I am from South Africa. Our internet is very restrictive when it comes to speed and download caps.
I am trying to maximize my download speeds from a news server. I’ve got a 2 MBps DSL connection. My ISP allows 3 concurrent PPPOE connections. The news server I am downloading from limits download speed to 30Kb/s per session. What possible solutions could you guys give me to get more speed. 3 PPPOE sessions X 30Kb/s would get me to 90Kb/s, effectively “bonding” these connections. 3 PPPOE connections would inply having 3 different internet IP’s. How would I go about setting up this “line bonding”. I’ve got access to Mikrotik routers as well as a Linksys WRT54G router. Any solution would be appreciated.
You cannot bond a single connection without your ISP helping out (you will not be able to get a 90KB/s transfer speed on a single download). You can load share across the three connections by connection, meaning you approach the combined transfer speed when you download more than one file at once. Read up on PCC on the wiki and in the forum.
Your news provider is limiting each session to 30kb/s so this has nothing to do with PPPoE and bonding. All it means is that each TCP session between your news reader and the news server will be limited to 30kb/s.
The easy way around this is to use a news reader capable of establishing multiple sessions, I am assuming you are downloading binaries and as such would recommend SabNZBD.
Also, you may want to consider a commercial news provider such as Giganews that does not impose a per session limit.
Newsleecher is a very good bit of software for windows. Giganews is also one of the largest and most reliable news provder out there. For a reasonable cost.