I just read about the
Nexland Pro800turbo
That Router dose IP load-balancing, not Connection binding. There is a very important difference between the two and the manufactures are being misleading about it.
Connection binding hasn't really been used since Dial-Up modem days and required your ISP to support it. (Most did not) Let’s say you have two 1mb connections. Your ISP would assign the same IP to both connections. When you would make a connection out to the Internet (say to download a file) the packets of data would be cut in half and sent down each modem. It would be reassembled by the ISP and sent out to the net. The same would happen when data was sent back to you. This gives you a “True” 2mb connection because both modems are actually working on that one connection out to the Internet.
With load-balancing each connection is assigned its own IP address. (You can use two different ISP also.) When you make a connection out to the internet to download a file (not using DAP or any other program like it, which actually makes multiple connections) that connection is assigned to your first modem. All data going and coming from that connection will only be sent down that one modem. When you make a second connection to download a file, that connection is then assigned to your second modem and all data only goes down that modem. No one connection can go past 1mb because its data is really only going down that one modem. So you don’t truly have a 2mb connection you just have two 1mb connections.
The same is true with Dual Processor Computers. Having two 1 GHz processors doesn’t mean you have a 2 GHz system. It means you are able to process two “different” sets of instructions at 1 GHz.