2 Routers, 2 Internet Connections - How to Monitor Both?

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Bradley1928

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Title sums it up, I'll give a more in-depth explanation below though.

Basically the company I work for has 2 internet providers, XX and YY. These both have separate routers (with wifi) and these are both connected to our switch. Then all computers are connected to the switch and manually assigned an IP and gateway for which internet to be on.

Our internet is terrible in our area, hence the two. More often than not one of these connections slows down to being unusable or just completely disconnects. We've tried using the table method but when one internet dies and everyone's computer jumps to the one left, this causes it to also die and we're left stranded.

XX is 192.168.1.1
YY is 192.168.1.100

I'd be looking to monitor these two connections from my PC so I can keep tabs on which is slowing and which is dying to act before one dies and half of the office is left without internet. I'm not sure if DHCP will allow me to monitor it in this way.

Would this be possible? If so, how?
My current PC has ethernet and WiFi and is running 64bit windows 10. I'm thinking of using the WiFi to connect to XX and the ethernet to connect to YY and monitor them that way but honestly I have no idea how to even go about this.

Thanks in advance!
Kind regards,
Bradley.
 
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Route is a line mode cmd.

Type route with no prompts and you get a small help screen. There likely is some detail explanation on the web but I have done this for so many years I forget.
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bill001g

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Not really going to be easy unless your routers have feature only found in commercial routers like the ability to pull utilization via SNMP.

Using 2 routers on the same subnet the way you are is messy to maintain since I assume you have 1/2 the machines assign via static and the other via dhcp.

You can not use 2 nic in your machine (no matter wired or wireless) on the same subnet they must be different.

Still if a ping command is good enough to test the connections. You can use a simple ROUTE command to test. You could for example ping 8.8.8.8 on the default connection. Then add a route for 4.2.2.2 to use 192.168.1.100 as its gateway. You could then ping 4.2.2.2 and it would use the second connection.

There are automated tools that will do this ping stuff but few are designed for windows almost all run under linux. You could look at mrtg or cacti but both are overkill. If you can live with 2 open ping windows running continues ping that may be the simplest.
 
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Bradley1928

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Cheers for the reply, the method we use currently is everyone has been assigned a static IP with half of the office using gateway .1.1 and the other half using .1.100.

I do admit its messy as heck, but its a small independent company with 20ish computers and there was a proper network technician used to set it all up so its all just slapped together. I don't know much about networking to fix it properly but I know its terrible.

How would I go about doing this route? Do you have a link I could read to learn how to do it if its too long winded to explain. I'd be fine with this as I'd just run a bat on start-up to track it.
 
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Disable the WIFI on the routers and add WIFI access points. Connect those back to the main switch or you have no insight into the WIFI. If you don't have a managed switch, then you should get one. Use the SNMP capabilities of the managed switch to give you insight on network utilization.
 
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