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In reply to a post by BatBoy:

Like this? http://www.speedtest.net/result/3219692669.png

That looks familiar!

That was using 2 different ISPs and per-flow load balancing. Speed test.net servers can be configured to run in single and multi-threaded modes. It's not quite there upload wise but works fine downstream.

The router I use can load balance 4 PPPoE lines however it does not have the horsepower to run 4 x 76Mb at line rate.

In reply to a post by Ignitionnet:

That was using 2 different ISPs and per-flow load balancing. Speed test.net servers can be configured to run in single and multi-threaded modes. It's not quite there upload wise but works fine downstream.

The router I use can load balance 4 PPPoE lines however it does not have the horsepower to run 4 x 76Mb at line rate.

There is some nice kit out there. PPPoE sadly mostly implemented in software, so 4 x PPPoE links running at 76Mbps and suddenly you need a full Intel Core series CPU, not often fitted to routers

Given the extra bytes needed to carry the IP payload over Ethernet, I'd be surprised if you managed 99 Mbps of IP data on a 100 Mbps port. 93 Mbps would be more like it.

In reference to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_utilization:

For example, in Ethernet the maximum frame size 1526 bytes (maximum 1500 byte payload + 8 byte preamble + 14 byte header + 4 Byte trailer). An additional minimum interframe gap corresponding to 12 byte is inserted after each frame. This corresponds to a maximum channel utilization of 1526/(1526+12)�100% = 99.22%, or a maximum channel use of 99.22 Mbit/s inclusive of Ethernet datalink layer protocol overhead in a 100 Mbit/s Ethernet connection. The maximum throughput or channel efficiency is then 1500/(1526+12) = 97.5 Mbit/s exclusive of Ethernet protocol overhead.

The router does everything in software, it is an SME bit of kit so does all kinds of stuff. TL-ER5120.

Not fibre, but just as an example - we have 3 standard BT ADSL lines bonded using routers/service from http://www.sharedband.com

Where's the example?

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Given the extra bytes needed to carry the IP payload over Ethernet, I'd be surprised if you managed 99 Mbps of IP data on a 100 Mbps port. 93 Mbps would be more like it.

Probably rounding errors on the FTP software I was using transferring a few tens of gigabytes from a very powerful IBM POWER server