Combine wireless & wired ethernet?

blackninja · 24 Jan 2008 at 13:31

I have my PC with 1 ethernet to my router and 1 ethernet to my laptop
I have my laptop with 1 x ethernet to my pc (100bps) and 1 x Wireless (54bps) to the router

So, in my setup communication between the pc and laptop goes via the wire.

Is it possible for me to combine the wireless and wired to transfer stuff between my pc & laptop faster? As I write this I am transfering at 10.5 MB/sec ... for 60GB that's ages!

atomiser · 24 Jan 2008 at 13:41

not for a single transfer, no. what you could try, however, is access the shares via the ip addresses of the interfaces and kick off two separate copy jobs. this is sort of what i do to get around using wi-fi for file transfer, i just lob a crossover between my laptop and the main pc, let them auto-config themselves and ip and then access the share over that interface ip address.

hooj · 24 Jan 2008 at 13:43

Windows won't do this natively and you usually need matching network card and compatible drivers to team them.

Wireless is rubbish at large, sustained transfers. The extra speed you would get even if you could team the two interfaces, would be so small in comparison to the wired ethernet, it wouldn't be worth it.

blackninja · 24 Jan 2008 at 13:50

Fair enough ... wireless gives me 3.3 MB/s so I spose there's no real gain. Should have thought ahead and got me a Gigabit ethernet with the laptop but i did not factor this in