Re: Two ISPs - Which one is used

["Shannon ODonnell" <sodonnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have a netgear router that points to one ISP (satellite) and a belkin
router that points to a cell phone card.

I have two separate connections (devices) on my PC for connecting
wirelessly.

I have both active, one to the netgear and one to the belkin.  Different
SSIDs, one is even encrypted and the other is not, also they are on two
different subnets (I set the routers up with two different sub-nets).

So...I know that I am on both at the same time because I can get to
different areas of my network, (like to my iSeries for example) through one
IP address and then to other areas through another IP address.

The answer to my question doesn't even matter really as I'm phasing one out
anyway, which is why I currently have two.   

I was just curious if there was some simple formula that Windows uses to
decide which to use for a given request over the web.



-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of David Gibbs
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 2:48 PM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Two ISPs - Which one is used

Shannon ODonnell wrote:
> If I type in www.gotothiswebpage.com in my browser...I'm wondering how
> Windows/networking knows which, or how it chooses which, connection (and
> therefore which ISP) it will use since both are active on my PC and both
are
> pointing to 2 different ISPs and 2 different wireless routers.

Generally speaking, you can only be connected to one wireless router at a
time (wirelessly, that is).

Or do both wireless routers have the same SSID & password?

david