Anyone any experience of bonded xDSL (Q-Balancer)?

Has anyone used a Q-Balancer or similar product to bond xDSL lines? If so what sort of success did you have? Were both lines from the same ISP?

If not have you successfully used any other bonded solution?

I use a Cyclone 200 in a small office environment. I only do it so I can "borrow" bandwidth from my business ADSL at night, and vice-versa during the day. It's quite useful to be able to do this, but there are snags. You can only use the bonded lines for downloading if you use a multi-thread download tool like ReGet or GetRight. Web browsing can actually be slower, because of the extra latency created by the router. Some secure services (like internet banking) web pages can fail to work, because they don't like to see more than one IP address accessing the pages concurrently. If you want a balancer to give you a backup system, you should be OK. I've only ever used ADSL lines from the same ISP. I also wouldn't advise it unless you have good knowledge, or have access to someone with good knowledge of network routing, because it can get quite complicated.

Note: the Cyclone 200 has been superseded by the NETWalker Agile 200 - see link below............

http://www.broadbandbuyer.co.uk/Shop/ShopDetail.asp?ProductID=400