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you could look at a load balancing router. it can combine say, dsl & cable
in 2 methods.
-load-balancing
-fail safe connection
sounds simple to setup - but i have no experience personally..
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=930112&CatId=584
heres a thread about it from ET
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=83550&highlight=hotbrick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shawn Jones" <shawnjones2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 4:07 PM
Subject: OT: Cable with DSL
> I'm currently trying to provide some internet connection redundancy by
> adding DSL to my existing Cable setup. I was thinking that ideally, I
would
> have Cable going to my desktop machine and DSL going to my laptop, with a
> LAN connecting the two. But like most thinks, this was not as simple as I
> was first thinking ;).
>
> I originally had an internet sharing router (D-Link EBR-2310) connecting
my
> desktop and laptop to Cable. I was hoping I could disconnect the laptop
> from the router and connect it to a hub connecting the DSL modem, laptop
and
> router together. But this doesn't work.
>
> The laptop has to have it's default gateway assigned to the DSL modem's
> assigned (via it's DHCP) ip and the desktop has to use the default gateway
> to my router (192.168.0.1). I don't see a way to connect these two
machines
> together with this configuration. I would like to share files and a mouse
> between the two machines.
>
> Any suggestions or thoughts would be appreciated. I was hoping I would
not
> have to buy some expensive piece of hardware to accomplish this.
>
> thanks,
> shawn
>
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