Using two internet connections?

Help & Support
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I current have a 60GB FUP monthly limit. This isn’t enough to allow me download all my TV shows and browse the internet. So i have decided to get another internet connection. It will be the cheapest and slowest (512kbps). I will be using my PC and other devices on my current internet connection. Since sonarr is installed on a dedicated machine via ethernet. I can just connect the wire to the new modem. But since all my TV shows are streamed from the server i would need to have it on the same network as my other devices. I can install another ethernet port in the server. But how do i make sure that all the downloads are done via the slower internet connection?

2

You’ll have to setup your download client to use that connection, not sure if SAB/get support that though.

3

Just upgrade your current connection.

4

That is unfortunately not possible cause of the costs. I don’t have great internet facilities here. The highest FUP they offer is 80GB. Which honestly isn’t a lot. After i consume the 60GB the speed gets downgraded to 512KBps unlimited. But i would like to use the High speed. Hence having two internet connections will solve this issue.

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This is totally doable but i only know how to perform such routing using Linux or FreeBSD. 2 ways I currently see are.

  1. You setup a Linux/BSD based router with 2 interfaces 1 for each internet connection, you configure nzbget/sabnzbd whatever to use only the slow 512kbps route via tc/iptables or pf for all downloading.

  2. (Assuming you still have only one internet connection) You get a cheap Linux VPS, I’ve seen some that are 2TB Bandwith/100GB HDD for $13/yr and use it as a sort of cache where all the downloading happens on the VPS and have a SSHFS connection to the VPS which basically sees the file system as a local directory so I can watch shows immediately and slowly replicate/rsync all of them not exceeding the CAP which I would set as 40GB and keep 20 GB for other uses.

Both options require technical chops that I have no idea if can be done in Windows or OSX. Option 2 is what I would do because i’m a cheap bastard. Option 1 has many articles on how to setup and even if your dedicated machine is Windows you can install Linux on Virtual box and have all the Sonarr/nzbget stuff run inside it forcing Virtual box to use the slower Ethernet interface connection for all downloads. PS. option #2 is only for Usenet, VPS providers don’t allow torrents.