How to Load Balance 2 Internet Connections on a Windows 7 machine?

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I found a forum thread that suggested the following...

So far, I tried it, but I don't see much success (meaning most traffic still ended up on only 1 NIC, although sometimes I see both network cards having some traffics)...

Step 1

In the registry key, I added a DWORD value to the following hive:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\NetBT\Parameters

New DWORD (32-bit) value: RandomAdapter and set its value to 1

After doing that I can see somewhat the network traffic being divided into both network adapters in the Task Manager, Networking tab.

Step 2 I change the Adapter Metric on both adapter to the same value per the following MSKB: 315088 & 258487