Frankly I'd do this with a "box device" that did the bonding and presented your new bonded connection as Ethernet to your PC. Anything else would be too rough on folk today.
Bob
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Hello everyone. I'm Marco from Northeast Italy. Lately I've been nurturing the idea of starting my own stream on twitch. Nothing serious or professional, I just liked the idea of having my own little channel. Unfortunately my area is not covered by cable as of yet, and the speed of my dsl connection (7 Mbps Dwld - 0.40 Mbps Upld) is insufficient to support a stream.
The program I'd be using, openbroadcaster, has an advanced option to set an alternative connection to dedicate to it, so that the bandwith of the other connection would theoretically be free for other applications to use.
Owning also a simcard with a very good flat rate and even better speed on WCDMA 3g(14 Mbps Dwld - 5 Mbps Upld), I decided to take full advantage of the previously described feature of Opebroadcaster software and bought a usb modem to put the simcard into (Huawei E372) and connected a panel antenna to it for maximum signal stability (it keeps a clear signal of -75 dBm at all times).
I should thusly have my Dsl landline dedicated to everything but openbroadcaster whilst the 3g modem connection is assigned specifically to that task.
THE PROBLEM is that whenever i plug the usb modem in and start the 3g connection it becomes the main connection; the dsl line is ignored entirely, if a game is open it gets disconnected and needs to be restarted, the dsl line is ignored even if set as the main connection in the network and sharing center.
I tried to force the games and their launchers (blizzard's hearthstone and valve's dota 2) to use that connection with a nifty freeware program but they won't even start.
I have no other solutions in mind as I'm not that tech-savvy especially when it comes to networks. Any help or insight would be really appreciated.
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