can you plug two bb in to same pc ?

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if you had two different broadbands, can you plug them both in to the same pc at the same time ?

if i have two network cards and plug them both in, how will my pc know which to use?

is there a software that i can use to tell my pc to download from one and upload on the other ?
 
Not exactly. You'll need either a load balancer, a dual WAN router or a PC running some form of load balancing connection sharing software. Something like WinRoute would do the trick.

You can't just plug two connections directly into a PC though.

You could do some trickery involving two routers and faffing about with static routes to direct traffic for certain addresses to make it go out on a specific connection (this is what I do) but it wouldn't allow you to use one for upload and the other for download.
 
thank you for your reply

when you say a pc running some load balancing software, do you mean a seperate pc (acting like a server) or could i run that on my main pc?

what would happen if i physically plug in both routers to my pc (im not connected on my second line until next week to test this) ?
 
It depends what OS your "main pc" runs, and what software you use.

At best, if you connect two routers it'll use one router, and ignore the other one.
 
If you plug both routers into your PC then 1 router will do nothing. A pc is set up to use a default gateway, any traffic outside of your home network is sent to that default gateway (which is the router), that router then sends it on to the internet. If you connect a second router, you will still only have one gateway set which will be used for all internet traffic.

It is possible to do some simple use of 2 connections without too much trouble, such as HTTP traffic on one, torrents on the other. using torrents on both connections at the same time for the same torrent, thats when it gets a bit more complicated.
 
im on Vista 64 and the only relevant software is filezilla

which i was hoping to be able to run some software to tell filezilla to use broadband connection A whilst everything else i do would be on broadband connection B

without needing a load balancing router
 
I'll keep an eye on this. I have 2 different net connections and wish I could use both at the same time for downloading stuff.
 
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I'll keep an eye on this. I have 2 different net connections and wish I could use both at the same time for downloading stuff.
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you can if you want to use a load balancing router which will split the data over both connections

im trying to do it without one
 
Router isnt too much of an option as I will be on someone elses network. One connection is ethernet from our house, and the other is our friends who live next door. They dont want the whoel house to borrow their net so I am just connecting via wireless. But as above its 1 connection or the other at a time.
 
Paul11 said:
you can if you want to use a load balancing router which will split the data over both connections

im trying to do it without one
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You can't do it without one. At best you can specify traffic for certain destinations to go out on a specific connection (if you used two routers and therefore had two gateways) but that's all. This is how I do it - the router for my 20mbit connection is my default gateway but I have static routes added in to tell traffic to certain IP addresses (such as usenet servers) to go out on another gateway (a second router sitting in the same subnet as my LAN range) for my 50mbit connection.

Also, even with a load balancing setup it'll only use both connections if you're downloading something using multiple connections. In other words, a single file web or FTP download is only going to use one connection, but if you did both a web and FTP download at the same time, it'd use a connection for each.
 
thanks

that answers my question then.

i didnt know if there was any software i could run on my pc to do that, but seems that there isnt
 
Look into WinGate and setup some proxies this will allow you to use both connections or setup fail overs.

This is only good for things like Newsgroups or Bittorrent it won't improve streaming or website load times.
 
i want this for uploading ftp ..

just to be able to upload via one internet connection and download via the other
 
If you upload/download only to/from specific FTP servers, it's quite easy to do this with just two routers and some static route entries. If you work with lots of different FTP servers though then you need something with a bit more intelligence.
 
its just one FTP server

how would i configure static routes ?

and how would i plug in the two routers?

and thanks..
 
Ok the way I do it is with two routers on my network - one is 192.168.10.1 and the other 192.168.10.2. The primary router serves addresses to all my devices via DHCP and the secondary one has DHCP disabled.

My devices all get given a default gateway of 192.168.10.1 which means they'll all use the primary Internet connection. If I want to direct traffic out on the second Internet connection, I can either add a static route on the primary router (config varies depending on router) or just in Windows.

An example of this would be if I wanted to send all traffic to ftp.microsoft.com (207.46.236.102) out on the other connection. To do this, I would just do the following from the command line:

route add 207.46.236.102 mask 255.255.255.255 192.168.10.2 -p

After running that, all traffic destined to that IP address will go out on the 10.2 router. The -p makes the route persistant so it'll remain after rebooting Windows, etc.
 
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No, I meant one 192.168.10.1 and the other 192.168.10.2 - post edited :) Obviously they can be whatever you want them to be, just both on an IP address within the same network so your PC can get to both routers. At the end of the static route entry just before the -p you can see the reference to 10.2 - of course if you give your 2nd router a different address that router's address needs to be referenced in the route.

The format of adding a persistant static route goes:

route add <network> <mask> <gateway> -p

In this example we're just doing one single IP address so <network> can be replaced with one full IP and <mask> needs to be 255.255.255.255 because it's one IP address.
 
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and just so i understand,

how are you connecting both routers together and how are you connecting the pc to said routers?

your not plugging each router in to the pc , are you ?
 
Nope just plugging the two routers into each other on the LAN side. So switch port directly to switch port. Just one cable needs to go from either router to PC.
 
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