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    Help with Cable and Dsl

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by Stevenj, May 17, 2007.

  1. Stevenj

    Stevenj Notebook Consultant

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    Hi, I currently have two internet connections at home, Cogeco Cable and Sympatico High Speed. One can go through wireless and the other ethnet. Both are high speed at around 6mbps each. I was wondering is there anyway to use both at the same time and say achieve speed of 10Mbps? I bridged the connection (donnt know what that is suppose to do though), and speed did not change. Still at 6Mbps from dslreport speed test. Only Local area connection (ethnet) was active, I know 6Mbps is really not that slow but since I got potential to have 10Mbps I might as while go for it. Can someone please point me in the right direction on how to use two internet connections together.
     
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    Doesn't quite work that way. Each connection has it's own public IP address. You won't be able to get one task, like dslreport's speed test, to use both IPs as one. Now if you do individual tasks on each connection, you're combined throughput will be ~ 12mbps.
     
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    Having 2 connections won't help unless you manually switch between the two connections. If you are downloading 2Gb worth of data on one, then switching to the other one would help
     
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    I kinda know about the ip thing, what I am trying to accomplish is the split all the incoming and vice versa evenly so both share same load kinda like dual core cpu. Guess thats not possible then, so is it possible to assign like internet browsing to one and bittorrent to another?
     
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    The only thing I can think of is in Windows Server where you can prioritize network traffic over different links. If you set the same cost to both links, it'll use both links equally. That feature isn't available in XP or Vista though.
     
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    AFAIK, if you have both wired and wireless enabled at the same time, there's no way to control how Windows accesses the internet. It may use the wired connection, but then again it may use the wireless connection. You can't assign connections.
     
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    how about other systems? Is it possible for linux to assign programs to different connections?
     
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    There are some business class routers that support 2 ISP. They even support channel bonding and load balancing.

    One that comes to mind is the Netgear FVS538. This model has been replaced with a newer model.
     
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