Japlabot Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 I have a customer who have an ADSL connection that gets about 8Mbps download, but only about 0.1Mbps up. It's not good enough because they send/receive large attachments all day and items sit in the Outbox for a long time until they upload. They are using Google Apps. Something needs to be done to make it go quicker, ADSL uploads are quite variable, and if we try a second phone line or Bonded/Load Balanced ADSL connection, they might end up with another 0.1Mbps upload just like the main line. If they go Fibre, Fibre is extremely expensive, it might work out cost effective to have a Guaranteed 10Mbps upload compared to 20x ADSL with 0.5Mbps upload, but they don't need 10Mbps upload, just 1Mbps would be good. 3G HSPA+/4G LTE gets quite good upload speeds in the area, > 10Mbps is easily obtainable. The problem is that data quotas for 3G HSPA+/4G LTE are quite small. Ideally I would like to use the High-Download Quota of the ADSL connection for downloads, and route the email upload traffic through the 4G LTE to save Download Quota usage. Is this possible to do? Can it be done with pfSense? Some routers do load balancing but I don't know if they work to this level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king_of_hearts Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 Oh it's possible using a commercial grade router. You'd need to use BGP for the two separate links, and set static routes. I'd also set limit rates on the HSPA side.... But... Honestly the BEST solution is to contact the ADSL provider and ask them to fix their connection.. .1 Mbps up is ridiculously slow. If they can't provide better upload, then they should move to a better provider (Fiber if need be). Note: I work at an rual ISP, and we are completely FTTH... I don't have much experience with ADSL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted August 31, 2012 MVC Share Posted August 31, 2012 You don't need a "commercial" grade router to do simple routing. Since you say its email, I assume its to as specific email server? If so then its a simple 1 line route command to use connection X when talking to email server IP/Network. If your sending email directly to different domains, god knows where on the internet then it would be a bit more difficult - policy routing sort of thing. dest Port 25 use connection X. And sure pfsense can do either of these scenarios no problem. But if your only seeing .1mbps up -- something seems wrong with that connection. I would contact your provider, unless the download that are currently being down is sucking up all your upload pipe already and that is why your seeing crappy uploads for new connections. Can you look to see current load on the connection as for as total traffic both up and down when your trying to send an email. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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