Hypothetical situation

Hypothetical situation

Re: Hypothetical situation Posted by Orpheus on Sat Nov 6th 2004 at 11:11pm
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Posted 2004-11-06 11:11pm
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i have two DLS modems, is there a way to incorporate both of them?

i don't actually mean double my bandwidth, i mean with my router, it is seriously interfering with my taboo downloads, because of the internal firewall..

what i wanna do is set up a PC to do nothing but download.. it will just sit there and thats all, just download..

is it possible to use two modems to access one account?
Re: Hypothetical situation Posted by scary_jeff on Sat Nov 6th 2004 at 11:47pm
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With DSL, no. Cable allows you to split the line and use two modems, but you have to pay more line rental.

With adsl, the best you can do is either buy an expensive router or set up on an old PC running linux to be a router. This router will be capable of managing your traffic so that web browsing and/or playing games is not affected by how much traffic is trying to go through your connection on some non-critical port.
Re: Hypothetical situation Posted by Wild Card on Sun Nov 7th 2004 at 12:50am
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I believe you can "cheat" the system using a hub perhaps. Feed your line to the uplink port, and then send lines 1 and 2 to the modems. Could work..?

I had the internet going on 2 computers with a hub. But now I have a router since I needed wireless.
Re: Hypothetical situation Posted by Wild Card on Sun Nov 7th 2004 at 12:51am
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<A name=top>Hypothetical situation</A>
But of course all this is hypothetical right Jon? :wink:
Re: Hypothetical situation Posted by omegaslayer on Sun Nov 7th 2004 at 1:29am
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I do have this situation! I have two LAN cards on my MoBo, I think their main use is for a bridge between computers. Like connect another computer to my other LAN card and that other computer can use the internet through mine.

If you use a router on your DSL line it might be possible....
Re: Hypothetical situation Posted by scary_jeff on Sun Nov 7th 2004 at 7:13pm
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You can't put phone lines into a hub. If you are using adsl modem, then your incoming connection is not on cat5.

Puting a normal hub after a modem doesnt really do anything other than let more than one PC use the connection, and I think this is what Orph already has. One PC can still hog the whole connection.

Orph, try limiting the uplaod bandwidth for the offending program, that tends to have a bigger impact than download bandwidth.