Using DSL and Cable modem for one connection?

[Shaftatplanetquake]

Is it possible to use cable and dsl at the same time on the same computer?

I have cable and am contactually obligated to keep it for another 4 months, now dsl is available in my area. The cable isn't bad, but it isn't that great either, I get a max of 50 k/sec downloads, 16k/sec uploads. Can I do this with the proper hardware?

Please let me know if I can do it, and what I need.

 

[CTR]

Some OS's like NT and win2k support multi-homing. If you want to bond the two connections, look at something like Fatpipe, which is a hardware device that uses multiple routers to simulate a single high-bandwidth circuit.

 

[Shaftatplanetquake]

Hmm sounds interesting.

Im using win2k, and I would like to avoid a solution that is going to cost more than $25.

Im willing to buy another ethernet card and I have an extra 10 Mb/sec hub,, is it possible to work it out with just these items and some cat5?

 

[CTR]

Sure it will work if you want to multihome. But it won't work as a single high-bandwidth connection. You could load-balance your egress traffic, but you cannot control the path your ingress traffic takes. This exact discussion has come up on this forum a few times in the past year. Do a Networking forum search on "fatpipe" and you might find some useful information.

 

[Shaftatplanetquake]

I don't know what egress and ingress mean.

Please don't use terms that a networking novice wouldn't know.

I just know the very basics, how to get my cable connection running, how to install all my protocols and services, how to use a hub, and with a diagram I keep in my wallet, how to make a IEEE standard networking cable.--- other than that I'm networking-stupid 😛

 

[CTR]

Ingress is entry, egress exit. Now don't you feel smarter?