A friend in the health care field works in an office that supplies her with a LAN connection that has internet and some useful local resources (some shared folders, and connection to a private database). However, the internet connection is slow as snail. She wants to subscribe to her own ISP but retain access to the local resources on the LAN, how can this be done? How do you combine the LAN and the ISP, and once combined, how can she route her internet traffic to the faster ISP, without also routing other people's internet request as well?

Hello, However, the internet connection is slow as snail. She wants to subscribe to her own ISP but retain access to the local resources on the LAN, how can this be done? for local access there is no relation with ISP. Access to local ressources will not be lost. How do you combine the LAN and the ISP, and once combined, how can she route her internet traffic to the faster ISP, without also routing other people's internet request as well? They can not be combined. To speed internet access, increase your bandwidth and make sure that you are pointing to the ISP DNS servers as primary DNS server. If a local DNS server is configured then make your ISP DNS server set as a forwarder and use the local DNS server as primary DNS server. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees , and confers no rights. Microsoft Student Partner 2010 / 2011 Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator: Security Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer: Security Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuration Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure, Configuration Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Windows Server 2008 Applications Infrastructure, Configuration Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Windows 7, Configuring Microsoft Certified IT Professional: Enterprise Administrator