Two ISP's with one modem

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Obieone

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Hi all, Is it possible to have two ISP's with a single adsl modem and how would one go about doing this? I currently have an account with telkom (and have there mega200r modem), but would like to change to a different ISP, I would like to run the two accounts together say for a month or so to see if everythings ok, then ditch the telkom one....sorry for the noob question, but I am a complete dunce when it comes to this stuff:o
 
Dunno if your specific router supports it but you have no account configured on the router while you have both accounts setup as a PPPoE on your PC. Do a bit of searching on these forums and you will find many links dealing with it. Then there is also half-bridge mode with one account on the router and another account (pppoe) on the pc. Have a look at your routers web interface.
 
got into the modem settings, look for the setting to put it in bridge mode, then go to your connections (in windows) and make a broadband connection for each ISP
 
I recently noticed I can make my Linksys WAG200G do the extra pppoe dialing. Flashed it with woytekm firmware (now OpenWAG200 it seems) and you get an ssh link. Logging into it and manually starting another pppd call seems to work, but I have not yet had time to set up routing on it. I think this is not persistent (probably need to build new firmware to make it persistent) and the little RAM it has won't hold a large routing table, so in the end go for bridged mode and do the same thing on your PC, assuming you run linux (the wonders of an embedded OS being very similar to the full blown version :) ).
 
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