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11/14/2014 2:49:07 AM EDT
Do they actually work? I'm reading all kinds of reviews on Amazon/Newegg that say they do and some that say they don't.



Situation is:

Cannot get Comcast since they failed to wire my street when the development was added to. A local cable company did run cable. They seem to be stuck in 1996. The highest level of service they offer is 15Mbps. Going from 115~125Mbps to 15Mbps isn't going to work. They offered to have 2 lines come in to the house at a whopping $112 a month (I only pay Comcast 99.95 a month). It's out in the sticks (Eatonville, WA). The same crummy cable company owns the telephone network too. 2Mbps is the best they'll do with DSL.




Alternatively:

Does anyone know who I could talk to at Comcast to have them run a line to our street? There is a line one street over and if i lived on the other side of my street, they would just drop a line. My neighbor had them do that. It's all underground utilities and you can even see where the current cable companies conduit (if you look at the pole, you can see both Rainier Connect and Comcast lines running together) starts at the entrance to my subdivision. The installer I had out today from Comcast just laughed when I asked him about the possibility of paying to have a line run to my house. There are about 20 houses on the street so the revenue might be there but provided it's under 2k, I'd pay to have it done myself.
11/14/2014 9:14:31 PM EDT
[#1]
So you want to (potentially) run two cable modems?  I think pfsense will do that.  Get a cheap Atom (or Celeron or Pentium in the 1155/1156 package) and get a MB with dual NICs (INTEL!!!!) and add a third PCIe (INTEL!!!!) NIC, or get a regular MB and a dual card (INTEL!!!!) NIC.  Alternately I have seen (relatively) inexpensive hardware that will load balance for you.  There is surely a free linux-based solution to do that as well.
11/14/2014 10:07:09 PM EDT
[#2]
Do you really need 115Mbps would be my first question?



At the higher level boxes, like F5 absolutely do work.  But are every expensive.  






11/14/2014 10:37:51 PM EDT
[#3]
what about having a neighbor get Comcast, and then wifi or fiber to their house and split the bill with them?  

11/15/2014 6:27:07 PM EDT
[#4]
PFR

 
 
11/30/2014 2:43:43 AM EDT
[#5]
The one thing you need to remember is that load balancing is NOT link aggregation.