using two internet connections (lan/USB) for different functions

[memon01]

Hi,

Ive been looking for a particular solution at home and wanted to see if maybe there is something ive missed. Let me give a little bit of detail before i get into the problem itself.

Ive recently switched from my cable internet provider to DSL which gives me much faster download rates but unfortunately for me not the same upload speeds as my cable provider which affects my overall downloading ability a lot due to ratios.

What I do have, however, is a 3G usb internet device which i can plug into the computer and it provides me with a decent upload capacity.

What i would like to do is to continue to download all my torrents from the LAN internet (DSL to my router to my computer) while get all my uploads to go through the USB device.

Is that possible?

[DreadWingKnight]

No because traffic goes in both directions once a peer connection is established.

[memon01]

hmm and is it possible to run two instances of utorrent and define which connection it should use? What i could then do is add the torrents i keep for seeding into the other one running off the 3g connection while the first instance could keep downloading the next torrent.

[severedsolo]

doesnt windows limit you to one internet conenction at a time? for instance... if i have my ethernet cable plugged in and wireless on everything automatically goes through ethernet even though it says im conencted to the wireless network

[Switeck]

uTorrent can be bound to an outgoing ip in advanced settings, only problem is Windows often ignores that.

It is possible to run 2 instances of uTorrent (using /RECOVER mentioned in FAQ) and having each use stand-alone/portable settings that set each one up for different tasks and internet lines.

...But once again, it depends on windows letting you define which ip each uTorrent is connected with.

[Sawyer22]

You could just edit your routing tables and you could use utorrent with your both connections then.

Like:

route ADD 77.0.0.0 MASK 255.0.0.0 YOURADSLIP

route ADD 77.255.255.255 MASK 255.255.255.255 YOURADSLIP

route ADD 78.0.0.0 MASK 255.0.0.0 YOUR3GIP

route ADD 78.255.255.255 MASK 255.255.255.255 YOUR3GIP

and so on...

Now just include all the external ips from 1-223.

Thats basically what this multiconnect program which you can buy here does. http://asurasoft.awardspace.com/abtmulticonnect.html

Test out the demo version. It support 30 uses with 2 connections. It will basically edit your routing tables like my example above.

I wrote for myself a powershell2 script which does exactly what this mutliconnect program does so I dont need to buy it and that is basically what I'm seeing now. http://www.shrani.si/f/1J/a5/3n0jXgc8/untitled.jpg

The normal speed is only 2.2MB/s but with modified tables and 4 PPPOE connections. I can get all the way to 8MB/s+

[houta97]

I wrote for myself a powershell2 script which does exactly what this mutliconnect program does so I dont need to buy it and that is basically what I'm seeing now. http://www.shrani.si/f/1J/a5/3n0jXgc8/untitled.jpg

The normal speed is only 2.2MB/s but with modified tables and 4 PPPOE connections. I can get all the way to 8MB/s+

Hi Sawyer22,

Can we have that powershell script? i am using 2 internet connections now but my routing is basic:

ip < 128.0.0.0 use connection1 and ip > 128.0.0.0 use connection2, that works but i think your method will use the 2 connections more efficiently

By the way i tried multiconnect on XP SP3 it didn't work.

Thnx