>> I'm in the situation of having two broadband ISPs available here (cable
>> and ADSL), which both are at times really unreliable. So I thought of
>> signing up with both and set up a router that automatically routes the
>> more important packets through the WAN port where the traffic is best.
>> Is something like this possible, with reasonable expense and effort?

First off, thanks to all who responded. Searching for such devices actually
brought up a number of them, as Forrest said. Does anybody have any
recommendations or experiences (pro or contra)? I'm specifically interested
in QoS WRT VoIP (various protocols), VPN tunneling or VPN client/server
functionality in the router and inbound/outbound load balancing.

Steve Howes wrote:

> Just get two routers.. same internal ip range.. two default routes with
> different metrics. If one is down the other will be used. Can't really
> do much more than that without some shinier kit.

I'm not quite sure I understand this correctly. Does this require that the
PCs on the LAN have two network ports (and the two default routes with
different metrics would be on every computer on the LAN)?

Thanks,
Gerhard

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