dual ethernet card question

[element2k5]

hey i know u can use 2 modems in tandem to get 2x speed... with 2 different lines... is there something similar with ethernet cards?? i just ask because my sh*tty internet connection at school is suck and i want to be faster... by using 2 different ethernet cards... is this possible?

 

[bsobel]

Possible? Yes Easy? No Gonna help your case? Not likely (since you state your schools feed 'is suck') two connections to 'is suck' won't make the 'is suck' itself suck less

Bill

 

[JackMDS]

Two Ethernet cards together No GO!

You can do it with one card, and two connections.

The following are the two options available for Ethernet:

Pro800turbo Firewall & Internet Sharing Box - 2 Modem Ports that Load Balance 2 Broadband Connections.

Scrol down, and look at the picture, it is awesome:

FatPipe® Xtreme aggregates any combination of T3, T1, DSL and/or wireless connections to create a virtual FatPipe.

 

[Patrician]

I think you can do it but not with two cards, just with a card with two ports. We have them in our servers. Both ports are 10/100 and can be connected up at the same time. But getting them to share resources would be the only problem.

Peter

 

[bsobel]

> I think you can do it but not with two cards, just with a card with two ports. We have them in our servers. Both ports are 10/100 and can be connected up at the same time. But getting them to share resources would be the only problem.

Maybe I shouldn't have been sarcastic in my original response. From what I read of the post, he's complaining that his schools connection sucks. Hooking 1, 2 or 20 NIC's into his net isn't going to make their feed any faster. If he's on a campus lan, I sincerely doubt he's fully utilizing his local lan bandwidth.

Bill

 

[Garion]

Trying to run two fire hoses through one garden hose STILL isn't going to make that garden hose any bigger or hold any more water.. You won't get any benefit (and might even loose some performance). The only time you would see a difference is if you have some kind of upload/download cap. And even then, two NIC's really don't work all that well for load balancing, in a default mode. Too many odd things happen.

- G