Dec252012

How can I balance Internet traffic between two connections?

Brijesh Akbari asks:

I ave ten virtual LANs behind my switch and two different Internet connections. How can I balance the load so each line is using about the same bandwidth?


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Rajaa Chowdhury

December 25, 2012

Brijesh,

Going by the network you have defined, it certainly seems for some institute, bpo or a corporate. Accordingly I am suggesting a solution which you can look into. It does much much more than only load balance.It is one of the premium solution and it is known as BlueCoat Packetshaper. There are various models available depending on your data, bandwidth etc. The right sizing and model can be suggested by the vendor. It is very much available in India. You can see the details here : http://www.bluecoat.com/products/packetshaper . Contact their sales from the website to get in touch with you, if you find the solution useful.

Rajaa Chowdhury

The solution suggested is for big institutes / corporate / business houses networks. However, if I am mistaken on my inference, and you want a home user solution, let me know, and I shall suggest accordingly then. Cheers!!! :)

December 25, 2012
Amit Sinha

I think here Connectify Dispatch would be better solution.

December 30, 2012
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Paul Pruitt

December 25, 2012

What are the benefits of load balancing?

I found this freeware/open-source-ware. Is it useful?:

http://haproxy.1wt.eu/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/zenloadbalancer/
http://www.newfreeware.com/internet/1745/

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ha14

December 25, 2012

Multiple Internet Connections by Balancing Traffic and Managing Failover
http://zeroshell.org/load-balancing-failover/

What is QoS (Quality of Service) and Traffic Shaping?
http://www.kerio.com/control/qos

http://bandwidthcontroller.com/
http://www.antamedia.com/bandwidth-manager/

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Kenneth Told

January 14, 2013

Investigate this product:
http://www.sharedband.com
It is a unique product/service that should be affordable for home power users and SMBs.
The website has plenty of illustrations and examples about how it works.

~KT

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Rajaa Chowdhury

May 10, 2013

Use Connectify Dispatch if all the ten connections are from the same single computer.

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