We've mentioned the LinkSys (now Cisco) RV042 on this forum before. Essentially, it's a router with two WAN ports. You can configure the routing to failover from one to the other on failure, or balance the traffic between the two, which should expand your internet bandwidth.
This device is getting on in its years, as a 10/100 router, and is probably at a premium price, since it has the Cisco brand on it. But it looks like you could find it for under $100, and it might be worth trying out as an inexpensive solution. (There's also an updated Gigabit model RV042G for around $150.) http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/routers/rv042-dual-wan-vpn-router/index.html On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 6:51 PM, Joe Yoder <[email protected]> wrote: > I want to increase Internet access bandwidth on a network I manage. The > only unmetered broadband available in the area is DSL so my only option > appears to be a second DSL modem. Ideally the two modems would equally > share the load but I understand to do that properly requires a bonding > modem and possibly support by the ISP. > > It seems a simpler approach might be to split the traffic between the > terminal services server and the machines connected to the server. This > would mean that when a user accesses the Internet while in an RDP session > the traffic would go through the server modem. If the user accesses the > Internet from a browser running on the local machine, the traffic would be > on the non server modem. > > My question relates to how one configures such a setup. Is it as simple as > setting up the second modem with its own static IP address and using that > address as the gateway address for the server and leaving everything else > the same? Anything else? > > Thanks in advance for any input! > > Joe > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > multipart/alternative > text/plain (text body -- kept) > text/html > --- > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CACW6n4s6E=4fmh10bdmnh2isg1mmal+ktep7udrg2qctxlm...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
