[kwlug-disc] [To keep Bob delirious.] Was, & still could be: Re: New geek in the area

[Bob Jonkman]

Four whoas.  Whoa!  Actually, your average Linksys router can probably support four 
DLS connections bonded together with MLPPP before it pooches out.  And I use 
"bonded" only in the loosest sense -- it's not true bonding, but "bonding" is a 
convenient word for those of us with only a one-propeller beanie.

You purchase (rent?) four DSL lines (either on a regular POTS phone line or on a dry 
loop) for $31.95 x 4, add the MLPPP charge of $4.00 x 4, four DLS modems (Acme 
Telephone in Kitchener has a good price for a Speedtouch 516: $44.95 x 4 at 
http://speedtouch.ca/ ) and connect them all with a Linksys router running 
Tomato/MLPPP from http://fixppp.org .  Now you have up to 20Mbps download / 2.5Mbps 
upload  with an 800 Gbyte/month cap.  Or if you pay $39.95 x 4 for Teksavvy's 
Unlimited service there's no cap.  And you get a static IP with every MLPPP line.

Yes, Teksavvy is not only OK with this, they provide tech support, will sell you a 
pre-configured router and everything.

Teksavvy started offering this unofficially a few years ago, and when it proved 
immensely popular they charged an extra $4.00 per line and made it official, with 
tech support.

In fact, while they were unofficially providing MLPPP they shook a few bugs out of 
their Juniper switches, which had never been exposed to such a  load in real-life 
before.  Juniper has fixed their firmware, and I've experienced rock-solid stability 
from my single-link MLPPP connection.  

Interesting discussions on DLSReports:

 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r21727380-alakazam
 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r22852135-Re-Maintenance-tomorrow-night
 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r23325574-Re-More-MLPPP-goodness
 
and lots more where that came from.

--Bob.


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On 9 Sep 2010 at 7:57 Insurance Squared Inc. <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote
about "Re: [kwlug-disc] [To keep Bob delir[...]"

>Whoa,whoa, whoa, WHOA. Hang on a second here :).  Did you just say
>that I can combine two internet connections on my phone line and get
>double the speed?  Is this 'OK' with Teksavvy, and if so, can we get a
>general outline of how we set that up?
>
>I've got teksavvy, voip, and a qos router and the phone line still
>gets choppy when the kids are downloading videos.  Doubling the speed
>would be something I'd happily pay for.
>
>
>
>On 09/09/10 12:00 AM, Bob Jonkman wrote:
>> On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 23:49 -0400, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
>>
>>    
>>>          Bob Jonkman wrote, On 09/08/2010 11:29 PM:
>>>                  Single-line subscribers can still pay for the
>>>                  MLPPP service, then use their fancy router
>>>                  firmware to enable Single-Link PPP, or SLPPP.  The
>>>                  header offset still applies, and Bell's DPI and
>>>                  throttling is effectively thwarted.
>>>
>>> If you have a single line, does it affect speed in any other way
>>> other than bypassing Bell's DPI?
>>>
>>>      
>> I suppose that the six extra bytes for MLPPP reduce the packet
>> payload by 6 bytes/packet, and that theoretically slows things down.
>>
>> In practice, I haven't noticed any difference at all.
>>
>> Actually, now that Bell's throttling is thwarted certain members of
>> the household do nothing but Bittorrent Ubuntu ISOs all day long. 
>> Now *that* slows down traffic for the rest of the family!
>>
>> --Bob.