Is it possible to use two connections at once?

[nimbuz]

Hi,I have subscribed to Hathaway unlimited plan yesterday and I'm planning to keep MTNL as well. Can I use both connections simultaneously, like for example, download using hathaway and surf using MTNL?Thanks

 

[banda]

the speeds won't add up for anything, except i think torrents. otherwise you can surely use them on the same pc for different applications.

 

[nimbuz]

No I mean, if I want to use MTNL just for surfing (IE/FF/Messenger) and Hathaway for say IDM (Internet Download Manager), possible?Thanks

 

[banda]

yea .. no problem als long as long you don't want to 'fuse' the connections and use as one. doing that is tricky.

 

[nimbuz]

ofcourse not, why would I want to do that? I'm quite satisfied with 210kb/s, even my HDD won't handle so many downloads. ;-)So how do I apply hathway to IDM, is there any specific way of doing that? Are you sure it won't eat up my MTNl bandwidth?

 

[banda]

hmm.. keeping them entirely seprate from each other is also not easy. why do you want to set it up like that??.. cuz just setting up a comfortable download limit should give u enuf b/w to surf

 

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[nimbuz]

I want to use hathaway (only!) for download to save my MTNL bandwidth for surfing. If I use MTNL for downloads, my monthly limit would drain out rather quickly.

 

[banda]

then u've hit a roadblock... if you want to control what type of services either of the connections is used for then, either you will have to set up some kind of filtering .. which i don't have much idea about.. or just do one thing at a time but i guess if you use torrents it will be simpler to filter as you will be using different ports....if you have two machines at home then maybe you can setup a proxy on one and set that in your browser as the default.. but that would just defeat the purpose i guess ...

 

[nimbuz]

Yep, If I had two PCs then I wouldn't bother using a single PCs resources to download stuff 24x7. ;-)Thanks anyway.btw, I knoe some people here do have multiple connections, I wonder how do they manage?