Did you know you can connect two accounts at once

[technogeek]

Here is an interesting little titbit I discovered recently...

You can connect two accounts at the same time. I won't go into why I found it useful because it will take a long time to explain. If you have a yet unkown use for then it's good to know you can.

What you need:

* Telkom ADSL pots router [This is the only router it's worked on so far.]
* Two or more computers running windows XP
* A hub

Now I realise that most of you have probably not got this setup if so then sorry...

How to do it:
* Make sure your router and machines are connected to the hub
* Don't connect to your account via the router you are going to use PPPoe on windows XP
* Create a new PPPoe (Broadband) with one account on one machine and the same with the other account on the other machine.
* Connect with both.

One machine will access one of the accounts the other on the other account.

Here are a couple of uses I can think of for this:
* Run a server on one machine b even when it caps you will still be able to run as normal on machine a
* Use machine b as your hub download machine while still being able to surf as normal on machine a

You may be saying who cares... and thats just fine.

NB! We did try to see if we could get two seperate downloads to come down at 50kps combining to 100kps on each of the machines at the same time. It seems as the the 50kps limit is on the line itself not the account. We found that we still got a combined 50kps.

Use it loose it...

TG

 

[asmith]

Works with the BIPAC 711CE as well

I recall reading somewere in Telkoms documentaion explaining how to login from 2 pc on your lan with the PPPOE settings on the same account.

Regards
A Smith

 

[antowan]

Good day fellow techies

The pc's don't have to run the same operating system. I have a windows xp machine and a Linux (Red Hat) workstation running fine with the same username and password. The nice thing is that they each have a unique IP which makes routing my web server info from the Linux box a dream.

Does however empower you to suck up the 3 gig cap quicker! [}]

Cheers
Antowan

PS. Also works if you have windows xp and windows 98 boxes. I think it should work for any machine running PPoE

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<br />Here is an interesting little titbit I discovered recently...

You can connect two accounts at the same time. I won't go into why I found it useful because it will take a long time to explain. If you have a yet unkown use for then it's good to know you can.

What you need:

* Telkom ADSL pots router [This is the only router it's worked on so far.]
* Two or more computers running windows XP
* A hub

Now I realise that most of you have probably not got this setup if so then sorry...

How to do it:
* Make sure your router and machines are connected to the hub
* Don't connect to your account via the router you are going to use PPPoe on windows XP
* Create a new PPPoe (Broadband) with one account on one machine and the same with the other account on the other machine.
* Connect with both.

One machine will access one of the accounts the other on the other account.

Here are a couple of uses I can think of for this:
* Run a server on one machine b even when it caps you will still be able to run as normal on machine a
* Use machine b as your hub download machine while still being able to surf as normal on machine a

You may be saying who cares... and thats just fine.

NB! We did try to see if we could get two seperate downloads to come down at 50kps combining to 100kps on each of the machines at the same time. It seems as the the 50kps limit is on the line itself not the account. We found that we still got a combined 50kps.

Use it loose it...

TG
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[Artagra]

You can also connect two accounts using one PC (or the same account twice) - connect the one using WinXP's built in PPPoE client, and the other using RASPPPoE or similar software.

Artagra

 

[Recon]

yeah.

It can work on any operating system that supports PPoE. What happens when you plug your router into the switch or hub, it makes the switch teh router. You can connect as many accounts as youd like.