Dual WAN using two ADSL lines

[bondedadsl]

you could always buy the links from Sky and use a 3rd party bonding provider. Broadbond.com uses our kit and operates with 3rd party ISP links without problem.

[ricopico]

I dont think many people would really care about having 1 single connection at twice the speed, whilst having multiple connections would of course be beneficial.

Newsgroups use multiple connections, and also does bittorent.
If you ever did actually want to download from say, an ftp which is a single ip protocol, than if the server supported it, you could potentially use a download manager which would join multiple connections.

Its a pretty cool idea i guess, although of course you would have to buy a second BT line, which would include instalation £125, then rental each month £10, then another sky account in the wifes name etc. Might be easier and cheaper to source another method of high speed internet eg satalite / 3g / wifi max.

[gavinp]

I tried this a few years ago with 2 x 512K ADSL connections (different ISPs) using a Xincom DualWAN router with 2 ADSL modems.

While you can use a download manager to split files etc, it was never really worthwhile and it didn't help fault tolerance either - the couple of times I lost one connection, the other one also went down - suspected exchange issues.

Paying for two line rentals and two ISP connections is another downside to it.

For fault tolerance, I recently bought one of these to use with my 3G USB modem and this works fine:

Solwise 3G Router NET-3G-3GWIFIMRW

I have it setup in Router mode and simply switch local wireless network from the Sky broadband wireless network to this one if needed.

Thanks

Gavin