Dual networks, one router

[FrankDaTank]

Hey was looking some advice on a new router. i don't know if this is doable, but lets hear your thoughts.

I want to wirelessly receive a a broadband signal from my brothers house who lives next door, along with my own broadband connection coming into the router via ethernet. I am not looking to add the connections effectively doubling my speed, but a way of utilizing both.

I am pretty sure it's impossible, but technologies are-a-changing.

Does anyone have any experience of this, or can anyone offer any advice?

Thanks for the comments!!

Frankie

 

[db2431]

Hey was looking some advice on a new router. i don't know if this is doable, but lets hear your thoughts.

I want to wirelessly receive a a broadband signal from my brothers house who lives next door, along with my own broadband connection coming into the router via ethernet. I am not looking to add the connections effectively doubling my speed, but a way of utilizing both.

I am pretty sure it's impossible, but technologies are-a-changing.

Does anyone have any experience of this, or can anyone offer any advice?

Thanks for the comments!!

Frankie

Either use 2 pcs with a wireless card in 1 of them or if you want to use 1 pc run the wireless card through a virtual machine and the LAN through native os or vice versa.

 

[visibleman]

Load-balancing is your only real option.
Either use a dual-WAN router (ie: Draytek 2920) - first WAN port being your internet connection, second being fed from a wireless AP (connected to your brothers wireless network).
Not sure how well this will work though as you'll end up being double NAT'd on one side.

Or bridge the connections within Windows - wireless dongle/card for connecting to your brothers network and ethernet card/wireless card to connect to your router.

 

[FrankDaTank]

Load-balancing is your only real option.
Either use a dual-WAN router (ie: Draytek 2920) - first WAN port being your internet connection, second being fed from a wireless AP (connected to your brothers wireless network).
Not sure how well this will work though as you'll end up being double NAT'd on one side.

Or bridge the connections within Windows - wireless dongle/card for connecting to your brothers network and ethernet card/wireless card to connect to your router.

Yeah I have read about load-balancing but it seemed too expensive at the time.

About the bridging connections - I am basically lokoing to use one machine, and have one connection for browsing and the other for downloading/streaming video. Probably not doable as i don't know how the PC would distinguish which connection to use.

I will check out that router!

Thanks

 

[Psycho Sonny]

the best thing to do would be both of you chip in for 120Mb from VM and both of you share the connection.

im sure this would be far cheaper and faster than what you are trying to do.

 

[FrankDaTank]

Hey Psycho, but I probably didn't mention. Not everyone has access to 120MB. I'd be lucky to get 2MB on a good day. My line is barely 1.8Mb, same for him but he doesn't use it that much, whereas I use the net a lot!