31Jan/102
Multi WAN Balancing Made Simple With ClearOS
I've been looking for a way to balance multiple WAN links easily for a while now and believe I've found the solution; ClearOS.
The recently released OS based on the works by ClarkConnect, appears to make WAN balancing a snap: http://www.clearfoundation.com/docs/user_guide/clearos_enterprise_5.1/multi-wan.
Obviously WAN balancing two connections will not double the download speed for a single file transfer through a single connection, but by using a download manager which makes multiple connections, or by using P2P, you can effectively download a single file at 2*XYZmbit/sec by balancing two XYZmbit WAN connections.
I'll test it out and report back.
June 6th, 2010 - 23:32
There seems to be no report back? I just got my ClearOS all configured with 2 18meg cable connections. The failover seems to work nicely… It works!
June 7th, 2010 - 01:30
What about balancing? Are you able to get 36mbit when downloading from mutiple sources? e.g. 10 files at a time, or an abundance of torrents (which use multiple download connections eac)