Yo, MrBeep man.

[nihilist]

Can't you guys start splitting local/international bandwidth for your users?

I have a 5GB Saix account and a 10GB Local Only IS account with you guys and I use IPCop and a script to split int/local bw.

However, it's not a perfect setup and sometimes requires I do a little TLC (some scripts don't like more than one pppoe connection)

Can't you do it for some of your users? I don't mind paying a bit per month extra.

Peace.

 

[Ratwiz]

I second this idea. It's a great idea and any ISP implementing this would have a clear competitive advantage in the short-run. I wonder how difficult from an admin POV this would be though...

 

[kevinswan007]

Use Route Sentry. works like a charm.

 

[Gatecrasher]

I second this idea. It's a great idea and any ISP implementing this would have a clear competitive advantage in the short-run. I wonder how difficult from an admin POV this would be though...

While one router can handle the splitting of one user's traffic very well, Any isp-side router is going to struggle hopelessly splitting the traffic of hundreds or thousands of users. Far more hardware would be required than at present. It is likely that the cost of providing an effective service would make an ISP's pricing uncompetitive.

@ N1hlist, check out the Linksys startup script, it irons out most, if not all, of the potential conflicts and problems with traffic splitting (source routing, port forwarding, ddns, etc). It is all bash script and standard Linux libraries and can surely be adapted to IPCop. After all, it is from Bernie's original IPCop script that the Linksys script grew.

 

[Gatecrasher]

Use Route Sentry. works like a charm.

Not if you have a reasonably sized home network...