Bonding in Elkstones
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Our house is the last house off the Elkstones spur of the Onecote exchange. At around 8.5 Km from the exchange it was touch and go whether the wires would support broadband at all.
Thank to the stirling effort of Kev (Best Outreach Engineer Award?) we managed to get a sync and the line burst into life, but, due to the extreme distance from the exchange (ADSL really won't go much further than this) we get quite a few disconnects and it is not unfeasable that a line could go down for several days if there is a fault.
It is not acceptable for our company to be off the web for any length of time at all as we deliver most of our support over the net.
Fortunatly, our friends at AAISP had a solution. We ordered a second line and ued their bonding facility to make them appear as one line. Now we get double the speed and, when a line reboots, we don't even notice the bump.
We have now ordered another 2 lines and we hope to have all 4 lines running soon giving a total of 4 Mb download and around 2 Mb upload with good resiliance against line failure and reboot.
You can see that 2 lines are operational and one is currently down.
Simon Faulkner
Elkstones
Last modified 2006-06-05 21:25
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