Dual-ISP provisioning

[Jeremy Turner]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 08:44:41AM -0500, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> Anybody seen Xincom Twin-WAN routers used to combine Cable and DSL
> connections for combined bandwidth?  I've only seen DSL used as a
> backup, with automatic failover at best, but In understand that the
> Xincoms can load-share.

I don't know about that particular router, but I had a friend in OKC
who's employer paid for cable modem service, and his wife's employer
paid for DSL service, so he got one of these.  He said it was somewhat
faster.

I don't know about combined bandwidth, but I'm sure if you were
downloading several large ISOs or something, it would load-balance 
nicely. And yes at least you would get an automatic failover.  If
running a server, you might be able to do DNS round-robin as well.  That
is, if both providers don't block important ports.

Jeremy