Hi all,
I've already annoyed quite a few people with this topic on Reddit but I never came away with an answer that either worked or was simple enough for me to understand.
I have 2 broadband connections into my home and I would like to use them as a single connection. From my research, I understand that I cannot speed up a single-threaded download with multiple broadband connections. What I've heard is possible through routing, is to utilise both broadband connections for separate devices, effectively increasing bandwidth across the network as a whole.
I actually had this working at one point, using an ASUS DSL-AC68U router, with one of the RJ11 cables going straight to the router with the second connection coming in on ethernet port 1 from a router provided by my ISP. From there it was just a case of setting up load balancing in the dual wan settings on the router's web interface. Unfortunately, due to some odd behaviour with devices connected via ethernet on that router, it has been demoted to a glorified WiFi adapter in an area of the house where my powerline adapters don't work so well.
I have a server running Ubuntu Server 19.10 that doesn't really do much apart from backups at the moment so I'd like to use it to do whatever the ASUS router was doing, preferably using the 2 onboard ethernet ports for my broadband connections and then the 4 port network card to connect to clients. All of the hardware is up and running but I'm looking for some help with the config on the router side of things.
Cheers,
Josh