DonLibes
Premium,ExMod 2001
join:2003-01-19
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Re: Dual Cable for home
said by imrf  :
said by DonLibes :
routers send packets to the least congested path.
Your talking about OSPF or IGRP routing, yes core internet routers use that method. The cheap Linksys or SMC or whatever brand doesn't use that method for routing. There is the hacked WRT-54g firmware that enable OSPF and BGP routing, otherwise they all just use RIP.
If true, then how would two cable modems ever help - even in the two-file-transfer scenario. If the router is so stupid as to choose and stay with one route, won't the 2nd cable modem just remain idle? The router cannot know what's going on at the application level. |
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imrf
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join:2002-06-06
Utica, MI
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2 edits | said by DonLibes :
If true, then how would two cable modems ever help - even in the two-file-transfer scenario. If the router is so stupid as to choose and stay with one route, won't the 2nd cable modem just remain idle? The router cannot know what's going on at the application level.
JD would best answer that question. But I assume that these routers start one transfer on one WAN port, then when a second transfer is requested the router automatically selects the second WAN port.
Here is a pretty good review on how these routers work, »www.amdpower.com/sections.php4?o···rtid=103. |
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phr0ze
join:2002-12-06
Columbia, MD
| Forgive me but what do you need all that speed for? I have 10 computers on my network and the only thing I desire is more U/L speed but not so bad that I would go dual. The only reason I'd ever consider dual is for redundancy for when one connection is down.
BTW: if you need even more speed for an aditional $10 a month per account you can get 4300/386. |
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J D McDorce
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join:2001-12-29
Westland, MI
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There are LAN side requests and WAN side requests. A request goes from my computer to my router to get test64 from OOL's ftp site. Neither WAN is busy, so the router sends a request via WAN1 to send test64 to 68.X.X.X (the WAN1 IP address). There is a second request, this time to get test64.exe from the same site. Since WAN1 is now busy, the router requests that test64.exe be sent to 69.X.X.X (the WAN2 IP address). As the packets come in, they arrive at the router and are forwarded to the 192.X.X.X address of my computer.
The public IP addresses reside in the router and are the public destination (or source, if uploading) of the packets. |
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