- Combining 2 broadband connections
- Posted by Eeyore on March 15th, 2007
I'm sure someone mentioned this a while back but I can't recall the details.
Suppose one had a cable modem and an ADSL modem both providing a broadband
connection on ethernet.
Can these be combined. As in if one connection's is really poor, the other can
'take over' seamlessly ?
Graham
- Posted by alexd on March 15th, 2007
Eeyore wrote:
Yes, but it's not ever going to be completely seamless. One failover
detection method is to ping a public address [eg a root nameserver]
periodically [eg every 30s] from each interface, and if one stops working,
stop sending traffic down it. How sufficient that is for you depends on
what applications you're using over it, and what your definition of 'really
poor' is. You'd probably use this in conjunction with load balancing to
make efficient use of both circuits.
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- Posted by PhilT on March 15th, 2007
On Mar 15, 12:20 pm, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelati...@hotmail.com>
wrote:
load balancing router with failover.
http://www.xrio.com/xrionet/ etc etc
Phil
- Posted by Eeyore on March 15th, 2007
PhilT wrote:
That may be a bit more upmarket than I require !
When I came across this issue mentioned here before I'm sure someone mentioned some
product like 'red box' or similar but I haven't managed to find anything like that
with that name via google yet and if I did bookmark it I can't see it now. Does that
ring any bells ?
Graham
- Posted by Grant on March 15th, 2007
Eeyore wrote:
http://www.firebrick.co.uk ?
- Posted by Eeyore on March 15th, 2007
Grant wrote:
That was the one thanks. Red brick, firebrick etc...
Graham
- Posted by NoNeedToKnow on March 16th, 2007
On 15 Mar 2007, Eeyore wrote:
There are Edimax units for 2 or 4 WAN connections (under 100 quid)
(but I've not yet seen a UK supplier for this, sorry).
