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Originally Posted by telfordcable
BT had told me that I can get 300Mbps BT Infinity now:
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Some things never change
No you can't, as you well know given you are on the BT Wholesale checker on a regular basis, already have FTTC hence not in a native FTTP area, and are not in an area announced for FTTP on demand.
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Originally Posted by General Maximus
it is basically the same thing. Ether channel is when you tell the router to bond a specific amount of ports so that three 100mbit ports to the same destination are bonded and shown as one 300mbit line. It sounds like you have done the same thing with your wan connections and it certainly looks sweet. All hail Cisco  |
The problem there is that EtherChannel / LACP only works on layer 2 switched links, it takes a number of layer 2 links and has them use the same MAC address, so no good for balancing Internet connections as the individual links have different IP addresses, taken from my own router:
So I'm running 2 x layer 3 links. The only way they can be bonded is either by using pair bonding at the VDSL layer, obviously not possible if one link is cable, or by using MultiLink PPP, or a P2P VPN to bond the links at a higher level, both of which require the participation of a device or devices at the remote side of the links.
The links are load balanced using per-connection balancing. The router looks at which of the 2 links is most heavily loaded and sends the connection out of the other one.