Hey guys I recently moved and my new neighborhood is notorious for its bad internet. My ISP offers this thing called Wifi Fon where your router basically becomes a free wifi hotspot for people who also offer their routers on the same service (it's password protected). It's a separate network with its own speed and your connection is totally secure as it splits between two networks; a private and a public one, separated by a firewall for your safety.
What I want to do essentially is to connect to both networks (home network via ethernet and Wifi Fon via usb wireless adapter) on the same PC and use them at the same time. I am aware this might be more trouble than it's worth and I know this won't magically increase my internet speed since you can't really "combine" two networks but I am pretty sure there must be a way to tell the computer to use both networks simultaneously and not have a main network and a benched one that just sits around waiting for the main one to get disconnected.
Some people say it's as easy as going to both networks' properties and setting TCP/IPv4 interface metric to 15 and then restarting your PC. Obviously that didn't work.
TL;DR - Router has two separate networks that work independently and I want to utilize them both simultaneously on the same computer so that I can spread the workload on two networks. I'm pretty much just looking for any way at all to use the second network that I have for free. I'd very much like to be able to stream something and watch a youtube video without having them stop to buffer every 3 seconds.
Im on windows 7 and the router is a speedport entry 2i.
What I want to do essentially is to connect to both networks (home network via ethernet and Wifi Fon via usb wireless adapter) on the same PC and use them at the same time. I am aware this might be more trouble than it's worth and I know this won't magically increase my internet speed since you can't really "combine" two networks but I am pretty sure there must be a way to tell the computer to use both networks simultaneously and not have a main network and a benched one that just sits around waiting for the main one to get disconnected.
Some people say it's as easy as going to both networks' properties and setting TCP/IPv4 interface metric to 15 and then restarting your PC. Obviously that didn't work.
TL;DR - Router has two separate networks that work independently and I want to utilize them both simultaneously on the same computer so that I can spread the workload on two networks. I'm pretty much just looking for any way at all to use the second network that I have for free. I'd very much like to be able to stream something and watch a youtube video without having them stop to buffer every 3 seconds.
Im on windows 7 and the router is a speedport entry 2i.
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