Help balancing 2 connections?

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by ElecGa, Nov 10, 2008.

  1. ElecGa

    ElecGa Private E-2

    Hi, I have 2 WAN connections right now, a 6mb/768kb Adsl line and a 8mb/512kb cable line. I've been trying to figure out a way to combine both lines to increase speeds on multi-connection downloads/uploads, primarily bt and usenet. I'd rather not invest in a dual wan port router since I won't have both connections for too long.

    So far I added a couple registry values that I found on this site
    Http://www.geekswhoknows.com/articles/load-balance-two-internet-connections.htm
    and was able to get my upload speed to combine in utorrent. I am currently uploading at 140 kB/s. However my download speeds seems to be limited. It looks like each adapter is only downloading at 300-400kB/s. I increased halfopen connections in utorrent and in the registry to 1000.

    In Usenet i'm connected to 3 servers using 12 connections and i'm also not able to combine my download speeds.

    Anybody have any ideas?

    Btw. I'm on Vista Ultimate x64.
     
  2. Colemanguy

    Colemanguy MajorGeek

    Your standard home os can't do this, or can't really do it right, you can hack the os probably to attempt it, but honestly you need a nix box configured to do it right. Or a duel wan port router. Sorry
     
  3. cat5e

    cat5e MajorGeek

  4. ElecGa

    ElecGa Private E-2

    I was able to get this working today with help from quade at the newsbin forums. All that was needed was to specify routes between each adapter/gateway to each newsserver.

    ex. route add <server 1 ip> <router 1 ip> /p
    route add <server 2 ip> <router 2 ip> /p

    and this is what I get now with usenet downloads
    http://img83.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ngvv9.jpg
     
  5. ElecGa

    ElecGa Private E-2

    I was able to get this working today with help from quade at the newsbin forums. All that was needed was to specify routes between each adapter/gateway to each newsserver.

    ex. route add <server 1 ip> <router 1 ip> /p
    route add <server 2 ip> <router 2 ip> /p

    and this is what I get now with usenet downloads
    http://img83.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ngvv9.jpg
     

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