1394 Firewire and Fast Ethernet at the same time?

[Torghn]

I know you can run a standard NIC and a 1394 network at the same time, but is there any way to add the bandwith togeather forming a 500Mb/s connection or will it only use one at a time? I currently have 2 computer and a cable modem all pluged into a Switch. The two computers both have audigys so I want to run a firewire cable between them. What's the best way to set it up so they both have full access to the cablemodem, but also have the mostbandwith between the two?

 

[tboneuls]

I dont think you will be able to use both of them at the same time, I would simply use one or the other, and in my opinion fast ethernet is plenty for normal applications. If you really need a lot of bandwith, you may want to try Gigabit ethernet, but I would just stick to fast ethernet - it should be fine. If not, try firewire, but I think that would be a little more complicated.

 

[SocrPlyr]

i'm sure there are ways to balance the loads between the two and all you probably have to do is get a program to do it for you, but if you really need bandwidth between computer why not just go for gigaethernet...
just out of curiosity why do you need so much bandwidth?

Josh

 

[Torghn]

I use that much bandwith in sending vob files (full DVDs) from one computer to the other. I don't want to use gigabit Ethernet becuase that would cost more money (and I don't really need more bandwith, it would just cut my wait time down) and I already have firewire ports. I think FireNet may do the trick. It will let you run both networks at the same time, I just don't know if it'll use both at the same time to the same computer.