Am I doing this right?

[Nick333]

So in an attempt to set up a half-bridge type thing on a mega 100wr2 I've got one account set up as quickstart and another set up as a static connection directed at my PC's ip. Then I dial up with another account from my PC. I'm a little paranoid that I'm still using the other accounts bandwidth somehow, because it insists on using some arb default gateway that I assume belongs to the MWEB account.

Does the above setup sound about right?

 

[fragtion]

Depends what you're trying to do? If you're trying to split the bandwidth between two accounts ie international/local respectively, then No you're doing it wrong.
The idea is to not have an account set up on the router for your use. That's the account for the router/dhcp/guests and is optional. Your PC should be dialing up the two seperate accounts and splitting the routing using an application such as RouteSentry

If you're just overriding the router's connection with the one you're dialing up, though, then you're doing it fine. By default in windows, when a connection is dialed it becomes the default route... you can change that, but if you haven't fiddled then it will be as such. It wont replace the default gateway IP in your network properties, it just puts itself on a higher priority and the lan default gateway wont be used until the pppoe connection is dropped.

 

[Nick333]

Depends what you're trying to do? If you're trying to split the bandwidth between two accounts ie international/local respectively, then No you're doing it wrong.
The idea is to not have an account set up on the router for your use. That's the account for the router/dhcp/guests and is optional. Your PC should be dialing up the two seperate accounts and splitting the routing using an application such as RouteSentry

If you're just overriding the router's connection with the one you're dialing up, though, then you're doing it fine. By default in windows, when a connection is dialed it becomes the default route... you can change that, but if you haven't fiddled then it will be as such. It wont replace the default gateway IP in your network properties, it just puts itself on a higher priority and the lan default gateway wont be used until the pppoe connection is dropped.

I basically want to be able to use a different ISP from my PC without affecting what the other PC's connected to the router use.

 

[Smooth Criminal]

I basically want to be able to use a different ISP from my PC without affecting what the other PC's connected to the router use.

Fairly simple in that case.

Just set up an account on your router that everyone else will be using as the default connection. When they acquire a LAN IP from your router's DHCP server, their internet access will be granted via this connection (to the router).

You then dial up a PPPoE connection on your machine to the ISP that you want to use, and Windows will prioritise that as the connection to use for your internet access. Your IP obtained from the router's DHCP server will then just be used as a LAN IP, so you can still see the other machines but you won't access the internet using the account configured on the router.

 

[Nick333]

Fairly simple in that case.

Just set up an account on your router that everyone else will be using as the default connection. When they acquire a LAN IP from your router's DHCP server, their internet access will be granted via this connection (to the router).

You then dial up a PPPoE connection on your machine to the ISP that you want to use, and Windows will prioritise that as the connection to use for your internet access. Your IP obtained from the router's DHCP server will then just be used as a LAN IP, so you can still see the other machines but you won't access the internet using the account configured on the router.

Ok, cool. So I don't have to set up the static connection on the router then?

 

[Smooth Criminal]

Nope don't change anything else, just set the connection type to PPPoE Relay or PPPoE with pass-through, or whatever it may be called for your router. Let the router's DHCP server do it's thing. That way you don't need to statically configure any connections.

 

[Nick333]

Alright cool. Thanks guys.