2 x internet connection, can I ?

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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.
 
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You could have your main pc running on your connection, then a second device running on his. get yourself a nice low powered box and set it up as a download server
 
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 :(
 
It CAN be done.

windows should still have the options for tieng 2 internet connections as one.

people used to do it all the time in the dialup days

YUP the options still available to join 2 connections into one.

its called "network bridge" if you right click your network adapter it will show the option
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you can probably get routers with dual wan ports aswell which would be better
 
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How is bridging the two connections together going to help?

There is what appears to be a completely erroneous article about bridging that pops up on Google if you search about this type of subject. Hopefully this posting wasn't based on it.
 
A draytek 2830 would let you load balance both of those connections.

Connection 1 would your ADSL
Connection 2 would be the WAN2 port on the draytek, connected to a seperate wifi bridge/client into your brothers network.

Alternatively a draytek 2930 would use two ethernet WAN ports if you wanted to use your existing router/modem instead.

PS. Network bridge only joins 2 networks together, it doesnt aggregate their internet bandwidth.
 
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arknor said:
It CAN be done.

windows should still have the options for tieng 2 internet connections as one.

people used to do it all the time in the dialup days

YUP the options still available to join 2 connections into one.

its called "network bridge" if you right click your network adapter it will show the option
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you can probably get routers with dual wan ports aswell which would be better
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That is absolutely not what bridging is for. It is for joining two networks together into one. So for example if I have one spare LAN port on my motherboard I could bridge it to my other one and I effectively have another port on the same network.

You would need to either start messing around with routing - specifying destination IP addresses to go out on a specific gateway (ie. the second connection) or use a router with dual WAN capability.
 
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?
 
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?
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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).
 
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Nikumba said:
Did you look at the article I linked to?
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@ 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.
 
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