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2 broadband connections

redalphababe — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:21:01 GMT

If I had two seperate broadband connections coming into the office network (using bt business hubs) can I get particular pcs on the network to access the internet on a particular chosen router and the rest on the second. How do I configure to stop all pcs from using the broadband on just the first router they come to. We have "NOT FAST ENOUGHT YET" broadband and I am thinking 2 connections will give me fewer machines sharing bandwidth on each line and have the added advantage of giving me a backup if one of the lines were to go down. How do I configure this or can you point me to a publication or helpfile that will show me how to configure. Our pcs are a mixture of xp windows 7 server 2008 and server 2003 and they are all networked via ethernet through a switch - no wireless. Last time I asked this (about 2 years ago) it was a question I put to somebody in BT broadband telephone support and also I asked a bt salesman and both said it couldn't be done but surely it can!!

Re: 2 broadband connections

markp — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:22:43 GMT

Hi redalphababe,

What you are looking to do, is known as either a bonded service or shareband. If you go to BT shareband this explains the product that BT supply for this type of service.

Regards

Mark

Re: 2 broadband connections

Jessica — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:35:16 GMT

Hi,

This is just a suggestion, if you want two internet connections why don't you try for proxy servers. I think it will work fine.

I haven't tried it, just an opinion.

Re: 2 broadband connections

tom41 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:45:15 GMT

I have just done this through Sharedband and it works fine. I have 3 lines bonded together each giving c5MB so I get c15MB usually. A few configuration issues with our firewall etc but the Sharedband tech support guys are very good indeed. Definitely worth considering and happy to answer any questions.

Tom