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Imaulle

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I have 2 internet connections coming into my house, both of which are 50/10

I want to hear what you all would recommend to tie the connections together to load balance to my main computer so that I get a theoretical 100/20.

I guess my two options are to either buy a router with load balancing built in or to setup an additional box with pfSense and use just a normal router?

anyone have any experience with this and can give me some ideas.


thanks!
 
This question has been asked a multitude of times. Do a search and you'll find tons of info.

In short, it can be done with routers or with a pfsense type box. From what I remember on a home user basis, it works, just not well and really isn't worth the hassle.
 
problem is you dont really get 100/20, load balancing would balance the load to either connection when one is overloaded, some very very very expensive routers i do beleive support "merging" the 2 connections.

But as said, search, been asked a million times.
 
you're not going to be able to "bond" the two connections together unless your ISP supports doing that. the best you can do is load-balance across the two using a multi-WAN router or firewall. I would look at pfsense or the new Untangle Beta that supports this.
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the untangle beta though has basic functions i beleive for multiwan, the rest you have to pay for?
 
What exactly do you need this for? Maybe some better recommendations can be made if you detail your use case a bit more. Load balancing is quite different than what I think you are asking. Typically load balancers are used for inbound connections to be spread across multiple servers of a similar configuration so that high availability of a service is achieved along with higher performance due to spreading different requests across the servers. The closest thing I can think of related to what you are asking is etherchannel, but this is cable we're talking about I believe.

If your goal is to upload torrents really fast (what else would you need the bandwidth for?), then my suggestion is to setup two networks in a way where each has it's own default gateway (DG) and each DG uses its own Internet pipe, but each network can also route to the other network (fast file sharing!). With that setup you can have two boxes, one each on each network, seed the same torrent each with its own pipe, and since the networks can route to each other you can copy the file from one seedbox to the other.

Anything else in my opinion would be a unreliable and prone to significant problems, including a lack of efficient use of the two connections, unless the connection on the other end supports your configuration (ISP).
 
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