Anyone use multi-WAN routers?

[esoterik]

Ive been looking at http://www.peplink.com/products/balance-30/ which appears to go for around 500 bucks, has 3 WAN ports to daisy chain 3 internet connections together.

Anyone have experience with something like this? I'm looking to use it in my apartment where I have a few internet connections available (a few wep-cracked ones, but shhh) and could benefit from the speed boost.

[Wilbur]

I've used Cisco kit before to do similar things, Gaming through one line, torrents & etc through another. For WoW though, I'd hardly think this is nessesary unless you are boxing 10+ accounts.

[Xzin]

Even with 10 you don't need to do this. I do it for general redundancy but it will not maintain a WoW session if the line goes down.

[esoterik]

sorry i was just looking for general feelings / tips for a beginner. I'm not looking to cover wow bandwidth, but rather double or triple my downstream and upstream options for usenet etc.

[Wilbur]

Is possible, depends how you setup your frame relay and QoS in your network. I'd recommend the use of some nice Cisco kit, you can grab decent routers and switches off ebay for under £100, then you get the joy of learning IOS ;-)

[Xzin]

Ciscos CLI is HORRIBLE though.

Flexible.

But HORRIBLE to learn.

[Wilbur]

Ciscos CLI is HORRIBLE though.

Flexible.

But HORRIBLE to learn.
*agrees* I'm currently studying for a CCNA using a homelab, the learning curve is quite...steep to be honest, but as with anything it comes with time.

[Stabface]

Just sounds like you're stealing bandwidth to pirate stuff off usenet to me... I recommend you spend the money to get a faster connection instead.

[cookcpu]

From my limited knowledge of dual wan router, I have learn from those working in the network industry that say dual wan router only for fail over connection.

It won't increase your bandwidth unless you are talking about teaming/bonding 2 ISP connection which require the ISP to support such feature.

[HPAVC]

Ciscos CLI is HORRIBLE though.

Flexible.

But HORRIBLE to learn.

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The ability to see discreetly what is there, exactly what is there is nice however and the same basic interface for all the products (the IOS ones) is nice.
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But for just one device and if its for first. Yeah thats blows.
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[webology]

From my limited knowledge of dual wan router, I have learn from those working in the network industry that say dual wan router only for fail over connection.

It won't increase your bandwidth unless you are talking about teaming/bonding 2 ISP connection which require the ISP to support such feature.

It depends on your router actually. I've used a XiNCOM for years with a combination of cable / wireless and DSL / wireless with very few problems. I had two 3Mbit connections that would get 5Mbit+ when load balanced.

You can use the fail over (backup) feature for any connection but the load balancing might depend on your ISP so you might check with them or check online for more info.

I would recommend XiNCOM's dual wan router (~$159.99) or their four wan router. You could go three or more connections but it's probably just overkill after two.