CABLE+DSL on one computer???

[nateholtrop]

Hi all soon I am getting DSL i have cable my sis is keeping that for her @Home email address..and I am getting DSL so i can host sites and stuff..I have windows 2000 i hear you can run both with 2 nics? is that poss????


Nate

 

[WoundedWallet]

If you ever figure out how, please PM me.

I tried that two years ago and the consensus was that it would be too costly to have a device that managed both connections.

Unless things have changed the best idea is to have one pc with cable, another with dsl and have'em networked. This way if you want to download stuff using both services you can specify one single folder for the download.

 

[LordSandMan]

I'm running win2k server and was thinking about doing the same thing, except with 2 cable modems. I looked into it a little bit. I won't be at my server until this weekend, but you need to setup routing, and then do something like quality of service or something, I don't remember right off the top of my head, but I'm pretty sure it's possible. If you haven't figured it out by this weekend, I'll check on it.

Edit - one other thing, you'll need three NICs. You might be able to do it with 2, but it would get more complicated.

1 for the cablemodem
1 for the DSL
1 for the internal network

Hmm, wait a minute, your using 2k Pro, not server?? I don't think it will work with 2KPro. Let me know.

 

[nateholtrop]

ok peeps I am gonna email my networking teacher and ask her. she should know.

Nate

 

[obenton]

One caveat: I found, when setting up my wife's @Home, that she couldn't connect to the @Home DHCP server unless I removed the default gateway from the LAN NIC's tcp/ip.

 

[nateholtrop]

I am not gonna have this for my home network i have me and my roomie thru a hub and that will work fine I was hoping to able to tap in to a lil extra speed once I gt my DSL.

nate