Possible to load balance using two WAN connections and a WNR3500L?

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atek3
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Possible to load balance using two WAN connections and a WNR3500L?

I have cable, and the speeds I get are fantastic downstream, but my upstream is capped at 768 Kbps, which is garbage. On the other hand, I get about 1.5 Mbps upstream via. wifi tethering through my Verizon EV-DO rev. A connection.  What I'd like to do is load-balance between the two connections to get ~2 Mbps upstream.  I'm certain it can be done, but don't know if it can just be done with my WNR (possibly with different firmware) or I'd need a proper server running pfsense.  I should mention that currently half the computers on my LAN connect via gigabit ethernet, and the other half via 802.11g.

Ideas?

I really don't want to have to wait until FiOS to get decent speeds.

atek3

Joey
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This something that is

This something that is missing from most firmware.
Some people have it work using a round robin load balancing scheme, but not a real balancing scheme.

Pfsense does do what you require, look into that, that can't run on this router though.

There is a Tomato MLPPP version that bonds two connections that runs on WRT54G router.