Two modems on one ADSL line?

[outop49]

Can someone please give me some advice? My situation is as follows:

• I have two ADSL modems. The one is a Telkom ADSL Router Pots with one network port and the other is a Linksys Wireless-G ADSL Gateway with 4 port switches.
• My home is on two levels and I am using the Linksys wireless router to serve two computers on the top level and one computer on the ground floor. The PC on the ground floor is used primarily for business and thus 75% of all usage is local. The other PC’s are used by students and most usage is international. The ADSL connection point is on the ground floor.
• If possible I would like to set up the following configuration:

o I would like to establish two ADSL connections, one local and the other international and have both connected simultaneously on the two modems.​

o The computer on the ground floor should have access to local and international bandwidth.​

o The other two computers must have at least access to international bandwidth.​

Is this possible? If yes, how is it done?​

Thanx guys!!

 

[bwana]

Sorry but unless you want to run up and down the stairs switching one on and the other off then rules is one modem per line.

What you can do is have multiple simultaneous connections using the same modem.

International access means de facto local.

 

[bekdik]

You will need 2 ADSL lines to use 2 routers. However you can access 2 adsl accounts with a single router, so you do not need to go the 2 line solution, unless your accounting requires it.

Suggest you search the forum for multiple discussions on dual log-ins.

 

[Jonny Two Shoes]

Not sure if I understood everything you said but couldn't you maybe connect all the PC's to the Wireless (Lynksys) Router and then connect that router to the Telkom one via uplink?

This way the Wireless Router Assigns all the ip's for each PC. It automatically creates the gateway and you can go one step further by bridging the connections via the Telkom Router if you want to use seperate accounts or seperate connections.

To bridge you must find the ip of the Telkom Router and the Router access details (hopefully you have changed the router password to restrict hackers accessing your account!!!). Then use the ip address in iexplorer, and change settings to allow bridged connections and turn dhcp off. Other than that you will need to read up a little more if you run into any trouble....Im not an expert

Hope this helps in some way

Remember if you need to take off dhcp then you must assign static ip's.

 

[outop49]

Simultaneous Connections

Thanx so much guys. My ISP does not provide local and international bandwidth on the same account but are you telling me that it may be possible to make a simultaneous connection with one modem to separate accounts? How do I tell my browser which connection to use?

 

[bekdik]

Options/connection

Use pppoe connection so that you can choose.

 

[bwana]

Thanx so much guys. My ISP does not provide local and international bandwidth on the same account but are you telling me that it may be possible to make a simultaneous connection with one modem to separate accounts? How do I tell my browser which connection to use?

You have an isp that supplies international only bandwidth? I hope you'll forgive my scepticism.

 

[Jonny Two Shoes]

Oh yes forgot to mention...thanks bekdik....you must use pppoe so that you can sign into different accounts on each computer. It asks for a user name and password then so as long as you have more than one account you can use them seperately.

And the setting on the WAN part of the router should be pppoe

 

[outop49]

2 simultaneous connections possible on one PC??

Still busy to try to sort this out. My ISP tells me that although it is possible to make two connections to different accounts on the same modem/router it is not possible to use these connections simultaneously on the same PC. According to J2S it is possible or do I understand what I want to understand?

 

[masticore]

Still busy to try to sort this out. My ISP tells me that although it is possible to make two connections to different accounts on the same modem/router it is not possible to use these connections simultaneously on the same PC. According to J2S it is possible or do I understand what I want to understand?

what J2S meant was that you create 2 different POSSIBLE connections on each PC, not that you use them concurrently.

That said, if you're willing to dig a bit further, you CAN use 2 connections concurrently through 1 modem (or router if it supports bridge mode.)

e.g. If you have an IS account and a SAIX account, you'd typically want to route local traffic through the IS account and all other (international) traffic through the SAIX account. See this thread for more details.

 

[Jonny Two Shoes]

what J2S meant was that you create 2 different POSSIBLE connections on each PC, not that you use them concurrently.

That said, if you're willing to dig a bit further, you CAN use 2 connections concurrently through 1 modem (or router if it supports bridge mode.)

e.g. If you have an IS account and a SAIX account, you'd typically want to route local traffic through the IS account and all other (international) traffic through the SAIX account. See this thread for more details.

Yes but this is a little bit of a mission aint it? Think I will give it a try one day

Anyway @outop49 are you sure you want two simultaneous connections to run on one computer at the same time?? Bridging lets you run two or more accounts over the same router but you can only use one account on each computer. This means each computer will run its own account according to what is signed into. Similar to entering username and password for a dial up connection.

So each computer will have its own cap to worry about provided you keep the accounts assigned to the same computers all the time

Sorry I just thought this is initially what you wanted to do....so ignore if I completely misunderstood you.

 

[masticore]

<snip>... Bridging lets you run two or more accounts over the same router but you can only use one account on each computer... <snip>

No - a single machine can establish more than 1 connection, and 2 machines can concurrently use the same account (provided the ISP supports it of course.)