Problem with Radio Downloads

[Budge]

Hi Charles
On 27/01/17 12:46, C E Macfarlane wrote:
>>     -----Original Message-----
>>     From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-bounces at lists.infradead.org]On
>>     Behalf Of Simon Morgan
>>     Sent: 27 January 2017 07:51
>>     To: 'get_iplayer'
>>     Subject: RE: Problem with Radio Downloads
>>
>>     From my limited understanding of these things, paying for 2
>>     lines will not
>>     increase your download speed without additional equipment. I
>>     believe you
>>     would need "bonding" or "aggregating" of the lines. Do a
>>     Google and you can
>>     read all about it.
>
> It depends ...
>
> You can just buy a median priced router with two or more WAN ports that will
> load-balance between them, but that still results in the points where you
> come out into the wider world of the internet having two or more IPs.  This
> can lead to particular types of problem.  For example, your bank, if it
> appears to receive packets for one session from two different IPs, may throw
> a wobbly and end the session, perhaps even requiring you to go through an
> account unlocking rigmarole before you can get back in.  More relevant here,
> it may also affect downloads, where the server might not allow sending
> packets that are part of the same download to different destination IPs.
> Therefore, your router, besides being able to load-balance, also has to have
> the intelligence not to try to split a single connection with a single
> Session ID across the two or more lines.  Some can do that, but not all.
>
> But, as you say, you can 'bond' the lines.  That means that all the packets
> issuing from or destined for the different lines reach the internet via a
> server at the other end, which collates and retransmits them, and thus they
> appear to the rest of the world as issuing from a single IP.  This avoids
> the potential problems described above, but it costs, quite a lot in fact.
> It was the system that was previously in use by my legacy client, and he is
> well pleased to be rid of it.  When I went to effect the changeover to FTTP,
> I found the bonded line system had developed a fault since my previous visit
> of almost exactly a year ago when I had left everything definitely working,
> and was only working at the speed of a single line anyway, so for an unknown
> length of time, possibly as long as several months, my client had been
> paying for three lines AND the bonding service but only getting the
> bandwidth that a single line had previously provided on its own!
>
> Perhaps Budge may care to check his bandwidth to satisfy himself that all
> his lines are fully functional:
> 	http://speedtest.btwholesale.com/

I have been doing checks in liaison with ISP as both lines have been 
maxed out 24/7 and I have no idea why.  Bandwidth much better than I 
thought possible.
Cheers.
Budge