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Comcast and Century Link Help
I currently have comcast and century link at home for my server room connection or servers I personally built. The only problem I am having is connect them to the internet/ethernet. I want to have a blend of comcast and century link I have a router and switch and about 4 cabinets full of servers but I'm not sure how to obtain IPv4 and such. Would I need my own IP block or would I need to contact comcast or century link?
I have a 150mbps connection with comcast and a 100Mbps connection with Century Link.
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Do you have enterprise class services with BGP?
Not that I know of just the basic home connections with a few upgrades for speed. I know I can get something like that with comcast after speaking with them today but century link does not support higher than 150Mbps speeds in my area or higher internet enterprise plans.
Might help, Centurylink BGP Policies: http://www.centurylinkservices.net/faq.php#BGPreq
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Well, I don't think any serious ISP will give you BGP on home connection unless as a backup to the main leased line with them.
Additionally, speed of such uplink is not guaranteed and likely filtered so you won't be able to send any packets with source address not matching the one they assigned to you.
As such, it won't work. Prepare to increase your budget by multiplier of 20 at least, that's if your home is connected to the carrier network already ;-).
Good luck!
You could use for example a Ubiquiti Edgerouter to load-balance outgoing connections over two WAN circuits. But that won't solve your incoming traffic.
If you want your own IPv4 space, true dual ISP setup, then it's going to be expensive.
You'll need to contact them for a business plan. Most residential ISPs don't allow hosting and they'll cut you off.
How in the world did you get 100 mbps on Centurylink? Do you have fiber or something? I'd love to dump Cox but can't get over 40 mbps on Centurylink in Phoenix.
@Geene You cannot do what you want to do with residential connections.
Just going to leave this here.. https://www.simonmott.co.uk/2012/03/vpn-bonding/
Centurylink does 1G/1G in Seattle at least.
Some places they have horrible service hopefully it changes when the merge with Level3.
Sadly not, L3 is almost all long haul.