Bonding for speed

More Download Speed

AAISP use FireBrick FB9000 routers to manage connections. This manages the bonding of traffic from AAISP to your location. IP blocks (configured on the control pages) can be routed to multiple lines on your login.

For fallback, the FB9000 will stop routing IPs down a line that is off line, and from the Control Pages you can control which lines are used.

Speed wise, the FB9000 will route based on the speed of the line - so if you have a 100M line and a 500M line, then the traffic will be weighted correctly (i.e. 1/5 on the 100M line, and 4/5 on the 500M line.) - though preference will be given to the 'faster' line - that is the line that has lower latency - the one that will get the packet from us to you in the shortest time.

More upload speed

Upload bonding requires a device at your side to route IP packet up alternate lines. Typically a FireBrick can do this, as well as provide fallback (not using a line that is down) and firewalling. AAISP staff can also configure the Firebrick for your lines for a nominal fee.

There are other devices that can do this, some of the Mikrotik range of routers can do this.

Linux is capable of doing both basic upload bonding by multipath routing. It can also do sophisticated upload bonding using a combination of policy routing and firewall rules.

See Category:Bonding Configuration for example configurations for various routers.