2 Internet connections?

CDj-Rossi said:
Ultimate levels of sadness getting your own telephone line and broadband connection JUST for online gaming.
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If the nets being raped that badly then its not really sad. I've lived in houses where people rape it so badly that web pages cannot be even opened. If I'd have had the money back then, I'd have had a line for myself..
 
Theguy said:
not without a lot of trouble + expensive hardware to split, personaly i would say nearly impossible to do as a homeuser.
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Nah, it's not that hard, especially if you have a box you can use as a server. You can just do fault tolerant load balancing across both WAN connections. It's take maybe an hour for me to set up :)

But then I have QoS policies from the client to the router, so it's never been an issue for me.
 
In my experience, home routers dont do a very good job of QoS / bandwidth throttling :/ they limit the speed fine but can still screw with your pings if you want to play games.

A decent router might be able to do a better job but I would definitely recommend a second line if you can afford it.
 
Faceman said:
Just got adsl installed today, still got my Virgin line running too, would be very interested to know how you setup both to run on the same computer/network.
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I have 2 connections on 1 pc using dual lan ports on my mobo.

In vista 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.

Hope that helps.
 
Used to do this when I lived at home. Had a virgin cable internet connection in my room just for the internet for me.

Only did that as I was fed up of plugging into my parents bt line downstairs to get onto the interent.

Although if you go this route wont you be stuck with a minimum 12 month contract with bt or a new isp.
 
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