Using multiple internet connections on a ServerPC

[kazisahab]

now i hv 2 broadband connections and 1 server pc(windowsxp) ..2 network pc(vista64,xp)
now i wod like to use both the connections on the server as i want the pcs to b connected
now i knw

There is no way a single application can use two internet connections at one given point.
The only way you can use two connections on a single computer is by using one of those teaming softwares
but even with those only one connection can be used for one application.
If you are downloading using torrents dont assume that there are different
applications working for each connection established.

i'd b glad if the server cod have one connection and pass the other one ahead ... or put one connection on only torrent downloading .. and the other on all other activities... i knw this can b done by wingate ... but i m not sure how ... :S someone ?

[adrien]

Hi

WinGate uses multiple connections in the proxies only. You can configure proxies in WinGate to specify which gateway to use, and under what circumstances, e.g. failover or round-robin.

so if you wanted torrent downloading to use one connection, you'd need to get it to go through a proxy somehow. I'm not sure what ports it uses (or even if it uses TCP), so it may be easier to get other (at least most) to go through a different connection, and make the torrent traffic go through the default connection.

the default connection will be the one with the lower metric in the system route table. If you run cmd.exe on the server, and type "route print", you should see 2 entries with network address of 0.0.0.0. These are the default routes. The one with the lower metric value will be used by default for all traffic by the OS. You can get WinGate to use the other one in a proxy by specifying that as the gateway to use for that proxy.

You can alter the metric used by editing the metric in the adapter tcp/ip advanced settings in the OS.

Regards

Adrien