Two ADSL Load Balance with Mweb question...

[Hummercellc]

Hi all,

Maybe someone could answer this or understand what is happening.

I was playing around with two Telkom 4096 Lines & two Mweb uncapped 4096 accounts.

I placed the routers in bridge mode, created the PPPoE sessions in pfSense then load balanced them.

When trying a multithread download i would receive a max of 5mbps (640KB/s) down.

Tried a multithread FTP upload and received 980kbps (122.5KB/s) up.

So i changed to my Telkom account and i get closed to 7.8mbps down.

Further more i placed both routers seprate with the PPPoE session terminating in the routers with my Mweb accounts.

I started a HTTP download on the one connection to max out the line, while maxing the one line out the other line could not achieve higher than 1mbps.

Retired the same setup with Telkom accounts and both lines max out at 4mbps simultaneously.

So my question is:
Does Telkom throttle ISP's (Mweb) to a certain amount of bandwidth per exchange or could it be a Mweb problem?
Just curios as to why i can't get 4mbps simultaneously on both my lines with Mweb accounts.
Because when i am downloading drivers and stuff on my one line, the other is very slow and Youtube buffers all the time.

I do understand that there is a 20:1 contention ratio but should it affect Mweb accounts so bad, where as Telkom accounts are fine.

 

[jeanres]

Load balancing will always only give you max of 1 line, you need to bond the lines to get 8mb

 

[Hummercellc]

Load balancing will always only give you max of 1 line, you need to bond the lines to get 8mb

I do understand that is what they say, but then when having the lines separate on Mweb only one line can max at 4mbps.
Bonding with my Telkom accounts i get 8mbps? (on multi-threaded downloads)
So bonding does work in certain instances.

I think there might be congestion somewhere which Mweb has to address.

My question is not really regarding Bonding, but rather why i can only get 4mbps on ONE line at a time. And not both simultaneously on separate routers with separate PC's?

 

[bullzeye.za]

Not for things like multithreaded downloads.

Have you tried using more threads? Perhaps it went ahead and created 12 threads on the first line, and only two on the other?

 

[MWEBHelp]

Hi all,

Maybe someone could answer this or understand what is happening.

I was playing around with two Telkom 4096 Lines & two Mweb uncapped 4096 accounts.

I placed the routers in bridge mode, created the PPPoE sessions in pfSense then load balanced them.

When trying a multithread download i would receive a max of 5mbps (640KB/s) down.

Tried a multithread FTP upload and received 980kbps (122.5KB/s) up.

So i changed to my Telkom account and i get closed to 7.8mbps down.

Further more i placed both routers seprate with the PPPoE session terminating in the routers with my Mweb accounts.

I started a HTTP download on the one connection to max out the line, while maxing the one line out the other line could not achieve higher than 1mbps.

Retired the same setup with Telkom accounts and both lines max out at 4mbps simultaneously.

So my question is:
Does Telkom throttle ISP's (Mweb) to a certain amount of bandwidth per exchange or could it be a Mweb problem?
Just curios as to why i can't get 4mbps simultaneously on both my lines with Mweb accounts.
Because when i am downloading drivers and stuff on my one line, the other is very slow and Youtube buffers all the time.

I do understand that there is a 20:1 contention ratio but should it affect Mweb accounts so bad, where as Telkom accounts are fine.

Hi Hummercellc,

You can have a look into our bonded ADSL offerings on the following link:

http://www.mweb.co.za/productspricing/InternetAccess/BusinessADSL/Bonded.aspx

Regards,

MWEB Guy

 

[Hummercellc]

Hi Hummercellc,

You can have a look into our bonded ADSL offerings on the following link:

http://www.mweb.co.za/productspricing/InternetAccess/BusinessADSL/Bonded.aspx

Regards,

MWEB Guy

Hi Mweb Guy,

Thanks for the reply but, as i stated above, you guys are not reading.
It is not about the bonding! that was a test.

It is about the fact that two separate ADSL 4096kbps lines with 4096kbps uncapped accounts cannot run at 4mbps simultaneously. When one of my lines is running at max speed (downloading) there other barely get 1mbps until the other line is freed up?

Basically when i have one PC running one line at max speed the other PC and other line cannot get more than 1mbps. So basically I can get a maximum of 5mbps from two 4096 lines on two separate PC's, two separate routers, two separate lines adding the down link speed together from each PC.

But yet if i replace the Mweb accounts in the router with Telkom accounts i get very close to 8mbps! (adding the download speed from both PC's together in the above scenario)

Hope that makes sense

Just had a thought, Mweb Guy,
If cannot max both my 4mbps lines out at the same time how will bonding help? i will never see more than 5mbps even if the lines are bonded.
I would have to be able to get 4mbps from both my line simultaneously to be able to get 8mbps bonded.

 

[Hummercellc]

Here are some speedtest's to show that my load balancing is working fine.

Called Telkom logged a fault, Tyron from network planning called me back and said there is a bit of ATM congestion on our exchange and it will be addressed in the next maintenance period, further more anyone applying for ADSL in our area will only be able to get 384kbps lines anyone on 4mbps is just lucky Tyron said. So i guess i will just have to wait

At least they confirmed what i already thought

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1673870528.png
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1673872008.png
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1673873270.png
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