Tying two xDSL Lines together

Is it possible? Anyone tried it?

[trillianjedi]

Seeing all these threads about ADSL reminded me of this idea I have in my head.

Has anyone obtained two ADSL lines, from two seperate providers, and tied the two together?

I know that there is linux routing software which is apparently capable of doing this on the networking side.

I can get ADSL in London from £24 a month. The idea of having two is it provides redundancy (by having one on each of two ISP's) and also doubles upload speed as well as download speed, something you can't do on regular ADSL.

Anyone got some experience?

TJ

[ogletree]

You don't have redundancy with the technology just backbones and often times they both use the same backbone. You would need 2 different technologies like dsl and cable, or sat. dsl, t1, isdn, dial up all depend on your local phone service one goes down they may all go down. Also you won't have double download or upload. You still can only use one or the other. It will seem faster in a multi user envirenment.

[trillianjedi]

Yes you're right, I've just thought through the double upload/download thing - they're on seperate IP addresses.....

So I guess what we'll have is load balancing of sorts. As you say, going to be faster in a multi-user (or multi-download and surfing the web) environment.

Noted about redundancy.

Thanks,

TJ