2 isp accounts simultaneously on 1 line?

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Edwardman

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Good morning forum
so this is my situation. I have an account with both afrihost and telkom, but have to manually swap between the two every day since my telkom account is uncapped after 12pm... so is it possible to run both accounts concurrently?
 
You need a scriptable router. My recommendation is a Mikrotik. But it has an extremely high learning curve.
 
Edwardman said:
Good morning forum
so this is my situation. I have an account with both afrihost and telkom, but have to manually swap between the two every day since my telkom account is uncapped after 12pm... so is it possible to run both accounts concurrently?
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Why not get rid of the Afrihost account and make the Telkom account uncapped?
 
You can dial the second account from your PC on top if the account on your modem. Then the modem and its WiFi will stay connected to account 1 and your PC to account 2 for downloads. I am using the same setup.
 
furpile said:
You can dial the second account from your PC on top if the account on your modem. Then the modem and its WiFi will stay connected to account 1 and your PC to account 2 for downloads. I am using the same setup.
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how does one do this?
 
Which router do you have? You might be able to run a scheduled script that telnets to you router and changes the account details.

Try telnetting to you router and see what happens.
 
Edwardman said:
how does one do this?
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Leave your AH account settings on the modem. Then on your PC, go to Network and Sharing Centre, and select Set Up A New Connection. Then choose Connect to the Internet, then choose Set up a new connetion anyway (windows will see the current connection). Then choose Broadband connection (PPPOE) and enter your Telkom account details. Then it should dial up that connection for your PC only. When you have it set up, click in your taskbar on the network icon and you will there have the option to connect to your new network (telkom) or disconnect if its already active.

I would suggest getting Pingplotter free version or similar to make sure that you are connected to the correct account before starting your downloads. Something like a PFsense PC or a Mikrotik will definitely work better and is a lot more versatile, but this is a free solution and you can use it immediately. in you rcase where you only want to set it for downlaods after hours it should be fine. You can also set the DNS server of the primary account to a bogus value, so that the PC can only connect to the internet from the second account (in case it loses the Telkom account during the night and carries on downloading on your AH account), but this hasn't happened to me yet.

The other advantage with this is you can set up multiple accounts this way, so if you get a trial WA or similar account to test your line you can set them all up, and then just connect to the one you want to test. It's a lot simpler than changing details on the modem every time.
 
ponder said:
Which router do you have? You might be able to run a scheduled script that telnets to you router and changes the account details.

Try telnetting to you router and see what happens.
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I have a dlink dsl-2750u and a tp-link w8151n
 
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