Photo Matt � This is Real Broadband
Really fat bandwidth graph

Care of VVD Communications, the cool company with a bad website, I now have a synchronous 10mbps connection in my apartment. The first thing I did was go to a bandwidth testing site, as seen above. I was using Comcast before which was pretty snappy, but this is a whole new way to experience the internet. This is even faster than the connection I get at work.

This will definitely mean I%u2019ll be able to run a lot more things from home, the upload bandwidth is about 10x what I had before, which means it%u2019ll be much faster to upload pictures, serve files, stream music from home, and all the other stuff you should be able to do in a hyperconnected world. (Maybe I%u2019ll even catch up on photos now.) They were also able to light up all the ethernet panels in my place so now doing some of the multimedia things I wanted to do around the house should be much easier. (Wireless was really too slow.)

I%u2019m still going to have Comcast for a few months until my contract runs out, what I%u2019m wondering now is if there%u2019s a way to have the router balance the internet traffic between the two connections. I%u2019m using a WRT54GS which I%u2019ve loaded up with alternative Linux-based firmware before with good success. I wonder if that sort of balancing would be possible?