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Hi. I have a motherboard (Gigabyte GA-B75M-D3H) with two Gigabit network cards connected to the PCI slots. The cards: While it has two PCI-E ports, I can't use them since they are already populated (with a 4-port USB 3.0 card and a NVMe SSD). Anyway, even if I could use them, it would not make any difference. PCI slot: 533 MB/s PCI-E (x1 2.0): 500 MB/s So, in theory the PCI is better. Since I have a 700 Mbps (download) / 70 Mbps (upload) connection, and I use this PC to move files between PCs, I want to get rid of the bottleneck. For now, I connected two Gigabit Ethernet network cables between both Gigabit network cards and the switch (TP-Link TL-SG1005D). I may be too delusional, but just setting up both connections with the same local IP didn't do the trick: Before anyone asks, the built-in network port of this motherboard is Gigabit-compliant, but it is faulty. Therefore, I have to use external solutions. Thanks in advance.

I am looking to as cheaply and reliably setup home network. I am very novice at this stuff but can follow instructions well. We recently upgraded from crap verizon dsl to Verizon wireless lte home. They sent us a cellular modem/router. It keeps stopping every couple hours and we reboot to work a couple more rinse repeat. We called and are sending new unit. Hopefully that will work. There is also an xfinitywifi hotspot nearby that we can use but it is a weak signal. My laptop and kindle tablet can see it but cellphones don't from inside. I am looking for best solution to have an independent home router that is ethernet to verizon modem/router and wirelessly to xfinitywifi hotspot as either bond or failover as well as hopefully also have usb to connect external drive with plex media server to share video and music over home network. If I need more than one device to accomplish this that is fine but biggest issue is cost and second issue being cumbersome. But cumbersome is just inconvenient where cost is a big factor. Ps. I have more than one external drive so if I could use a USB hub to connect and share them all or a better solution would be great.

Hi, I'm running an unraid machine in my basement and I'm currently trying to setup a direct 10G connection between my PC and the unraid machine additional to the normal 1G link through multiple switches. The basic idea is to disable bonding and enable bridging on the first network card, but every time I do that the network connection is dropped completely and I'm unable to change the settings back of course as the Web GUI is unaccessible. Therefore I have to grab the thumbdrive and delete the network config file manually every time, which makes debugging very tedious. I've already posted this in the unraid forums around a week ago and haven't received any answers. Not sure if my question lacks information or is unclear, as I'm relatively new to unraid, servers, more "complex" networking than just plugging in a cable etc. or if the community in the unraid forums is just as clueless as I am. Any help or debugging tips would be appreciated. I would like to minimize the downtime during testing as I host multiple services for friends and family and don't want to disturb their workflow. My Post on the Unraid forums Basic summary of the linked posts in my unraid post: But if I disable eth0 bonding and enable bridging (add eth1) and leave everything else unchanged, unraid looses network connectivity. Therefore I have to take the thumbdrive and delete network.cfg. What am I doing wrong? Additional information: I'm running Unraid 6.8.3. I'm currently also connected to the router from my PC. Is this a problem? (I can't use the 10G direct link currently as its not configured yet) The 10G connection shows up in windows but is unconfigured (as expected). This is the config that causes the network connection to drop: (Therefore "Please wait" and the loading animation persist) MAC-Adresses and PCI device details removed (not even sure if somebody could use this information for something evil, but I'd rather remove to much than to little :D) Thank you for your help and time! Edit: Just realised that the networking subforum might be more fitting. @Moderators feel free to move, if you agree (I don't think I'm able to on my own).

I want to plan ahead for an IRL stream, and I've seen this router that can handle 4 SIM cards with a load balancer at once, and you can selfhost your bonding server in their website. At first, I am sketchy on what's happening here, but the fact that other reviewers done this video for media purposes, so I think it is a legit product on the market. So my question is how did the packet bonding works on this router and it can be as competitive on the other sim routers on the market? Maybe it can be good for a budget/ultimate IRL stream backpack video.... I guess?

Hey fellow enthusiast! I have seen the video below several times, I have been inspired and I will go for it, if you are so kind as of to share with me: Model and brand for a Bounding device to connect 3 ISP connections, if not posible Please share with me the Model and brand for the divise used to connect 2 services. Finally a recommended router (edit): after the 1st comment I thought I should throw this in. I will prefer not have to use an extra service like speedify If you want to help a noob by going the extra mile, a switch for a home network. I appear not to have proper google skills, if you do not have a model then just a brand a a rough name will do, just please share the names with me, I have been looking for weeks if not months and can not find the device I should buy. P.S. I am doing this because my local upload speeds are terrible 2 to 4 Mbps, I already convinced my current provider to get me a second line, and a competitor to do the third one, I already know this is better by doing Identical connections so I am going for 3 theoretical connections with 20 Mbps uploads and 5 Mbps downloads, this is a possibility of having a theoretical 80 Mbps download and 15 Mbps uploads, this is better than owning a Ferrari for me. Please share your knowledge.

