Speed up uploads?

Matsaki

Matsaki

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I guess not, but I have to ask!
Is there a way to cheat my ISP's upload limit of 128K in a similar way that SpeedDownload does for downloads. SpeedDownload is working very good for my downloads by the way as my ISP is sneaky and throttle the bandwidth for us users really bad.

I have a ADSL 1024K line by the way.
 
I was under the impression that SpeedDownload and many other such tools trick the uploading server rather than your ISP. Many ftp or http servers limit the bandwidth for any connection to control the traffic. So, what such download tools do is to pretend many connections. If the limit is at 10kb/sec, such tools can pretend 10 connections and thus 10x10kb/sec for your download. But you cannot trick your ISP and get more than 1024kbit downstream and 128kbit upstream. But I might be wrong..
 
What Zammy said is how I heard it works too.

'Ma Belle', or whomever provides your broadband, controls the speed settings on their end. There's no feasible way to increase those speeds short unless you have access to their stuff. Definitely not possible with locally run software.

Who's your ISP? Might want to check around for others who'll give you a better deal. 1Mb/s (D) 128Kb/s (U) is a bit slow now a days, unless you're in an area with really old infrastructure.
 
Ok but here is another idea. As there is only one telephone company here, who is the only provider of the actual ADSL and phone lines. They are the ones setting the speed limit to max 1024k speed. Then there is 5-6 ISP's who all offers almost the same services depending on the maximum speed limit.

NOW

I was thinking if I bought two subscriptions of 1024k ADSL which is possible, and then bought a extra ethernet card to my computer, making it able to input the two lines. Then maybe there is a way to make them 2 lines cooperate with IPv6 or iptables as this two lines will not have the same IP number.

Any ideas on that?
 
Thats the point, maybe only some multi thread apps kan make use of the two lines like SpeedDownload etc. But I think it's a solution worth thinking about :)
 
Any message on an Internet media will try all routes. If you have two channels, some packets will take the first route, the others will use the second route. I expect that you will have an increased bandwidth with two modems and two subscriptions.
 
Wow sound good :) But I have to figure out exactly what I need and what to do. I have an old Mac 8600/300 which I maybe could install Linux on and use for this purpose as a router. I also have a on old PB G3 333MHz which I could spare as a router.

My Dlink Router will bu useless I am afraid as it only has one input.
 
You could also urge and urge and urge your provider to give you 256 kbps (or more) upstream for a price you both can live with...
 
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