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Increase network speed

From Issue #6 , Page #66 | By Chris Arndt
Double your home network speed

Do you have a need for Internet speed? Maybe you've been spoiled. You are not alone. Most people want more speed and more connection options. If you are able to add a second Internet feed, you can double your aggregate upload and download speeds, and even have backup too.

All this is possible through the magic of the dual WAN (wide area network) router. If you already have a high-speed, always-on Internet connection and a home network, you should also have a router (think of it as a single WAN router) and be familiar with it. A dual WAN router does the same things as the single one: serve as the interface and firewall between your LAN (local area network) and the public Internet. A dual WAN router has a second Ethernet jack for connecting to the second Internet connection. It also has the internal smarts to balance your Web surfing and other Internet loads between the two connections, and channel all of your traffic to one network if the other one fails.