How to bond 2 WANs for doubled internet bandwidth?!

salam2009

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Hey guys,
I've been searching for this like insane since we have a moderate internet speed around here (no more than 2Mbit/s)!
So I was looking for bonding (not load balancing!) 2 Broadband lines from the same ISP into a single one so the result would be 4Mbit/s when used with single streams like http downloads, video streaming, browsing, etc..
I've heard about Sharedband, Truffle, Mushroomnetworks but they're not targeted for home users except for the first one which requires a special router (with some limitations!) plus a monthly fee!
Now, my PC has dual NICs with teaming support, so what do I need to buy (hopefully not too expensive!) if there's any, excluding ISP's help?!
Your help is so much appreciated!
Thanks a lot!
 

InvalidError

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Short of having a solution that is directly supported by your ISP, all other alternatives are basically multi-homed VPNs to a third-party's servers for aggregation and go on the internet from there. Most of those services will obviously want a monthly fee to cover their operating costs including transit to/from your ISP and to/from the rest of the internet on top of their servers, wages, rent, etc.

Those types of services are usually proprietary so it is completely unsurprising that companies offering such services to end-users would favor turnkey solutions in the form of custom, preconfigured routers... most people would have no clue how to set those up by themselves if at all possible using standard configuration methods and software.
 

salam2009

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:(


That's the problem! ISPs around here are unfamiliar with the whole bonding concept nor ready to make it work!
Other options you mentioned just won't work for me!
I think I'm gonna forget about it eventually!


Too bad load balancing is not my thing!