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martind1

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this post kind of confused me.


why wont you just connect to the college netowrk through one of the 3 ports you have in the room? because you want to stay behind the router to stay conencted to their computers?

just a little calrification I need.
 

JackMDS

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In my University if you need more bandwidth for Academic Research they gladly give it you.

On the other end going to College probably has nothing to do with and Academics, it is :beer: my man.
 

amdskip

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The school lets you run a router? At our school, the ip assigning is done with the schools switches/routers and if you try running a router in your room, we'll just turn you off. No sense complicating things. A wireless router is also a no go.

If you have 3 connections to the schools network, your roomates will not directly be affecting you. Aren't those 3 connections going to a switch/router somewhere of the schools. Its not like you have 1 port and you are using a switch to split it up.
 

bunnyfubbles

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Hmm, I'm not sure why my initial question isn't being answered, perhaps I just need to rephrase it in a sense where there will be no "ah but this and that".

Let's say I'm in a house with other people that has an inexpensive DSL connection with computers networked through a common router sharing the DSL internet connection. Let's also say I'm paying for a more expensive cable connection to have all to myself (IE I am paying for it alone). If I have a computer that has 2 NICs, is it possible to be part of the network (to share large files and printers) and have my computer just recognize my cable connection for the internet and not the network's slower DSL connection?
 

AFB

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Yes, just bind the FTP server to the other NIC and give the other connection a higher metric.