Twin Internet connections

[mahendra]

I have two computers with two individual internet connections. One is a cable connection with 256kbps & the other is connected thru my telephone and D-Link router (Tria-Band) also having the same speed of 256 kbps. Is it possible for me to combine two sources to attain greater Internet speed.

Thanks

mahendra

[YeOldeStonecat]

I have two computers with two individual internet connections. One is a cable connection with 256kbps & the other is connected thru my telephone and D-Link router (Tria-Band) also having the same speed of 256 kbps. Is it possible for me to combine two sources to attain greater Internet speed.

Thanks

mahendra


From different ISPs, no. You'd have to have them from the same ISP, and have special bonding equipment on both ends (back in the dial up days you may remember something called "Shotgun")...the ISP would have to have it setup that way. All other equipment/software you see out there that works with multiple WAN connections will normally do what's called "Load balancing". This can work with multiple accounts from the same ISP, or different ISPs, or even different technologies such as 1x DSL and 1x cable or 1x frame relay/T. When one connections starts to get spilled over, the router or software will start to spill traffic over to the second connection. Also can work as a failover redundancy, if one goes down, all traffic gets shifted to the other. Routers such as the relatively new Linksys/Cisco RV0 series support this. Say you have 2x 1.5 meg connections....you won't get the speed of 3.0....but you can effectively get the throughput of 3 megs though. One computer won't realize this, but a whole network full behind the router will...combined.

[mahendra]

From different ISPs, no. You'd have to have them from the same ISP, and have special bonding equipment on both ends (back in the dial up days you may remember something called "Shotgun")...the ISP would have to have it setup that way. All other equipment/software you see out there that works with multiple WAN connections will normally do what's called "Load balancing". This can work with multiple accounts from the same ISP, or different ISPs, or even different technologies such as 1x DSL and 1x cable or 1x frame relay/T. When one connections starts to get spilled over, the router or software will start to spill traffic over to the second connection. Also can work as a failover redundancy, if one goes down, all traffic gets shifted to the other. Routers such as the relatively new Linksys/Cisco RV0 series support this. Say you have 2x 1.5 meg connections....you won't get the speed of 3.0....but you can effectively get the throughput of 3 megs though. One computer won't realize this, but a whole network full behind the router will...combined.
Hi YeOldeStonecat,

Thanx 4 the clarification. Aprreciate prompt reply.