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George1tsn

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Hello to everyone.
I have two dsl lines at the moment which i have access to through lan cables. I know i cant merge those lines into one cause the isps will get mad at me cause they charge more money for this, But what i was wondering is this: can I use those dsl lines for two completely different purposes? I mean I want for example one line to upload stuff or download and the other for gaming so I dont get high pings etc. Do I need a dual wan router for this or is there any software that can help me do that?
I know that the most obvious answer is get a dual wan router and load balance the shit out of what you are doing but technology has come so far that I find it impossible for a software like this not to exist.Imagine a software telling my network cotroller on my pc "u know what... u gonna game through this lan cable and u gonna download or upload through this cable". If u know anything pls tell me cause thats what I mostly want to do and if this is possible through a software maybe I can save money from buying a dual wan router. :D
 
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bill001g

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You can but it is not exactly easy. A dual wan router does make it a little simpler.

So what you do is put both router on the same subnet but give the main router say 192.168.1.1. and let it run the DHCP and be the default gateway. On the other router assign it ip 192.168.1.2.

Now on your PC the magic command is ROUTE. You pretty much tell it to send whatever IP addresses you do not want to go over the default router to go to 192.168.1.2.

Problem will be figuring out which IP need to go where. Not a lot software can do to automate this since it does not really have a way to say this list of IP addresses are game server. Even if you were to use a dual wan router you still have to tell it this type of information.

Don't know if there is software that will load balance based on load. It gets very tricky since some sites are made up of multiple ip addresses and even multiple server location that talk to each other. For security reasons they get very upset if all the sudden the IP addresses you are using changes and that is what will happen if you use the other router all the sudden.
 
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George1tsn

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Yes but what if i am uploading or downloading something specific with one line. Do u think then it is gonna be easier to specify the ip address i am being connected to? I mean do down/up load servers have multiple ip adresses to which u are being connected to when u send or recieve stuff? Or maybe u can tell me how to figure it out.
Thx a lot for the answer :D
 
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Many times with sites you will have to use a packet sniffer to see. Some of the file repository sites use load balancers themselves and feed you a different IP based on load. Then you have sites like this one that use Akamai so the DNS maps to different IPs depending on what part of the world you are in. The web sites make it appear so simple but there is lots going on behind that most people don't need to know but when you do uncommon things you get to learn.
 
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George1tsn

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What if I can find out where my games connect with me which I think is pretty standard and then make one line only used for gaming and have the other one do the rest. Meaning making a line primary and let the sites and the servers i am connected to have whatever ip address they want and only if I open some games that require internet then make the other line (2nd one) be used only for them? :D
 
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