Combining two internet connections?

[YeOldeStonecat]

Anyone else here tried connecting two consumer-grade routers to each other via their LAN ports to allow two gateway choices on a single LAN?

We actually have our office network setup that way...although not "consumer grade routers"...but, for the purpose of the setup, doesn't really make a difference.

We have our big Untangle monster firewall for our primary office network, service/guest network, and networks we resell for other tenants in our building. That is basically the .1 gateway for those networks.

We then have our server cabinet running various things...some of which, our N-Central server. And we wanted peak performance for our remote sessions via N-Central, naturally...since that's part of how we live and breath. So I got a Ubiquiti Edge Router Pro...and stuck one of our public IPs on it..and the inside of the Edge Router is .254. We have N-Central sitting behind that..and using that for its public facing interface.

I can also just change my workstations gateway from .1..to .254..and instead of going out Untangle at .1 I'll go out the EdgeRouter at .254.

 

[timeshifter]

 

[GTP]

Interesting.
Wonder why he keeps reaching under the bench with his right hand?

 

[Altster]

The only thing available to them is residential grade ATT DSL.

If they (or you) know someone who works for AT&T you / they should confirm this. Most of the sales force for AT&T don't (really) have a clue as to what is available in a given area. For instance the area that I live it was supposedly only able to deliver (pi$$-poor) AT&T DSL. But once we did some further digging into what was really available here, we ended up getting U-Verse Internet.

Current test results (here at my home):

Your Test Results (Tested on 10/31/2017, 6:40:18 AM)

• Download Speed 50.3 Mbps (6287.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
• Upload Speed 5.54 Mbps (692.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
• Latency 22 ms

I never thought I could have this good of a home connection / speed (I know some of you have better) until I did some more digging!

(And remember this, I run Linux Mint 18.2 & not that bloated winderz o/s software.)

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Current test results (here at my home):

Your Test Results (Tested on 10/31/2017, 6:40:18 AM)

• Download Speed 50.3 Mbps (6287.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
• Upload Speed 5.54 Mbps (692.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
• Latency 22 ms

(And remember this, I run Linux Mint 18.2 & not that bloated winderz o/s software.)

yeah Mint is a bit heavy, could account for the slow upload results. (the 50/10 speed package, which appears is what you have based on your 50 download, should have an upload 'tween 6-10) Unless you have the 75 down package.


The U-Verse pipes have been getting much better lately, in our area, up to 115 down, in some other areas..even up to 500 down! Getting more competitive with cable lately.

 

[NETWizz]

I recommend doing it with BGP. Here is how we do it at work:

https://www.auvik.com/media/blog/redundant-internet-connection-bgp/

 

[Krynn72]

Interesting.
Wonder why he keeps reaching under the bench with his right hand?

I think its something to do with his microphone. He does it in practically every video where he's standing at a desk.

 

[GTP]

yeah Mint is a bit heavy, could account for the slow upload results

Wait. What?

 

[Altster]

yeah Mint is a bit heavy

Not nearly as "OPPRESSIVE" as anything Winderz-related though!

 

[ComputerRepairTech]

Also, don't fall into the trap of thinking that pairing two 6 meg DSL connections results in a 12 meg connection if you do online speed tests. What you get is a network that can handle more internet traffic than a single DSL connection...almost 12 megs worth..but no single session will peak faster than a single WAN connection. (so any online speed test of a pair of balance 6 meg pipes will still only peak at 6 megs)

I was just thinking about this today. If the speed test is a multithreaded test for example many speedtest.net servers, depending on the balancing algorithm a multi wan router could divide the threads to various WANs causing you to exceed a single wan connection. Doubt it would help a dropbox situation but i think im going to investigate just how far I can go into forcing things into multiple threads to push dual wan to its limits...just for fun.