2 internet 1 pc

[Xenas2127]

Lets say I have 2 internet (internet A and Internet B) they both have 10mbps but internet A's upload isn't that great but internet B's upload is better (capable of streaming). now i want to use internet A for my games and Internet B to stream. Is it possible? and if so how?


*I have my primary network plugged on my motherboard and the second network on a pci network card*

 

[COLGeek]

Sure, you can do what you propose one network connection at a time. This means you can't do what you propose connected to two networks at the same time. It is one, or the other.

 

[Xenas2127]

Sure, you can do what you propose one network connection at a time. This means you can't do what you propose connected to two networks at the same time. It is one, or the other.

How do i do that?

 

[COLGeek]

You enable and use one connection at a time. Disable the network adapter connected to the second network. Switch back and forth as desired.

 

[COLGeek]

It sounds like both your connections are wired. If so, and you use DHCP on both to get your network info, you could just swap cables from one network to the other and use but a single (one on motherboard) network connection.

 

[Xenas2127]

It sounds like both your connections are wired. If so, and you use DHCP on both to get your network info, you could just swap cables from one network to the other and use but a single (one on motherboard) network connection.

but i need them both to be running

 

[COLGeek]

Sorry, but that is not possible from a single Windows PC. Your system can't direct traffic like that.

 

[bill001g]

You can do it but it tends to be rather tedious.

So step 1 is to choose a router to be your default connection that is going to do most the traffic....most unique web sites not the most bandwidth necessarily. Let say you use 192.168.1.1 as the lan ip and run dhcp like normal but exclude 192.168.1.2 from the pool.

Step 2 is to configure the second router to some ip like 192.168.1.2 and disable the DHCP. Plug the lan connection together between the routers.

So now the tedious part. Get a list of all the ip addresses on the internet you wish to use your secondary connection. Unfortunately the dns mapping to ip does not always stay the same for some very advanced sites using things like akami so it may take a number of passes.

For each ip use the ROUTE command and do ROUTE ADD XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX mask 255.255.255.255 192.168.1.2 If you understand subnet masks you can put ranges in to reduce the number of route commands you need to add.

Do not get too ambitious you start getting huge number like 100 or so and it will affect the performance of your machine. You would want a dual ISP router but you would pretty much do the same thing set a default and then put in a list of ip to use the secondary.

You will get to learn all about how the sites you use actually work. Things like game companies have login servers and game machine servers if you access them from different internet connection they will kick you off.