I'm housesitting for a bit and it is located a while out of town. It has decently fast satellite internet but the ping is abysmal (as expected) and totally unsuitable for playing online games. I am able to tether my phone and pick up a 4g connection since there is a tower nearby, This is both faster and has much, much better ping than the satellite internet but it will be severely throttled after 10GB. I would like to use my tether for games and at the same time be able to use skype over the satellite internet. Does anyone know of a good way to do this?
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The only way to do this (other than some super complicated hardware setup) is to use different devices. If you have an extra laptop/desktop, just wire it into the satellite (wifi/ethernet). I recommend going this route.
If you're talking about doing that on a single device things can get super complicated. Maybe the simplest way would be go to skype preferences tools->advanced->connection->change automatic proxy detection.
But in order for that to work, that involves setting up your local computer (or one inside the lan such as a VM) as a https/socks5 proxy, modifying your local routing table to not utilize it and point the proxy to the satellite connection. Then configure skype to point to that proxy and all normal traffic will be routed out of the 4G connection interface and skype will be routed over the satellite. If you messed with the config, you could prolly reverse the configuration to have only games you specify go out of the 4G interface but I'm not sure how to do that if the game doesn't support proxy settings (most don't).
So yeah. Get/borrow a second device and make your life easier.
With finals over and some free time on my hands I spent a few hours trying to work this out and I think I came up with a solution that is working. I am currently running Linux on a Virtualbox and that Virtualbox is set in bridge mode to use my Ethernet connection. I am running Skype on this Linux VM.
I then set my windows host machine to prioritize my tethered connection over the Ethernet and I am able to talk on Skype over my satellite Ethernet connection and game over my phone's tethered 4g connection on the same computer at the same time.
So far this is working great and allowing my data to last a lot longer on my phone.
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I love that you didnt take the easy way out and in fact learned something in the process... Then to top it all off, you returned to share what you learned with the rest of us. Thanks for posting. :)
Thanks. And just another bit of advice if anyone else is looking to do something similar, whether it be using wifi for one thing on your laptop and wired for another or some other combination. An earlier bit of software that was used for this called "ForceBindIP" has been mentioned to others seeking to do the same thing but to my experience, it does not work for Windows 8/10.