I am at my wits end. I have At&t 6 meg dsl. Ul is 512. Nothing else is available to me outside of wireless or satellite which neither are an option imo. It is just not enough anymore for what My family needs. Wife likes streaming Netflix. I play video games online etc. The kids want to stream to twitch, watch videos etc.
To begin with Xbox live hates it. Can't play any CoD games online because you get the associated lag. Pc games are fine but not twitch shooters on xbl. Other types of games on xbl lag as well.
I've been through it all trying settings in router, modem etc. Tried different routers, different modems, mtu settings, port forwarding etc and nothing helps. She streams a movie and no one else can use the internet.
Just a little back story and other info. Charter is 1500 feet away and won't finish construction. I live in an upscale subdivision in the back of phase 2 on a culdesac. It was a new construction foreclosure from the housing bubble. The thought didn't even enter my mind about internet when we bought it. That was 6 years ago. Couldn't even get dsl for the first year. Had a to use a wireless Sprint card. Boy that was fun. And here we sit with no options except to deal with it. Maybe At&t will run uverse the rest of the way out here eventually.
Anyway to get to the point is it possible to combine 2 dsl connections to get double the speed? So as for me to get 12 meg down and a meg up? Is this possible? Better yet is it possible with At&t? What equipment would I need?
Any help is appreciated and I thank you in advance. I did search and found some info but nothing conclusive.

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Anyway to get to the point is it possible to combine 2 dsl connections to get double the speed? So as for me to get 12 meg down and a meg up? Is this possible? Better yet is it possible with At&t? What equipment would I need?
The best you could do yourself (without subscribing to an external aggregation service -- and since I have never personally used such a service, I can't offer a specific recommendation) is to load balance two AT&T DSL circuits. The equipment required is a dual WAN router that supports load balancing. I used to use a Cisco RV082 to load balance two AT&T DSL circuits and it worked quite well for me. Load balancing however, is not the same as aggregating multiple circuits, so while the overall performance will double with two load balanced circuits, any individual application may or may not get twice the speed (it depends on if the application and the server support multi-threaded sessions).

The biggest obstacle to overcome may be getting AT&T to agree to install two DSL circuits at the same address for the same customer. Several years ago I was forced to abandon using AT&T DSL because they arbitrarily disconnected one of my DSL circuits because of a new AT&T policy that prohibited more than one DSL circuit at the same address for the same customer ( »Edited title: AT&T only taketh away ). I do not know if AT&T still enforces that policy, or if that policy was ever in effect in any other location than mine.
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A coworker is in a similar spot as you. Same story -- wife loves to stream, three kids love to do whatever they do, and his games lag like crazy. He ran into issues getting two residential lines....

His solution was to create a business, and have the second line installed "for the business." Load balancing is done manually via wifi and QoS. The TV his wife watches is hardwired to business, and his computer is hardwired to both. His kids are all wifi on residential.

Of course, your results may vary! I think he mentioned the business line being $10 to $20 more expensive per month.