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Re: More than one internet connection

Tue, 31 May 2016 15:51:34 EDT

Semaphore posted : If you have your own registered IP space and ASN then that requires one technique, if your are just Many:1 NATting outbound then that's a different thing.

A question you want an answer to first however: is the fibre a physically separate plant or is it one company using the other's physical infrastructure. If it's the latter then you may not be gaining much or anything as far as upstream redundancy goes.

Re: More than one internet connection

Tue, 31 May 2016 09:33:33 EDT

MScottCason posted :

said by airslot:

Each system has it's own personality and requirements, so to speak.

Given the same situation, I can't say I'd try to do the same. Like I said, my primary goal is redundancy. If one of my providers were to go down, I don't want my entire network going down with them.

Re: More than one internet connection

Mon, 30 May 2016 10:34:39 EDT

airslot posted : You should be good to go then. I fell complacent and maybe a bit overenthusiastic a few times and tried to leverage up to 84% of combined circuits and then lost a circuit. It was truly a " Oh Sh@t" what have i done time"This was a commercial account which had really steady traffic. Where I have mixed traffic from commercial and residential I try now not to leverage the circuit capacity more then 30% and it has worked well, thus far. The extra capacity I see sometimes tempts me to use a little more, but I think I have learned my lesson from times past. You will have to play with it and see where your sweet spot is, and what works best. Each system has it's own personality and requirements, so to speak.

Re: More than one internet connection

Mon, 30 May 2016 09:22:30 EDT

MScottCason posted :

said by airslot:

said by MScottCason:

bond the two fiber lines to double my bandwidth and should one fail, I'm still up at half speed.

Or it could come to a screeching halt, and cause a headache getting traffic back flowing. Make sure you have enough bandwidth on one to keep the traffic moving if the other fails or them packet drops and latency are gonna kill it.

I have enough on the one I already have to keep things going. I wasn't sure if adding the other fiber service would not only add redundancy but increase my bandwidth. My primary goal is redundancy.

Re: More than one internet connection

Sun, 29 May 2016 20:00:40 EDT

airslot posted :

said by MScottCason:

bond the two fiber lines to double my bandwidth and should one fail, I'm still up at half speed.

Re: More than one internet connection

Sun, 29 May 2016 19:07:50 EDT

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Re: More than one internet connection

Sun, 29 May 2016 18:25:20 EDT

IPtrans posted :

said by MScottCason:

said by IPtrans:

Do you have your own ASN and IP blocks or are you looking at doing some kind of NAT load balancing?

I didn't think NAT was recommended for load balancing. Am I misunderstanding that?

You can use a NAT box to partition traffic and/or fall over from one connection to another. Not that I'm recommending it, mainly asking what you intend to do. From your answers I assume you do not have your own IP blocks nor ASN and do not intend use a router to multihome.

Re: More than one internet connection

Sun, 29 May 2016 18:09:14 EDT

MScottCason posted :

said by IPtrans:

Do you have your own ASN and IP blocks or are you looking at doing some kind of NAT load balancing?

I didn't think NAT was recommended for load balancing. Am I misunderstanding that?

Re: More than one internet connection

Sun, 29 May 2016 18:08:37 EDT

MScottCason posted : I like that idea. I was looking at their Truffle box. I could backhaul my fiber connections to the site where my core is, and use that box to load balance. I could bond the two fiber lines to double my bandwidth and should one fail, I'm still up at half speed.

Re: More than one internet connection

Sun, 29 May 2016 16:20:21 EDT

airslot posted : If your looking for just to do failover perhaps you could use boxes like Mushroom offers. There are quite a few ways to do failover & loadbalancing but it all depends on how far you want to go with it. I know of one private network the system is still manual and the owner wants no part of learning how to configure a router or outsource it. When one network fails they manually swap and reconfigure numbered ethernet cables between the routers, or if traffic gets too heavy they repeat the same.

»mushroomnetworks.com

Re: More than one internet connection

Sun, 29 May 2016 15:35:12 EDT

IPtrans posted : Do you have your own ASN and IP blocks or are you looking at doing some kind of NAT load balancing?

More than one internet connection

Sun, 29 May 2016 15:16:17 EDT

MScottCason posted : I was ecstatic to learn another provider in my area offers wholesale bandwidth and has a fiber presence near one of my access points. I would like to build some redundancy in my wireless network by using their service as well as my current provider. Does anyone else have any experiences utilizing two internet entry points they could care to share?