I need help !

My company recently set up a branch in Johor, and in that place, Streamyx only offer 1Mbps lines.

So my company signed up for 3 X 1Mbps lines, hoping that we can get at least 3Mbps throughput to support the business need.

And it turns out a big disaster.

No matter how we hook the lines to our internal network, we got 1Mbps throughput to the outside, as if we are only using 1 of the 3 Streamyx lines.

I googled and found that there is a thing call "broadband bonding" and there is a special modem from ZyXel that can support bonding for multiple broadband lines ( Model P663H-51 )

I need help !

I need to know if anyone here every tried "broadband bonding" before, and how you guys handle such situations?

Do I really need to get that Model P663H-51 modem from ZyXel to get it to work, or is it any alternative method?

Our network consists of about 50 windows computer, connected to 4 X 16port routers (the 3 routers are connected to each others) and the network also connect to 4 Xerox machines (photocopy machines) and several scanners.

Can somebody help ?

Thank you !

Edit: The link to the ZyXel router is http://www.zyxel.com/products_services/p_663h_51.shtml

This post has been edited by ash tray: Oct 18 2012, 05:56 PM

Thank you for your reply !

May I know if the computers that are assigned to gateway 1.1 (the Sales department) are hooked on to the same internal network as the ones that are assigned to gateway 1.2 (the Tech department)?

If yes, how do you do it?

In our case, when we took a cluster of computers (let's say 12) and assigned them to a 16-port switch A, which is hooked on to Streamyx supplied (wifi) router 1, another computer cluster (let's say 11) and assigned them to a 16-port switch B, which we hooked on to Streamyx supplied Dlink router 2, the computers in cluster A and cluster B can go online, no problem.

The pipe ("broadband connection") to the outside, in this arrangement, is 2 X 1Mbps.

When we do it this way, computers within cluster A can only "talk to" other computers within the same cluster A via its own internal network. They aren't wired to computers from cluster B so they can't "talk" to computers from cluster B via our own company's internal network.

But, when we hooked switch A and switch B together, either directly (a cable in between switch A and switch B), or indirectly (hooked switch A to switch C, and switch C to switch B), everything changed drastically.

Under this new arrangement, we merge the two internal networks - which means computers from cluster A can talk to computers from cluster B via our company's internal network.

But one problem arrises - all the computers, no matter if they are assigned to switch A or switch B, all got out to the outside via 1 (one) Streamyx line only !

In other words, when we do it this way, our pipe ("broadband connection") to the outside got down to 1 X 1Mbps speed !

That's why we are in a bind.

What we truly need is a way that we can tap on the throughput of all the 3 X 1Mbps Streamyx ADSL lines we've subscribed while all our computers and peripherals (scanners, Xerox machines, etc) can talk to each others via one internal network.

How to achieve that, without having to go the route of load balancing and all those fancy techniques?

Can somebody help?

Thank you all again !!

This post has been edited by ash tray: Oct 19 2012, 08:18 AM

Thank you for your input.

We have tried to get a bigger pipe but Streamyx told us the biggest pipe they could give us was 1Mbps, and that's it. Not even 2Mbps, not even when we settle for fixed ip.

Actually, the company I work for is an MNC - it's inside the top 500 list - but Streamyx, being Streamyx, told us, in a broken record manner - "Sorry, the most we can get you is 1Mpbs per line, for we do not have any fibre installed in that area" - and that was why we subscribed to 3 ADSL lines hoping that at least we could get a throughput of 3 X 1Mbps.

What is hurting most is that in our area there is no UMobile coverage nor YES coverage, and P1 coverage is really really lousy (less than 128Kbps rate !!). And there is no Jaring nor Time nor Maxis broadband, so we had no alternative but to stick with Streamyx's 1Mbps ADSL lines.

Thanks a million for your input !!

I'm googling for Mikrotik RB750 as I type.

Many, many thanks, again !!

This post has been edited by ash tray: Oct 19 2012, 10:43 AM

Our company memang top 500 in the world, doesn't mean the local operation is.

Don't get me wrong. We do have an "IT department" from our national HQ in PJ, but they don't know nothing about nothing. And please do not ask me how they got the job in the first place.

The problem we have in our Johor branch, they came, and then, they left.

They kept telling the Johor branch manager that the 3 ADSL lines are working - in fact, they are not lying, all the 3 ADSL lines ARE working, it is just that with current set up we are only using the throughput of ONE (1) ADSL line.

Those "IT department support personnel" obviously do not know anything about load balancing. From my personal interaction with them I get the feeling that they may know how to set up a Window XP machine or a simple Streamyx ADSL (or unify) connection, and that is all they know.

That is why I am looking for help here. Hoping that we can find someone in the JB area which are experience in setting up either 1 of the 2 listed models of modem that I have listed, and enlist their help to solve the problem that our Johor branch is facing.

Is there anyone in JB who is familiar with setting up load-balancing ADSL modems?