bonded dsl modem

[O. Sinclair]

i just had to comment: "extremely rural"... I live in the capital of an 
African country and the best you can get w/o chopping of an arm or a leg 
is 5 Mbit/s - and that is via fibre. I get 3 Mbit/s myself using wireless...
And it is capped...

On 09/21/16 02:54, Uriah Heep wrote:
> The only Isp in this area (extremely rural->think Deliverance) is
> Windstream and the bonded option is new from Windstream. I have several
> neighbors who have switched to the option. Top speed in this area is
> about  7 megs and with bonding in theory results in 14 megs though in
> actual practice my neighbors report 13 megs download.  From my
> observation this results in a visible improvement in streaming quality
> on their mediocre mid to lower quality TV's I have a Samsung pd 8500 60"
> Plasma which is a top line unit and gorgeous for blue ray using my Oppo
> player.  The unit offered by the ISP is a combo modem router.  As I
> already have an excellent modem/router I thought I would just buy a
> modem (Bonded lines will not work on the modem part but the router will
> work from the combo Ethernet ports). (I checked on a neighbors unit. If
> the better deal is a combo unit I will get one of those as the units
> offered offered from the Isp for their _regular_ service which cost an
> extra $ 7 a month are ultra cheep/shoddy and frequently need replacement
> which results in 5 days with no net even though I have made sure the
> telco line is well grounded.  After the second replacement I bought a
> high quality unit for better reliability and for longer range and no
> more rental expence.  After 30 months I have not required any
> replacement and my sister is able to log into my router using a yagi
> antenna I built for her when hers is down.
>
>  From what you wrote it seems probable that the bonded service is what
> is being offered by the ISP. I am not an early adapter and have waited
> for 5 months and my neighbors have not had any additional problems with
> their bonded (high speed) service.  This strictly for home use not office.
>
> Thank you for the information.
>
> On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 4:40 AM, Lindsay Mathieson
> <lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com <mailto:lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 18/09/2016 4:00 PM, Uriah Heep wrote:
>
>           I need to purchase a "bonded" modem for a pots dsl line. From
>         what I understand the modem must be "bonded" so that it can
>         combine several lines. This seems to be common among cable
>         modems but relatively rare for standard telephone lines. Would
>         someone be so kind as to suggest some "bonded" modems they have
>         used in the middle price line.
>
>
>     Usually that only works with the cooperation of your ISP, and to be
>     honest, from what I heard, bonded adsl does not work that well. Most
>     ISP's have dropped it.
>
>
>     If what you want is intelligent use of mutliple ADSL connections
>     then a load balancing router/modem might be more up your alley. Most
>     also support intelligent failover, i.e switch connections to one
>     line when the other fails.
>
>     Draytek do a excellent number of them, though they are expensive and
>     tricky to configure, but very powerful. They also support 4G LTE
>     modems and sim cards.
>
>
>     The T-link TL-R480T+ is cheap and pretty good, supports aggregating
>     up to 4 WAN ports:
>
>     http://www.tp-link.com/en/products/details/cat-4910_TL-R480T%2B.html
>     <http://www.tp-link.com/en/products/details/cat-4910_TL-R480T%2B.html>
>
>     Note:Its a router not a modem - you'll also need a modem for each
>     line, which is then connected into the router.
>
>
>     --
>     Lindsay Mathieson
>
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