How do I set one internet connection for downloading and the other for browsing?

[Han678]

I am going to have 2 WANs on 2 routers, I am unsure of how to set this up but I basically want to use the faster connection to download big files and use the slower one for every day browsing for everyone in my house.
How do I set up the two routers and how do I set up the computers? Do I need a proxy, I don't know how to get one? Do I set it up in my download managers to use the fast and just have the rest default to the slow? If so how would I set it up?please tell me what I need to do.

 

[Elixer]

Why do you need 2 WANs?
Your use case you described doesn't sound like you need more than 1 fast connection.

 

[JackMDS]

Do youi have two Connections (two ISP accounts) and two modems, or you just "Dream" a disfunctional Networking "Dream".? - - .

 

[HutchinsonJC]

I'm not sure how you would isolate downloads to one connection and all other traffic to the other connection. Never heard of it.

You could bridge the two connections and maybe do some QoS on the routers to prioritize bandwidth to certain types of traffic.

Or you could use one connection all to yourself and let everyone else share the other connection.

 

[Han678]

The problem is I have one high latency high bandwidth connection and one low latency low bandwidth connections. I hope this helps.

 

[Han678]

I'm not sure how you would isolate downloads to one connection and all other traffic to the other connection. Never heard of it.

You could bridge the two connections and maybe do some QoS on the routers to prioritize bandwidth to certain types of traffic.

Or you could use one connection all to yourself and let everyone else share the other connection.

could I still connect to my home network to share printer if I choose to have one connection to myself?

 

[Han678]

It was my thinking that I could set my download manager to use the high latency high bandwidth connection while having my browsers set to use the low latency connection.

 

[mv2devnull]

What is different between a connection and a connection? Can you tell a clear rule how a connection that does download "a file" differs from a connection that downloads "browsed pages"?

Devices on your home network should not need to know anything about the routes. Therefore, you should have exactly one router. A router that, according to the clear rules that you set, directs connections to appropriate subnets.

 

[Han678]

One is a satellite connection @ 15Mbps the other is DSL @ 3Mbps. I envision being able to be at the only computer in the house to have both connections active. Being able to browse the WWW on DSL like the rest of the house while my big files are downloading off the satellite unlike the rest of the house.

 

[JackMDS]

Maybe this can Help.

One computer connects to the DSL, another computer on the second Internet connection.

One of the two should have an additional Network card.

Then Bridge the computer with the two cards to the second computer (Network).

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/create-a-network-bridge-windows

http://www.windowscentral.com/how-set-and-manage-network-bridge-connection-windows-10

 

[mv2devnull]

One is a satellite connection @ 15Mbps the other is DSL @ 3Mbps.

My bad. My question was not clear. The physical connections are not important.

Your programs form TCP connections to some servers, some ports in those servers, and transfer packets of some type.
For example, your browser might connect to "forums.anadtech.com" with "https" protocol to "whatever the default port for https is".

If you (your router, actually) do look at a single packet on a wire, can you tell whether that packet is part of "browsing" or "download"?

You could, if:
a) you never download and browse same server and you do have a list of all download servers
or
b) downloads and browsing never use same server ports (and you do have a list ...)
or
c) download and browse never use same protocols (and you do have a list ...)

 

[HutchinsonJC]

"could I still connect to my home network to share printer if I choose to have one connection to myself?"

You could

Take the two incoming connections, put a wireless router on both.

Setup two wireless NICs on your pc. PCI-E, usb, built-in, whatever.

With the primary machine you would use, connect to both networks. Make sure both are different IP subnets. Maybe go 192.168.1.x on the dsl connection's router and and 192.168.2.x on the other.

Browse around, do some google searches, lots of tips/tricks for something like that.

 

[Genx87]

Sophos can traffic shape for multi wan setups via multi-path rules. Can tell HTTP traffic goes out this interface and other traffic goes out the other interface.

 

[ch33zw1z]

I would probably just do this instead, unless you're really into networking configs...

Two pc's, the Web browsing machine hooked up to monitor, mouse, keyboard, etc...The download box hooked up to satellite sits out of site, use remote desktop to get to it.

Get two extra nic's, one for each pc, make them direct connected for remote desktop. Give these NIC's IP's/subnets not part of either of the WAN+LAN configs. This little network wouldn't need DNS or Default Gateways configured in their static settings....

You can map shares to get to the data or whatever...