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Date:      Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:53:34 +0100
From:      Sten Daniel Soersdal <netslists@gmail.com>
To:        Michael MacLeod <mikemacleod@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Multilink PPP Download Speeds With Round-Robin Packets
Message-ID:  <478F33AE.2030804@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <e8f0b580801152214j63af04c0t693f4ed035d75b51@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <e8f0b580801152214j63af04c0t693f4ed035d75b51@mail.gmail.com>

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Michael MacLeod wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I've got two DSL lines running to my house, and two WAN NIC's
> installed in my FreeBSD router. I've been trying to get multilink ppp
> working through my ISP (TekSavvy in Canada) for the last little while,
> with mixed results. Each of my DSL lines sync's at 6016 kbits down and
> 800 kbits up. I have traffic working through the bonded connection,
> and the upload speed is 1350 kb, which is about right for a 1.6
> megabit connection minus network overhead. The problem I'm running
> into is the download speed is only that of one of my downlinks (approx
> 5000kb, which is about right for 6 megabits minus network overhead).
> 

It is quite possible that the ISP is employing bandwidth limiting and 
the limits are set to that of one ppp link (since this multilink 
combines two ppp links into a single link and thus logically it could be 
limited to that of one ppp connection).

-- 
Sten Daniel Soersdal




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