Is that possible 2 different internet provider join together ?

choy96

choy96

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Currently my company internet speed is very slow . We have subscribe 2 internet provider, let all 12 computer can be online, sometime it also very slow.
My idea is can 2 internet provider join together? let computer choose which internet provider is free of use.
can it be or any suggestion ?
 
What is the bandwidth of both of your internet connections? Both the promised speed by the ISP, and the real world speed using www.speedtest.net?

You can load balance two WAN connections, however most consumer routers can not do this, and you'd have to look to a more business grade router.
 
There's nothing inherently 'magical' about pfsense, you can do this with most platforms that aren't specifically consumer grade devices.

What bandwidth package or speed do you all pay for? Usually it's easier to just get a 'faster pipe'
 
of course there is nothing magical about pfsense.

it just is rather easy(er, sometimes) to use a prebuilt program than trying to jiggle something with nothing when you don't really know how anyways.
 
choy96 said:
let all 12 computer can be online, sometime it also very slow.
My idea is can 2 internet provider join together? let computer choose which internet provider is free of use.
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smellsorange said:
you can do this with a desktop computer with multiple nic cards and pfSense running in a virtual machine....
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Did you miss this part? He isn't trying to use two WAN connections on one device, he wants two connections in his house to share the load of his 12 devices. Turning his PC into a load balancer is not an efficient solution.
 
Geoff said:
Did you miss this part? He isn't trying to use two WAN connections on one device, he wants two connections in his house to share the load of his 12 devices. Turning his PC into a load balancer is not an efficient solution.
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you described Precisely what pfsense will do.



that's precisely what I did with a PC in my house, an old AMD 4200, Installed PFsense, to share two connections, between multiple devices in my house.

I'm using TIME WARNER CABLE and CLEAR.COM internet connections.
 
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He's (the op) likely in a country where the traceroutes hop between lan and wan for about twenty hops before hitting the sea cables. Making everything slow as molasses.

I've seen this in traceroutes/mtr submitted to the hosting companies I've worked for when customer complains their hosting account is too slow, It's amazing.
 
beers said:
Come on Geoff :P

How is it currently configured anyway, choy?

Usually you can add equal cost routes for each side to go out of and it should balance by default.
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I missed that :P

I still standby my point, you are better off getting a business grade router or hardware firewall that does load balancing, instead of relying on a desktop running software.
 
Geoff said:
I missed that :P

I still standby my point, you are better off getting a business grade router or hardware firewall that does load balancing, instead of relying on a desktop running software.
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1. pfSense is solid.

2. You'd be surprised how many "servers" are just desktops.

3. OP likely doesn't have cash for cisco levels routers.

4. You would seriously be amazed how many "desktops" are "servers" in datacenters.
 
Agent Smith said:
OP, load balancing/network teaming isn't going to increase your Internet speed.
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You can round robin multiple flows to increase available bandwidth. Teaming isn't necessarily the same thing as load balancing. You wouldn't be able to do something like lacp/pagp between different circuits.
 
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