BT Wholesale is to distribute a software suite that could improve broadband speeds through the use of multiple lines.

Although bonding lines through Multi-link Point to Point Protocol (MLPPP) is nothing new and has been offered by some ISPs for a number of years, BT has been very shy about the process and generally not supported it on it's connections.

But it is now going to offer The Sharedband Aggregation Suite which was partially created by ex-BT Labs employees who have formed a company named Shareband. The suite will allow two or more standard broadband lines to be added together to deliver up to four times the speed for uploads and downloads (sound familiar?), but this time supported by BT.