Using both cable AND dsl at the same time

[Nemi]

I heard that there is a way to use both a cable connection and a dsl connection on a windows 2k box at the same time. The purpose being a gamer with too much money maximizing his/her connection to a game server. One connection might have a better ping but have dropouts in connection occassionally while the other is steady but with a higher ping. What I am wondering is if Win2k has the ability to dynamically decide which connection is the best to use and utilize it on the fly. I read in a post once that Win2k supports dynamic bandwidth allocation. Anyone use this feature or anyone have their system setup in another way to utilize both dsl and cable at the same time? Thanks a bunch

Nemi

 

[vash]

Having both would be nice, but Windows 2000 "choosing" which connection is better for you is a bit questionable (not to say it wouldn't work). If you had two NIC cards in your box, with both of them having an IP address to the internet and you tried playing on a server, I would think that Windows 2000 would simply take the first available network card versus "testing" to see which is faster. One thing you could do is to disable one of those network connections to see how each individual's performance effects a specific server.

vash

 

[wyvrn]

Interesting question.

 

[TunaBoo]

Someone at hf explained this once and it can be done. It takes either a special router or a special piece of software, I forgot which. But it can be done

 

[Vegito]

Theres a software that uses both, but i couldn't find the weird name or get a router that does bgp and use both..

 

[Nemi]

TunaBoo, what is hf?

 

[Hard_Boiled]

I had heard of this weird software, that allows you to run multiple OS's at the same time, called something like VM Machine or virtual machine. I've never seen it only heard about it. This may allow you to run 2 OS's at the same time and be using both connections at the same time.

Without special software I don't know how you could be using both connections at the same time. My friend had a serious interest in this. Our cable service was terrible, but he had an uncapped cable modem that yeilded really good upload speeds. He wanted to keep the cable for that, but get DSL for lower pings and increased stability.

I don't see the point in having both cable and DSL if you can't utilize both at the same time.

 

[Hard_Boiled]

Well, I think I found the software I was thinking of, its called VMware. Lets you run multiple OS's at the same time. Linux and Windows, together, no dual booting. Or so they say.

But it seems I didn't pay very good attention to the topic, I have no idea how to use cable and dsl in conjunction connecting to one game server. I doubt you can do it very easily, or can get it to work in any truly beneficial way.

 

[TunaBoo]

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