Hah! Roommate is moving out... Load Balancing in a Dormroom?

[LivinLaVivaPollo]

MY roommate is moving into his own single, so I get this double all to myself. I'm getting a soyo dragon ultra with built in lan, but I also had an extra lan card laying around... SO, would it be possible to simultaneously hook both of those up and then bridge them in WinXP to get double the throughput? We are on 10megabit ethernet, so theoretically, if one card is sending, the other card can't right? So would that effectively make it useless?

BTW: I'm upgrading! Yahoo! If any of you are interested in a Iwill KK266R with a GW FA420 on the southbridge, a 1.4 ghz tbird, 768 megs of Crucial PC133 cas2, and a super-clockable Geforec 3 Ti200@ 220/500 core for say... 400 bucks? PM me!

I'm trying to sell it to my roommate, but he's kinda eh about the whole thing.

 

[Viper GTS]

That's not how networks work, unless your incoming connection is capped per user.

And you are correct, on a non-switched ethernet network only one system at a time can send data. Otherwise collisions occur.

On a switched network, however, both could operate in full duplex at the same time.

Viper GTS

 

[Entity]

<< That's not how networks work, unless your incoming connection is capped per user. >>


Yup. Most dorms cap by port, if by anything, so it wouldn't do you any good.

Rob

 

[LivinLaVivaPollo]

ack.. nevermind, I understand now.

 

[Viper GTS]

<< So does that mean I can load balance viper? >>



If the connection is capped by port, which is most likely, there would be no advantage whatsoever in trying that.

Viper GTS

 

[InverseOfNeo]

I remember one of my friends load balanced at his dorm, but I didnt see much of a difference in speed compared to his roomates.

 

[Kelvrick]

My dorms seem to be able to support 100-based networks. My computer only gets 1meg/sec. I just pulled through a switch, hooked up my computer and laptop and both pull 1meg/sec transfers now.

EDIT: Ooops, I was just thinking of transfers across the network through aim. I get about 4-6megs/sec if i do proper network transfers each.

 

[LivinLaVivaPollo]

Well, as far as I know... we are uncapped. I think the only slowdown is the physical bottleneck of the 10mbps architecture, because I get 6 to 8 megs downstream, and 8 megs+ upstream.

 

[Viper GTS]

<< Well, as far as I know... we are uncapped. I think the only slowdown is the physical bottleneck of the 10mbps architecture, because I get 6 to 8 megs downstream, and 8 megs+ upstream. >>



Then you have nothing to gain by installing a second NIC. If anything your connection would be slower due to lag introduced by the load balancing.

Viper GTS

 

[bUnMaNGo]

I don't see the point... UCSC puts a quota on upstream transfers... I think downstream too... upload more than a gig a day and you'll get a nice little message from ResNet telling you to stop before they turn off your port... and I think it's 6-7 gigs downstream until they yell at you for that...

 

[LivinLaVivaPollo]

haha hey dude, i'm staying, worked out my financial troubles. Yeah I know about the upstream thing. I just figured, 2 ports = twice the fun. Greed is getting the best of me. Oh well, I'll just take advantage of all the space. I hope they don't move anyone in, it's practically the end of the year.

 

[randomlinh]

why'd your roommate hit the single.. is he staying for the summer or something? Our network at school is saturated.. they need to work on getting the internal network a bigger pipe...

And yeah, enjoy the space.. preferably w/ all the women