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theauditors
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A thought occured to me this morning after pondering how annoying the cap on my cable was getting. As some of you may know, optus in australia has a 3GB/month cap on their cable internet (unless you want to pay ridiculous amounts of money for it), and after that speed and bandwidth is limited to 28.8kbps levels.
Narrowband is relatively cheap, with unlimited hours and downloads plans with no automatic disconnect plans being available for approx. $25-$30. Therefore, if I were able to download 24/7 on narrowband, I'd be able to get around 5GB/month extra (at a conservative estimate), for not that much money.
My question is this: is there a way for me to set up my computer so that I can keep my computer on all the time, being logged into an account that utilizes a dialup connection, whilst being able to log into my normal account and use my cable internet connection when i need it? Can windows xp handle different users using different internet connections? I would only be using direct connect (a file transfer program) on my dialup account, so is there a way to ensure that all traffic other than dc++ is routed to the cable account?
thanks in advance
Narrowband is relatively cheap, with unlimited hours and downloads plans with no automatic disconnect plans being available for approx. $25-$30. Therefore, if I were able to download 24/7 on narrowband, I'd be able to get around 5GB/month extra (at a conservative estimate), for not that much money.
My question is this: is there a way for me to set up my computer so that I can keep my computer on all the time, being logged into an account that utilizes a dialup connection, whilst being able to log into my normal account and use my cable internet connection when i need it? Can windows xp handle different users using different internet connections? I would only be using direct connect (a file transfer program) on my dialup account, so is there a way to ensure that all traffic other than dc++ is routed to the cable account?
thanks in advance