Teaming Two Broadband Lines Together

[sjbuck]

Have any of you attempted the above, either at home or work?
I know there are a few router around that will consolidate two lines into one (scan sell one for £90).
I have access to BE broadband and virign media cable. In theory I can run these two together and get about 35Mb/3Mb or so.

I'm guessing its more trouble than it's worth though

[Lee @ SCAN]

Be are in the trials of "bonding" in the London area at the moment. I would love to have 2 lines bonded at home giving me a crazy 40 Mb link

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/3...2-bonding.html

providing all these trials go well and the specialised routers they are supplying work well I can see them rolling it out by next year

[moogle]

Would be awesome if the trial was in my area
But wouldn't we have to pay for an extra line to be installed before getting it?

[Jay]

this is also how VM works with its cable.


The issue you are going to have is that you can't use both to download one file (maybe a torrent, but i'm not sure)

[BlackDwarf]

There's some guy on the Be* forums that's ghetto bonded two Be* lines together.

But the problem is the same like applications that aren't written to use dual cores... things aren't 'multithreaded' across the lines.