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1 edit | Anyone have DSL and Cable (or two DSL)?
Back when I joined DSLR in 2000 I was an early adopter of broadband and had cable and DSL at home with a DUAL wan router. I don't have that anymore, but I'm often considering it.
Two DSL lines would be fine in terms of bandwidth, but then I think if DSL were to suffer an outage it'd sure be nice to have cable. I'm particularly considering business class cable as I understand the TOS and performance are better.
Do many here do this, and if so, what's your setup look like?
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d_l
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| The extra bandwidth would be the primary reason for having two DSL lines. The partial redundancy of dual DSL lines is more of a bonus.
I sometimes have one line go out and I don't realize it because of fail over. RT maintenance work here is done on the lines in the early morning hours and then often it seems that both lines will go down within minutes of each other. Too frequently one line won't come back for hours due to ATM outages. I would have had over 48 hours of outages during usage time of the day last year if I only had one line. |
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| said by d_l  :The extra bandwidth would be the primary reason for having two DSL lines. The partial redundancy of dual DSL lines is more of a bonus. Doesn't SEEM like there would be much redundancy using two DLS lines as they'd share the same hardware and path.
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koma3504
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North Richland Hills, TX | reply to Authority
Id go with the backup cable internet.
It is rare to have Dsl and cable go down or goof up @ the same time but it can happen. I have had that happen here. |
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Old_Grouch
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We have a couple of folks in the midwest who run both dsl and cable. I believe their initial rationale was to protect themselves from one vendor or the other failing.
Reason they keep it...I think happy-techno-junkie pretty well sums it up.
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en102
Canadian, eh?
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Valencia, CA
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| There's a user on DSL-Extreme that has that kind of combo... multiple DSL lines with load balancing
»Why I went DSLextreme over ATT
He's got 3x6Mbps lines
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prestonlewis
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I have Comcast HSI cable primarily for myself (heavy downloader), 2 VOIP lines, and 2 XBox360. DSL for another XBox 360 (I have 3 teens). Comcast likes to go down a couple of hours at a time, DSL doesn't so having two internet lines is nice. DSL is around $20, no big deal. Comcast right now is $19 for one year because I called to tell them to switch it off (I was tired of the $60 bills) and they offered me $19/month for one year to stay.
I don't use a dual WAN router, but in the past I have set the DSL modem to not issue DHCP IP addresses and given it a separate IP address from the Comcast router and connected them wirelessly. You can then set each computer to have a "back up connection" for using the other WAN if the first one fails. I'm sure there is some kind of WDS or more elegant way of doing it but with most of my home being wireless, if either connection goes down most of our devices simply connect to the other signal anyway. |
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