Wireless and wired network card

Aphelion

I've got a PC with both a wireless card and a wired ethernet card. If I've got a big download and I want to "borrow" bandwidth from my neighbors, will creating a network bridge in windows xp combine the two sources?

I tried it but it didn't seem to increase my speeds at all, and when I only had one source connected, it wouldn't work at all until I deleted the bridge.

Jump

You may need a packet controller like cFosSpeed or other. Hopefully someone that knows about such stuff will come along. I would be interested to know to.

Injustice

I had the same results when I tried to bridge a DSL and digital cable connection, so it's not just a wireless/wired thing. My guess is you end up suffering from the effects of trying to sync two dissimiliar connections.

BocaRed

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Originally Posted by Jump

You may need a packet controller like cFosSpeed or other. Hopefully someone that knows about such stuff will come along. I would be interested to know to.

You could do it with a SonicWall (hardware) firewall with Enhanced OS; say a model TZ170. It has two WAN ports, and the ability to load-balance the traffic in a few different ways.

Brooster

I'm not quite sure what you are doing here, but in reality, network traffic has to choose a path to take. When you have two paths, it will always take only one of the two paths unless you have a piece of code that allows both ports to work simultaneously.

netburnr

Yep, what you are doing is not possible AFAIK.

Jump

Yes it is. You just need something to control the packet flow.

Jump

Here is one example of a load balancing router you can use. D-Link DI-LB604 4-Port Load Balancing Router

Here is a good price for it at Amazon.

Amazon.com: D-Link DI-LB604?4-Port Load Balancing...

Jump

Here is a linky Linksys.com - Products/Business Solutions/VPN Solutions/RV042

I think the key here is you need to look at small business/office products not home products.

Brooster

Most of the load-balancing algorithms are based off of balancing different session connections (round robin, etc...). So if you run concurrent ftp sessions from the same PC, the router should run one out one port and one out the other.

However, some manufacturers based the load balancing off of destination IP address (the last number being odd or even) or off a combination of the source IP and the destination IP. In either of these cases, load balancing would do you no good.

Aphelion

I seem to recall people running twin ISDN modem connections back in the day to double their download speed to a scorching 256 or 512.

That D-Link load-balancing multi-hyphenate router looks like an easy answer, but I think I need a software solution. The primary connection is my personal cable modem, but the secondary connection is my neighbor's unlocked router

.

For the D-Link to work I'd have to get one of those "wireless ->wired" converter thingy's to use my neighbor's signal in my WAN slot. I've had bad experiences with those converter thingy's when I tried to share a different neighbor's connection (my friend) through 7 apartments. Even with nice antenna's it never worked quite right.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and thanks for the suggestions. I hadn't even thought to look at hardware!

Brooster

The old modem method was called "shotgun", if that's any help.

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	Aphelion Member Pilot Name: Aphelion Joystick: MS FF1 Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Ring View Posts: 305	Wireless and wired network card I've got a PC with both a wireless card and a wired ethernet card. If I've got a big download and I want to "borrow" bandwidth from my neighbors, will creating a network bridge in windows xp combine the two sources? I tried it but it didn't seem to increase my speeds at all, and when I only had one source connected, it wouldn't work at all until I deleted the bridge.
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	Injustice Member Pilot Name: Injustice Faction: Pirate Joystick: Some POS Logitech because my FF2 broke Join Date: May 2007 Location: 29 Palms, CA Posts: 629	Re: Wireless and wired network card I had the same results when I tried to bridge a DSL and digital cable connection, so it's not just a wireless/wired thing. My guess is you end up suffering from the effects of trying to sync two dissimiliar connections.
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	Brooster Member Pilot Name: Booster Faction: Quantar Joystick: FF II Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Chicago Posts: 102	Re: Wireless and wired network card I'm not quite sure what you are doing here, but in reality, network traffic has to choose a path to take. When you have two paths, it will always take only one of the two paths unless you have a piece of code that allows both ports to work simultaneously.