2 x internet connection, can I ?

You can bond a particular application to a particular network interface using ForceBindIP. I have used it in he past and it does exactly what it says on the tin. :)*

* You trigger it by writing a batch file / calling it on the command line.
 
scotslad said:
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.
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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
 
leigh_boy said:
you can set up routes so that say anything port 80 goes out on one connection and everythng else can go out on another.
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No you cant as routes work at Layer 3, not Layer 4.
You need to specify IP addresses / networks, not TCP port numbers.

To specify port number you'd need something on Layer 4 doing that for you.
 
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
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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 ;)
 
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.
 
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.
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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.;)
 
It's possible to have a lag free WiFi connection. Change the channel, use 5GHz instead of 2.4Ghz, change NIC, etc. A little effort is required.
 
You can definitely do this. Back in the day (2000-2001) I used to have two independent ISDN connections dialled up, one for downloads and then another one for gaming. What I used to do was connect one line, start downloading using a single-threaded download client (e.g. FTP) and then connect the second line and start gaming. It was a bit of a bodge job because all new connections would always use the second line which is why I had to use something that did a single-threaded connection and wouldn't disconnect and then reconnect again (FTP).

This was in the Win2k days so not sure what needs to be done on Win7, but I'd be surprised if someone hasn't created some nice softtware to manage it properly.

In terms of the WiFi connection, I think some posters are jumping to conclusions. The lag he's getting in gaming may be nothing to do with the WiFi link itself, it could be due to his brother's internet connection.

Easy way to test, simply ping the gateway say 100 times and measure the latency and packetloss. Assuming it isn't too bad (consistently less than 5ms with very low PL) then the gaming issues are likely down to the actual internet connection which is entirely possible if it is e.g. a cable connection.
 
I must be missing something here... Your brother lives next door yes? How can his Internet be 4x quicker.?

I know all about distances and connection speeds. Managed to eek my mum's line from 384kb to 980kb with a better router. She lives about 6k from the exchange
 
bledd. said:
I must be missing something here... Your brother lives next door yes? How can his Internet be 4x quicker.?
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(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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I must learn to read.

How feasible would it be to run some cat5e underground from his to yours? Just dig down about 6 inch and lay a tube then feed the cable through it.
 
There's a program called Wingate which does what you need.
I haven't done it with a wireless connection + Ethernet but I'm sure that's possible.
One thing I will say about this is, you'll likely notice increased ping using the wireless connection, if it's just used for downloading then great, but with Wingate, it alternates each connection between the two internet connections not leaving you with a choice of which connection to download with.

Also I got a weird side effect where I would get logged out of websites because my IP's were alternating with each page refresh and so on.
 
tribz said:
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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Do this, I've done it in an office with 2 adsl lines and 2 routers and it works fine, loads of options in there to set what goes which route etc, no reason why connecting an old access point in there set as a bridge won't work instead of the second router.
 
OK if it's just the gaming you are worried about then routes and metrics is the way to go (provided you dont play on loads of different servers or the game is p2p rather via a server)
 
PistolPete said:
OK if it's just the gaming you are worried about then routes and metrics is the way to go (provided you dont play on loads of different servers or the game is p2p rather via a server)
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Agreed. If there are a limited number of known IPs (or IP ranges) that need to be routed via the ADSL connection it could be done.

Leave the ADSL and the wireless connected.

Make sure the wireless has a valid gateway set and that the ADSL doesn't have a gateway set.

Set the Metric for the wireless to a lower value than the ADSL.

Then use the route command to add persistent routes as necessary. There are plenty of guides available for this.
 
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