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just downloaded netlimiter, hopefully someone here is familiar with it. This is what i want to do...

I have 2 internet connections, the uni wifi and using phone as modem. When connected with phone, i want absolutely no traffic other than the game server i connect to. All else may run on the wifi, ie downloads, updates etc.

Was playing with the filter on netlimiter but no luck. Tried comodo as well to stop windows update but that stopped svchost so thats a no-no (some services are needed for internet).

Can anyone point me in the right direction (only simple stuff on google) or suggest other software? Tx
 
No software needed.

Do you use a dialup with the phone? If yes then go to your connections, and chose the phone connection. Open its properties. Go to TCP\IP settings and its properties. Choose advanced. Uncheck "Use default gateway on remote network". Now ALL your traffic will still route via wifi.

Before you do the rest, please ensure that you disconnect your phone connection and reconnect so that the above setting can be active.

Now you need to manually add new routes for your routing table. Add a new route to your game server to route via the phone interface.
Open a command window then type
route print
This will show your current routing table.
Now type
route /?
to get the help to add a route

It must be of the format:
route ADD x.x.x.x MASK 255.255.255.255 y.y.y.y IF 1
where x.x.x.x is the server ip address and y.y.y.y is the interface ip address of your phone connection.

Hope it helps.
 
Thanks! After some tinkering with the flags/commands, it works perfectly:D

This is my command:
route add [destination ip] mask 255.255.255.255 [my ip of phone modem] metric 1
The IF part automatically sets itself to the "best given interface for a given gateway". Metric was needed tho, I just randomly added "1" to it, not sure how that affects the setup.

Another thing that I'm wondering about, if I'm only connected via my phone (i.e. no wifi), would unchecking "Use default gateway on remote network" still stop traffic? Will check next time in any case once I load some airtime.
 
If you do not have a default gateway then you shouldnt be able to have any outbound traffic on that connection. But why connect to the internet if you just block it? Or am I being daft here
 
Good question. I am not sure. Have a look at the routing table for something like 0.0.0.0 in the ip and look at which interface it have, but I guess it will still work. Sorry, I forgot about the metric part.
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After testing, it stops absolutely all traffic, including to the game server (only did one attempt, so I'll have to test it thoroughly sometime). And no worries about the metric part, your advice was great. Besides, to learn we sometimes have to do things for ourselves don't we?;)

If you do not have a default gateway then you shouldnt be able to have any outbound traffic on that connection. But why connect to the internet if you just block it? Or am I being daft here
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Lol not at all, like saying "why make a tunnel if you just block the other side?" Perhaps my post didn't explain properly. Thing is, i was wondering if this method still works when you only have one connection, i.e. all non-gaming traffic is sent over wifi in 2-connection case; but in the 1-connection case would all the permitted traffic still be only to the game server? Remember there isn't another network available to handle all other non-gaming related traffic. Hope that explains it. Altho rereading your post explains the results of my testing...which means I'm back to firewalls and the like to stop airtime/bundle disappearing unnecessarily
 
AHA! Things are becoming clearer to me.... HEEHEE

I see what you mean and I am quite sure the rules will still apply eg. traffic X will be sent to Interface X and traffic Z to interface Z even if the connection is not active.

Did you try routing only game server port to phone connection and other ports to wifi connection?

I know in windows XP you could do it in advanced settings under interface not sure about vista or win7
 
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try this app, think it will do what you need:

Routix NetCom 2.2

just google it
 
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