Curious as to what is needed to multi home an Internet connection at home. I'm currently switching ISPs and figure might be fun to play around with at home.

Or am I wrong in thinking that multi homing a 1 Mbps connection and a 752 Kbps connection will give me the end result of 1.7 Mbps Internet connection?

Lol, I never thought of this... You just gave me a good idea :).

Yes it is possible. I think there was a post about this a few weeks back about a member saying that they purchased some sort of hardware that enabled two broadband connections to be merged into one. Although I dont remember who posted it. :(

Interesting, I will check into the hardware thing. I was thinking more along the lines of using a linux box to act as the gateway using IP masquerading, but would have no idea how to configure to use two Internet connections for the most bandwidth. (especially becuase I already have the hardware)

Yes there was one company offering such hardware in San Diego. But it was ordionary 56 x2 modem which can connect 2 lines and you can simply double the Internet connection. Never tried though :D

You could just setup a switch and plug in all the uplinks then another switch leading off that then plug in all of the comps, and some configuration and bam you got an multi-homed connection :D.

You could make multiple tunnels to a particular server (probably a dedicated you have somewhere) and bond them together using Linux's ethernet bonding driver (has to be done at both the server end and at the home end). Once you mess with routing a particular way, you should have approximately 1.7mbps of bandwidth. :)

Meh, I just have one 10 mebit connection.

Originally posted by Acronym BOY
Meh, I just have one 10 mebit connection.

:eek: You sleep in your office or your office is in your home?

Neither. NYC just has a very nice infrastructure going, therfore my ISP doesn't cap me. $40 a month.

They own a whole bunch of properties and services around here, many you have all heard of.