Two Internet connections...

[David G. Mackay]

On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 11:47 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> Does anyone have any good ideas for what to do with an extra cable Internet
> service?  Is there, say, a way to somehow "shotgun" two Internet services like
> you used to be able to do with dial-up modems to increase your transmission
> speed?

You can do load balancing, sort of.  Take a look at the Adv-Routing
howto for details.  One thing that you'll want to make sure of is that
your email traffic goes out the appropriate interface.  If you try and
access your ISP's mail servers through the cable company interface,
you'll most likely get the traffic rejected.

Dave