If you have two DSL connections and two normal routers, you can run two networks with one trading machine on fallover connected via dual ethernet ports on the mother board. You just connect one network cable from each router to the motherboard. One network will always be up. This is a good cheap option if you don't need all your machines connected to the net all the time. Runningbear
Runningbear, that is exactly the solution I suggested a month ago, in my post above on Jan. 1st: That simple dual Ethernet port solution works just as well for up to 4 networked computers as for 1. All but the most basic DSL and cable routers have 4 Ethernet ports these days. I still wish someone would explain the rationale, i.e., the overall net advantage (pros minus cons) of a dual wan router over a dual Ethernet port solution.
Perhaps investigate http://www.wingate.com/prod-features.php for using one PC as a firewall / internet firewall ps you don't have to use a seperate PC, it can be installed on the same PC as used for trading.... maria
I have been using my new Xincom DPG-502 for 10 days now. I have it hooked to Comcast cable modem an WAN1 and AT&T yahoo DSL on WAN2. It started to work out of the box on the first boot, already doing load balance by default. The only thing gave me trouble is when I access https sites. So I called their tech support and they instructed me to download the latest firmware. The new firmware v2.2 Rel.3 fixed the https problem. Since then, this little box has been working like a champ. I have tested both its failover and load balance functions. Both work without a hitch. I am a very happy customer. Now I am using my old Netgear router as an access point to provide wireless access.
How was their tech support, pretty fast to respond? It's sounds as though you had a good exp. with them? I ask because I was looking at hotbrick, but I don't believe you can call them? This is when I looked at their product about 6 months ago. What did you pay for the xincom? $200-300? The hotbrick, last time I checked was about $210 from tigerdirect
I called them only once, for the https issue. The hold time was about 5 mintes. Not too bad. The first live person I talked to was a tech guy. No transfering or more waiting. The whole conversation lasted no more than 3 minutes. Basically he told me to download the latest firmware, and then gave me the URL for v2.2rel.3 firmware...following the instruction you will be fine...Have a nice day. That was it. I got the Xincom 502 for $150.
what kind of speeds are you getting when you load balance? ie, if your cable gets 15mps and DLS gets 5mps?
my hotbrick is up and running with a comcast cable and qwest DSL hooked into it. crazy. it's not accurrate, but I ran a bandwidth test at http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ and got a 15 mb/s this is obviously not accurrate because the cable is rated at 6-8mb by itself, while the DSL rates at 1.3-1.5mb by itself. the bandwidth test may send 2 packets of data and hotbrick downloads both hence makes it look really fast. can anyone tell me a more accurrate bandwidth test?
the fail over works pretty well on the Hotbrick. I unplugged the cable ethernet, and it switched over to dsl with only a slight pause. does anyone know if I can specify that certain programs will only use DSL as its connection?
I am having the same problem with https, but when I go to Xincom's site, I can't find a v2.2 firmware release. Did they point you somewhere special for this release?