I have just had our BT business line ADSL enabled, going for their "BT
Business Total Broadband" Option 1 means we'll probably pay no more to
BT in total (we had a BT business phone line anyway) and now we have a
backup ADSL connection.
It was scheduled to start working on 3rd March but I plugged in their
supplied router today and it all burst into life. I have to say it
was dead easy and the router (a 2Wire 2700HGV) and its software seem
pretty good. The 'advanced' tabs in the router set up seem to give
one a fair amount of control.
So now to my "Embarras de Richesse" dilemma, I now have two ADSL
connections, what's the best way to set it up? I have two similar
ADSL routers each providing about the same bandwidth (both 448kb/s up,
both around 4Mb/s down), what's the best way of using them to full
advantage.
There are some obvious things I have to do:-
Change the address of one of the routers so they're not both
192.168.1.254
Turn off DHCP on at least one of the routers (unless I split
subnets, see below)
But I can arrange things various ways and I'm not at all sure which
will work best....
Leave everything on one subnet (192.168.1.xxx) or split into two
subnets? At the moment I can't see any really significant
advantages in splitting subnets and it would be quite a lot of
hassle I suspect so, unless anyone can come up with some really
good reason for doing it, I don't think this is a sensible option.
We have two main users, it *feels* like it would make sense to use
one ADSL router as the default gateway for one user and the other
ADSL router as the default for the other user. Then set up so
that the 'other' router is the alternative gateway. Are there any
downsides to this approach?
I don't think there's any easy way to use both routers from one
system (to use up all the bandwidth) is there? At least there
isn't without a lot of hassle.
Any advice and ideas gratefully received.
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Chris Green
