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Lan and Wifi at same time
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There are softwares that can do that.
https://speedify.com/
For one, there are others, too. I saw one that would do Lan, Wifi and cellular so you could have 3 internet connections in use at the same time.
This really only works for downloads like torrents, nzb files or "download accelerator plus"
https://speedify.com/
For one, there are others, too. I saw one that would do Lan, Wifi and cellular so you could have 3 internet connections in use at the same time.
This really only works for downloads like torrents, nzb files or "download accelerator plus"
IdiotInCharge
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From a network perspective, not really. At least not how networking works now, as each device has its own MAC address and IP address, and both ends of a transmission need to understand what's going on. This works well from a server perspective though, if that's what you want to use it for: however, just accelerating say single downloads isn't really going to happen.
Much Appreciated. Just figured it was worth a shot. I guess I should have gotten Dual Nics then.
Yeah.. I don't download much. Thanks for the reply
Thanks for the reply
Basically what you are talking about is called bonding.
A few conditions would have to exist for this type of bonding to be of any benefit.
1) Your PC would have to have a slower connection to your gateway than your Internet speed. i.e. You're paying for 500mbit/second internet (WAN) and for some reason you can only connect to your gateway via fast Ethernet which is 100mbps (LAN). If your LAN is faster than your WAN, then you're already maxing out your internet speed and adding a Wi-Fi connection isn't going to help.
2) Let's say 1 is true, then the next thing is to see how much slower your LAN is than your WAN. Also remember that Wi-Fi speeds are a product of how far away your client is away from the AP and how many antennas your AP and your client has. The scope of this discussion is very complex and I can dive into it if you want.
Now, you didn't mention whether this is to increase your Internet speed or maybe you want to to increase just your overall LAN speed. I just covered WAN speed. For LAN, for any benefit you would have to determine where the bottleneck is. Your max LAN speed is only has fast as your slowest link. So if you already have gigabit LAN through your place, and you have gigE connection to your PC, then see point #1 from above. Now if somehow you have greater than gigE LAN (lnik aggregation through a switch, or 2.5GE switch or above) and your PC only has gigE connection, then see point #2 from above.
A few conditions would have to exist for this type of bonding to be of any benefit.
1) Your PC would have to have a slower connection to your gateway than your Internet speed. i.e. You're paying for 500mbit/second internet (WAN) and for some reason you can only connect to your gateway via fast Ethernet which is 100mbps (LAN). If your LAN is faster than your WAN, then you're already maxing out your internet speed and adding a Wi-Fi connection isn't going to help.
2) Let's say 1 is true, then the next thing is to see how much slower your LAN is than your WAN. Also remember that Wi-Fi speeds are a product of how far away your client is away from the AP and how many antennas your AP and your client has. The scope of this discussion is very complex and I can dive into it if you want.
Now, you didn't mention whether this is to increase your Internet speed or maybe you want to to increase just your overall LAN speed. I just covered WAN speed. For LAN, for any benefit you would have to determine where the bottleneck is. Your max LAN speed is only has fast as your slowest link. So if you already have gigabit LAN through your place, and you have gigE connection to your PC, then see point #1 from above. Now if somehow you have greater than gigE LAN (lnik aggregation through a switch, or 2.5GE switch or above) and your PC only has gigE connection, then see point #2 from above.
IdiotInCharge
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Same problem, really- it's not the type of connection, it's that there is more than one with respect to addressing and most TCP/IP stacks are not designed to span multiple addresses, MAC or IP. You have to use equipment designed to support 'bonding' in order for the setup to work at all, and then you have to have an application that behaves in such a way that it takes advantage.
The basics are that you need multiple sessions. This probably works well for stuff like Bittorrent, but not much else, at the consumer level. For a server, it works great, as a server is generally expected to have many clients and thus many sessions.
The equipment you'd need would be something like a NAS with multiple ports and a managed switch that both support link aggregation or related technologies.