OpenWeb bonded ADSL tested

[rpm]

16Mbps OpenWeb bonded ADSL tested

We take Openweb’s new bonded ADSL solution for a spin with four 4Mbps ADSL lines

 

[inferno]

Ouch

 

[NomNom]

I want to see the day this becomes the standard internet connection in this country.

 

[Necuno]

I want to see the day this becomes the standard internet connection in this country.

I'd rather see 50/100 or more, even non bonded decent lines would be great. When our local grid is up to standard it would be great. Obviously telkom too must be gone or be redone...

 

[Joe Average]

rpm, a few questions :
Did the bonding happen at the ISP or locally by the routers installed ?
What is the exact model of Netgear? router used ? Can one do the bonding yourself if you know how to configure the router(s) ?
Why is there such a big speed result difference when using SpeedTest.net ?

 

[froot]

Ouch

My thoughts exactly.

 

[Tns]

vox cost way more, and what about SLA's?

 

[rpm]

Did the bonding happen at the ISP or locally by the routers installed ?

The bonding happens at the ISP (DC). At your premise you simply use 4 standard ADSL routers (Netgear) which are pre-configured with IPs etc. Very easy to set up and it just worked in our case.

What is the exact model of Netgear? router used ?

I will check, but it looked like standard Netgear ADSL routers

Can one do the bonding yourself if you know how to configure the router(s) ?

I doubt it. I dont know how the bonding takes place, but I assume the magic takes place in the DC.

Why is there such a big speed result difference when using SpeedTest.net ?

I assume it is the bandwidth which is used (peering agreements, bandwidth allocations etc). Not certain though.

 

[gregmcc]

30GB at R1,499 and 50GB at R1,999.

But with bonded lines you will use 30/50GB in a matter of minutes?!

 

[froot]

But with bonded lines you will use 30/50GB in a matter of minutes?!

Well a 4Mb can do 30-odd gigs a day, so a 16Mb connection, if maxed out continuously will finish 30GB in around 6 hours

 

[BrendanMc]

Maybe some initial teething problems perhaps? not unheard of.

 

[DailyTech]

I want to see the day this becomes the standard internet connection in this country.

Yes, but it's no good for a VPN, as the upstream is far too slow !!

 

[magneto]

Bonding involves splitting data up at the packet level, and distributing it across all the available lines on site.

so they will have a aggregator device after the ADSL router that will split the packets across all 4 lines.
then will also have the aggregator device in the DC join the packets all back together.
and bam you got bonded adsl.

rpm, a few questions :
Did the bonding happen at the ISP or locally by the routers installed ?
What is the exact model of Netgear? router used ? Can one do the bonding yourself if you know how to configure the router(s) ?
Why is there such a big speed result difference when using SpeedTest.net ?

Vpn will be fine but you prob have to uses sticky connections.
Successive connections will be redirected to the servers in a round-robin manner with connections from the same source being sent to the same web server. This 'sticky connection' will exist as long as there are states that refer to this connection. Once the states expire, so will the sticky connection. Further connections from that host will be redirected to the next web server in the round robin.

so vpn will be going out on 1 of the adsl . so you prob only get 512k upload. yes it will be slower

Yes, but it's no good for a VPN, as the upstream is far too slow !!

 

[TofuMofu]

How exactly do they bond the ADSL lines if they use Netgear routers? Is there 1 device that connects them all together?

 

[magneto]

they doing it a different way
They are prob then using a Software Bond called Sharedband Bonding Servers and the netgear routers are DG834N ADSL2+ Wireless-N Data Gateway(or new model) with Bonded ADSL Firmware. It should work just as well but when Server load gets 2 high
then not so lekker ;(

here pretty pics

software bond

hardware bond ( for other post)

How exactly do they bond the ADSL lines if they use Netgear routers? Is there 1 device that connects them all together?

 

[TofuMofu]

Thanks! That explains a lot