Advice regarding two ADSL services

[HowardS]

I have two ADSL services.

The first is with Bulldog via my phone line and the second is from NTL via a set top box. My numerous computers are all wireless so I can select which ever service is working best at any time.

I recently considered buying a CISCO Router which has dual plug so both services could go via the one router. It's not a load balancer just a dual service router.

Does anyone have any knowledge or comments on my idea as so far most feedback seems positive for the circa £1K price tag?

[Chris W]

ntl is a cable connection not adsl....

[Mauldor]

You can probably build a Spare machine to be a Linux Router type thing which could bring in tow connectiosn and share them as one. Got to ask though - why do you need 2 x Broadband? With NTL Now doing 10mbit / 500 this is more than enough for downloading these days.

Only Good use I see for having 2 x Broadband is one takes any slack for a server (Web, Game Server etc) and the other then for your own use maybe

[HowardS]

Originally Posted by Chris W

ntl is a cable connection not adsl....

Thanks for the clarification. Does this mean I can't do what I want to do?

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Originally Posted by Mauldor

Only Good use I see for having 2 x Broadband is one takes any slack for a server (Web, Game Server etc) and the other then for your own use maybe

I have to have a working service 24/7 so one is a backup.

I want a single router not two machines and am interested to find out if there is any reason I can't use the Cisco dual head router instead of what I have now which is two routers and two independant systems which I can change over via the Netgear software.

A network agent says I can but I would like to hear from anyone else with ideas or opinions. I have no clue

[Mauldor]

So what your basically after is a Service (Web, Game or whatever) that is online either by IP or Domain name to be on and if Connection A Stops (NTL) the ADSL Connection would take over. The Dual Head approach as far I understood at the time was bascially 2 x IP's coming in but you on the other hand only see it as one connection. Not sure of the router you have has the abilty to direct traffic to the other connection should one fail (as this is what your looking for) and then been port forwarded to your server machine.

Now the Network Gurus understand what your after, Im sure one of them can maybe point you in the right direction

[HowardS]

Originally Posted by Mauldor

So what your basically after is a Service (Web, Game or whatever) that is online either by IP or Domain name to be on and if Connection A Stops (NTL) the ADSL Connection would take over. The Dual Head approach as far I understood at the time was bascially 2 x IP's coming in but you on the other hand only see it as one connection. Not sure of the router you have has the abilty to direct traffic to the other connection should one fail (as this is what your looking for) and then been port forwarded to your server machine.

Now the Network Gurus understand what your after, Im sure one of them can maybe point you in the right direction

I have a number of computers so I could have some on one network and some on the other. Because I contact people worldwide I have a home office too because of the time differences. I have a web site and a forum to maintain as well.

My applications are search intensive.

www.piratereports.com & www.piratereportsforum.com

Therefore your option is one choice but the second is just two services utilised at the same time by different computers via the same Cisco router.

As it not a load balancer (much more expensive and not required ) I was assuming that I merely had the option to pick a choice of either service from the one setup.

Perhaps that is not what the system does?

I am basically asking as I don't want to "use" a sales person until I know they will get something back for their efforts.