an interesting idea

[Paul Holzworth]

My comments: Hogwash!

Connection teaming is intended to let you use different connections 
(i.e. actual multiple connections with their own bandwidth per 
connection) in order to essentially add the bandwidths together and 
increase your effective bandwidth. This works reasonably well when 
you have a bandwidth constricted channel such as a modem.  It allows 
you to get more bandwidth than you can with a single channel.  It 
would even work with a DSL modem if you had multiple DSL modems on 
multiple phone lines.  Of course there is some overhead involved so 
for N channels you don't get N times the bandwidth.

In the example given on the website, he took one channel (his DSL 
modem) split it  among two connections and then used the software to 
combine the two channels back into a single connection.  The only 
apparent speed increase he achieved was in web browsing when he was 
able to download multiple web requests simultaneously.  You can set 
many browsers up to do this without needing to go through all of the 
other complexity.

Paul

At 10:36 AM 2/6/2008, you wrote:
>http://www.homenethelp.com/web/howto/Midpoint-connection-teaming.asp
>
>comments..?