up my microwave tonight

New service by Telkom broadband speeds up to 5kbps for only R1k a month. heheh

 

[mbs]

Oh s**t, and here I told Al Gore we'd have to download our Internet first, before we could make it available to the Democratic National Convention...