Thread: Two ISP's into one network :: Home Networking, Internet Connection Sharing, etc. :: think broadband

Thanks for the extra info. Using the connection at home, so not for business. Also realise now about traffic shaping but generally do not do anything to fancy with the connection. As I am expecting to get about 1Mb - 1.6Mb speed max anyway they can only throttle me back so far. I have loved Newnet service but and £17.95 for 12Gb its just to expensive now... I was paying £49.95with Nildram in 2001 though!

An old PC running linux and two network cards will do the job, and a bit of research will probably do. http://www.pfsense.org/index.php?option=com_content&... is one way I think. The Plusnet £6 a month is only 10GB usage, and is traffic managed and not sure on T&C's for business use Andrew Ferguson, andrew@thinkbroadband.com www.thinkbroadband.com - formerly known as ADSLguide.org.uk

You can certainly set both gateways on all the PCs for some better reliability (manually, or whichever box is giving out IP addresses should be able to give out multiple gateways - your DHCP servers OR routers shoud also allow you to add routing entries if you want traffic for particular internet IPs to use a given gateway. You can manually vary the order of the gateways in the settings such that the default gateway setting distributes the...

One of the forum members is doing the same sort of thing, manually sharing two ISP lines between several PCs. I think its jeff1106uk and you could try asking him about his experience. Kevin H: Eclipse Flex 512 - Escaped their NAF Tiscali LLU, Fearing WMBC (Was Vispa Dialup) M: PlusNet BBYW-1 monthly 6.5Mbs - They gave up 18month madness