Two internet connections one for gaming and one for stream how to do it?

[THE_Something]

Hello 

I need help i have to difrent internet sources and i want to conncet them both to the same pc 

One will be for gaming and the other one to pass trow obs my stream to my secand pc that will upload the stream how do i do that useing lan cable (i have usb adapter for one more lan connection) 

[manikyath]

so.. trying to understand your setup here...

 

- PC1 runs the game, is connected to WAN1 for the game's network access, and runs OBS

- PC1's OBS output gets pushed to PC2

- PC2 then does further processing to push that over WAN2 to the interwebz.

 

is that correct?

[mariushm]

Alternative would be to install two network cards in your computer and if needed to use various tools to bind applications only to specific network cards.

 

[bebejapes]

10 hours ago, THE_Something said:

Hello 

I need help i have to difrent internet sources and i want to conncet them both to the same pc 

One will be for gaming and the other one to pass trow obs my stream to my secand pc that will upload the stream how do i do that useing lan cable (i have usb adapter for one more lan connection) 

@mariushm is correct on this. but its such a tedious task. 

[Anghammarad]

to use that to the fullest you will need to build yourself a router for in between both connections and your machine.

 

on that router you have to configure static routes for your games and everything else... so that games go one connection, everything else the other.

 

 

[mariushm]

oh and i didn't notice in your original message ... you don't want to mess with usb network cards, the performance isn't that great. usb uses more cpu power to transmit data, and there can be higher latency compared to regular ethernet.

 

also ,there are plugins for obs which can transfer the raw captured data to a second pc .. check https://github.com/Palakis/obs-ndi/releases/tag/4.1.3

 and  https://www.newtek.com/blog/tips/using-obs-ndi-plugin/

 

[THE_Something]

U kind of got it pc 1 have 2 network one for games and one for obs pc 2 have only for obs 

Just make is semple

[THE_Something]

2 hours ago, mariushm said:

oh and i didn't notice in your original message ... you don't want to mess with usb network cards, the performance isn't that great. usb uses more cpu power to transmit data, and there can be higher latency compared to regular ethernet.

 

also ,there are plugins for obs which can transfer the raw captured data to a second pc .. check https://github.com/Palakis/obs-ndi/releases/tag/4.1.3

 and  https://www.newtek.com/blog/tips/using-obs-ndi-plugin/

 

that the plugins im using but let me explain i heve two surces of internet 

one that give me shit ping but 5 mega upload that great to upload stream

and one with great ping for game but less the 3 mega upload im trying to enjoy both world

[Alex Atkin UK]

Like someone said above, this would be far easier with a router dedicated to doing it as you could permanently configure the routing table, but should still be doable otherwise but is going to be complicated to setup, at least on single PC.

 

How are you currently receiving each Internet connection?

There are definitely ways this can be done with a dedicated streaming PC, by ensuring that PC doesn't have the main gateway set (or change its priority in the routing table) so that it chooses to use the alternative connection over the main one.

[beersykins]

As above you can do this with policy based routing on a router that supports that feature if you know the ports/protocols for each type of traffic which you can set to use a different gateway/connection.

 

On a single host it's really a PITA.

[Alex Atkin UK]

9 hours ago, beersykins said:

As above you can do this with policy based routing on a router that supports that feature if you know the ports/protocols for each type of traffic which you can set to use a different gateway/connection.

 

On a single host it's really a PITA.

Well it wouldn't need to be policy, as long as you know the IP range you want to route out of the other connection.  But its still a PITA, especially as those IP ranges could change at any time.

[beersykins]

46 minutes ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

especially as those IP ranges could change at any time.

Yeah that's pretty much my angle for doing PBR, if you have a consistent destination port/proto to dump into you can just match against that piece instead without keeping track of destinations

[THE_Something]

8 hours ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

Well it wouldn't need to be policy, as long as you know the IP range you want to route out of the other connection.  But its still a PITA, especially as those IP ranges could change at any time.

 

7 hours ago, beersykins said:

Yeah that's pretty much my angle for doing PBR, if you have a consistent destination port/proto to dump into you can just match against that piece instead without keeping track of destinations

soo what u suggasting tobuy  router witch one u recomend to buy 

[jjdrost]

why you wanna do it?

Because you have 1 output in your home and it don't go faster with 2 cabels to 1 output cable to your provider 

[Alex Atkin UK]

6 hours ago, jjdrost said:

why you wanna do it?

Because you have 1 output in your home and it don't go faster with 2 cabels to 1 output cable to your provider 

They clearly have two.

[skippytheturtle]

Any reason you could not use a load balancing router and not deal with the mess? I guess latency might be an issue though.

[N3tw0rk1ng]

install a router and do routing/packet marks, you can the route the traffic for certain applications via the desired connections.

[Falconevo]

Use something like pfSense or any load balancing router and route packets from the stream via the alternate connection.

 

I do something similar but more for having a dedicated gaming connection and a 'download all the things' connection.