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Hi there

Sorry if I missed a post with this info already, but can you guys give me some info please..

My friend has a Billion 400g router from Telkom. It has his Telkom account details (username & password) on the router itself.
He wants to use a second ISP on the same router.

Can he leave the Telkom account details as is on the router and just create a pppoe connection in windows xp to double click a icon on his desktop to connect to the second ISP?

Will this then ignore the ISP connection on the router and automatically connect via the second ISP?

Must the second accound pppoe connection be set as default connection?

Or is there another way to do this?

Thanks for all the help.
 
Can he leave the Telkom account details as is on the router and just create a pppoe connection in windows xp to double click a icon on his desktop to connect to the second ISP? Yes

Will this then ignore the ISP connection on the router and automatically connect via the second ISP? Yes

Must the second accound pppoe connection be set as default connection? Nope doesnt make a difference unless you got multiple accounts and this is the main one

I got the same router from telkom
 
Merenwenrago said:
Can he leave the Telkom account details as is on the router and just create a pppoe connection in windows xp to double click a icon on his desktop to connect to the second ISP? Yes

Will this then ignore the ISP connection on the router and automatically connect via the second ISP? Yes

Must the second accound pppoe connection be set as default connection? Nope doesnt make a difference unless you got multiple accounts and this is the main one

I got the same router from telkom
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Related question - how does windows know which connection to use? This has always baffled. For e.g. Say I am using Nokia PC suite to connect my PC to the internet using my cellphone, and I am connected to the local LAN via WiFi, and connected to an iBurst desktop modem using a PPoE connection from my PC, as well as an ADSL PPoE connection to the local LAN, which one will Windows use for internet requests, if they are all alive and working?

Does it depend on the order in which you connected, with windows using the last connection? Or are there some other rules? Or can you set one as the default, and if so, how?
 
well thinking about it logically whatever pppoe connection connects first will be used
so if you used iburst first it will be prioritised

have to test it to confirm

network internet doesnt get more priority than pppoe dialup reason why dialup overides it
 
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Sorry to hijack this, but would that mean that a person would have 2 seperate ip addresses?

One assigned to the pc and one assigned to the router? (assuming there is already an account signed into on the router)
 
the pppoe account gets assigned the dns ip address
the router one gets assigned the dns ip address

so answer is yes
 
The Billion 400G allows for PPPoE with passthrough. In other words you can have one pppoe connection from your router and a second one that has been created from Windows.
 
yes they do every connection to an isp or network has its own ip address to distinguish from each other
 
Merenwenrago said:
well thinking about it logically whatever pppoe connection connects first will be used
so if you used iburst first it will be prioritised

have to test it to confirm

network internet doesnt get more priority than pppoe dialup reason why dialup overides it
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I could be wrong but won't the last connection be used? The reason I think this is, every connection you make will override the previous connection's default route.
 
Just want to thank everybody for the info regarding my questions and the other info people gave which are helpfull even though not related :)

You guys are awesome.
Cheers
 
CONFUSION REIGNS

Merenwenrago said:
yes they do every connection to an isp or network has its own ip address to distinguish from each other
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You are confusing the following types of IP address

Assigned DYNAMIC PUBLIC ==> *EVERY* device on the Internet MUST have a valid PUBLIC IP address.

Assigned PUBLIC GATEWAY ==> the IP address your device uses to gain access to the next network ( ISP -- > Internet )

Assigned PUBLIC DNS server / s ==> necessary for domain name lookup / domain name resolution.


ALL of these IP addresses are assigned by your ISP's equipment when your router connects and your account is authenticated.

For the other questions

Code: 
C:\>route /?

Manipulates network routing tables.

ROUTE [-f] [-p] [command [destination]
                  [MASK netmask]  [gateway] [METRIC metric]  [IF interface]

  -f           Clears the routing tables of all gateway entries.  If this is
               used in conjunction with one of the commands, the tables are
               cleared prior to running the command.
  -p           When used with the ADD command, makes a route persistent across
               boots of the system. By default, routes are not preserved
               when the system is restarted. Ignored for all other commands,
               which always affect the appropriate persistent routes. This
               option is not supported in Windows 95.
  command      One of these:
                 PRINT     Prints  a route
                 ADD       Adds    a route
                 DELETE    Deletes a route
                 CHANGE    Modifies an existing route
  destination  Specifies the host.
  MASK         Specifies that the next parameter is the 'netmask' value.
  netmask      Specifies a subnet mask value for this route entry.
               If not specified, it defaults to 255.255.255.255.
  gateway      Specifies gateway.
  interface    the interface number for the specified route.
  METRIC       specifies the metric, ie. cost for the destination.

All symbolic names used for destination are looked up in the network database
file NETWORKS. The symbolic names for gateway are looked up in the host name
database file HOSTS.

If the command is PRINT or DELETE. Destination or gateway can be a wildcard,
(wildcard is specified as a star '*'), or the gateway argument may be omitted.

If Dest contains a * or ?, it is treated as a shell pattern, and only
matching destination routes are printed. The '*' matches any string,
and '?' matches any one char. Examples: 157.*.1, 157.*, 127.*, *224*.
Diagnostic Notes:
    Invalid MASK generates an error, that is when (DEST & MASK) != DEST.
    Example> route ADD 157.0.0.0 MASK 155.0.0.0 157.55.80.1 IF 1
             The route addition failed: The specified mask parameter is invalid. (Destination & Mask) != Desti
nation.

Examples:

    > route PRINT
    > route ADD 157.0.0.0 MASK 255.0.0.0  157.55.80.1 METRIC 3 IF 2
             destination^      ^mask      ^gateway     metric^    ^
                                                         Interface^
      If IF is not given, it tries to find the best interface for a given
      gateway.
    > route PRINT
    > route PRINT 157*          .... Only prints those matching 157*
    > route DELETE 157.0.0.0
    > route PRINT


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