I work for a cable provider. One of the perks is I get 180/15 Internet for free every month. They just ran FiOS by my house and I've signed up for the 150/150 package. I want to know they easiest way to go about load balancing and combining these connections. I have looked into a few routers with multi-gigabit WAN ports. I can also get more connections from work so I'd like to find a solution that can do up to 4 WANs if I wanted. I found this video and it seems that this does essentially what I'm looking for only its only got 10/100 cards in it. Thanks for any help in advance.
Most of the time it's for WAN failover and not balancing. Must be nice to have multiple 100+ connections!
Well I would also use it for that purpose as well if I ever run a server...but yes, I don't mind having those speeds lol. Once I get it up and running I'll post a speed test back here for ya ;-)
Are you running a data centre from home? 150/150 is a good speed haha, I don't see how you could saturate that..
You won't have bonding, so you won't be able to use all the speed on 1 connection. You would be load balancing over all the connections at best.
in the video it worked to double his speed. I have already ordered it so I'll test it out. I could still use the load balancing feature even if it doesn't work so it's not like its a total waste of money. lol
If the speed test is downloading multiple files at the same time (quite a few do), then it will. Or he's paid for bonding at the isp end (I've not watched the video). But there is no way to split 1 connection over 2 Internet connections/ips. Edit: Read his own comment in the comments section and it confirms what I said.
I use a download manager that breaks files into multiple parts aswell as download from usenet in the same fashion. Is that what you are referring to?
Yes, things like that will see a speed increase. However, most usenet providers (unless using block accounts) will limit you to 1 ip address connecting at the same time. So you won't be able to use it for that. Block accounts they don't care if you share (which is what load balancing will look like) as once you use up the allowance, they can charge you again. Http downloads with multi part downloading will work great, torrents should also work well too.
Awesome! And if I did want to BIND them, do they make gigabit options that will do that without spending a mortgage payment on it?
As @Bad_Ad84 has said, you will only get a single external IP, failover would be the way to go. On another note, my ISP in the area offers 3 speeds: -100/100Mbps -1000/1000Mbps -10000/10000Mbps To all residential addresses. I have the 100/100Mbps service, but unlucky for me, the wife wanted to move to juuuust outside the service area. So now I have 60/4Mbps. What a joke.
