I pay for two connections from my ISP, Vianet, and I felt that I should be able to use them both to maximize my bandwidth. The only program that really needs all this bandwidth is Utorrent.
So I set out looking for an easy solution to connect two connections to act as one. I found many forums stating that Linux was the only way to do that. Some people told me that I would need to buy a two WAN router.
Other people said to setup two ethernet cards to one computer and run it bonded, but that would only get me load-balancing on the connection and link redundancy. This isn’t what I wanted.
I finally found the solution. It doesn’t work the way you probably need it to but it maxes out both connections on programs that use more than one connection to the internet, like utorrent, and usenet.
So here’s how I did it.
First I’m using windows 7 (this is what this post is designed for, I’m not sure if it will work with other operating systems)
Second I have two routers connecting to two modems on DSL.
I have the first router configured with an IP of 192.168.1.50.
The second router is 192.168.1.51.
They’re both using PPPoE login.
Here’s where it gets tricky. I played around a bit and found that this works, after weeks of reading.
Open up your adapter properties, then click on IPv4. Open the properties of that. Now go into advanced. In there you should setup two IP addresses. Mine are 192.168.1.2 and 192.168.52. (Don’t forget to open your ports in both routers or your computer won’t be discoverable on the internet)
I set the subnet mask to 255.255.255.0 for both IP’s.
The default gateway needs to be set for both routers as well. One at 192.168.1.50 and the other at 192.168.51.
This will make your ethernet card connect to both routers at the same time, it will provide both load balancing and link redundancy as well as increase your speeds with programs that use multiple connections to the internet.
So click OK a bunch of times and it should be working.
Happy networking!
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