2 broadband lines on one pc

Paul11

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how do i setup

2 phone lines
2 different broadband connections

on the pc i want to be able to send large files down one connection and other net traffic down the other

can i plug both routers in to the same pc and choose which traffic goes down which ?

thanks
 
Why?

2 line rentals, 2 broadband payments, 2 routers

Why would you need 2 connections? What's wrong with using 1 like 99.99999% of the population do without any issues?
 
1) we send LARGE amounts of data uploading via FTP very often

2) we are having a database built that runs over the internet and will be considerably slowed by other network traffic

3) the area we have moved into has very slow internet connections as we are far from the exchange


we already have 2 lines, so a second broadband connection is only £ 15pm or so and come with free router
 
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I had 2 connections on 1 pc using dual lan ports on my mobo.

In vista/w7 you can go into the LAN connection properties IPv4 properties then advanced and set the Interface Metric for each connection, lower numbers are higher priority.

I have O2 - Priority 1
VM - Priority 2

So now all traffic goes via the O2 unless I set a static route to tell it otherwise.

Setting up static routes...

Run CMD prompt as admin and static routes look like this...

route -p add <IP you want to route> MASK 255.255.255.255 <Default gateway of router>

So say for i want to add a static route for google, ping google.co.uk to get ip which is 216.239.59.104, then say my VM gateway is 192.168.1.1 the route would be like this

route -p add 216.239.59.104 MASK 255.255.255.255 192.168.1.1

If you want to add all IP's in that range then do it like this

route -p add 216.239.59.0 MASK 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.1

You can add as many static routes as you like.

I added AstraWeb IP addresses to the VM connection so I could download and game at the same time

Hope that helps.
 
That's incredibly simplistic and not likely to be much use as a result - no ISP repects /24 boundaries today, let alone google. They'll DNS load balance between IPs in dozens of different allocations and possible even different ASs, so adding a static route for a /24 based on one ping is hopeless. Maybe for a few small sites but for large scale stuff not much.

If you really must then running a VM bridged to the second broadband connection is the better options but not doing it at all is preferable...
 
Paul11 said:
how do i setup

2 phone lines
2 different broadband connections

on the pc i want to be able to send large files down one connection and other net traffic down the other

can i plug both routers in to the same pc and choose which traffic goes down which ?

thanks
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BE are doing bonded trials, might want to look into that. Otherwise look at a load balancing firewall/router.
 
Biffa said:
BE are doing bonded trials, might want to look into that. Otherwise look at a load balancing firewall/router.
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im with BE and spoke to them already about this

they only do bonded for higher speed lines and ours are to slow (too far from the exchange)
 
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This is going to get horribly complex very fast, the only realistic way of getting it to work properly is with high end CISCO routing/gateway hardware. There are cheaper ways but they are all problematic.

The only simple effective way to do this is to have a different PC/network for each connection, each using a different internet gateway, one for normal traffic and the other for database stuff - maybe with bridging for sharing stuff internally as needed.
 
Rroff said:
The only simple effective way to do this is to have a different PC/network for each connection, each using a different internet gateway, one for normal traffic and the other for database stuff - maybe with bridging for sharing stuff internally as needed.
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this is what i was thinking (although i dont know how to set this up)

just keep one pc on the separate line to upload to the ftp

and somehow be able to access it on the local network ,even though all the other pcs on the network would use a different line for broadband.
 
Paul11 said:
this is what i was thinking (although i dont know how to set this up)

just keep one pc on the separate line to upload to the ftp

and somehow be able to access it on the local network ,even though all the other pcs on the network would use a different line for broadband.
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As I've already said....make it a virtual machine so you don't need extra hardware? Even if you don't there's no difficulty in making it accessible on the network, if it's on the same subnet it'll still be accessible even if it has a different default gateway, just RDP to it...
 
Thats good think - I think the mention of the VM got lost in the rest of the original post. A VM would give the best of both worlds.
 
How many FTP servers do you upload to? If it's just one or two then adding static routes to send traffic destined for those FTP servers only out on a different gateway is simple to manage and minimal effort.

I do a similar thing here - ADSL connection is my default gateway but my usenet servers (and a few others) have static routes entered to send that traffic out on my cable connection. No trouble at all.

However if you start needing to send all sorts of traffic to a wide range of IPs then forget about doing it on the cheap/without hassle.
 
Rroff said:
This is going to get horribly complex very fast, the only realistic way of getting it to work properly is with high end CISCO routing/gateway hardware. There are cheaper ways but they are all problematic.

The only simple effective way to do this is to have a different PC/network for each connection, each using a different internet gateway, one for normal traffic and the other for database stuff - maybe with bridging for sharing stuff internally as needed.
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You can do with with tomato with relative ease, at least you can if you use 2 separate tomato routers, the dual wan mod is effective but there's a few language issues with that. Unfortunately I can't find any of the guides but there there somewhere http://www.linksysinfo.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=160
 
It's easy then. You just need to get the 2nd connection's router set up on a spare address on your network and disable DHCP on it so that it won't clash with the existing DHCP server on the existing router.

Then you have the option of either entering a static route on the existing router (to forward traffic bound for the specific server's IP out on via other router's IP address) or add a static route in your OS.

To give you an example of how I'm doing this, my ADSL (primary) connection's firewall address is 192.168.10.1 and my cable connection's router's address is 192.168.10.2. My default gateway on all devices is 192.168.10.1 so the ADSL is used for everything but for some specific addresses I have static routes in place to forward traffic bound for those servers out to the 192.168.10.2 router first.
 
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