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Ok so here's the situation - I currently have 2 routers from 2 different companies, the reason behind this is that company A gives me 100mb download but only 4mb upload, and company B gives me 50mb upload but around 30-40 download,

I have a Z170x Gaming 7 Motherboard with 2 ethernet ports, is there any way to get the download from company A and upload from company B?
 
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It greatly depends on what you actually plan to do. Your largest issue is that the 2 connections have different IP addresses. It does not work to send from one ip address and receive on another.

Now if you have certain sites that you mainly upload to and other that you mainly download from you might accomplish that with some tedious work.

To start you would leave one router be you main default connection and lets say it is using 192.168.1.1 for a ip. On the other you would reassign the IP address to say 192.168.1.2 and disable the DHCP server. You would plug the lan ports together from both routers. Now the hard part. For any site you wanted your machine to use the secondary connection you would need to add a ROUTE...
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you could have 2 separate network cards inside pc, and then in windows networking highlight both and bridge the two connections (networks) together
it will not "manage traffic as you want it but will utilize the available traffic as it is needed (if more up is needed then it will start on one and use the second one for more traffic bandwidth)

http://www.windowscentral.com/how-set-and-manage-network-bridge-connection-windows-10
 
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It greatly depends on what you actually plan to do. Your largest issue is that the 2 connections have different IP addresses. It does not work to send from one ip address and receive on another.

Now if you have certain sites that you mainly upload to and other that you mainly download from you might accomplish that with some tedious work.

To start you would leave one router be you main default connection and lets say it is using 192.168.1.1 for a ip. On the other you would reassign the IP address to say 192.168.1.2 and disable the DHCP server. You would plug the lan ports together from both routers. Now the hard part. For any site you wanted your machine to use the secondary connection you would need to add a ROUTE statement. You would do router add xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx mask 255.255.255.255 192.168.1.2

The other way to do this is with a dual wan router but you would still have to manually tell it what to send over the secondary connction. The so called load balance modes do not really work. The example most people on this forum know is a game company. If you used connection 1 to get to the login server and connection 2 to attempt to get to the actual game server your IP would be different and it would be dropped. There is no way for a router to know all the companies that do this and it is many more than game companies.
 
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