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pro's and con's of combining isp

I am looking for pro's and con's of using Verizon Fios and Comcast cable internet (both around 40 -50meg each) in a combined enviroment for speed as well as redundancy in case we lose one service.
Currently we have a 12 meg internet service going thru a Cisco 3845.
My concern is there are no SLA's for eithier Verizon and Comcast but the price is 1/10th the price. Are there any major issues with going to this new setup?
Thanks for your advice

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kubota1981

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I did not mean to confuse the issue with the 2 ISP's. We currently have a 12 meg pipe from Quest that has a service level agreement and a 5K price tag. We are looking to get 1 Verizon Fios link and 1 Comcast Link and merging them together for a price of 1/10th of the quest price. We currently use EIGRP and will look into the fallback config. The fallback config will work without intervention? In other words one ISP goes down the traffic will get routed to the other working ISP?
Also Do I need to worry about sending certain protocols through a specific ISP? I dont believe any of them filter bu8t not 100% sure.
Thanks again for the advice

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