Traffic shaping/aggregating (is this really needed?)

[Christopher Chisholm]

When you say you're bottlenecking... do you mean that you're upload 
speeds are slow because you're both uploading at once?  or do you mean 
that your latency (or just your general usability of the network) is 
destroyed whenever one of you is uploading?  if you're talking about 
latency, perhaps you could look into a QoS router?  in theory you could 
use that to prioritize packets so that regular usage (i.e. port 80 net 
surfing) is given a higher priority than, say, FTP packets, so that your 
ability to do standard things is not destroyed when you upload.  I've 
never used this myself but from what i've read in reviews it can do 
wonders. 

If you really do need the aggregation, would it be possible instead to 
have each of your computers set up with two NICs?  I'm thinking 
something like this:

(cable modem 1) ---- (computer one) ---- LAN ---- (computer two) ---- 
(cable modem 2)

then you could setup a software bridge to allow for access to the lan 
and your own cable modem at the same time.


-chris


Bruce Dawson wrote:
> My partner and I use VPNs to access our employer sites, and we
> frequently find that we're bottlenecking on uploads. So we decided to
> get a 2nd cable modem so we won't "collide" with each other.
>
> Although it would make sense that she would use one modem, and I the
> other; it stops making sense when you consider the various (shared)
> printers, file servers and other servers on our LAN that we need access
> to in our daily tasks.
>
> Does anyone know of good reference material regarding "aggregating", or
> otherwise combining the two cable modem's throughput into a single
> network segment (using a router - preferably  a Linksys running OpenWRT
> or somesuch)? I'm really looking for a HOWTO type document - or if
> someone knows the commands to execute, that would be a good start!
>
> --Bruce
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