mhy
join:2000-08-25
Los Angeles, CA | reply to wifi4milez
Re: There is more to it... Like Wifi4Milez, I'm also guessing, but it seems they could do this in a way that doesn't require your own ISP (or ISPs) to support sharedband, or even to be aware of it.
It seems to me a modified dual-WAN router could contact sharedband servers over dual WAN ports, each potentially a different ISP. Sharedband would have the responsibility of getting the downloads from the target source and dividing it up, packet-by-packet between the multiple WAN links to your router. Your router in turn would re-assemble.
The problem with this is the additional overhead, plus the fact that sharedband becomes the critical link and possible single point of failure.
I'd rather just have two separate DSL/cable links and have few worries about downtime. |
