Can I use multiple internet connections simultaneously?

[Guest]

I have not been able to find anything about this...
I want to use 2 different connections (i.e. DSL and Dial-up) at the same time
Is it possible to the dial-up to connect to a chat program like mIRC while
the DSL connection is used to browse the internet?
I need it to be 2 different connections - I do not want the DSL to connect
to mIRC.

Different example: at my college network, each connection is capped at 500
kbps upload and download. If I used 2 different network cards (2 different
MAC addresses), each of them would get 500 kbps. However, I can only use one
connection at a time. Could I stream videos on Windows Media Player on one
connection and download Windows Updates on the other?

Thanks

 

[Robert L [MS-MVP]]

it is possible but you need to modify the routing table. this may help.
quoted from http://howtonetworking.com/routing.htm
One router goes to the corporation email server and another one goes to the
Internet

Symptoms: you have one router connecting to the corporation for email and
the Internet access. However, the corporate Proxy server filters web sites
and watches you access. Then, you add another router for the Internet access
and want to use the corporate router for the email only, but the traffic
always go to the corporation router.

Resolution: You need to modify the routing table. Make all traffic go to the
Internet and point the email server to the corporation ip range.
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[Jack]

Hi

With the hardware, and functional settings that most of us used it can Not
be done.

Your system will maintain only one connection at the time.

As for combining Bandwidth read this: http://www.ezlan.net/loadbalance.html

Jack (MVP-Networking).