Two Internet Connections

[supanatral]

I'm looking to host my own website which has some significant traffic. I'm not able to get fast enough internet for my building so instead I've ordered two internet lines to be put in and I was going to put a load balancer on there. Lets say for simplicity sake that each internet connection has a 800 kilobit upload and a 5 megabit download.

If someone was going to contact www.mywebaddress.com and download something, would I upload at 1.6 kilobits per second?

If not then if there were two people contacting my site and downloaded something, would I upload at 800 kilobits per second for each client?


If I was to use my own internet and download something, would I download at 10 Mbps?

If not, then if two computers on my network were downloading something, would we each be able to download at 5 Mbps?

 

[fryke]

Why do you want to host yourself a site with "significant traffic" on a line with 1.6 Mbps max if you can get hosting with much better lines for not much money outside of your home?
It sounds to me you're trying far too much to reach something which'll not be the best solution after all...

 

[supanatral]

Well, I mean, I guess significant traffic shouldn't be the word but i mean, its an internet business and they get 500 orders a month roughly. So, its not a deserted site.

The reason why is because if someone orders something then it has to be entered into our software manually, but if OS Commerce is on a computer in the building, then we can import them directly. The issue with doing that now, is because if we were to do that then we would need to open a specific port for os commerce and since its a shared internet server for more sites then just ours, they're not going to open the port just for us.

 

[lurk]

As for your original question the short answer is no. You will get two 800kb connections. The reason for this is that (assume that you are doing something like getting two DSL connections) each connection will be associated with traffic for two different IP addresses. Now if both of these connections are coming from the same place you might be able to get them to set things up for you but I expect it would be expensive.

Now, if you are looking at a high traffic site, one where you get lots of hits you could still use this approach using DNS for your load balancing. The first person that looks up the site would get IP#1 and the second IP#2 then back to IP#1 and so on. However, if you are trying to just have one big pipe then I think you will be SOL.

Just to quell the "yea but" people, what you ask for is technically possible under some specific circumstances. I just think the odds of that being the case are awfully low.