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[misterhappy.livejournal.com]

Got a question for some of you network guru's.
I have a cable ISP.
they give me two IP's.
I want to hook up 2 broadband routers to these two IP's.
I have a netgear, and a linksys.
I have tried several methods, mainly being cable modem into a switch, then off to the two routers, then off to the computers.

Any suggestions as to how to do this?
When I hook them up, everything works great, but my access times to the net double.
ping times to my email server, and several quake servers have doubled, and that is unacceptable.

I have access to a regular 10BT hub that i will try, but i cant see why a switch would be slower than a hub.

I am quite network savy, so dont try to hide any technical terms. I am a network guy for a big oil company, but this is just little home networking stuff.

Any ideas?

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[oddball42.livejournal.com]

you have the same bandwidth for everything... no matter how many switches and IP's you have set up.

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[misterhappy.livejournal.com]

I know that.
All the tests and pinging that i am doing is while no one else is using the connection.

[nefariousjareth.livejournal.com]

getting rid of one of the routers should make everything faster on the remaining machines. alternatively, check to see if a broader band service is available. splitting your band is going to slow you down regardless.

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[misterhappy.livejournal.com]

Once again, I am doing the tests while no one else is using the connection. I understand what happens when you put more than one computer on a single connection, using switches, routers, hubs, or not.

I am doing this for a reason, so getting rid of a router is not an option. I need two routers, each using its own IP.

[nix.livejournal.com]

Do your ping times go up with just one router attached or just two?

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[misterhappy.livejournal.com]

with one or both. doesnt matter, ping times are high.
it seems to be the switch slowing it down

[nix.livejournal.com]

What are ping times like to the wan IP address of the first router your work station is connecting two?

Howabout ping times to the wan address of the second router in the network.

Does your switch collisions when you have both routers hooked into it?

Are the routers doing any packet monitering or have you portmapped it to play games? (We always found that ping times to game servers really increased going through NAT.)

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[misterhappy.livejournal.com]

there is no lag time going thru our own network. going from router to router thru the switch works fine, no slow down.

as for packet monitoring, i know NAT slows it a little, but this is just a regular dos command ping time, and a program called Ping Plotter. We dont host quake games.

The speeds we get with NO switch, we are happy with(not the fastest, but thats what you get with switches and routers and NAT's, oh my)

Its when we stick the switch between the modem and the router. there are NO setting changes or anything. The physical switch is the ONLY difference.

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[nix.livejournal.com]

hmmm.... So have you tried more then one switch?

This is strange. :P

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[misterhappy.livejournal.com]

Last night, i put a 10BT hub in place of the switch, and it was a little better, but still not great.
Adding the ONE extra hop between the router and the modem should not double the ping times. its really getting on my nerves now.

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[(Anonymous)]

Why don't you get a better router that will support more than one IP address on the interface. Then go straight from the Cable Modem into that router. From that point, configuring NAT want be that hard. Also, make sure all routing protocols are turned off on your wan segment.