Possible to tether phone and use DSL at same time?

[Keyone]

I've been wondering this for a long while now and am no sure where or what to even search for on Google - maybe someone could offer some help. Is it possible to use the data connection on my PPC and DSL connection on the same computer simultaneously? What I want is to be downloading things on my DSL line at full speed while using doing casual internet surfing on Firefox using the tethered phone.

Sounds strange, I know, but I just wanted to know if it is possible - though I don't need a reply limiting my download or something like that...

[Perasite]

There is no way for your computer to tell the difference between the download and the web surfing, so it wouldn't know what connection to use. I would just stick with the DSL.

[jhonny11]

Techincally, you can. You will have two separate IP addresses and the computer can use both, but unless you have a fair bit of tcp/ip knowledge, it is pretty difficult. You can use routing tables to do it manually, mostly....

Bottom line, not really easy to do.