Comments on: How to easily set up a redundant internet connection

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By: guido

guido — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 10:36:05 +0000

looks pretty good! Now i’m off and try to set it up myself. wish me luck folks…

By: JJ

JJ — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 20:19:20 +0000

@Cody – No cody. one connection can only use one DSL connection at a time. This means that if you have a torrent connected to 100 users, some will be using one line and the others will use the second line. If you are loading a web-page, a part of the web-page will be downloaded through one connection and the other part through the other. But if you have ONE download running with only one connection it can only use the max speed of one of your WAN connections.
Though this can be fixed using download accelerators that download pieces creating several connections like DAP (download accelerator plus)

By: Wanspider

Wanspider — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:24:36 +0000

I would suggest the Syswan Duolinks SW24 Router from my personal experience. This router offers load balancing and redundancy and is rock solid once deployed.

I have been using a few at customer installations and have had no problems after deployment. The tech support was great and helpful when I had to call in for some advise on advanced configuration.

You can check the product specs at http://www.syswan.com

By: Marie

Marie — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:32:51 +0000

Wow I’m jealous. I couldn’t find a similar multi-WAN router in the Philippines that would allow USB modem too. My Huawei HSDPA modem is my secondary connection for now. If the multi-WAN router had print server (2 printers) that’d be perfect!

By: Cody

Cody — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:49:21 +0000

Wow awesome – time to go buy one of these and play around Thanks for this!

By: Roy

Roy — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:21:47 +0000

@Cody: Yes, it does. I’ve seen torrents come in at exactly the combined speed of the two lines. I chose to not do this (by creating a rule that directs all torrent traffic to one line and free up the second one for work), but the default setting get you 20Mb/s.

By: Cody

Cody — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:54:26 +0000

Does this combine the link speed for just multi-threaded downloads like torrents? Or can you see double the download speed on regular file downloas as well?

I have two 10Mb/s cable connections in the house here – i would love to try this!

By: Roy

Roy — Sun, 17 May 2009 13:09:04 +0000

Yeah, that’ll work. When I had just set it up I fired up some torrents and they were coming in at 7 mbit. One line is 2 (cheap backup cable), the other 5 (DSL), so they were being combined. Really neat.