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LinuxMan

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Hey all

If i have an active account in my router, and i dial-up with a different adsl account in windows, does this use bandwidth from both adsl accounts ?

Or is it best to take the account out of the router and just connect as and when i need to ?

Thanks guys
 
Hey,

It would only use bandwidth from one account.

Depending on your routing table, it would either use the one on your router or the one on your PC.

In Windows you can run the following command-line app: route print
It would show the default gateway at the bottom. If the default gateway is your router's IP address, then your PC would use the account on the router by default.
There is a similar command in linux: route -n
But it won't show the default gateway - you would have to understand the routing tables to figure out the default gateway.

A common thing to do is to have 2 accounts: 1 for international/local and one for local-only, since the local-only accounts are at least 5-10x cheaper. Then you redirect all the local traffic through the local-only account and the rest through the international/local account.
 
Awesome thanks alot. I will give that a test and see what route the traffic is taking.

Ok so presuming i have my telkom account in the router using int bandwidth and i run a second dialup account (adsl) in windows as the default... The windows account will only be used. and the telkom account in the router won't be effected ?

Thanks for your help :)
 
is there a write up on how one uses windows to connect via the dsl modem? PPPOE i think.

I have 3 5gig account and when the one is up, i have to login to the router and change the username/password for the next account.

Cheers
 
Win7

I do however like to use up a 5Gig account, and then hit the usenets hard before using my international on the other 2 5 Gigs accounts.
 
You need to create a new network connection

1. Connect to the internet
2. Setup connection manually
3. Connect using a broadband connection that requires a username and password
4. Enter ISP Name
5. Supply ADSL username and password in the fields
6. Next , Click finish

Now you have a new connection to your ADSL account in Network connections.
Click it and it should verify your user name and password and connect..

Thats a basic guideline for XP , Vista and windows 7 is fairly similar
 
so it would be the same as basically having 3 different network cards in the system.
you would have to then connect and disconnect from the connections as needed?

what settings would be in the router?
 
PallBearer, if you ADSL supports half-bridging (pppoe passthrough / pppoe relaying), then you can simply dial the PPPoE account from Windows/Linux. Otherwise you have to set your router in bridge mode, in which case the router can't dial an account.
Update: yes, it would look as if you have 3 different network cards (actually referred to as network interfaces).

Do you perhaps have a D-Link 2640U?

LinuxMan, you can also check out http://www.whatsmyip.co.za and http://www.whatismyip.com
If they report 2 different IP addresses, then you know that the traffic splitting script/application is working correctly, since whatsmyip.co.za is hosted locally and the other one not.
If you don't use a traffic splitting script/app, you could also use those websites to match the IP address of the PPPoE connection on your router/PC. If it reports the IP address that your router has for its WAN interface, then it implies that you were using the account on the router to get to that site :)
 
I have a d-link 264OU. Do i need to put it into bridging mode or leave it on pppoe? Do i leave the first connection settings in the router or dial up both from windows?
 
IRG, depending on what you want, you set the router in bridge/pppoe/half-bridge mode.

Usually you want rather want the router in half-bridge mode, where the router dials the international account, which allows everyone connected to the router to have international & local access.
Due to the half-bridge mode, users can also dial additional accounts from their PCs.

If the router is in bridge mode (and not dialing a PPPoE connecton), then no-one would have Internet access UNLESS they dial their own PPPoE connections!

To setup the D-Link DSL-2640U in half-bridge, you have to add both PPPoE AND Bridge WAN interfaces with the VCI/VPI set to 8/35. You can only do that under the Advanced -> WAN, and not via the Wizard.
 
tried this with Windows 7 and the one side worked - the internet side, but then my VPN Lite did not work at all.

as the routing tables are all inside the router and my PC don't stay installed for very long and re-installing OS every few months and reconfiguring the network interfaces seems too much....rather leave the accounts in the router for now :(
 
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