Managing 2 network connections

Nick1881 · 28 Jan 2009 at 18:02

I have 2 network ports on my pc.

Port 1 is my O2 ADSL router. (11mb)

Port 2 goes to a switch, then a router then a cable modem (20mb), also has my dads media centre on the switch.

Is there anyway I can make my pc use Port 1 for web browsing and gaming and use port 2 possibly for downloading (Newsleecher) but it really needs to file share to the media centre at least

Right now I booted with both connections and my pc used port 2 as that is Network 1 which its been using for the last week where Vista created network 2 today when I connected the O2 box up.

I have a load balancing Edimax router but don't really want to use this as its only 10/100mb and I bought a 1Gb switch to transfer files quicker across the network.

Any help would be great, at the moment I have disabled Port 2 so I'm using my O2 but this won't be any good when the media centre is in use.

Thanks

Nick1881 · 28 Jan 2009 at 23:15

That sounds very complicated. I think I used wingate before but had no idea what I was doing.

Nick1881 · 29 Jan 2009 at 13:14

I tried it with the load balancing router but I couldn't make the game just use the O2 connection, I did try port forwarding but to no avail.

I have a friend that works in networking so will see if I can get him to come up with something.

All this static routes is confusing, I just started a new job and have loads to learn already lol.

Nick1881 · 29 Jan 2009 at 16:03

But my dad uses his laptop wifi to the cable connection for web browsing, also the media centre is connected to it.

Nick1881 · 1 Feb 2009 at 23:20

I got it all set up.

My mate set up static routes now I can game on the O2 while downloading a film from the Cable. Also outlook uses the VM else I can't send email from my VM account using my O2 connection, they must block other ip's.

It also works for fail over, If my O2 was to die (primary connection) then it automatically uses the cable and I wouldn't hardly notice.