How To Combine 2 ISPs For Free?

[Isaac Foster]

So i have 2 ISPs no.1 is a 40 Mbps and ISP no.2 is 60 Mbps, So combining them i will got a good 100 Mbps. 10MB/S!
But i don't have a mikrotik device. Maybe i can combine the ISPs without using the mikrotik device?

[Electronics Wizardy]

Basically all advanced routers let you do this, like pfsense, opnsense, untangle, sonicwall, fortinet. And many of those have free versions.

 

But unless your bonding(where you need anouther server), or your service supports multipath, your limited to the speed of one isp at a time.

[Isaac Foster]

How about FiberHome?

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, ItzMadMan said:

How about FiberHome?

What do you mean? Is there a product your talking about? That seems to be a network equipment company. Normally home routers don't support dual isps.

[Isaac Foster]

So do i have to buy something to combine 2 ISPs?

[kirashi]

15 minutes ago, ItzMadMan said:

So do i have to buy something to combine 2 ISPs?

Yes, @Electronics Wizardynoted, you have to use a piece of networking gear that supports bonding 2 WAN connections together.

https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Interface/Bonding

[Eigenvektor]

26 minutes ago, ItzMadMan said:

So do i have to buy something to combine 2 ISPs?

Basically, yes. Combining two ISPs as such isn't possible. Whatever service you're connecting to would have to accept requests coming from one IP but then send responses to two IPs.

 

As Wizard said, you'd need another server on the internet that does this for you, acting as a proxy between you and regular services. This server would need enough bandwidth to saturate the combined ISPs to make it worth it.

[Falcon1986]

8 hours ago, ItzMadMan said:

So do i have to buy something to combine 2 ISPs?

There are multi-WAN routers that can load-balance/failover multiple ISP connections for your network, but they're not going to provide your clients with a combined speed of all connections.

 

If your aim is to get faster speed, then you'll need to find a service in your city that does what @Eigenvektor suggested. But at the price you're expected to pay for such a service, you might as well just upgrade to a higher tier connection and discontinue the other.

[Alex Atkin UK]

13 hours ago, Falcon1986 said:

There are multi-WAN routers that can load-balance/failover multiple ISP connections for your network, but they're not going to provide your clients with a combined speed of all connections.

Not strictly true as most downloads (games, Windows Updates, loading a web page) fire off multiple concurrent downloads so can easily balance across two ISPs, the benefit starts to degrade after three and become quite hard to consistently achieve over four.

 

Its also harder to do when you have different ISP speeds like I do, you'll tend to be held back by the slowest connection.

I actually documented all my personal experiments on my website.

 

The biggest drawback is uploads can only use one connection so will just hit a random ISP and be limited by that upload speed.  To combine uploading needs a box at the other end to do full bonding.