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Bonded Adsl

phowardf5 — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:32:38 GMT

Hi everybody

I have 2 phone lines and 2 BT Broadband Business Packages, I was told that BT does support ADSL bonding, but I'm not sure on what to ask the help desk on how to enable it,

I need 1 username and password for both accounts to connect together

any ideas on what to ask??

Regards

Pete

Re: Bonded Adsl

whizzbang — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:57:32 GMT

Wouldn't your best bet be to just call one of the sales lines? Would have thought they'd be able to help you out pretty easily. Let us know how you get on.

Re: Bonded Adsl

devdefence — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:04:12 GMT

I believe BT only currently offer bonded ADSL as a trial in Lincolnshire.

We've been using Evolving Networks for about a year though now who do bonded ADSL and bonded SDSL or combinations of both which is what we use!

Their website is www.evolving-networks.co.uk

If BT can't give you bonded ADSL with your two lines, then you can migrate the ADSL service and still keep the same lines I believe.

Re: Bonded Adsl

spank — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:31:58 GMT

Hi there,

I believe BT wholesale have started selling shareband, which is software based bonding. Their website is here http://www.sharedband.com/

No idea how to order, probably local business.

There are a few write ups on the net about it but nothing yet in bt products and services page.

Thanks

Re: Bonded Adsl

a-hill — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:01:01 GMT

I'm guessing you wouldn't need to go register for a specific option, a load balancing (dual wan) router should do the job, which unfortunately BT BB don't supply. Different load balancers work in different ways, some use the 2nd DSL line as a fall over if the primary goes down, others actually combine the boths lines... research which is best for you.

Re: Bonded Adsl

Bunbury — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:55:27 GMT

BT Retail don't sell the sharedband solution, although there was a trial in Lincolnshire.

Re: Bonded Adsl

hotelarmitage — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 10:35:15 GMT

Eclipse started doing sharedband but we had quite a few problems with it. Mainly with contention and parts of the day that everything just slowed down.

They kept saying the lines were fine so it must have been the network or something I dont know.

Moved to Evolving Networks now - got a bonded adsl from them. www.evolving-networks.co.uk/bonded-adsl no slow downs. much better.

going to put fttc in in a few months when bt do the upgrade. Evolving Networks are upgrading for free which is quite good. So I keep bonding and also get fttc as well. nice.