multiple connections on one pc

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is it possible to run 2 or more internet connections on one pc?
like having my dsl running on inthernet port at same time with wifi or usb from my phone so i could use one for downloading and the other one for gaming and surfing?
 
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Such uninformed answers.

Yes you can run both...it tends to be complex but it can be done.

There are load balancing software but they pretty much just give you gui screens to the underlying ROUTE command that makes this work.

So you need to open a cmd window in admin mode and issue ROUTE PRINT

You should see 2 networks. By default the PC will only use one or the other.

What you do in delete the 0.0.0.0 route for the one you do not want to be default. Now lets say you want to run gaming on the secondary one you would have to use the ROUTE ADD command to put in all the ip addresses of the gaming server or other sites you wanted to access on the secondary connection.

As long as you have a somewhat limited scope of what you want to...
Such uninformed answers.

Yes you can run both...it tends to be complex but it can be done.

There are load balancing software but they pretty much just give you gui screens to the underlying ROUTE command that makes this work.

So you need to open a cmd window in admin mode and issue ROUTE PRINT

You should see 2 networks. By default the PC will only use one or the other.

What you do in delete the 0.0.0.0 route for the one you do not want to be default. Now lets say you want to run gaming on the secondary one you would have to use the ROUTE ADD command to put in all the ip addresses of the gaming server or other sites you wanted to access on the secondary connection.

As long as you have a somewhat limited scope of what you want to do with the second connection it is not real hard to get the list of addresses. There is also a way I forget that forces particular programs to always use one connection but that has been answered on this forum also.
 
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basically bil001g has it right.

you can have multiple connections live, but the computer ultimately has to decide which sites (IP addresses) are accessed out of which connections.

it does this via its routing table, my advice to you is to add your default route out of your general purpose NIC, then add static routes to specific subnets out of your extra NIC's/wifi.
 

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Not uninformed. We use multiple connections in some of the engineering computers in my work, but for a home use and setting cable+wireless only 1 will work by default, this was my answer. We normally don't use more than 1, especially if you consider in many cases people want the cable+wireless coming from the same router.
 

Then why if you knew it could be done you posted no it can't.
You could have stated that with default settings it can't be done. Telling someone that it can't be done when you KNOW it can is much worse than just being uninformed. Why would you even both posting something you knew to be untrue.

 

Akarin

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So go ahead and configure each IPs to access in each connection. If there's something I can tell you is that normal user home stuff can be a pain to make it work and keep it working in this kind of configurations, and sometimes is worse to mess with the configurations, so just by connecting 2 networks 1 only will actually work for the basic use as I tried to make it clear. Don't be so aggressive with your supreme knowledge, we're all trying to help here in a forum, not a Microsoft consumer support.
 

My first response was very non confrontational. Being uninformed is not a huge issue since that is why many people come here.
Now you get all defensive and admit you posted information you know was untrue. You could just as easily have posted that it is a pain to maintain in a home environment and I would have agreed with you. You could have also point out the common next question that you can't effectively combine them and that too I would have agree with.

You just blindly assume that the person asking is too stupid to understand the correct answer because they are home users.

Too many of these posts get lost with no answers. When someone has responded incorrectly it is actually worse than no response. People will look though the older posts with 0 answers but when it has at least 1 response many never get looked at again.