2+ networking cards, the burning question...

bilbus · 10-28-2006, 05:22 AM

buy a dual wan router.

BGP is made for this, but you cant use bgp at home

Jncomutt · 10-29-2006, 07:01 PM

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Originally Posted by tlarkin

What exactly are you trying to accomplish here, and maybe I can get a better answer for ya?

My room has a cable modem with down speed that is limited to about 350k. My roommate also has a separate cable connection with a wireless router that we share when we're unplugged. I want to be able to stay connected when I plug back into my cable modem to utilize both connections for more bandwidth.

tlarkin · 10-31-2006, 03:35 PM

The only problem I see with this is I don't think you can actually micromanage tasks by NIC in windows. Meaning you couldn't allocate bandwidth to either subnet by application or by task. In fact, I am not even sure how well windows would even utilize this. Perhaps if you were running server since they are designed to have multiple NICs but I think any old regular OS you probably won't benefit. If any OS did I would guess it to be a linux distro.

This is just my educated guess of course though, I could be wrong.

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10-28-2006, 05:22 AM	#11 (permalink)
bilbus Bronze Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 88	buy a dual wan router. BGP is made for this, but you cant use bgp at home

10-31-2006, 03:35 PM	#13 (permalink)
tlarkin VIP Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Kansas City, MO Posts: 5,940	The only problem I see with this is I don't think you can actually micromanage tasks by NIC in windows. Meaning you couldn't allocate bandwidth to either subnet by application or by task. In fact, I am not even sure how well windows would even utilize this. Perhaps if you were running server since they are designed to have multiple NICs but I think any old regular OS you probably won't benefit. If any OS did I would guess it to be a linux distro. This is just my educated guess of course though, I could be wrong.