Networking Advice

[Emissary_Of_Pain]

Greetings

I am currently using a 10mbps Business Uncapped account from Afrihost which I am not overly thrilled about.

I was thinking today that I could drop my account to the 4mbps package and then get the Telkom Uncapped LTE package along side the ADSL package.


My question is this:

Is it possible to have 2 routers each on their own network and have my pc connect to the respective networks for different tasks.

ie: 4mbps uncapped for downloads (P2P & FTP) while having the LTE for streaming and gaming ?


How easy would this be to implement ?



All information would be greatly appreciated.
Regards

 

[furpile]

Best solution is probably a mikrotik, but that is definitely not easy from what I have read.

If you just need it on your pc you can dial each account from your pc as you need it, but then you can only use one at a time.

 

[Emissary_Of_Pain]

Best solution is probably a mikrotik, but that is definitely not easy from what I have read.

If you just need it on your pc you can dial each account from your pc as you need it, but then you can only use one at a time.

I have read that setting up a Mirotik is definitely not something a networking noob like myself could easily do.


The reason I want to have both networks running simultaneously is just so that there will be less micro management and the laptops/mobile devices will not have to keep switching between networks along with my pc.


I want to be able to queue downloads and game/stream unaffected by the extra traffic

 

[ItherNiT]

An alternative might be to have an additional adapter(NIC) on your pc and just turning them on and off in network settings as you need them.You will then still have 2 routers and 2 lan cables running to your PC.

Edit: Alternatively you can look at software solutions, with 2 ports in your pc, something like Connectify Dispatch or similar might work.

 

[furpile]

Do you want all your devices on LTE and then just switch the PC to ADSL for downloads? Or must the other devices also be able to switch?

For real time use of both networks I think Mikrotik or similar is the only way, based on type of protocol you use. It does seem very hard to set up, so I have also avoided it.

Please give a bit more detail regarding your ideal setup with which devices should be on which network.

 

[Emissary_Of_Pain]

Do you want all your devices on LTE and then just switch the PC to ADSL for downloads? Or must the other devices also be able to switch?

For real time use of both networks I think Mikrotik or similar is the only way, based on type of protocol you use. It does seem very hard to set up, so I have also avoided it.

Please give a bit more detail regarding your ideal setup with which devices should be on which network.

Basically I would prefer to have both networks active at the same time with the routing being intelligently done to two different gateways ...

Traffic needs to be routed to the correct router for the action I want to perform ... if I start a download then it needs to automatically route to the ADSL and if I stream/game I want it to route to the LTE router


If that makes sense, that way I can access both networks simultaneously (have downloads running on the ADSL while I am gaming on LTE)

 

[HApyM3al]

Basically I would prefer to have both networks active at the same time with the routing being intelligently done to two different gateways ...

Traffic needs to be routed to the correct router for the action I want to perform ... if I start a download then it needs to automatically route to the ADSL and if I stream/game I want it to route to the LTE router


If that makes sense, that way I can access both networks simultaneously (have downloads running on the ADSL while I am gaming on LTE)

Does make sense.

going to need to do a lot of protocol routing then. making route marking per protocol and route through correct interface (ADSL or LTE. Being that bittorrent changes port numbers everytime you open it you will need to set that staticly. also torch the interface to see what other ports being used and route it.

Personally this is too much of a mission. I am at moment got 2 x adsl account dailing. one is uncapped for p2p traffic for media pc only (done with pre routing and route markings) and then capped account for rest of my network. This is pretty simple process. Using a RB951i.

If you go MT solution ask around the MT forums those guys are very clued up.

 

[Emissary_Of_Pain]

Does make sense.

going to need to do a lot of protocol routing then. making route marking per protocol and route through correct interface (ADSL or LTE. Being that bittorrent changes port numbers everytime you open it you will need to set that staticly. also torch the interface to see what other ports being used and route it.

Personally this is too much of a mission. I am at moment got 2 x adsl account dailing. one is uncapped for p2p traffic for media pc only (done with pre routing and route markings) and then capped account for rest of my network. This is pretty simple process. Using a RB951i.

If you go MT solution ask around the MT forums those guys are very clued up.

Thanks so much for the information, I really appreciate it.

I will pop onto the forum and ask them

 

[oldBastard]

If you have an old PC laying around you can stick pfSense on it, you will probably need to add 2 more network cards. One for the LAN & 2 for the WAN's.

Then you can pretty much do whatever you want. Group the WAN's for failover and still route specific protocols on a single WAN, etc.

 

[PsyWulf]

Run a small Proxy VM in Virtualbox/on spare machine with the ADSL as its gateway,point the downloading applications to said proxy ( just about every app in existence can have a proxy specified),leave the LTE as your default gateway

 

[MDKza]

How much cash do you have?
There is a way to do this pretty easily.