2 Internet Connections at once

Ok, this is probably a dumb question and at the moment I'm almost positive the answer is no. But what's it hurt to try?

Lately I have been playing Guild Wars quite obsessivly. I'm still not as bad as a WoW fan but I'm getting there lol. I have recently joined a guild that uses Ventrillo. I would like to chat with them while in game but the problem I have is that I have two horrible internet connections. I have Dial Up and I have a Satellite internet connection.

Now, I can play the game very well on Dial up but can't chat on vent and play at the same time. Satellite works well with the vent. So my question is, Is it possible for me to set up my connections so that I can have both connections on at the same time. And have the dial up connection be used for guild wars and have the satellite connection be used for ventrillo?

Again I'm sure the answer is no but I would like a definite answer.

Thanks,
-Taylor

 

you must be a real fan of the game! Sorry no help from savage here.

 

MS picks the first one connected to use. So having 2 does not help.

 

Have a second laptop?

 

Why do some computers come with two LAN adaptors if only one can be used?

 

the 2 NICS are so that you can share the connection to a network. (ICS)

 

So, there's no way to run two internet connections at once and define which connection a specific program uses?

EDIT:

Ok, I might need to explain mysetup. I have a wireless router that lets me connect to my satellite connection. I then have the phone line plugged into the modem on my laptop that i use to connect to dial up. I have noticed that XP will disconnect the wireless connection when I use dial up. Even if I have the wireless connection on first it cuts it off. If I could make it stop cutting off the connection I think I may be able to make it work.

I'm hoping that if I first connect to satellite and connect to vent and then use dialup and get on GW that it should work, at least that's what I'm hoping and I could be horribly mistaken.

 

i have a question.is there anyway i can get online with both pcs having the same type of modem and only one broadband service.even if i have to splice the phone cords that go into the phone.there was a guide somewhere but forgot where.

and yes i should get a router but not now lol

 

You're mistaken. When you establish the dial-up connection it becomes the 'default route' and all non-local network traffic will be passed over that connection. The wireless connection will be used only for traffic destined for a PC on your local network.

There are ways to work around this, however. The first one that comes to mind is creating a proxy on your local network to handle the traffic that you wish to go over the wifi+sat connection. For example, if you want your web browsing to go over the wifi+sat connection, then set up an HTTP proxy on some other PC on your network and then configure your laptop's browser to use that proxy.

A second option would be to play around with the routing configuration on your laptop; you could theoretically redirect any IP traffic destined for "vent" (if that's what you want going over the wifi+sat connection) to be sent via the wireless card, and everything else to go out via the dial-up connection. The destination IP address(es) would be used to select which connection to use. I can't offer any additional assistance with this as I've never done it on Windows (only on Linux, and not recently).

 

Times: The only way I know to do what you're talking about is by getting a router as that is their purpose to split and extend a connection.

Skriefal: So what you're saying is that in the long run I will need another computer to do what I'm wanting to do? I currently have my old laptop sitting beside me and I use it for a vent. And if I have to do that then I'll just keep things setup the way that I currently have them.

 

For the proxy option you'd need another PC to host the proxy software. For the second option, however, you'd merely tweak the routing table on your single PC to direct Ventrillo-bound traffic down the Sat connection (based on dest. IP address) and everything else down the dial-up connection. This can be done at the command line using the "route" command, but I'm not familiar enough with it to describe how to use it.

 

Another option. There are Business Class routers that can work with 2 ISP connections. These can be setup for load balancing or fall over.

You will only have 1 connection to the PC. The router handles all of the load balancing.