Internet Disfunctional Now

[arlean]

After all that great help y'all gave me I forgot to come back and report. My Internet problems passed. No need to use TOR now. All is well. That hint about using TOR really was a life saver though. Amazing the nuances of technology.

 

[thomsono1912]

When I was staying in a nice but very temporary rental our internet dropped out completely for three days. Numerous calls to the company and they kept saying it would be fixed by that afternoon. Eventually a guy came and and unscrewed a little panel in the hallway, plugged in our cable and we were connected once again... Pretty sure somebody must have come down, plugged themselves in and stolen our internet for a few days knowing the company would take forever to send someone out

 

[Meri]

My Fibertel internet problems have also stopped (for now anyway) - worked perfectly all week.

 

[Sleuth]

And today Fibertel seems to be causing a problem with Messages in the Mac logging into Google Talk and Jabber clients. I connect to the VPN and everything works great. This is really getting old.

 

[germano]

This is interesting, i initially just glossed over it but looking closer it is basically line bonding to one of their servers.

With separate connections you have multiple options.

1: Use them separately. (you connect to one at a time.) This gives you a backup connection if one goes down but doesn't use both connections at the same time.

2: Load Balance. (I bought one of these http://listado.merca...com.ar/Tl-r470t but you could just as easily use an old pc with linux to do it.) This is basically set-up to split connections over both lines so that if 1 person is maxing out one line watching youtube or something the router will route other traffic through the other line.

3: Bonding through VPN. This is what that kickstarter does in hardware, i presume they limit the connection so it can only connect to their VPN. If anyone with 2 network cards fancies it all you need to do is setup a VPS to bond the connections for you and instant fat pipe!
The TL-R470T+ can connect via L2TP so it may be possible to use it too, i'll be giving it a wee go later at some point.

http://www.zeroshell.org/ is a nice ready made Linux OS, if you can find a company setting up VPS's with it.
you can watch someone doing it on youtube here

Added bonus is that if you get a VPS in the UK you can stream BBC or a US VPS and you can stream the US ones.

Have you tried it yet? Does it work reliably?

 

[scotttswan]

Have you tried it yet? Does it work reliably?

not yet, been to busy with other stuff but the load balancing works great once its setup.

I'll probably fire up a cheap amazon box at some point and give it a go.