Dual ADSL connections

[Simcfc73]

Hi,

 

Does anyone use bonded ADSL connections on here? If so is it any good.

 

We are limited with budget and lne quality so we can only get 512kb so I would like to bond two together or use a load balanced ADSL router.

 

I have Smoothwall with a built in ADSL modem which runs nicely and does all my filtering so I would need to work out how to connect everything without making it 4 hops to get on the internet.

 

I know theres a Linux version that does it but it looks like it only supports certain modems.

[CyberNerd]

I looked into this a while back but we didn't proceed with it (LEA politics).

I don't think their are major problems with it - you have built in failover, except the lack of upload speeds and any other DSL specific problems.

 

There is a free linux version:

http://www.freestuffjunction.co.uk/bondedcd.shtml

I know that linux doesn't support all the 'winmodem' types.

 

Cisco also do a router that can be set-up for bonded ADSL connections.

http://broadband.nildram.net/bonded/

 

It might also be worth speaking with smoothwall about this or checking their forums.

http://community.smoothwall.org/forum/