Need a good Load Balancing router.

First off this will be for home use. I previously bought a Netgear dual wan and this thing is junk. It actually downloads slower than either of my connections. But i'm not really here for this issue as its a limitation in the hardware that i didnt find when i researched it.

I have 2 cable connections both with 20/2 speed. If i buy the proper router i should be able to get roughly 40/4 speed with multiple connections right? The 2 things I primarily use are Usenet (which i can have 8 connections at once), and bitorrent. So if I buy a Hotbrick LB-2 I shouldnt have any problems getting up to these speeds correct?

Downloading from multiple ips simultaneously might piss off your tracker.

If you insist though, I've heard nothing but bad things about Hotbrick products. (Although I have no hands on experience with them) Your best bet for something like this on the cheap is an older server off of ebay running PfSense. I'm a fan of Rackable Systems units but I'm sure others will have some good recommendations as well.

Well I have 6 computers in this household so i'm sure if i wanted i could set up a box. But I'm really looking for a router solution. I just bought a xincom which is almost identical to the hotbrick off amazon. Figure it cant hurt to try it and if it doesnt work then I'll return it.

Im also looking for one of those, I cant seem to get PFSense to work.

ctark said:

I have 2 cable connections both with 20/2 speed. If i buy the proper router i should be able to get roughly 40/4 speed with multiple connections right?

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No. Internet sessions are pretty much session based. A session can only go across a single connection. So if you download something, it will come down just 1 of the pipes. You're only able to benchmark and max 1x of the WAN connections. Naturally a large network of multiple computers can saturate a single internet pipe..so here is where load balancing comes into play. Some traffic from some computers goes out 1 of the WAN ports...some traffic from others goes out another WAN port.

So....large networks can get roughly 40 megs worth of traffic overall....on a dual 20 meg setup. But not individual computers.