Hello,
I live in a highrise apartment building in a big city. Included in my monthly fees is DirecTV and 3Mb DSL and I am paying for a static IP address so I can access my NAS and desktop remotely. The problem is, 3Mb is just not enough speed for my tastes (Last night SD Hulu was enough to bring it to its knees) so I want something faster. The ISP does not have any upgrade options available and the coax is centrally wired to DirecTV, so cable modem access is not possible. The only 2 options I have found for faster access are Clear (Wimax, which gets unfavorable reviews locally) or AT&T Uverse claims it can give me 12Mb over DSL.
My questions are:
1) If I want to continue to use my current 3Mb with static IP and add another ISP to the mix, would it be feasible?
2) There is only 1 phone jack near my office setup. Is it possible to have 2 separate DSL connections out of 1 phone jack?
3) What would be the best way to utilize both connections?
-3a) Do I buy a dual wan router and let it sort things out?
-3b) If I were to get 2 routers (1 for each connection) turn off DHCP on one and uplink them both to my switch, what would happen?
4) Do I build a dedicated box running some flavor of Linux or Windows Server with 3 wan ports that can do all this for me?
5) Am I totally going about this the wrong way? I am open to discuss any help/suggestions the community may have.
Notes:
-I'm willing to spend some money on this, but I would prefer not to spend a boatload
-Living in an apartment, space is a premium and power consumption is also important to me, so the fewer, smaller, low power devices the better
Thanks in advance!
I live in a highrise apartment building in a big city. Included in my monthly fees is DirecTV and 3Mb DSL and I am paying for a static IP address so I can access my NAS and desktop remotely. The problem is, 3Mb is just not enough speed for my tastes (Last night SD Hulu was enough to bring it to its knees) so I want something faster. The ISP does not have any upgrade options available and the coax is centrally wired to DirecTV, so cable modem access is not possible. The only 2 options I have found for faster access are Clear (Wimax, which gets unfavorable reviews locally) or AT&T Uverse claims it can give me 12Mb over DSL.
My questions are:
1) If I want to continue to use my current 3Mb with static IP and add another ISP to the mix, would it be feasible?
2) There is only 1 phone jack near my office setup. Is it possible to have 2 separate DSL connections out of 1 phone jack?
3) What would be the best way to utilize both connections?
-3a) Do I buy a dual wan router and let it sort things out?
-3b) If I were to get 2 routers (1 for each connection) turn off DHCP on one and uplink them both to my switch, what would happen?
4) Do I build a dedicated box running some flavor of Linux or Windows Server with 3 wan ports that can do all this for me?
5) Am I totally going about this the wrong way? I am open to discuss any help/suggestions the community may have.
Notes:
-I'm willing to spend some money on this, but I would prefer not to spend a boatload
-Living in an apartment, space is a premium and power consumption is also important to me, so the fewer, smaller, low power devices the better
Thanks in advance!