Probably your “redundant” connections ends up in the same local exchange, so useless at the end.

And in the next post about Business DSL or Consumer DSL. It has nothing to do with response times, it had to do with oversubscription which is higher on Consumer DSL.

And to avoid some comments; no I am not working for Tele2 or any other provider.

Good luck and wishdom
Johan

My cable modem came in the mail yesterday (and is already hooked up, which was less than painless compared to hooking up DSL. Dual- WAN router to arrive early next week.

I looked into professional DSL lines, but that’s really expensive, and you’re still using a single infrastructure. In case of mice or incompetent service engineers, the only thing those companies offer is faster response times. So you’ll still be offline for hours. And they’re terribly expensive.

Exchange Tele2 for UPC and then you got the perfect match.

Only, I know the outcome to my story already. It was one of the very cold days last fall I remember. After being down on the Internet for a few days, it felt like the Stone Age returned. But this very icy cold morning, a guy from the phone company knocked at the door. No call ahead of time. Well – he may have tried. But ADSL was simply dead and since I use VoIP that’s the end to that story.

The technician from the telecom company opened his box full of bells and whistles and plugged on of the gadgets in the service box at the house. No LEDs came on. “That’s bad” – he said. So he took off again and said he would be back in a bit. “Yeah, right!?!” – I thought to myself, I will never see this guy again and already started making up all sorts of things I would do next such as trying to call the head of support, and what not.
About 15 minutes later, the guy did show up again. I was impressed. He said he identified the problem and was asking if I checked my Internet. “Nooo!” – I responded – but half way along this short word I was already down the stairs in my office and checked the connection. “Cool! It works!” I ran up to the front door with the happiest face you could find that day on planet earth and the technician was already awaiting me with his arms stretched out asking if he was able to wash his hands now. ”Woowwww”, I asked – “What did you do?” – He responded with a question and asked “Really wanna know?” – “What was it?”, I replied and he said that there was a fat dormouse building its nest in the switch box at the corner of the block and all that dirt shorted the wires to my home.
Crazy! Happy ending after all but I will be more careful in the future before I prejudge my ISP.

And – the lesson I learned was that I know have cable and DSL connection to my home. I use the ZyWALL35 to bundle them up and never had an outage since.