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Diet H2O_TSGK
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Joined: 03 Aug 2006 Posts: 3281 Location: Ireland (right, left, then second on the right) Country: Age: 52
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Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 02:12 Post subject:
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Naive question maybe...
I have two ISPs. The first uses a router to connect point to point with ISP. My computer connect wirlessly to router. It was crap, but it is the ISP provider for my wife's company so we got it for free. It got so erratic that I got in another provider, privately. It's a cable connection via modem and ethernet card. It was great until a month ago and is now slow to good.
If I turn on both connections can I connect to steam using them both at same time, i.e. can I double up my bandwidth?
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Lord Toothpaste
Joined: 27 Jan 2007 Posts: 37 Location: Rochester, NY Country:
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Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 02:29 Post subject:
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Its generally not a good idea to connect to two connections at the same time, you can try but its never worked well for me at all. Call the cable ISP, they probably dont have enough bandwidth to go around to all their customers, see if you can get more bandwidth dedicated to you. You can always manually plug in a cat5 into your wireless router to make it wired as well.
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Osiris_TSGK
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Joined: 21 May 2006 Posts: 4668 Location: France
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Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 03:04 Post subject:
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Diet H2O wrote: |
Naive question maybe...
I have two ISPs. The first uses a router to connect point to point with ISP. My computer connect wirlessly to router. It was crap, but it is the ISP provider for my wife's company so we got it for free. It got so erratic that I got in another provider, privately. It's a cable connection via modem and ethernet card. It was great until a month ago and is now slow to good.
If I turn on both connections can I connect to steam using them both at same time, i.e. can I double up my bandwidth? |
Yes it is possible to use 2 ISP with a dual broadband router.
Actually it will not double your speed, but balance the traffic load on both connections depeding the current traffic on each.
Concerning steam, depending the dual broadband router, you will not access it with 2 differents connections for 1 session, because each ISP will assign a different IP and then you will lost your authentification on the Steam Master server if that happend.
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Diet H2O_TSGK
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Joined: 03 Aug 2006 Posts: 3281 Location: Ireland (right, left, then second on the right) Country: Age: 52
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Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 04:11 Post subject:
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ah - ok thanks.
(toothpaste - I tried calling the isp - they don't believe in customer service)
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Lord Toothpaste
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Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 05:29 Post subject:
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Diet H2O wrote: |
(toothpaste - I tried calling the isp - they don't believe in customer service) |
Damn places. Thats interesting though Osiris, did not know you could do that.
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Diet H2O_TSGK
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Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 14:10 Post subject:
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Nevermind - at least I can use the old connection as a back-up. Worked good last night.
Funny how I never thought of that before.
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