Is there any way of using 2 Broadband accounts on one home network?
Question: I have a 4mb NTL cable broadband connection which is very reliable & always runs at near the quoted speed. However I am about to get an Orange phone which will give me free 2mb broadband via my BT land line.
My question is, is there any way to utilise both connections seeing as I don't want to lose the reliability/speed of my NTL cable connection and the new one will be free? I have a Motorola wireless router which runs my home network that I connect an XBOX360, laptop, desktop & media streaming box to.
Any help would be appreciated on whether there is anyway this is technically possible.
Answer:
What you want to do is called bonding. There is a small appliance called a firebrick which does this. There are other more expensive solutions too that are geared to corporate nets, but the firebrick seems to be popular for SOHOs. I have not used the firebrick myself, but I have two T1s here bonded with a cisco device, and it works great. Here is a link to firebricks FAQ on bonding
http://www.firebrick.co.uk/faq-bonding.h...
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