Question / Help Making the Most Out of Two Internet Connections? Dual WAN / capture card

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Cruzerthebruzer

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Anyone have experience with Dual WAN and 2 different ISPs to stream?

My DSL has high ping but high upload, and my cable has low ping low upload so it's hard to stream on the Cable provider but it's hard to play on the DSL provider.

Any way Dual WAN could provide the best of both worlds?

Also I have a decent laptop, would it be possible to set up a capture card and one ISP through it, and then have the other ISP connect to this computer?

I don't really know the best option and any help is greatly appreciated.

Specs of Laptop:
i7-3610QM
Has USB 3.0 Ports

I could potentially use the laptop to play and the PC to just encode if it came down to that as well.

And unfortunately upgrading the cable internet isn't much of an option they don't offer higher than 2 mbps upload (which unfortunately has a large amount of uplink buffering making ping spike when using only 1mbps)

Any help is appreciated s.s
 
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Jack0r

Jack0r

The Helping Squad
Its probably all doable on one PC. OBS allows you to select the network interface in the advanced settings, so you can point it to the connection with better upload. To make your games use the other connection it should be enough to change it to the highest priority in your Windows Network settings.
So the games would automatically use the connection with low ping and OBS the one with good upload. Of course you need two network cards for this in your pc.
 
Jack0r

Jack0r

The Helping Squad
Yea it should definitely work. The game should use the network connection with higher priority. Thats a trick I used for Hamachi back in the day. And since OBS can be set to use the second network connection, you should be good to go :)

Edit: Just get a cheap network card that supports 10/100 and maybe 1gbps speeds. Nothing too fancy.
 
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Cruzerthebruzer

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I had a wireless network card laying around and I tried it and it appears to be working, ordered a hard wired network card to put in to finalize it. Hopefully this works out I've been trying for a long time to get a good stream goin and this might finally be the ticket.

I appreciate your help very, very much thank you :D
 
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