DSL link aggregation?

[Christofer C. Bell]

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 6:54 AM, Charles Steinkuehler
<charles at steinkuehler.net> wrote:
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>  Greg Brooks wrote:
>  | Chiming in at this point only because the technical part of it has gotten
>  | way, way beyond what I can understand....
>  |
>  | Do I have this right:
>  |
>  | * I can't do what I want to do with DSL bonding/aggregation/etc to boost
>  | outbound bandwidth.
>  |
>  | * There's a T1 (feh!) in my future.
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>  Mostly.  It's pretty well determined that setting up two DSL links to
>  increase the performance of a single TCP session (your FTP file upload)
>  is going to be more pain than it's worth (particularly if the discussion
>  has gone way, way over your head, as you indicate!).  :)
>
>  One option that hasn't been discussed a lot, however, is splitting your
>  upload into lots of little pieces and re-assembling it on the far end.

You can also look into using the normal Unix split(1) utility and
breaking the file into chunks, sending half up one link, half up the
other, and then rejoining them on the far end using cat(1).  It's
ghetto, but it will work.

-- 
Chris