Well, you can get pretty close to this. Check out the Nexland routers: http://www.nexland.com/turbo.cfm
They can load balance two separate connections. I don't believe this works for a "single" FTP transfer, for example... it works by loadbalancing separate transfers. Things like surfing, multi-part transfers, etc. all happen at 2x the speed. I've never used one of these before, but I know that you can do load-balancing-like activities without any coordinateion on the ISP side. Fatpipe Networks also makes similar boxes, although it seems they are more targeted towards businesses: http://www.fatpipeinc.com/ Jared Valentine [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of S Woodside Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 10:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [BAWUG] I have a dream Well, it's a fairly minor dream. What I imagine is this: I have DSL. My neighbour has DSL. We also both have WiFi APs that can reach each other, and connect at order-of-magnitude faster than the DSL links. What I dream is this: That we start routing internet across the link. When I start pulling packets off the internet, they can come to me not only through my own DSL but from hers as well. I think this boils down to an ultimate simplicity what all FN / CWNers want to achieve. What needs to happen before I can realize my dream. I need to get an IPv6 address ... at least one ... for free. I need to be able to set up multi-homing in my home router. I need to be able to advertise my routing path to the internet. The internet needs to be able to handle at a massive scale (since every neighbour connects...). We need a /lot/ more IP addresses than we have now. I need to use a /real/ IP address because I can't route internet traffic through a NAT/site-local address. I need to have an ad-hoc routing algorithm that can set up this bridge and route across it really easily (because I'm not a trained network admin). Forget about BGP, AS, etc., we need a way to handle the massive overload of routes at local scale, at a regional scale, at a global scale -- something that will scale gracefully as the internet topology shifts from a tree to a massively connected mesh. Please comment ... tell me what you think. Simon PS I'm cross-posting this to a bunch of lists because I don't know one it belongs on. If you think you know which is best, please tell me! -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
