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Windows 7 Network Load balance Software?

rumpleforeskin

Senior member
Hi all,

Is there any software available for windows that allows for the use of 2 unmatched network adapters to improve bandwidth?


Ill explain my current setup:
Last year virgin media upgraded my broadband and gave me a superhub
Very few devices in my house could use the 5ghz range so i connected my old router to the superhub as an accesspoint to continue to supply the 2.4ghz devices letting my main PC benefit from the better speeds I could get on the 5ghz

So now I have 2 wifi networks.
If im wired to the Hub I can get almost 100meg when making a newsgroup download.
The 5ghz tops out about 75meg and the 2.4ghz tops out about 55

Because newsgroup download is multi connection I can send some bandwidth through each wifi network (Im using 2 wifi nics) And get my wifi throughput back to almost 100meg, very pleasing to eliminate the wifi bottleneck.

Though the only way I could achive this is to use a script that changes the interface metric of each wifi nic depending on the percent of utilization.

I was wondering if there is a more elegant solution to this?
Having a command prompt churning away in the background plays havok with my OCD, but the only other solutions I have seen are based at the driver level and require matching appropriate nics.
 
Well I found a much more efficient method of doing this, and it was so obvious i feel like giving myself a slap.

Astraweb have US and European servers
I set the metrics for my NICs so the faster one always has priorty
Then i added a "route add" for the US servers and forced them through the 2nd wifi nic
Then setup my newsgroup client for 20 connection (10 EU and 10 US)


Now all traffic goes through the fast nic except when newsgroups are running and a portion is routed over the 2nd nic. Dont know why I never though of this first instead of spending all that time making a script for load balancing, especially when the only thing i need to load share was newsgroup access.
 
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