2 Routers... One Line...

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I am buying a 2nd router because I am experimenting with web servers and stuff and I'm just a bit concerned...
I read somewhere that if I were to connect 2 ADSL routers on one line, the line speed would be devided between the 2 routers.

So, if I have a 512 adsl line

Router 1 would have a speed of 256
and
Router 2 would have a speed of 256

Is this true?
 
AFAIK two routers/modems can not be used simultaneously on the same line?
 
That's also what I believe. I think it would work on the same principle as, you can't use two phones and make 2 calls on one line at the same time. So I doubt it will work.
 
It is physically impossible to use two ADSL routers/modems on ONE telephone line.
 
You can't use 2 modems on the same line, but if you have 1 modem and 2 routers that will work.

It is not true to say each router will get half the bandwidth, but it is true to say you will not double your bandwidth.

All that will happen is if you have a 512k line and router one is busy downloading and router 2 not, then router1 will get all 512k and vice versa. How it would be shared when both are downloading is basicaly the same as how 2 PCs would share the downloading from the same router.
 
2accounts

yip, afaik you cant use 2 routers on one line, but yuo can use 2 diff acounts at the same time.

:)

so u can auth 1sp1 and isp2 at the same time, best way is to use router in bridgemode with ipcop doing the 2x auth.
 
I need two routers because of problems with my network. This is wats wrong...

My problem is that whenever I connect my server to the network, Some of the other PC's loose internet speed BADLY, and some just don't connect at all, just says looking up "whatever the donain" in the browser, then when I switch the server off, it works again.

This is how ith cofigured...

I have my Telkom ADSL 5102G router...
3 pc's connect to directly to the router...
a switch connects to the other LAN pot on the router...
My server, connects to the switch as well as another pc.
 
dgcarter said:
This is wats wrong.
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It all sounds like a network configuration problem to me ... get somebody that knows their networks to examine your setup.

What sort of server is it ???.
What apps run on it ???.
Ever considered intelligent switches (not the R200 things at Incredible Ripoff) and implementing bandwidth management ???.
 
I had the same thought. When i run my web server at home its cool. I either run my web server over my wireless network or directly from my main pc connected directly to my Netgear router or i run it through a vmware session of xp pro or server 2003.
 
tibby.dude said:
It all sounds like a network configuration problem to me ... get somebody that knows their networks to examine your setup.

What sort of server is it ???.
What apps run on it ???.
Ever considered intelligent switches (not the R200 things at Incredible Ripoff) and implementing bandwidth management ???.
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I don't buy from Incredible Ripoff (good one) I buy all my stuff directly from Sahara. and my switch is an SMC 10/100 EZ Switch. So its not a cheepie.

My Server is a Windows XP machine, Intel P4 2.8Ghz, 1GB Ram... and so on. So its a good machine.

I use the Apache web sever, MySQL 2005, PHP and MailEnable Mail Server.

All very good software, so I don't think its got to do with my Server and my network.

Maby the router has got probs, I dunno
 
dgcarter said:
This is how ith cofigured...

I have my Telkom ADSL 5102G router...
3 pc's connect to directly to the router...
a switch connects to the other LAN pot on the router...
My server, connects to the switch as well as another pc.
Click to expand...

For what it's worth, try the following,
connect all the pc's and the server to the switch, and then the second ethernet port on the server to the router, provided it is a server platform, assign IP no's from the server by DHCP.

From your current setup the following is happening.

The router is assigning IP adresses to your pc's connected directly to it, the switch is also trying to resolve ip's for the pc and server connected to it, probably creating conflicts.
If you don't have a second ethernet port on the server connect all the pc's to the switch and the router too.
 
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