How Do I Prioritize Bandwidth Usage Between USB Tethered LTE and DSL

frostheave

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Hi all. I have just a little networking experience and would appreciate any help with the following problem. First, let me describe the setup. Below is a diagram of the hardware connections.


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What I would like to do is the following:
1) Make the 1Mbps DSL connection primary so that it is always used first.
2) Have the USB Tethered connection provide the additional bandwidth as needed.

For example. Say I want to watch a You-Tube video at 480p. My 1Mbps DSL connection is not quite fast enough to stream at 480p without buffering. I would like the USB tethered connection to provide the remaining bandwidth needed.

I would like to do this because I have unlimited bandwidth usage per month on my 1Mbps DSL but I am limited to 20GB usage per month on my cell contract.

Does anyone know if this is possible to accomplish? Thanks for your help!
 
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You can't do it. ALL the packets from one connection (that YouTube video) have to go one way or the other. You can't have packets 1 - 6 going to DSL and 7, 8 going to 4G. You might be able to send ALL of YouTube one way or the other, but you can't add bandwidth like you want to.

kanewolf

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You can't do it. ALL the packets from one connection (that YouTube video) have to go one way or the other. You can't have packets 1 - 6 going to DSL and 7, 8 going to 4G. You might be able to send ALL of YouTube one way or the other, but you can't add bandwidth like you want to.
 
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frostheave

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Thanks kanewolf.