drmerl
11-19-00, 02:34 PM
I am lucky enough to have both cable and DSL in my area and to my home. My main question is for those of you that might be able to give me some advice on the Win2K routing table to allow some better sharing of the two connections.
Here's my box...
Win2k Pro (sp1), REG already tweaked for cable/dsl, two 3COM (3C905B-TX), Cable is Cacks@home, DSL is Covad 1.5/384, Linksys router/firewall in front of cable, with the DSL handled with another firewall.
I've already tried connection teaming with the two companies to use it (midpoint, and the other one) and I found it's not as ideal as they say. With all the NATs and crap going on things can get quite screwed up. I also have various servers running on this box. For instance..with teaming and you're on napster you can end up losing your connections as the software goes back and forth with different connections. Also the actual amount of time it spends "teaming" is small, and it's of no real help with large single files (most FTP sites won't allow multiple connections). There are hardware solutions, but from what I know are in the thousands.
Under Win2k in the advanced prefs you can say what connection you want to appear "first". It helps a little, if I'm leeching with DSL (usually ends up being the default gateway as the latency times are low)I can sometimes get the cable to start downloading and can get combined speeds well in to the 4000Kbps range (via DUMeter).
What I'd like to find out is if I can put in some creative static routes to try and "balance" (maybe fiddle with metrics) the two connections.
Oooorrr...if someone knows of a hardware router to accomplish this I might be able to purchase that "research" under company expense. =)
Here's my box...
Win2k Pro (sp1), REG already tweaked for cable/dsl, two 3COM (3C905B-TX), Cable is Cacks@home, DSL is Covad 1.5/384, Linksys router/firewall in front of cable, with the DSL handled with another firewall.
I've already tried connection teaming with the two companies to use it (midpoint, and the other one) and I found it's not as ideal as they say. With all the NATs and crap going on things can get quite screwed up. I also have various servers running on this box. For instance..with teaming and you're on napster you can end up losing your connections as the software goes back and forth with different connections. Also the actual amount of time it spends "teaming" is small, and it's of no real help with large single files (most FTP sites won't allow multiple connections). There are hardware solutions, but from what I know are in the thousands.
Under Win2k in the advanced prefs you can say what connection you want to appear "first". It helps a little, if I'm leeching with DSL (usually ends up being the default gateway as the latency times are low)I can sometimes get the cable to start downloading and can get combined speeds well in to the 4000Kbps range (via DUMeter).
What I'd like to find out is if I can put in some creative static routes to try and "balance" (maybe fiddle with metrics) the two connections.
Oooorrr...if someone knows of a hardware router to accomplish this I might be able to purchase that "research" under company expense. =)