Shotgunning 2 networking devices???

[airduct]

folks,

remember the days of shotgunning two modems to increase speed? well, is it possible to do something similar with 2 different networking devices for my laptop? (1 wireless usb + 1 ethernet pcmcia card...both different MAC addresses). since my school provides a wired + a wireless solution, i would like to make use of both to increase my speed. any thoughts? ideas? thanks. later

 

[dwendel]

You can try bridging under network properties and see what happens...

 

[airduct]

thanks, i'll give it a shot

 

[Pudgygiant]

first off, the wireless wouldn't add very much... assuming 11g, you'd probably only add 10mbps of throughput. It's rather inefficient, especially in a crowded setting.

secondly, I thought that was the whole point of the QoS service in XP.

 

[Rogue]

Think about the network infrastructures lowest transfer speed and then ask yourself if the combined connections on your machine are faster than that. If so, it's not worth it. It's like haveing a 100Mb connection with a 56k dial-up modem to the internet. That is unless you plan on increasing your speed to only items stored locally on your network.

 

[WackyDan]

Can't do it. Look it up in the networking forum.