[CentOS] Two Internet connections...

Wed Mar 26 21:08:44 UTC 2008
Ross S. W. Walker <rwalker at medallion.com>

Peter Arremann wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 March 2008, Frank Cox wrote:
> > I do some occasional tech work for a cable TV/Internet service provider. 
> > They have now offered me free services, including cable Internet.  I
> > currently have a DSL service through the telephone company and, for several
> > reasons including the fact that it is really unlimited service with no cap
> > and it comes with newsgroup access (neither of which the cable service
> > has), I'm not really prepared to give that up.
> >
> > However, since I can get a free cable Internet service too I would like to
> > be able to put that to use.
> >
> > Does anyone have any good ideas for what to do with an extra cable Internet
> > service?  Is there, say, a way to somehow "shotgun" two Internet services
> > like you used to be able to do with dial-up modems to increase your
> > transmission speed?
> 
> Getting better answers when posting on two lists? ;)
> 
> Anyway - I have a similar setup - Fios and cable modem. I use a Xincom router. 
> They are reasonably priced (starting at around $150) and offer two wan 
> uplinks. This way all workstations and servers on my lan side have a single 
> default route and the xincom router distributes the load nicely. It does the 
> normal things like nat, port forwarding, ... you're used to from other home 
> routers. Also allows you to bind certain traffic to a specific side, i.e. all 
> my ftp traffic is going over the cable modem side. If one wan link isn't 
> available, the other link carries the full load. It won't speed up a single 
> process but if you have that much bandwidth, you will anyway end up running a 
> lot of things in parallel. 

I did not know such a nifty device existed.

Thanks for the tip!

-Ross

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