2 x internet connection, can I ?

scotslad · 9 Sep 2012 at 04:37

Just noticed I posted this in wrong section, can you please move it to the "Networks & Internet Connectivity" section please, sorry and thanks.

I have a router connected by ethernet cable to my one of the ethernet ports on my motherboard (you can see my motherboard on my signature).

So I have my own solid connection that way for general pc use via an ethernet port on the motherboard.

What I am trying to find out though is, my brother lives next door to me and he doesnt use his internet at all, so said its fine for me to use that if I can, (he has a wireless router).

So I bought myself an aerial for the job and it picks up his signal full strength (connects using usb), but right now as far as I can see is that I have to either disabled the aerial connection to him or disable my own ethernet connection.

We were hoping that I could use his seperate connection for example, just for the general internet use etc and my own ethernet connection to my motherboard to play games and things like that so that they dont have any impact on each other.

Like I said though, it seems just now unless someone knows different, I need to just use one or the other which is a real shame and a waste.

Does anyone know if theres a way to get round this please ?

Thanks guys.

scotslad · 9 Sep 2012 at 23:42

Thanks guys

hmmm pity

,

I was really hoping that especially with my router being connected to my pc using ethernet and my brothers wireless signal coming in on an aerial via usb (not a wifi dongle, its an actual aerial) I would have been able to use one connection for one thing and one for another thing on the pc, why on earth in this day and age cant something as simple as that be done on a state of the art pc ?

Dissapointed now, lol, nah seriously I am

scotslad · 9 Sep 2012 at 23:45

PistolPete said:
You can do this fine, you'd need look into routes and interface metrics.

ohh, just noticed mate you said it can be done, can you guide me please or even point me in the right direction please ?

Thanks

scotslad · 10 Sep 2012 at 23:10

Banzai_Joe said:
Why on earth would you want to do this anyway? Unless you have 2 really crappy connection speeds.
Surely if one is for gaming, then.....well at that time you're gaming......so you don't need it for anything else. Unless you want to hammer your downloads i guess.
If you're trying to bond the two then i've found in the past that its more trouble than its worth, but that was a few years ago and tech will be better now.
OOI, what are the connection speeds of both?

Thats the things, the one I get from my brother via an aerial and the usb port I get about approx 12-14Mb download, but my own adsl (telephone line) through ethernet cable is only about 3.5-3.9Mb, so yea mines is pretty rubbish, lol.

Even though his is fast though it is terrible for gaming and stuff as I tried and gaming on wifi is just a no-no, even my 3.5-3.9Mb adsl ethernet connection performs half decenct at games compared to his much faster wireless connection (and his connection is nearly always fully strength too, so its nothing to do with poor signal).

So I guess I would want to use my own rubbish adsl connection for gaming etc and his wireless for downloading stuff etc at the same time, you know what I mean ?

(when I said he was next door, that was a slight exaggeration, hes actually in the road thats about 50 meters from me but his house is directly front to front facing my house if you can imagine, its a strange layout/plan but thats the way it is with my house and his (thats were my high gain aerial works brilliant), his road has Virgin, mines doesnt and has no plan to and not for sometime in the next two years does BT intend to be rolling out thier fiber optic cables in my street either (this is direct info from bt just the other day, BT said they expect to have 96% of the uk rolled out with fiber optic by the end of 2014) yea right, and pigs can fly, lol. (to be honest I have thought about running a long outdoor cable from his house to mines but it would end up getting cut/chewed/crushed or vandalised, lol).

scotslad · 12 Sep 2012 at 20:29

So its a no go situation then I'm guessing then ?

scotslad · 13 Sep 2012 at 18:51

Nikumba said:
Did you look at the article I linked to?

@ kimbie,

sorry mate, i actually didnt notice your link, thats what i get for trying to read to quick, lol.

makes interesting reading but not sure if it would work on windows 7 x64, hmmm, only one way to find out I guess, I doubt it will though as it doesnt say it, but we'll see

thanks mate, and sorry for missing your link first time round, me bad, lol.

scotslad · 14 Sep 2012 at 00:51

RomanNose said:
http://www.lartc.org/lartc.html#LARTC.RPDB.MULTIPLE-LINKS
It's quite simple in debian.

hahahaahhaha, I think you meant that as a joke, if so it was a good one, if you were serious then you must think i'm a genius, lol

scotslad · 14 Sep 2012 at 18:20

bledd. said:
Seriously, just troubleshoot your own connection, if you had a 10Mb+ connection you wouldn't care!

Post your ADSL stats, say who your ISP is, try using the test port on the BT faceplate

Thanks all you guys

@ bledd,

Mate, if only it was that simple, lol, all adsl companies use the old bt phone lines, it doesnt matter who you go with, yes some will make slight adjustments to get you a very slightly better speed and ping etc and some wont, but at end of day you will only get the speed that is available depending on the distance you are from telephone exchange, and thats not even the distance as the crow fly's, its the distance it takes for the cable to go from you house all the way through all the streets etc to the phone exchange, so you can easily add on a mile or two unless you live next door to the exchange, I already checked all that out few years ago when I first got it installed to be honest.

I have also tried the speed boosting test port thing your talking about and it makes not one bit of difference, the speed I am getting is the max I will get, simple as that, its sky I am with by the as you asked.

Theres a good site to check out your speed and distance from the exchange etc incase anyone didnt know, its

http://www.samknows.com/broadband/broadband_availability

It gives you an average speed, lucky for me mines speed is above the average it quotes @ approx 3.9Mb download but only about 0.75Mb upload, it could have been worse, much worse infact, lol.

So unless I can get done what I suggested in the first place which to me seems rather complicated, I will just need to sit tight and wait on the fiber optic cables going in from BT/Openreach, they say they will have about 96% of the UK done by end of 2014, I will beleive that when I see it as I dont even know one single person in the UK that has BT fiber optic service available in thier street and BT have told me there is no word at all yet that my exchange will be getting it anytime soon, so it looks like I'll probably be one of the last unless I am one of the 4% that wont get it at all by 2014 knowing my luck, lol

Anyway, I appreciate your comment and all that stuff but as I mentioned, Ive already done all those things mate, thanks all the same

scotslad · 14 Sep 2012 at 21:25

PistolPete said:
Kinda preaching to the choir here, scotslad. Most of the guys here know the intimate workings of ADSL hence why they were tryng to assist.

Rather than messing about, why not just use his connection full time?? It's faster by a factor 3. For the sake of all the messing around it's the best option for you.

sorry mate, and everyone, didnt mean to sound like i was preaching at all

reason why i cant just use my brothers wifi is cause i'm a gamer and i dont know if your a gamer too but wireless is useless when gaming cause of the lag etc, you'll know that yourself anyway if youve tried it, so thats why I cant just use the wifi connection on its own, I wish I could man

sorry again for coming across that way, I didnt mean to.