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Hi,
I have 3 PCs and 2 different internet connections, let's assume the following:One PC will be setup to act as router(Internet gateway) PC1.
The other 2 PC's will be clients: PC2 , PC3.
2 internet connections will be shared on PC1 (Internet connection sharing method) first internet connection will be internetA, the second will be internetB.
My question is: how can i set up PC1(the router) to share 2 internet connections(internetA , internetB) , so that PC2 will use only internetA and PC3 will use only internetB. (i mean every client PC will use differnet internet connection sharing on the router PC1).
Maybe it sounds littel complicated, but any help will be welcomed

You are indeed making it complicated.
The simple, logical, solution is, to have the two PC's (PC1 and PC2) you wish to share internet A hooked up as you say above, and have the third PC connected directly to internet B.

Also, Internet Connection Sharing in Windows is not capable of doing this.
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Not like that, i want PC1 to act as a Router which will have 2 internet connections.
So that PC2 connects to the internet through
the first DailUp connection on the Router(w2k3) and PC3 connects to the internet through the second DailUp connection on the Router.
Is there is any software can do it?

I honestly wouldn't even attempt it on a Windows machine. You're asking for headaches.
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Linux, a Cisco router, freeBSD, any of those work a lot better for any more advanced routing than Windows.
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OpenBSD (my firewall/router at home) or FreeBSD (one of my desktop's of choice at home) would work wonderfully, providing you know what you're doing and know the OS.
I suspect you're still making it a lot more complex than it needs to be. May I suggest two SOHO routers.....one for each connection. This precludes you having to use ICS on windows to share your internet connection. ICS is not the best, or most reliable, program around.

"to the internet through the second DailUp "
Poster wants to share Dial Up!?!
allany forget everything that has been posted so far. You can't do that with dialup. You don't want to waste your time trying to partition out dialup.
Look dialup is too slow of a connection to even try messing with routing or what pc connects to what line. Unless your dialups are from the same ISP and that ISP supports multilink [two modems dialed into the ISP with two modems with a combined upload/download of both] then there isn't anything to accomplish here.
Are you ready for where Microsoft wants you to go today?

I have two different ISPs, and my DailUp connections are not slow ( HSDPA up to 3,6 Mbit/S).
I want to know what are the SOHO routers, is that a hardware or software router?

With that kind of bandwidth at your disposal [for three pcs!!!] consider a cisco router with two GSM? [don't know if they make router interfaces compatable with HSDPA] ports to combine the two links.
You will want something more than a soho router to take advantage of your bandwidth availablity.
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