Bridging Connections

[MielkeHBP]

Last year I built my computer and I have cable internet, which is shown through an icon(onboard lan) in my network connections in control panel. Then I have an ethernet card which I use for home networking. When I right click on one of those, an option comes up titled BRIDGE CONNECTIONS. This made me think. My grandma and grandpa(neighbors) have wireless internet in their house(done by me and a friend). I was wondering if I were to get a wireless card and bring in internet, if I could bridge connections and increase my internet speed. My grandma said she is completely fine with it because she hardly uses the internet to its full extent. She only plays counterstrike and WoW, just kidding she does banking and taxes. So this is legal. Anyways, is it possible?

 

[MielkeHBP]

bump

 

[ktwebb]

XP's bridges are to forward packets. The scenario you describe would not utilize bridging. You would need software installed to combine your two connections. "Shotgunning" or combining two broadband sources is possible, though it's usually done with a dual WAN port router. You might could google this to see if there is any software available that would allow you to team the two NIC's that have different source connections.

 

[MielkeHBP]

thanks for the response

 

[JackMDS]

With regular home system, you cannot team up.

Actually, you cannot combine Internet Bandwidth with any system unless you have a special Dual Connection from an ISP that provides this type of service.

If you have two independent connections, you can use Dual WAN to get dual Download and fallback but No Combining of bandwidth.

Combining two Internet Connections - Combining Bandwidth, or and Load Balancing of two Internet connections.

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