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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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[(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.