Abstract: Apportioning of Data Traffic Between Communication Channels Methods and apparatus are disclosed for apportioning data traffic between a plurality of different communication channels, the data traffic to be apportioned being data traffic travelling to and/or from at least one user-device (102a, 102b) in a local area network (100) in which a plurality of network-reliant applications are used, the data traffic in respect of the network-reliant applications travelling via a local area network gateway device (101) of the local area network configured to communicate via one or more networks (120, 130) outside the local area network using the plurality of different communication channels.