2 Broadband Connections?

Duffman

Ok, my machine has two NICs, an ethernet port and a wireless card.

Each is connected to a separate ADSL line. I can connect to both simulataneously but Windows XP Pro will only send/receive internet traffic though one gateway when both connections are enabled.

Is there any way to take advantage of both lines to increase overall bandwidth? (For BitTorrent downloads for example). Or is there a way to assign various internet apps to each connection?

The networks are set up as follows:

Wireless NIC -> Wireless Router -> DSLMdm-> DSL Line1
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Machine
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Ethernet NIC -> DSL Modem/Switch -> DSL Line 2

GUI

my understanding is

2k/xp will send data out the first network connection that was established.

so u got 2 connections that both satisfy a request to ip 159.134.*.*.

only the first connection will be used.

dont know how to bind 2 connections like that in windows,
if its possible id love to know

jesus_thats_gre

There is an old thread, about 12 months old at this stage, that provides a link to a company who offer a router that will sort your problem.

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This is a bit cheesy, but very easy to try: add a route to direct half the traffic out one connection.

For example, your default route points out ADSL on 192.168.1.1, while you also have a wireless connection at 10.1.1.1.

Just say:

route add 128.0.0.0 mask 128.0.0.0 10.1.1.1

and half your Internet traffic will now go across the wireless link. (That's "half" (*) on average, mind ... it will likely be quite skewed.) Essentially, IP addresses > 128.x.x.x go one way, and ones < 127.255.255.255 go the other way. If XP supported it, you could use 0.0.0.1 instead, to send odd addresses one way and even addresses the other, which would give much better distribution. Unfortunately, it doesn't.

Obviously, much better solutions are available, but they'll cost money...

(*) Actually, it's not really half since valid Internet addresses only go up to 223.255.255.255 - everything above that is multicast. But who's counting...