Dear forum, I'm back in search of wisdom. I'm encountering multiple problems in my current LAN setup, and while I have a couple of suspects, everything tells me I should be getting better results or worse results, but not the exact results I get. It makes no sense to me at this point. Let me preface with two things: 1) I know there are many ways to connect two computers, so having "a" connection could be achieved by trying a different configuration and see how it goes. However, the goal here is to get this layout to work, or alternatively, understanding why it can't (as in, shouldn't) work, and then move to something else. If I just quit I'll learn nothing. 2) This is a graph of my current setup. Each line represents a 1Gig Ethernet connection. Ellipses represent bonds of ethernet connections working as one (LACP a.k.a. 802.3ad). Wireless connections go directly to the ISP modem, and are in the same space as the modem and the PFSense WAN (say, 192.168.xx.zz). PFsense LAN and all the PCs are in 192.168.yy.zz, xx=/=yy. Dashed lines delimit rooms, connections between rooms go through the walls. The problems 1) The old: It all started after installing the PFSense router (although I remember some previous oddities preparing this post, more on that later). I made a thread about it here: In a nutshell, the connection between PFSense and Switch breaks down, triggering a "possible flapping" message on the PFSense logs. It goes back up with no user intervention. The current state of the problem is reproducible: it happens every time I turn on or turn off either of PC1, PC2 or, since Installing that, PC3 (I've checked ans it's not exactly at power up, but when the OS starts loading). If you are using any of the PC1 or PC2, you're suddenly limited to the Switch, then after waiting a bit (varies between seconds and minutes) you can go all the way to the internet again. 2) The new: I installed Ubuntu Server on another PC last week, configuring a bond as main network interface, but without connecting to the internet during the installation. Once done, I connected the cables and try connect to the outside world to no avail. Now here's the puzzle: I can reach all the way from PC3 to the PFSense box and SSH into it. That is, the path between PC3 and PFSense seems no different than the path between PC1 and PC2, and PFSense. But PC3 gets no internet. The obvious candidate was DNS, but I checked with various built-in tools (route, netplan --debug, looking at resolv.conf and whatever the netplan config files are, etc), and in all cases it is correctly set to 1.1.1.1, 8.8.8.8 (it's the same in PC1 and PC2, PFSense is set to DNS Relay). But no internet. I did some ping and web GUI / SSH tests, as follows: PC1: can ping Switch, can access Switch GUI, can ping PFSense, can access PFSense GUI, can ping PC3, can ping 1.1.1. has internet PC3: cannot ping Switch, can ping PFSense, can SSH into PFSense, can ping PC1, cannot ping 1.1.1., has no internet I checked the PFSense logs and there's no trace of PC3 trying to reach the internet, or anywhere, and being blocked. The only signs of any blocking are stuff coming from my laptop (connected through WiFI to ISP modem) towards PFSense LAN and inwards. No clue what that is, but glad to have PFSense Anyway, laptop on or off does not affect my results. So that's my puzzle: I would understand having internet on PC3, and I would understand if PC3 couldn't reach PFSense due to some misconfiguration somewhere. I would understand less if PFSense was blocking PC3 while not the others, but at least it would be a lead to follow. But right now it's as if PC3 was simply not sending the requests to, say, 1.1.1.1 correctly, or at all 3) The unresolved oddities from the past Before even having the PFSense box, everything seem to work fine (PC1 and PC2 to Switch same as now, Switch to ISP), but I remember now two issues that I overlooked: i) PC1 dual-boots Windows and Linux Mint. Windows configured the team (a.k.a. bond) in two clicks, and worked since then. In Linux Mint I never got any Ethernet connectivity whatsoever as far as I remember, and 100% sure the team does not work at all in Linux to this day. I'm limited to WiFi on PC1 when on Mint. ii) I have two available modes for the "Etherchannels" (how Cisco calls the teams/bonds) in my Switch: "Static" and "LACP". THe description of "Static" was not very informative to me, but my understanding is that the correct option for my setup is "LACP". That's how all the Linux / PFSense bonds are set, and they will not work if I change that to "Static" in the switch (while keeping the settings unchanged in the computers). This is the expected behavior, I think. However, the link between Switch and PC1 is set as "Static" in the Switch. Looking back, when first setting this up, there were instances in which it would work in Static but not LACP, it would work in LACP but not Static, neither, both, etc, until I finally got it all set. My understanding is that it shouldn't work because the team is set as LACP in PC1, but OK, I guess what does work is not my main concern So, at this point: what could be preventing PC3 to reach the internet through PFSense like the other computers? What's causing the link between PFSense and the Switch yo break down when a computer connected to the Switch initializes its NICs / powers them down? I'd blame the Switch, but then, why does a direct link between ISP and Switch not break in the same situation? I do hope it's the Switch: While it would suck not being able to use it this way, I think I could setup a similar layout with PC3 acting as both server and switch. Still, I'd want to understand first what's wrong with the damned CE500G, and salvage it if possible. Thanks in advance to anyone with 2 hours to read this post and able to provide any hint

