My parents and my sister live next door to each other. Since they both have wireless routers (which pick up full strength at the other house), can I bridge connections to get more speed? Wired at each house, picking up wireless from the other? They are on different ISP's, so the total bandwidth isn't limited between them.
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Would this work to increase bandwidth?
- Thread starter Kil4Thril
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Technically you could increase bandwith, but it would not necessarily increase the speed.
Think of it this way: You have a road (the connection to the Internet), a car (your download/activity), and a speed limit (the max bandwith).
If you double the road, twice the cars can move through it, but each car is still limited by the speed limit. Thus if your connections are 5mbps you could download two things at 5mbps, but not one thing at 10mbps.
Its a crude example with some fallacies, but it gets the main point across.
Think of it this way: You have a road (the connection to the Internet), a car (your download/activity), and a speed limit (the max bandwith).
If you double the road, twice the cars can move through it, but each car is still limited by the speed limit. Thus if your connections are 5mbps you could download two things at 5mbps, but not one thing at 10mbps.
Its a crude example with some fallacies, but it gets the main point across.
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Your torrent downloads will benefit greatly. I used to do this with a wireless AP from neighbor and a cable connection. I used a pfsense gateway for the load balancing.
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And his poor sister next door suffers because that torrent/p2p junk brings home grade routers to their knees..and she'll experience drastic slowdowns and timeouts on a connection she's footing the monthly nut for.
Yeah, mom's a pirate
I was just playing with stuff, hoping to make DL's/browsing faster. I figure if I must be the family IT guy, I should get a little bit of experimental/play time from it.