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 ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof.