On 3/30/06, Craig Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi David, > > You are fortunate that your ISP supports aggregate connections. Here in > Australia, all ISP's don't want to know about it. There attitudes are, if > you want to go faster, then get a faster connection and pay up to 10 times > the price. > > However, I did download a 600MB files since replying to your email and my > PFSense did download this file across both connections at the same time. It > took me 26minutes to get this file down. > > I could see that doth DSL Routers were being hammered quite hard > simultaneously, and when viewed in the Traffic graphs for WAN and OPT > interfaces, the bandwidth incoming and outgoing was exactly the same. > > I have 2 1.5/256 DSL connections configured as Round Robin, but only on my > end as I mentioned earlier all ISP's here don't support aggregating. My good > fortunate on downloading that large file was most likely something to do > with the server that I was getting it from, recognising both IP's.
Any chance you're using a download manager? A number of them will open up multiple connections to the destination server and request individual "chunks" of a file. FWIW, we round robin network flows, so this would have HAD to use multiple tcp connections to work the way you are describing. --Bill
