Agreed, I used pfSense session based load balancing before I tried full on bonding.

In my case I went on to try bonding as a single 25mbps connection was sometimes just not enough. Two 70mbps balanced lines should be good enough for just about anything.

I also have AAISP bonded VDSL - both slightly different syncs. My hallway looks like a server room as a result (I actually have a nice little white mesh drawer cabinet I got from Ikea which is perfect).

I have the two modems/routers and then the firebrick to bond them and then a Google WiFi connected to them for WiFi.

It makes my slow connection usable and if it wasn�t for that I wouldn�t be able to run all my Nest cameras and stream etc on a single line connection. Not enough bandwidth either direction (around 17MB).

I placed an order for FTTPoD and was told native FTTP will be installed by June so they won�t process my order; which I have been told on here is a good thing!

But bonding works great - I would even consider another line if it wasn�t for the FTTP - The only issue is the cost which is more than you would pay normally. 200GB a month for £90 - which is only doable because they started rolling over data not used from when I was on a more expensive tier.

Have a chat to these guys: https://evolving.net.uk/

While I've not used them, and I have no idea of pricing etc, they do apparently manage all the lines from probably different providers and bond them all together using some proprietary tech running on commodity hardware. There's an old review here, from a dubious review site: https://www.increasebroadbandspeed.co.uk/review-ADSL...

I took the plunge and decided to get an extra line installed into my home last year.

My first line is with Plusnet and my second line is with Vodafone.

I use two HG612 modems and my router runs OpenWRT, one of the LAN ports is configured into a seperate WAN2 VLAN, I then use the MWAN3 package on OpenWRT that handles the dual WAN load balancing.

It works very well for me, and I am very glad that I did this, it has been well worth it and I would probably not be without it, for me the single point of failure is now at the cabinet, but not much can be done about that.

I configured MWAN3 to balance all HTTP/HTTPS connections, with the exception of my banking sites as that may potentially cause some issues with connections coming from multiple IP's.

I do a lot of downloading with Usenet, so my providers allow connection from multiple IP's and any downloading I do in the browser, I either use DownThemAll in Firefox or ensure parallel downloading is enabled in Google Chrome, this then aggregates both connections.

Hope that is of some use!