John Oliver wrote:
With SBC offering DSL for $14.95 a month, I'm thinking about getting it
to supplement my cable modem. Is there an appliance or some kind of
software that will route and load-balance traffic out the two pipes?
Netgear and Linksys both have routers that can have multiple WAN ports
and do load balancing.
While I prefer Netgear, I have not used their routers with multiple WAN
ports, yet.
Linksys has a 4, 8, and 16 port routers that can use multiple WAN ports
and load balancing.
The 4 and 8 port router can use 2 WAN ports, and the 16 port can use up
to 7 WAN ports.
4 port:
http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?grid=34&scid=29&prid=639
<http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?grid=34&scid=29&prid=639>
8 port:
http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?grid=34&scid=29&prid=589
<http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?grid=34&scid=29&prid=589>
16 port:
http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?grid=34&scid=29&prid=624
<http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?grid=34&scid=29&prid=624>
I have the 8 and 16 port version.
I have used 2 DSL connections and 1 cable connection on the 16 port router.
2 DSL connections on the 8 port router.
Load balancing works fine.
However, I had trouble with both the 8 and 16 port routers when using
the VPN tunnels.
For some reason, the VPN tunnels were unstable in these routers.
I have reported it multiple times, and there has not been a fix.
Therefore, I would choose Netgear now for myself.
Perhaps someday Linksys will fix these problems.
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