Multiple Broadband Connections - HELP!

Anakiris · Post by **Anakiris** » Sat Oct 12, 2002 4:14 pm

I have an interesting idea and a problem with this.

Ok, I have two high speed broadband connections (I am in a dorm room).

1) Cable internet through charter cable (768 kbps)
2) LAN access to school network

Dont ask me why I have both (lets just say the schools network has more downtime then uptime). I am curious if it is possible to use both connections at once (Bridge them?) and combine the bandwith.

I have two NIC's installed, the Cable modem is plugged into one, the school LAN into the other. The operating system I am using is WinXP Home.

The other mess- both the cable and the LAN IP address are dynamic and assigned by DHCP servers. I have tried to just click the two connections and click bridge in network properties, however, my internet explorer and all my internet programs are confused and do not see any connection then.

Any help or ideas are greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

cyberskye · Post by **cyberskye** » Sat Oct 12, 2002 5:53 pm

Not possible. You can purchase equipment to load balance but not increase/combine bandwidth

zxc47 · Post by **zxc47** » Sat Oct 12, 2002 7:56 pm

take a look at the nexland pro800 turbo
http://www.nexland.com/turbo.cfm

Anakiris · Post by **Anakiris** » Sun Oct 13, 2002 5:01 pm

Is there a software method I can use to load balance or is hardware my only solution?

zxc47 · Post by **zxc47** » Sun Oct 13, 2002 8:31 pm

yes there is software but I don't know the name of it . maybe some on here will tell you some names . or were to look

OverKill · Post by **OverKill** » Mon Oct 14, 2002 1:29 pm

http://www.midpoint.com/midpoint_new/index_us.htm

http://www.speedbit.com/

Kip Patterson · Post by **Kip Patterson** » Mon Oct 14, 2002 2:51 pm

Both the hardware and the software solutions have the dsame limitation - each of the connections has a different IP address. If you install either the hardware or the software you will be able to use both connections for applications that make more than one conenction, such as a browser, but each connection (meaning TCP/IP connection) will use either one or the other.

Kip

codexxx · Post by **codexxx** » Tue Oct 15, 2002 10:42 pm

Such a simple thing it seems to me anyway.

I made a post asking a question like this still no answer but here is some speculation.

Use 1 PC to connect to both ISP's then LAN to that by sharng both connections and your other PC will pickup the bandwidth of both connections in 1 named LAN. that still dont make sence even to me so someone smarter elaborate on it plz

cyberskye · Post by **cyberskye** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 2:53 pm

You're not combining connection bandwidth in either case. If you are using an app/service that can break up downloads into independant chunks you can increase your speed, but you're really looking at load balancing (more likely that everyone connects at full speed) rather than bonding (doubling your speed)