2x WAN ports - how does this work?

Random

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=314072&view=detailed

So I was looking at that and thinking it was all well and good that you could have a 1Mbit Eircon line and a 2Mbit IBB line and you could have 3Mbit in total.

But alas, you can't, right?

Because the IP addresses just wouldn't work out if you were browsing? So you could only use one connection per task at a time?

How do they work then beyond backup ? They let you run your torrents through one connection and browse through another ?

Any thoughts ?

(I just realised this is in the wrong forum - msg sent to mods to move it ...)

humaxf1

""With two WAN ports, the device can have two simultaneous WAN connections while also providing broadband connection redundancy and failover capability""

Failover is the buzz word here...if say your IBB connection goes bust (which is likely to happen hehe), your cable/eircom connection can take over almost seamless maybe?!?!? Just because they are running at the same time, don't mean that you combine the speeds.

It's a bit like the ESB and a generator running at the same time...if the ESB cuts out, the geny is there to take over!

The above is just a guess!, but sounds good to me

Jaden

I have one of these:

http://www.allproducts.com/computer/pheenet/17-multihoming.html

Loads balances outbound and inbound.

tomk

Yeah, the SMC is basically a failover setup, although you can assign users on your network to one WAN or the other. There's some basic QoS in there too.

If you want the full load-balancing extravaganza, either get something like Jaden's box (not cheap, I presume), or if you're geeky enough, get an old PC, three NICs, and read this - if I'm ever lucky and/or rich enough to have two BB links, that's what I'll be doing.

MunsterCycling

tomk wrote:

Yeah, the SMC is basically a failover setup, although you can assign users on your network to one WAN or the other. There's some basic QoS in there too.

If you want the full load-balancing extravaganza, either get something like Jaden's box (not cheap, I presume), or if you're geeky enough, get an old PC, three NICs, and read this - if I'm ever lucky and/or rich enough to have two BB links, that's what I'll be doing.

The link doesn't work tomk

tomk

Site seems to be down - never had a problem with it before.

Try again later, I suppose....