Get your wife's firm she works for to pay for the second line and running costs.

In reply to a post by APTMAN:

Get your wife's firm she works for to pay for the second line and running costs.

Made me chuckle, if they are anything like the company I work for they will say we are lucky to have jobs - jog on.

Mine would just say if you don't have the technical requirement to work from home then go into the office - unless there is a reasonable adjustments requirement in which case the line may be provided under the corporate contract but wouldn't pay expenses if someone is using their own line.

Bonding FTTC available here: https://www.cerberusnetworks.co.uk/connectivity-broa...

https://www.orbital.net/products/connectivity/bonded...

In reply to a post by adslmax:

Bonding FTTC available here: https://www.cerberusnetworks.co.uk/connectivity-broa...

https://www.orbital.net/products/connectivity/bonded...

Max, read the post. My current ISP offer this, don't need you spamming with other ISP's that don't cover my area. Thanks.

In reply to a post by chriscdotcodotuk:

I personally wouldn't bond lines as it is a single point of failure

The bonding itself isn't a single point of failure: if it's PPPoE Multilink it will be able to detect which links are up and down and use one or both. However the router is a SPOF - as would be the case for dual-WAN load-balancing as well.

Having two independent lines, with their own routers, sounds like a good option here.

The only reason to bond would be if you want 160Mbps peak download performance when the home line is unused. But that works both ways: if the home users are using the full 160M then that will impact your use just as it does today. At least, not without complex QoS configuration anyway.

In reply to a post by Bryer:

don't need you spamming with other ISP's that don't cover my area. Thanks.

They both make use of BT Wholesale and are available nationwide.
It may not be helpful to you but might help others who search the forum for bonding solutions later on.

He only made a suggestion/recommendation, it's hardly spamming.

You weren't so dismissive to another poster above who pointed out AAISP do bonding.

In reply to a post by Bryer:

Max, read the post. My current ISP offer this, don't need you spamming with other ISP's that don't cover my area. Thanks.

That's not spamming with other ISPs as it available nationwide in UK. I only try to help.

Thanks to everyone for their recommendations etc.

My current ISP does offer something that is quite new to the consumer market for bonding, but the equipment to do it is quite pricey, which isn't cost effective in the 12 month contract period.

So I'm going to go with the 2 lines / 2 network setup, which will work out better while we wait to see what happens with Openreach and the other FTTP providers in this area.

Edited by Bryer (Mon 26-Oct-20 00:41:00)