I have set up a Verizon DSL and a Comcast cable internet connections through a NetGear FVX538 dual WAN router. I configured it for load balancing instead of “rollover” thinking web page requests would be faster than either connection alone.
I must have some configuration wrong, because it alternately is slower or broken. In the configuration screens, each connection hits NetGear’s site properly, so each connection is working.
There are references to dynamic DNS, which I have setup through a 3rd party provider, though I still do not grasp why DDNS should be necessary. I think Netgear wants the router to communicate with the DDNS (rather than the software I have installed onto a desk top) but it lists three providers, but not the one I chose – no-ip.com.
ANy idea what I am doing wrong, or why they want DDNS??
It also broke my POP3 email account, because I guess Outlook doesn’t know which ISP it will get each time, so the outgoing SMTP configs would be wrong.
As a work around, I am using the godaddy relay server, that or if I felt real ambitous, I can bind the email service to one ISP and set Outlook to expect that ISP.
Hope you can help, as I am losing what little hair I’ve got.
Thanks,
Bruce