Well, now I'm officially disturbed. The problem with cable broadband is that you never know what your cap is. This weekend I pulled 3.2Mbps from a tucows server ... sometimes I can barely pull 1.5Mbps. What happens when I set it at 2Mbps to spillover and I can't get that high on WAN1? Further, what happens on a good day that I can pull >3Mbps? Will that extra bandwidth just go to waste? I don't think this will be such a good idea for me. I may just have to run two subnets and have my folks log from one to the other if they are getting horrible slowdowns, and cap each router at six connections. It's a SH!T way of doing it, but I'm not in a position to shell out $400 for a router that'll do the dirty work for me. Besides, if they want broadband for $10 a month, they'll just have to deal with it ... to get it for themselves outside of my network will cost a minimum of $50 a month. Luckily, many of them are casual users who won't be downloading entire versions of Windows and Office and such on a regular basis ... not saying I do that ... much.
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