2+ networking cards, the burning question...

The_Other_One

The_Other_One

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OK, so we all know you can run duel networking cards in a PC, have two different IPs/two different networks. Yeah yeah... However, here's a question I've been wondering. Say I'm connected to both wifi and ethernet. Both connections are on different networks and different modems. I have heard there are ways to bridge the connections together, but is this true? If so, how's it done? What IP address will be used? Is one basically the "primary" addaptor? Maybe I can try it sometime, but right now I have the only wireless around here. I'd have to steal one of my room mate's modem's to try another :rolleyes: Speaking of which, I think one of them also had a question regarding this...
 
So I connect to my modem via Cat5, and wirelessly to my rooomate, can I make two separate connections to the internet with XP?
 
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The_Other_One said:
OK, so we all know you can run duel networking cards in a PC, have two different IPs/two different networks. Yeah yeah... However, here's a question I've been wondering. Say I'm connected to both wifi and ethernet. Both connections are on different networks and different modems. I have heard there are ways to bridge the connections together, but is this true? If so, how's it done? What IP address will be used? Is one basically the "primary" addaptor? Maybe I can try it sometime, but right now I have the only wireless around here. I'd have to steal one of my room mate's modem's to try another :rolleyes: Speaking of which, I think one of them also had a question regarding this...
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I may be waay off here, but isn't that what the Network Bridge feature does in XP?
 
They have routers which allow you to bridge two dsl or cable connections to have a greater connection then either single connection.
 
DCIScouts said:
I may be waay off here, but isn't that what the Network Bridge feature does in XP?
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DOH... I feel dumb now :rolleyes: I remember seeing that, but I never even thought about it. I really hardly ever do anying in Network Connections...

I have a bridged connection now. Maybe I can do a bechnmark tommarow.
 
Someone once told me you could do that. I didn't totally beleive them, but I also never had the hardware to check it out. However, now that I"m at school, I have access to two different modems(each room in the apartment has its own modem) Tommarow, I'm going to directly connect to one and use my wifi from my room...
 
I tried to get this to work enabling the "RandomAdapter' in the registry but it didn't seem to do anything.

For the hell of it, i tried over-riding the metrics to be equal, but it still chooses one connection over the other. If I disable the wireless or pull out the cable, the connection switches fairly seemlessly, but it will still only pull data from one or the other, not both at the same time. Is this even possible?

I can connect to my xbox via crossover cable and transfer files at the same time I browse the internet via wireless connection so there is some sort of differentiation going on as far as hardware, but whether or not this can be utilized for internet, I don't know.
 
its not going to make a difference. If you run dual ethernet you could set up one system as a firewall box or a gateway, etc.

Making a bridge does not increase bandwidth either, it just bridges two seperate networks together, a lot of times it will bridge two different sub nets together.

What exactly are you trying to accomplish here, and maybe I can get a better answer for ya?
 
tlarkin said:
What exactly are you trying to accomplish here, and maybe I can get a better answer for ya?
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My room has a cable modem with down speed that is limited to about 350k. My roommate also has a separate cable connection with a wireless router that we share when we're unplugged. I want to be able to stay connected when I plug back into my cable modem to utilize both connections for more bandwidth.
 
The only problem I see with this is I don't think you can actually micromanage tasks by NIC in windows. Meaning you couldn't allocate bandwidth to either subnet by application or by task. In fact, I am not even sure how well windows would even utilize this. Perhaps if you were running server since they are designed to have multiple NICs but I think any old regular OS you probably won't benefit. If any OS did I would guess it to be a linux distro.

This is just my educated guess of course though, I could be wrong.
 
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