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Sir_William707

Sir_William707

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I recently had my DSL internet service upgraded, which included bonding 2 lines, instead of just having the one line. I'm wanting to get my own modem so that I can have bandwidth control in the QoS settings. The new modem that my ISP gave me does not provide that.
The problem is that in searching for a modem, I'm not sure how to tell whether a modem is compatible with bonding 2 lines. Also, does my modem have to even be compatible with bonding? (Is the bonding already taken care of on my line before the modem by a bonder?) I can't seem to figure it all out.
My third question is this: besides the ADSL version and the bonding, are there any other specs that I should be worried about?
Thanks for your help!
 
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Especially for upload you can easily control it on your router...not that I know how good belkin really does that. If your router would say limit the traffic to 10mbits/sec the ISP router would only see 10mbits.

TPLINK has pretty good QoS and so does asus. You should consider a router that support third party firmware like dd-wrt in case the factory firmware is not good enough. DD-WRt and other third party firmware has very advanced QoS options.
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bill001g

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I would not bother. Just get a quality router with a normal ethenet wan. If you are lucky you can use the ISP router only as a modem....it is more complex when you are talking bonding so I don't know if you can.

Still even if you run it as a router you should be able to set a rate on the wan port of the second router that matches the dsl router bandwidth and do your QoS on the second router. QoS can only really solve upload issues download is in full control of the ISP and you can only do tricky things to try to influence it.
 
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Sir_William707

Sir_William707

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Thanks! Yes, my reason for buying a new modem was to have bandwidth control settings, which my current modem does not have. (Whenever I upload something, all other devices lose internet because of the upload hogging the bandwidth.) Now, I know that my router can control the bandwidth. So you're saying that if I set a limit on the router, then it will also have that same limit on the modem? I was thinking that you had to control the limit at the first point of contact, the modem.

Also, my router is Belkin that uses intellistream, and thus, you can only control overall bandwidth and the router automatically prioritizes phone, video, and gaming. Do you think I should buy a router that gives me more QoS settings, like TP-Link? I would like to have more control over this; I just don't want to spend like over $100 for a new one if I can live with my current one. :)
 
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bill001g

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Especially for upload you can easily control it on your router...not that I know how good belkin really does that. If your router would say limit the traffic to 10mbits/sec the ISP router would only see 10mbits.

TPLINK has pretty good QoS and so does asus. You should consider a router that support third party firmware like dd-wrt in case the factory firmware is not good enough. DD-WRt and other third party firmware has very advanced QoS options.
 
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