8 Mbps ADSL bonding tested with Peplink routers

Interesting... The routers seem a bit expensive though, even the entry-level ones.

Nology said that they are busy working on firmware that includes support for South African dynamic DNS services. They said that this was done for clients who wanted to use only local bandwidth to connect two sites without needing a static IP.
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We have local dynamic DNS services? I haven't heard of any. Are they free? In any case it doesn't really help, as most off-the-shelf devices don't support them.
 
Dynamic DNS happens at the ISP. Nothing needs to happen on the router. You pay for the DNS name and that's about it.
 
interesting indeed ,not for the average user though
 
benitok said:
Dynamic DNS happens at the ISP. Nothing needs to happen on the router. You pay for the DNS name and that's about it.
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No it doesn't. You're talking about a static IP address. Dynamic DNS requires the router, or another device on the network (like a server), to update the DNS records for the current host name. If you don't know what I am talkin about, try googling dynamic DNS.
 
iCubed.Saajid said:
No it doesn't. You're talking about a static IP address. Dynamic DNS requires the router, or another device on the network (like a server), to update the DNS records for the current host name. If you don't know what I am talkin about, try googling dynamic DNS.
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Ofcourse it can happen at the ISP. The ISP also know your IP address, so they can also handle the DDNS for you. It is a pity that this is not supported a lot better by South African ISPs.
 
What I do not understand is that they say that the bonding needs a PEPLINK router on both sides of the connection. But then the give this big download figures. Am I missing something, or are they using another connection method on the upload side, other than ADSL?

If I connect my 2 sites with this technology, the link will be limited to the site with the slowest speed. Thus if both sites have 2x 4meg ADSL lines, then the max speed will be 2x512kbps upload = 1024kbps * 90% ?
 
zamicro said:
Ofcourse it can happen at the ISP. The ISP also know your IP address, so they can also handle the DDNS for you. It is a pity that this is not supported a lot better by South African ISPs.
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Ah.. now I get you. Sorry I mis-understood. Dynamic DNS on the ISP is a bit pointless though IMO. If the ISP can go through all the trouble of setting up a DynDNS service, why don't they then just give you a fixed IP address? No point in them cycling through their own IP address pool, assigning different IP adddresses to different domains. Rather pointless. Static IP, linked to a domain name.
 
Nice hardware bonding for Site to Site VPN connections but this is only available in the higher 210/310 for R12000+.
This would I guess be geared at the SMB with Sites in JHB/CPT/DBN and don't want the expense of diginet where bonded ADSL lines can get better throughput.
ie
Diginet 256k +-R3000
bonded adsl R 1600 +ISP local == +-R2000 at +-700Kbps and you can prob fit in some international bandwidth with the load balancing and QOS with negligible effect on Site to site VPN.
Although I know ADSL is best effort and latency will be higher than diginet higher bandwidth should even this out.
 
deepdiver said:
Nice hardware bonding for Site to Site VPN connections but this is only available in the higher 210/310 for R12000+.
This would I guess be geared at the SMB with Sites in JHB/CPT/DBN and don't want the expense of diginet where bonded ADSL lines can get better throughput.
ie
Diginet 256k +-R3000
bonded adsl R 1600 +ISP local == +-R2000 at +-700Kbps and you can prob fit in some international bandwidth with the load balancing and QOS with negligible effect on Site to site VPN.
Although I know ADSL is best effort and latency will be higher than diginet higher bandwidth should even this out.
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What about the Service Level Agreement you get with a Leased line? That's very important if your branches are linked
 
Yep the SLA with the leased line is more expensive however telkom's base level SLA which I think they call their Bronze package is a day or so anyway and that you have to pay for although I wouldn't be able to say the exact SLA times without doing some digging.
Anyone know the SLA times for diginet lines?
This could probably be mitigated by using a 3g redundant link to use as backup.

Would love to know if anyone has Site to Site VPN ie long distance(CPT -> DBN or CPT -> JHB) using ADSL 4 Mbps or new 10 Mbps and the throughput they get.(possibly latency Avg)
How viable would this be?
Compare this to 256k Diginet of comparable distance ( Price Cpt - Dbn = i would guess at around R+-6000)
(4Mbps should have site to site of around 384k, upload bottleneck, with bonding around 700k)
 
zamicro said:
What I do not understand is that they say that the bonding needs a PEPLINK router on both sides of the connection. But then the give this big download figures. Am I missing something, or are they using another connection method on the upload side, other than ADSL?

If I connect my 2 sites with this technology, the link will be limited to the site with the slowest speed. Thus if both sites have 2x 4meg ADSL lines, then the max speed will be 2x512kbps upload = 1024kbps * 90% ?
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This is per-packet-load-balancing. The bonded medium needs to be fixed eg. 4 x 4 mb, 4 x 512k etc and if one line drops to 2mb suddenly your whole bonded solution will slow down.

The upload and download speeds are bonded separately though. So if both your sites have 2 x 4Mb the max will be 6mb down per site and about 800k upload.
 
Calculations:
4Mb line cost = R371 (Quote -isat.co.za)

so 2 sites = R371 x 4 = R1484 ( monthly rental)
ISP costs ( prob round R800 )
R+-2200 < R+-6000(diginet)
700k > 256k(diginet)

So would really be for Small to medium Business's (SMB)
 
Wow nice High end peplink.( wtf 10 gbit dark fibre didn't think it would support such high bandwidth)
Would you recommend the product?
What is the interface like?
Performance?
And How do you find the aggregated ADSL lines in terms of latency and bandwidth compared to the telkom 1 Mbit backup.
 
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