Hello Thogether I am working on a Solution for this. i am using a apu2d4 board from pcengines.ch. This bord has 3 100/1000mbs Interfaces from Intel and a quad core cpu from amd, The bord alsow has 4GB ddr3 eec ram. Because the board "only" was 3 nics, i am using a cheap vlan switch from tp-link. so i can can use one Nic for 7 wan connections (1 port as trunk tu apu board and the seven remaining for up to 7 individual outgoing connections). At the moment i am working on an webui to manage the thing. If someone is interesting in helping on this Project, pleas let mi know. PS: sorry for bad english, my main language is german

Hey guys, So I am planning to use LACP on my servers, but I'm a bit confused as to how LACP or ethernet bonding works. 1. Are the connections bonded, between two machines, or between a server and a switch? 2. What if a non-LACP machine wants to connect to a LACP bonded connection? Will it have reduced speed, or no connection at all? 3. So if I have a LACP bonded link with 2 connections bonded together(1 Gigabit each) and if 2 separate machines(Also 1 Gb each) try to download data from the server, will the bandwidth be shared between the two separate clients? (So, basically, its a 2:1 connection) (Also assuming the server can saturate the effectively 2Gbit link) 4. If anyone has used this, let me know any other nuances or /things/ that I need to know before jumping on LACP. My use case is for performance improvement(No redundancy etc) Thanks!

Dear Linus, I have an idea that you can show in your YouTube video. Personally I am a real fan of linux and I would really like it if you want to demonstrate this project. I came up with this idea when I saw your steam caching server and immediately thought why no part 2? This is the idea. You have access to a few gigabit network cards. What happens when you put these cards in bonding mode and the steam caching server runs on that server? will downloading go faster? Try to put two network cards in bonding mode on the Linux client. I recommend using bonding mode 0 (Round-Robin), which ensures that all traffic passes over 2 network cards. I'm curious if you put both the server and the client in bonding, the speed actually doubled Some URL's to the bonding guide Look at this post: Bonding on ubuntu to learn more about bonding on Ubuntu Linux Sorry about my bad English

I live in a rural area that has very slow Internet speed. There’s only one ISP that runs a wire to my house, and it’s not fiber. My wife and I use a lot of bandwidth, so cellular and or satellite don’t work for me because I can’t deal with data caps. I run a business from my home, and needs and faster Internet. Right now the fastest Internet I can get for my ISP is 12 Mb down and 1.2 Mb up. I’ve tried all of the Internet providers in south eastern Iowa to see if they have Internet over long distance Wi-Fi antennas. Nobody services my house. I live in hilly terrain, and close to the bottom of a hill. I know my neighbors which are about a half mile away, and they’re willing to work with me on getting Internet to my house, but every house I’m close to there is one hill in the way. What are my options? I don’t need Internet beamed from 10 miles away, just a half mile. But LOS would require a 50 foot pole, i’m not excited about that. Also, my current ISP is willing to do Internet bonding for me. What’s the max lines that you can bond together? I think there are boxes that can bond together more than just two, but does my ISP need to have something on their end that can handle more than two connections being bonded at one time?

Hello everybody, I live most of the year in a dorm room in Austria, since the last month the internet connection became unstable, and as it student, I kinda need the internet. I was thinking about getting an unlimited LTE contract but I wanted to know if there is a "cheap" way to bond the LTE with the dorms connection together and use them like that in some sort of mptcp config. I currently have a Netgear Router. Is there any way to bond the internet connection form the dorm room together with the one form the LTE "router"?

Hi, I'm thinking for about a month about this project. In my home town they offer 1Gbps for about 14 us dollars. We currently have 3 ISPs who can provide those services. I'm looking to get all 3 connections and bond them together for a total of 3Gbps. Is this possible and if so what equipment do I need? I was looking yesterday without a clue at Ubiquiti's website.

I'm from australia, so i might not have the plans that Linus posted in his video, so i was wondering, since i use cable for my modem, is it possible to get two coaxial cables, hook up two modems to a bonder, which would connect to a router that'll connect to the rest of the internet appliances so 1. can i get two coaxial cables 2. can i get a bonder

Trying to find the best solution to get my Proxmox VE box to communicate with FreeNAS storage. From what I have read so far this is what I came up with. LACP (Link Aggregation) Switch and NICs Dual port Intel Gigabit NICs (Bonding the two ports) Enable Jumbo Frames (MTU=9000) Use an iSCSI target instead of NFS Does this sound like the ideal solution without going 10Gb? It would be great to hear from someone with a similar setup. Also need help deciding on a switch, if this solution is the way to go. Preferably a 8 to 16 port. Thanks in advance!