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BlueFish

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Please bear with me a bit, I'm not a well trained network engineer so I will do my best to explain my thoughs here.

So, where I live we get a free cable internet connection. From what I can tell this connection is broken down into a seperate network on each street whichs uses a highspeed connection (fractional t3) which is shared among the steets here, which I assume is about ~3Mps (from what I understand is the smallest logic breaking point for this type of connection) dedicated to each street. Each connection is capped at about 1Mps per IP on a dhcp setup.

I can easily set up three connection using three cable modems and get three machines running and serving at the regular cables speeds without creating a bottleneck. With the way the streets run, I can connect to the street I live on and also hit wireless that is broadcast from the next street over.

Now, what I want to know, can I bridge either of these connections and get a faster overall speed for a single server? Basically, I want to try and get three cable modems dedicated to incoming only and use a few of the wireless connections as outgoing only traffic.

I know there was software like this written for that dds connection where the modem worked as a uplink to control the fast download via satelite. Has anyone tried anything like this? Have any notes sitting of what worked and what didn't? I wanted to get thoughts before going and spending a bunch of cash on cable modems only to find it isn't possilbe or worth the time.
 
A wile back I heard of some people successfully doing something similar to this, But using multiple DSL connections, so I'm sure it's possible, but I'm not sure you could effectively use all the speed for one task. More likely what would happen is you would need to share the load between the two connections by setting it up so that the tasks evenly separate. I'm afraid I don't know of any programs, because I think the people who did the DSL work wrote thier own.
 
bridging connections like this will not increase your d/l or u/l speed. It will only increase your theoretical 'bandwidth' - IE the number of computers you could have connected up before your throughput starts to suffer.
 
Yeah, I am thinking the same thing. My other though would be to break up larger files into smaller sections and use a few smaller machines ($250 dell) to download each section seperately over it's own 'dedicated' connection then connect them together onto a main machine for storage. i.e one 40 gig file broken into a four 10 gig pieces each downloading on a smaller machine then put back together once on a local network. All I need to do for that is write a bit a software to automate the process and then apply it to practice.

Or I could just simply use the USPS next day air and not give myself a headache of being cheap and trying to get a faster connection. Right? Right.

Thanks guys. I'll quit banging my head into a wall now.
 
u need to consider that the way it is shared probably means theres a big bottle neck on the network.

When alot of people use it you may be getting a high speed, but u still need to share the main connection. so consider just running one modem for longer, 2 if your downloading. but it wont make much diffrence
 
Digital-Vortex said:
u need to consider that the way it is shared probably means theres a big bottle neck on the network.

When alot of people use it you may be getting a high speed, but u still need to share the main connection. so consider just running one modem for longer, 2 if your downloading. but it wont make much diffrence
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Yeah, was going to say the same thing :p
 
i though a load banancer router would work for this i remeber some one telling me he had a dsl and a cable connection ran though one of these routers and it worked nicely
 
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