India has infrastructural issues which impedes the progress of IT industry today. One of the major one is the availability of reliable high-speed broadband service. The major broadband service providers (BSNL Dataonereview & VSNL / Tata Indicom) in India are either currently owned by government or were until very recently so. In general (with very few exceptions) government employees in India are well known for extremely poor customer care & service. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that customers are treated like dirt. Simply because government employees get paid handsomely irrespective of their level of service and / or capability to fulfill their duty. As an IT company on budget we need reliable broadband service (1Mbps +) with 24/7 availability. Here is how we solved it.

We solved this problem innovatively by joining broadband service from the two major broadband provider (BSNL DataOne & Tata Indicom / VSNL). Use this guide for joining multiple broadband service for load balancing & failover.

Few other articles to help you in configuring such setup:
1. How to restart network on Multi-ADSL Servers
2. How to delete / flush routing table on Linux
3. Tips on configuring ADSL Modems

In case you cannot afford dual adsl setup read my review of unlimited broadband plans from Tata Indicom / VSNL & BSNL DataOne.

Today we never even realize when one or other of the provider is down as the traffic then gets automatically routed through the other provider. The load-balancing and failover is all automatic and maintenance free.