Does anyone know whether you get a faster effective network speed if you have both a wired and a wireless connection active simultaneously? Our wired connection is only 100MBit, so an extra 54Mbit (theoretically) would make quite a difference.
John H
John,
I would have thought that the faster network connection would have to slow down to the slower network connection. If it was indeed possible, to run both at the same time, transferring the same file or separate files.
How would anything know what files to send to what connection? Bit like having one leg running faster than the other, lol
Though.... there might be some software out there that can do this. The cost would be higher than buying a cheapo 1Gb D-link switch and some 1Gb cards.
Pete
I'm hoping that the TCP/IP protocol will handle the routing of the packets of data. As I understand it, on an internet connection, different packets of data can get routed via different servers.Also P2P software manages to download a single file from different sources, so it must be possible. The question is, does Windows XP work this way?
John H
a.. For traffic initiated by other computers that are neighbors of the multihomed computer, the traffic flows over the network adapter attached to the common subnet. For example, if a neighboring computer on the Ethernet-based subnet of the multihomed computer initiates traffic, the traffic flows over the Ethernet network adapter.
b.. For traffic initiated by other remote computers (located beyond the locally attached subnets), the traffic flows over the network adapter corresponding to the destination IP address chosen by the initiating computer. For example, a multihomed Windows XP-based computer will register the IP addresses for both wired and wireless network adapters in the Domain Name System (DNS) using DNS dynamic update. When another computer queries for the name of the multihomed computer, it will get both of the multihomed computer's IP addresses in random order. The DNS client resolver in Windows XP chooses the first IP address in the list returned by the DNS server.
c.. For traffic initiated by the multihomed computer for neighboring destinations, the traffic flows over the network adapter attached to the common subnet. For example, if a neighboring computer is on the Ethernet-based subnet of the multihomed computer, the traffic flows over the Ethernet network adapter.
d.. For traffic initiated by the multihomed computer for remote destinations, the traffic flows over the network adapter associated with the currently chosen default route in the IP routing table, unless there are additional routes to the remote destination.
Thanks for that. It seems that there is no way of aggregating the 2 lots of bandwith then - pity!
John H
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