2007-07-03 20:40:25 · 5 answers · asked by venkat r 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
http://www.maccasoft.com/igate/index.html
This program is supposed to be able to handle multiple incoming broadband connections.
You will also need two network cards in the machine.
The simple solution would be to go with one of the nVidia-based motherboard solutions which already has the two network cards working in parallel.
2007-07-03 20:50:59 · answer #1 · answered by matthew_hetland797 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have tried this exact thing with mixed success. The problem is that any single connection to the internet will only use one or the other broadband service at a time not both. ISDN is an exception to this rule, but it uses hardware at the ISP to make it work.
When you setup your TCP/IP settings it uses a default gateway, which is how it routes messages to the internet. It is possible to have a server or hardware appliance that will be used as the default gateway, and it will have both connections to the internet and use the one with the least usage at that time. If you have that in place, you can then use programs which will spawn multiple connections in order to download files. What you can’t do is really get twice the speed on a single internet connection. If you have a lot of computers connected to the internet, this is a great way to increase redundancy and speed.
2007-07-03 20:52:23 · answer #2 · answered by Michael M 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well here at my company where I work, we had an ISP make a proposal to us for load balancing 4 ADSL lines into one router, but the hardware was incredably expensive!! Maybe you can find a cheap sollution, but you will defenately need a piece of hardware to connect the two lines a or DSL modems/routers together and then create the loadbalancing. Or you can connect both ADSL modems/routers to your PC with two network cards and then get software to loadbalance(teaming) the two networks cards. I have setup teaming on our servers networks cards and it works nicely in most situations. By doing this the network traffic gets split between the two cards, I dontknow however if this can work with the DSL setup. These are some ideas, hope they help.
Just to comment on Micheal, I agree and he is correct, the speed as such wont be doubled but the traffic will be split/balanced between the two lines and will improve performance and reliability. That us why you cannot only connect two lines to two network cards, because eventhough you can add two default gateways, it will only utilise one untill the other fails, at which time it will use the other. You will need hardware or software to create a "teaming" effect to load balance. (hardware being the better option)
2007-07-03 20:55:17 · answer #3 · answered by Mark du Plessis 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
put two network cards to your computer, and connect two connections to the two network cards.
2007-07-03 20:50:12 · answer #4 · answered by Bandula R 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
how?
2007-07-03 20:43:22 · answer #5 · answered by sutil 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