On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, John covici wrote: > Hi. At the moment I have two high speed connections to the internet > -- one somewhat faster than the other. I was looking at the advanced > router howto and created the tables, etc as specified in section 4.2 > of that document and changed my default route to a multipath route > with weight 2 on the faster provider and weight 1 for the slower one. > Then I went and downloaded a test file, but to my surprise I was > getting a lower speed than with the default route to the faster > provider. Is there a better way to do this so it actually does me > some good? On your own, with 1 single test file, multipath routing not help. However, it will help in providing more throughput when a lot of traffic is flowing to and from different sites. Think of it as a multiprocessing problem: if you have only one linear process, there is nothing to multitask. If, however, you have a number of processes they can be dealt with in parallel on the different processing chains (uplinks, in this case), and the end result will be faster overall. Doei, Arthur. -- /\ / | arthurvl@xxxxxxxxxx | Work like you don't need the money /__\ / | A friend is someone with whom | Love like you have never been hurt / \/__ | you can dare to be yourself | Dance like there's nobody watching
