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The Natural Philosopher

Andy Burns wrote:
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The Natural Philosopher wrote:

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Have you considered using a server to use your and one or more
neighbour's broadband lines so you both get twice the speed most of
the time?

Very complicated.

Even a humble win98 box supports this. Just need a second nic
and the cd or 98 files to install the necessary non-default bits.

Not to do proper load balancing of multiple ADSL lines it doesn't, no
version of Windows does, if you channel bond multiple lines from the
same ISP to a single router it's easier, but lines from different ISPs
is tricky even with Linux,

You need to run BGP on the router, and unless you are technically
competent no ISP will let you. Well you can run it, but they wont
propagate it. or listen to it.

and any one download will tend to use a
single line.

Not if you do the routing properly.

With equal weighting and a choice of two routes, most routers will round
robin on a packet by packet basis.