connecting to 2 networks at once?
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Redundancy is the only real benefit I can see, your mac will automatically switch gateway if you loose connection on one of the networks. As far as I know you can't make it use both connections in a bonded setup without having some kind of special router setup.
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I am using 2 connections at once, my wired connection in my house, and im also connected to my next door wireless connection. So i get extra speeeed
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Not unless you fiddled with the routing table or the connection metrics you're not.
Unless you are using expensive load balancing hardware or have multiple routers to setup some local routing tables depending on what you want to use for what than its not as simple as you probably want it to be.
For example if you wanted to route all traffic destined for one subnet you could setup routing tables appropriately and everything else would go through your NIC with the configured gateway.
For example if you wanted to route all traffic destined for one subnet you could setup routing tables appropriately and everything else would go through your NIC with the configured gateway.
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Nope i am using 2 at once and i can change from one to another..
It also totals up in my connection meter..
I have 20Mb Broadband, and a 8Mb Wireless connection, and when there both going in at the same time it totals them both up and says 28, and then it goes at the speed a 28mb connection would go at..
It also totals up in my connection meter..
I have 20Mb Broadband, and a 8Mb Wireless connection, and when there both going in at the same time it totals them both up and says 28, and then it goes at the speed a 28mb connection would go at..
I supposed he could be multi-threading the downloads, but probably not.
@OP - If you've got two separate internet connections, lets say an ADSL line and VM cable you could get something like a DrayTek 2930 and plug the VM into one WAN port and the ADSL via an ADSL ethernet modem like a DrayTek 120 into the 2nd WAN port.
This would allow you to get load balancing between the two or redundancy, you could easily set up the router so that certain traffic would be sent over one connection.
What this won't give you is agregate bandwidth, such as Jamesdavid3 claims to have done (I think he is talking out of his arse), for that you would need ideally both connections from an ISP like Andrews&Arnold who support link agregation at their end of the connection, or an expensive load balancing system from someone line xrio.
@OP - If you've got two separate internet connections, lets say an ADSL line and VM cable you could get something like a DrayTek 2930 and plug the VM into one WAN port and the ADSL via an ADSL ethernet modem like a DrayTek 120 into the 2nd WAN port.
This would allow you to get load balancing between the two or redundancy, you could easily set up the router so that certain traffic would be sent over one connection.
What this won't give you is agregate bandwidth, such as Jamesdavid3 claims to have done (I think he is talking out of his arse), for that you would need ideally both connections from an ISP like Andrews&Arnold who support link agregation at their end of the connection, or an expensive load balancing system from someone line xrio.
If you are using counters that measure a total off all NICs then you might be able to get a 28mbit reading.
It's only a reading though, you wont be getting 28mbit on any one transfer, be it over the LAN or from the Internet. You need complex hardware to do this.