2 isp accounts on the same adsl line

[Mussels]

Down here in aus, the copper phone lines come in two pairs - so its possible to have two phone lines/two ADSL lines into the one property - assuming both pairs are active and all the wiring was done to code over the years

Streaming is bandwidth intensive, especially if its YOU thats streaming (your upload speed matters there, and ADSL usually only has 1Mb up) - so you might be able to get less issues with two internet connections, but you're kinda screwed if you want one device to use two connections at once. It'll only help if you split the load between them.

 

[Athlonite]

way back in the day we used to do this with 2 USR modems capable of what they like to call Shotgun mode where you had two phone lines and two dial up accounts or you went the business way and installed an ISDN line which you could then have configured for 1 ISDN modem = 64Kbps synchronous or 2 for 128Kbps but that was the mad expensive way to do it for a home user it just wasn't practical

 

[Ja.KooLit]

why not 2 accounts with separate line? buy another NIC card and install in any free slot. I believe (though I have not tried) but you can assign one line exclusively for gaming and one for normal. or assign one exclusive to your computer and one line for whole other users at your home. But paying extra for it is up to you. if you have money to burn and you spend your whole time working on internet then probably good.

my motherboard has 2 ethernet slot (gigabyte z87 g1 Sniper) and i remember reading in the manual that you can assign which programs or apps or whatever goes to each line. or you can even "bridge" the two so virtually you can double up speed. i didnt tried but maybe it will.

 

[PHaS3]

It doesn't make sense to do a PPPoE Pass-through on your DSL line unless you have specific reason - for e.g. you want to leave an uncapped but shaped account active on your router for everyone to use, but want to dial a capped but unshaped account from your PC for games. The benefit is minimal, especially if others are using your line. Besides that, some ADSL routers don't support it.

Down here in aus, the copper phone lines come in two pairs - so its possible to have two phone lines/two ADSL lines into the one property - assuming both pairs are active and all the wiring was done to code over the years

I did that at my last house in SA, used one line for downloads and the other for gaming. You could also use a free firewall like Sophos XG Home or PFSense to bond them into one connection. That makes more sense than trying to use PPPoE Pass-through. My current house I only have 1x business uncapped 10mbps line, and I use XG home to do QoS and stuff.

If you're limited by what you can get in your area - so cant get fibre to the home, cant get faster than ~10mbps ADSL, then a WISP may work as you said, or an LTE connection, but they are capped and I know some come with heavy FUPs in SA.

Hope that all helps.

 

[Bill_Bright]

True distance effects services badly but even being close to the nodes still isn’t great. AT&T nodes here are garbage and haven’t been upgraded in years.

Particularly true with DSL. Fortunately, it is not as bad with cable, but still a problem.

As far as nodes not being upgraded in years, I find this very frustrating because my monthly bills sure have been "UP"graded many times over the years. My bill has gone up over 500% in that time. Yes, I have more TV channels available to me (though my watching habits really haven't changed). And my Internet speed is faster, but that has nothing to do with the infrastructure through my neighborhood. So I feel most of my money goes to fund expansion of my ISP's reach into new neighborhoods and developments and those of us in established neighborhoods are left to rot.

If a storm didn't take out the cable drop to my home 10 years ago, I would still be using the same 30+ year old drop that was here when I bought the house. The good news for me is when the cable installer came to replace my drop, he went back to the pole, then gave me enough cable to run into my home and up into the closet of the bedroom serving as my office/computer room. So unlike most cable customers, I don't have a splitter on the outside of my house exposed to the sun and weather.

 

[Durvelle27]

Particularly true with DSL. Fortunately, it is not as bad with cable, but still a problem.

As far as nodes not being upgraded in years, I find this very frustrating because my monthly bills sure have been "UP"graded many times over the years. My bill has gone up over 500% in that time. Yes, I have more TV channels available to me (though my watching habits really haven't changed). And my Internet speed is faster, but that has nothing to do with the infrastructure through my neighborhood. So I feel most of my money goes to fund expansion of my ISP's reach into new neighborhoods and developments and those of us in established neighborhoods are left to rot.

If a storm didn't take out the cable drop to my home 10 years ago, I would still be using the same 30+ year old drop that was here when I bought the house. The good news for me is when the cable installer came to replace my drop, he went back to the pole, then gave me enough cable to run into my home and up into the closet of the bedroom serving as my office/computer room. So unlike most cable customers, I don't have a splitter on the outside of my house exposed to the sun and weather.

AT&T pricing has always sucked for all their services. Even their phone service, I was paying $260 for 2 Phones until I switched services; mind you when I signed up it was only $100

And their customer service is piss poor

That’s good, but my mom has a direct line with no splitters or TV service and still has problems with her internet

 

[Athlonite]

How many of you lot use a XDSL master filter rather than those shit inline jobbies

Verses

 

[Durvelle27]

How many of you lot use a XDSL master filter rather than those shit inline jobbies

Full RG6 Copper Here ran by me at 30ft

 

[taz420nj]

I did that at my last house in SA, used one line for downloads and the other for gaming. You could also use a free firewall like Sophos XG Home or PFSense to bond them into one connection.

Bonding doesn't make "one connection". It theoretically does, but (in pfSense anyway, I've never used Sophos) it works on a load balancing principle. That is, it assigns packets to the WAN with the lowest utilization at that moment - basically in a round-robin manner. You will never see the sum of the two connections speed-wise on any given client when it comes to downloading or streaming, and it will likely increase lag on gaming because packets are going to get split over the two connections and could get routed way differently once they hit the ISP gateway.