2 Internet conenctions to 1 pc

Nick1881

Nick1881

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Now I have VM cable and O2 ADSL I'd like to use them both at the same time to increase speed if its possible. My setup is weird as I have a flat behind my parents house.

VM cable goes into my old bedroom in my parents house and transmits wireless through the house from the router for my dads laptop, a network cable runs round the house, over a wall and into my flat.

O2 ADSL it connected to the phone in the garage, the router is at the back of the garage and transmits wireless to my pc.

Would a load balancing router work with 1 cable connection from another router and an adsl router too?

I can bridge the connections in windows but then it only seems to use the VM, same if I have the both connected but not bridged.

Also the first day I'm sure my ADSL was 17mb, I had to disconnect it to move it and now its connected at 8.2mb, any way to increase the speed?

Thanks for any help
 
load balancing routers can often be very expensive, but it all depends on how exactly you want to use both connections. If you want all your internet usage split onto both connections equally, it requires some expensive equipment. If you want to split it so that http traffic is on one connection, while torrent traffic is the other internet connection, then thats a bit more easy to do, but the downside is if you are ONLY using torrents, then the other connection wont be utilized.
 
It is on the master socket just it has an extension on it. My flat has a landline but its not in use so I cant use it and I'm not paying BT for rental when I can use my parents line.
 
mr_x_plosion said:
It is on the master socket just it has an extension on it. My flat has a landline but its not in use so I cant use it and I'm not paying BT for rental when I can use my parents line.
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Don't use extensions either. The line quality greatly affects the speed you'll get.

You won't pay £11 a month but will spend on a router to merge connnections between properties? Right...
 
Well I cant help it if the socket is the other side of the house.

A router would be a one off £100 payment, I'd soon be over that in a year.

This wasn't the thread topic anyway, I didn't ask how I should plug my adsl modem in did I?
 
bonding opposite technologies is a ball-ache.
If you aint happy with 8mb then you must be a tight-ass student ;)
As said, i reckon a load-balancing router will cost a lot.
What speed is your VM cable running at? You could always up that and the cost over a year may still be cheaper and less hassle than a bonding/load balancing device.
 
The cable is already 20mb but costs me nothing, the reason for the ADSL is some nights the VM is so slow I cant game on it, £10 a month for O2 means I now have a back-up connection.

Using them both to increase download speeds would be an added bonus.
 
mr_x_plosion said:
Well I cant help it if the socket is the other side of the house.

A router would be a one off £100 payment, I'd soon be over that in a year.

This wasn't the thread topic anyway, I didn't ask how I should plug my adsl modem in did I?
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It is relevant if you want to make the most of both connections which you do.

Actually, isn't the O2\Be router a wireless one? You could just boost the signal with an AP.

Edit: Ok, didn't see that last post.
 
I seriously doubt you lose gaming performance on a 20mbit connection even if it was throttled. I'd check for other issues personally, i really can't see throttling down to 1-2mbit is killing your gaming fun, it would still be enough even for a really low ping on almost all servers.
There is actually software that can bond two broadband technologies i believe. If i can find the link, i'll post back for you. Its based around a unix box though.
 
I don't have space for another system, my flat is tiny and my case is huge lol. PLuse extra money too.

Do you know if there is a way to make the ADSL sync faster?

Jacko - its not the throttling thats causing it, just feels like too much traffic on the VM network and my ping starts going crazy meaning I lag across the map on cod4 and get connecting interrupted quite a lot.

Even though its wireless the O2 seems to give a better ping too.
 
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I don't have space for another system, my flat is tiny and my case is huge lol. PLuse extra money too.

Do you know if there is a way to make the ADSL sync faster?
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I already gave you 2 ways. The other way is to check the wires inside the master socket and figure out if any unused ones can be removed (this depends on what type of BT socket it is). I haven't got a diagram to hand but IIRC the main type only needs two wires while there are usually additional ones for extensions etc.
 
The master socket is in my parents dining room and doesn't have anything other than the extension lead connected, they wouldn't let me put the router in there either as there is no where for it to go. The extension runs to the garage and has a cordless handset base and a fax machine.
 
mr_x;
ok, so you have VM via network cable to your flat then. Do you get lag a lot or just at the times when you reckon you are throttled?
I'm not trying to go off topic here, but you may just have an alterior issue with your VM connection that intereferes with your gaming. I'm on VM 10mbit and our 3 kids play COD4 online at the same time and only rarely would one or any of them get lag. I know servers can vary, and punkbuster can sometimes be a pain if it doesn't work correctly. I've certainly had my share of that in the past, but not specific to VM connections i don't think.
 
mr_x_plosion said:
The master socket is in my parents dining room and doesn't have anything other than the extension lead connected, they wouldn't let me put the router in there either as there is no where for it to go. The extension runs to the garage and has a cordless handset base and a fax machine.
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ADSL speed almost entirely depends on line length and quality. Sometimes a better router helps, but that would be maybe 2mb at most (and that doesn't seem like your problem because it synced at 17mb before in your case).

The only other option is have a line elsewhere, which you're not willing to do, so I can't really help you there.
 
The VM connection goes into my old bedroom in my parents house and has a network cable that runs all the way to my flat, probably 50m or so.

The problem isn't related to throttling as I rarely hit the cap. Its just VM being poo, 90% of the time its great, really very good and I swore I'd never change. I blame my neighbour downloading pr0n.
 
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