Using 2 different internet connections simultaneously?

[CoBRaXT]

I currently live in the university housings which provide a shared T3 for us to use. The download speed is extremely slow at times, but the upload speed is pretty decent. Anyways, I stopped using that and got a cable modem recently.

What I want to know is, is it possible for me to use both connections (I have two ethernet adapters) and use the university connection for certain ports (uploads, mainly) and the cable modem for all other connections? I'm using WinXP Pro by the way. Thanks for any help.

David

 

[Cooky]

Not sure if you can do that on your PC but devices like Xincom's DPG602 can take 2 WAN connections and combine them together. (or so they claim)

 

[JackMDS]

As funny as it may sound it is easier to put second engine in a car than to do what you would like to do.

Link to: http://www.anandtech.com/guides/viewfaq.aspx?i=156

:sun:

 

[IaPuP]

Actually, what's in the guide does not really equate to what you want.

You can't "combine" the connections to double the speed without some sort of outside proxy to re-combine the data, but you can set up applications to use them alternately.

I find it useful to have both configured and simply input the "interface metric" to a higher number on the interface you do not want to be the preferred outbound connection. then, if an IP comes back unreachable from one adapter, it will try the other.

Alternately, you can use one as an "incoming only" address and the other as a general surfing number if you run a server.

Do this by setting the server's interface to a higher metric so that other traffic doesn't go over it, but then provide that interface's external address for your incoming server clients and they will use that interface.

This way you can reserve the fast connection for yourself and the other can be relegated to people leeching on your FTP or whatever.

Eric