Linking NICs on Laptop

n00b question -> Not to get too specific at this point, but I'm
wondering if this is possible: I've now got 2 nics on my laptop, the
first being built in, the second by card bus.

Now, these can connect to the router independently. Is it therefore
possible to essentially link up the wifi connection (i.e. 2x 54mps)
going to say Firefox?

Or am I just talking bollox? ;)

Bondi (Class-1) wrote:

> n00b question -> Not to get too specific at this point, but I'm
> wondering if this is possible: I've now got 2 nics on my laptop, the
> first being built in, the second by card bus.
>
> Now, these can connect to the router independently. Is it therefore
> possible to essentially link up the wifi connection (i.e. 2x 54mps)
> going to say Firefox?
>
> Or am I just talking bollox? ;)
>
Hi,
You can use either but not both at the same time to double the speed.

"Bondi (Class-1)" <bondi_neverspam@fastmail.fm> hath wroth:

>n00b question -> Not to get too specific at this point,

Fine. You'll just get non-specific answers.

>but I'm
>wondering if this is possible: I've now got 2 nics on my laptop, the
>first being built in, the second by card bus.
>
>Now, these can connect to the router independently. Is it therefore
>possible to essentially link up the wifi connection (i.e. 2x 54mps)
>going to say Firefox?

Sorta, maybe, kinda, but probably not.

1. There is no way this arrangement is going to go faster for
downloading from the internet through the router. The limiting speed
is the internet broadband connection, not the ethernet or wireless.

2. For local LAN traffic, you can get twice the speed, but only via
completely independent connections and downloads. For example, if
ethernet card #1 is connected to one machine, while ethernet card #2
is connected to another machine, you will see the speed to the laptop
as the sum of the two speeds (assuming your laptop can handle it).
However, if you have both connect to a single server, the limiting
factor will be the single ethernet connection to that server.

3. Your laptop has no way to do load balancing between two ethernet
connections. It's not smart enough to split the load, or even to
achieve seperate connections. It's done with the router table:
start -> cmd -> run
route print
which defines where the packets go. If you have two ethernet
interfaces, it will automatically assign a different "metric" or
"cost" for each path, and route *ALL* packets through the cheapest.

4. There is a technology called "multilink" that bonds two IP
connections together. It's normally used for dialup, ISDN, and DSL.
| http://support.microsoft.com/default...307849&sd=tech
There might be some way to do it with ethernet, but I'm too lazy to
google for it (I'm late).

While not exactly what I guess you're looking for, you might wanna
look at these load balancing routers to see what's available:
http://www.edimax.com/html/english/p...-PRIrouter.htm


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