Good Afternoon!

I am contemplating the purchase of a Nexland router, which will allow two connections to be merged together.

Has anyone successfully merged two cable connections or two DSL connections or a combination of both?

Thanks!

http://www.nexland.com/turbo.cfm

Originally posted by Centralized
Good Afternoon!

I am contemplating the purchase of a Nexland router, which will allow two connections to be merged together.

Has anyone successfully merged two cable connections or two DSL connections or a combination of both?

Thanks!

http://www.nexland.com/turbo.cfm

Personally I dont know much about the Nexland, I would say if your going to use two connections why not simply get a router which will run BGP as long as your provider will allow you to run BGP as it appears this is strictly for DSL/Cable? is there a speed restriction on it?

The Nexland is for ADSL, SDSL, ATM, CABLE, etc etc

No speed restrictions..

Did you know that it is impossible to use two different providers to download a single file at combined speed?

It would be very handy if you could download different files on both connections.

you can't bond two connections together unless your ISP sets it up on their end as well, the only thing the nexland does is offload traffic to the 2nd connection if the first is full. You can set it to offload at something like 80% load on the 1st link then all it does is route new traffic over the 2nd link till the 1st link speeds back up.
I'm not 100% sure but the best way to run dual DSL and have the lines bonded are to use a Cisco 2600 series router on your end (the 1700 series might do it) that was designed for stuff like this. but first ask your ISP if the have the equipment to set this up and second if they're willing to do it. I used to bond T1's together but DSL might be alittle tricky the way it works.

Originally posted by SilenceGold
Did you know that it is impossible to use two different providers to download a single file at combined speed?

It would be very handy if you could download different files on both connections.

You can using a download manager, which is the catch with the Nexland it appears. Download accelerator requests a file, then fakes an "error" and sends retry (resume) requests out both lines for alternating pieces of the file, effectively doubling bandwidth.

So:
request 50 mb file on one line
fake "error, please resume" sent
request pieces 1-3-5-7-9 on line one
request pieces 2-4-6-8 on line two
half the file sent simultaneously on both lines.

Problem is without being a true BGP router, this only works for internet access, not from an ISP's point of view, because it source routes packets, You can't re-route or advertise the preferred route.