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Use Cable and DSL at the same time

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by jetjockgordo

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I am running Vista 64 and a computer with two NIC's. I recently added cable service to replace ADSL but I now have both services. Can I use both for increased bandwidth? Ideally, I would like to use one for uploading and one for downloading. Also, my email provider (DSL) requires that I send my email through their server only when using pop access so my new cable service won't work for that. Right now I have to disable the NIC connected to the cable so I can send emails through DSL from that one acccount. Any software that allows NIC specific routing? Anything in Vista that would help?

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Gordo

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by older mycroft

Anyway, no matter what you do, upload will always be slower than download since it only ever has access to the slower 25% of the broadband bandwidth.

You'd also require 2 ISP accounts, both of which you would only ever be using HALF of.

Unless I'm very much mistaken, it's a no-brainer.

by ---tk---

I understand what you are thinking. But there really will not be a speed boost if you use one for uploading and one for downloading... the only thing I can thing that this would bennifit you is if you hosted a FTP or web server, host on one line and surf the net/what ever you do on the other.... If you game alot you could dedicate a server on one line and do other stuff on the other.... also if you torrent (legal stuff) suck all that bandwith from one line and surf on the other line... If you dont do all of the above I would get rid of one. If you are looking to find the best bandwith of the two, go to speedtest.net, and run a test one or two times a day for a week, and get the average... and go with that one... As far as email, I would recomend going with gmail, its free to pop, and it doesnt matter who your internet provider is...

by dumphrey

load balancing and is not part of XP, Vista, or Server line. It is part of the ISA line. Your beest bet would be to purchase a linksys router with load balancing, or build a pfsense box to do the same thing.
Commercial boxes to do this are $200 to silly expensive.
The advantage to this is you would need one router between you and your cable and dsl modems, not 2.

by Former member

Load Balancing is a technique (usually performed by load balancers) to spread work between many computers, processes, disks or other resources in order to get optimal resource utilization and decrease computing time. A load balancer can be used to increase the capacity of a server farm beyond that of a single server. It can also allow the service to continue even in the face of server down time due to server failure or server maintenance.

I do not think this guy had this in mind. :)

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by jetjockgordo

If load balancing is not a very simple/affordable issue, how about managing data through the two NIC's and the two independent broadband (cable and DSL) inputs. I mostly would like to use cable because it is much faster but using the DSL connection lets me send my emails from my default email account. I called my ISP and they don't intend to allow sending email via a pop email client unless I am connected to their server (via DSL or dialup). Right now I just select "disable" on the NIC connected to cable and "enable" the one connected to DSL when I want to send an email. Rather cumbersome.

Gordo

by rob miners

is to speed up the switch between the cards.

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by Former member

Then they would need to be from the same ISP provider, then you just connect the two cables to your routers, yes you will need two. Then apply the two routers to a switch of where your computers would be at the end of. Some routers most probably have two upload ports. You will have to try and twig some settings though. Cable data is different than the normal ISP provider data.
So if i were you i would cancel your cable and see if you can pay a little more for a bigger data pipe through the other ISP, that is what i would do. If you do that then you can have your cake and eat it too. :)

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