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Old 08-29-2007, 01:36 AM
Mystrunner@gmail.com
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Default Wireless + LAN Net Connection? Can they play together?

Hello!

I had a question, one that I hope will be pretty simple to answer. My
apartment has two internet connections at this point:

1. A cable connection that is run through the local university or
somesuch nonsense, which has a 1gig upload/download limit but is quite
fast

2. A DSL wifi connection which has an no limits as far as uploads and
downloads, but isn't quite as fast, and is split between room-mates.

My question is this: Is there any way to use both net connections at
the same time? And if so, is there any way to specific that, say,
firefox should only go through the cable, but Steam should download
games through the Wifi? Thanks!

~ Matt


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Old 08-29-2007, 03:27 PM
barry@sme-online.com
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On Aug 28, 8:36 pm, Mystrun...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I had a question, one that I hope will be pretty simple to answer. My
> apartment has two internet connections at this point:
>
> 1. A cable connection that is run through the local university or
> somesuch nonsense, which has a 1gig upload/download limit but is quite
> fast
>
> 2. A DSL wifi connection which has an no limits as far as uploads and
> downloads, but isn't quite as fast, and is split between room-mates.
>
> My question is this: Is there any way to use both net connections at
> the same time? And if so, is there any way to specific that, say,
> firefox should only go through the cable, but Steam should download
> games through the Wifi? Thanks!
>
> ~ Matt


Maybe, if you understand IP addressing/routing. And a few other "if"s.

Maybe, if you connect via pc ethernet port to cable modem (which port
will
likely receive IP via DHCP) and wireless adapter (with separate IP.)

OS (which you don't specify) will then likely determine "cost" of
using either
of those two portals to the world, and route packets to incur least
"cost."
Guess is that means cable modem over ADSL.

Once you know addresses assigned to network adapters (which likely
will vary) you could manually route packets via one or the other to
some
range of IPs. No idea how to do that by app; likely not doable IMHO.

J


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