OT: Internet at home without active phone line

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Thu Jan 8 15:45:36 UTC 2009


On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 05:21:17PM -0500, Jamon Camisso wrote:
> You could go with 2 DSL connections and mlppp, that circumvents any 
> throttling, and gives you decent redundancy considering the tree problem 
> you've noted. Perhaps acanac and teksavvy, combined it'd still be less 
> than some of rogers' offerings too ;)

You can only use mlppp when both links terminate in the same place.

Load balancing and such is tricky stuff and not something you can
trivially do with home internet links.  You pretty much need routeable
static IPs which are not cheap.

Also all the connections seem to go through the same trees in this case.
:)

-- 
Len Sorensen
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists





More information about the Legacy mailing list