Dual WAN with Windows 7

[TheCrowUk]

I keep reading that windows seven has support for dual wans built in.

Has anyone tried it? I tried both my virgin internet and bt both plugged into a rj45 port each, but i only got the speed of one connection.

Just wondering if anybody else had tried and succeded?

 

[Phemo]

I've never heard of Windows 7 doing anything for dual WAN myself?

However even if it did, it wouldn't give you the combined speed of both connections as that isn't possible. All that you can do with just software is a load balanced solution which would only give you the full throughput of both connections when doing multiple simultaneous downloads or using download clients which work with multiple threads.

I've never seen anything saying Windows 7 has any support for this and even Googling it brings up this post as one of the first hits.

 

[Nick1881]

I use both WAN connections, VM cable one 1, O2 ADSL on the other.

I have O2 as primary then static routes set-up for things I want to use VM

As Phemo said it's not possible to use both connections at the same time to increase throughput for a single download.

You could however set static routes to use each connection for a different application.

 

[Phemo]

Yup doing some routing trickery will work fine. To do this I just have two routers on my network - of course only one can be the default gateway, so that's the primary Internet connection. The other router has DHCP disabled so it'll only ever do anything if I add a static route in to direct traffic bound for a certain destination to it.

Or I can use PBR on my Netscreen to redirect traffic based on protocol and port which is quite nice In short though, to do anything other than redirect specific destination traffic, you'll need some other hardware.