Separating Internet Connections

[trouty]

i live on campus at a college and they provide T1 internet connection and phone service. The T1 connection blocks nearly every download, ftp site, streaming media, all my multiplayer games and P2P clients. So the only way for me to download music as of now is over 56k. i can have both my T1 and 56K connected at the same time. but all the apps redirect traffic to the 56k connection instead of the T1. is there anyway to configure my setup so that only my P2P clients uses the 56k, and everything else lyk Internet Explorer, Messenger etc. uses the T1?

[ErikD]

Not really. You are directly connecting the computer to the same internet twice using two different connection types. You can't give the computer two default routes, the internet connection, because by defenition the default route is the ONE route to send packets when no other route is known.

[Sava700]

i live on campus at a college and they provide T1 internet connection and phone service. The T1 connection blocks nearly every download, ftp site, streaming media, all my multiplayer games and P2P clients. So the only way for me to download music as of now is over 56k. i can have both my T1 and 56K connected at the same time. but all the apps redirect traffic to the 56k connection instead of the T1. is there anyway to configure my setup so that only my P2P clients uses the 56k, and everything else lyk Internet Explorer, Messenger etc. uses the T1?


ehh odd.. have you called them about the blocking? Perhaps its something that shouldn't be happening.
Otherwise no no way to split it unless you get two computers.

[ErikD]

I doubt it is an error on the universities part. Most don't want the internet connection to be used for P2P stuff, which is usually mostly illegal anyway, so they block that out. Some legit stuff might very well be blocked as a result.

Also depending on what kind of bandwidth is available, and how many users need to ahre it, they might not want lots of high bandwidth applications running, such as streaming media. If a large number of users needs to share a small relitively bandwidth, T1 in your case, then it can very quickly get bogged down if everyone is trying to us a large pice of that pie.

[trouty]

i think what ill end up doing is building a media server that uses the modem connection alone, and use it solely for downloading ****. is that a better idea? n can i host a dedicated server off of the T1 connection and connect to it thru the 56k?

[ErikD]

While technically feasible, I doubt it would work in reality. The same software and hardware that is blocking you from downloading, P2P, etc. would likely have something to say about you running your own server. As would the university if and when they find out.

[trouty]

but what about the idea of the media server, running solely off the 56k?

[ErikD]

Like I said before technically it would be possible to run a server using a dialup connection. My bet would be that the university wouldn't look kindly on that though. Also you need to keep in mind that while downloading on a 56k connection is painfully slow uploads are even slower. I would really think about how important it is to download those files before spending the money to build a server.