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post #1 of 10
12/15/04 at 3:06pm
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Ok, I have a I9200 and I've recently been picking up a signal from my neighbor's wireless station. I've been using it lately for my laptop and using my wired internet for my desktop. I was wondering if it is possible to run both of them at the same time and combine downloading speed? I noticce when I'm downloading with both of them connected, the computer only takes the speed from my wired connection. Does anyone know how to combine the two to make them work in unison?
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post #2 of 10
12/15/04 at 3:20pm
Don't think it's possible with wire & wireless. I know to combine wired connections it takes high end routers to split the packets & reassemble them on the up & downstreams. I've tried it once with a dsl line & cable line but the results weren't that great at best maybe 15-20% speed gain. That was barowing a high end cisco route from work. The only advantage I could see is if u where mission critical & if 1 line went down all the traffic would be switched to the 2nd line that would still be up. Don't know of a wireless router thats made that could handle the packet matching. But I'll talk to couple of vendors & see if I can find any.
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post #3 of 10
12/15/04 at 3:23pm
The answer is no, not with home networking hardware you won't. The other issue is: should you really be stealing your neighbor's bandwidth?
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post #4 of 10
12/15/04 at 4:29pm
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"I'm poor" I'm a college student and he doesn't use it anyways... I am thinking its his anyways because the signal is so strong, but then again I pick up anywhere from 2-5 connections at a given time. I've been getting good speeds with it though
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post #5 of 10
12/15/04 at 11:38pm
I say cancel yours and just mooch
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post #6 of 10
12/15/04 at 11:57pm
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Originally Posted by krusty46
I say cancel yours and just mooch
careful - if he notices he might password lock the router. my friends wireless router was open and his neighbor started doing that, so we just locked it.

obviously its not totally secure, but that will generally stop your basic mooch.
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post #7 of 10
12/16/04 at 12:09am
Hey, maybe I'm your neighbor! I leave my access point open for anybody to use. And then I sniff all your passwords and transfer funds from your bank account to mine
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post #8 of 10
12/16/04 at 12:12am
Anyone else up for some honey
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post #9 of 10
12/16/04 at 9:54am
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Originally Posted by potenza
Don't think it's possible with wire & wireless. I know to combine wired connections it takes high end routers to split the packets & reassemble them on the up & downstreams.
I believe there is a sofware solution to this. I heard of people combing two dial-up connections. I used a feature called "bridgeing" to use two nics as an output stream for internet connection sharing so maybe there is an anologous thing for input.
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post #10 of 10
12/16/04 at 10:34am
Hi there,

There is a harware solution in the form of an appliance by a company called MLiP (ex Stallion) there is also a software (linux based) solution, they both offer either DSL or PSTN bundling. Its a protocol called MLPPP (Multi Link PPP). Reasonably priced, but a little old hat now that home access speed have increased.

the link is http://www.ml-ip.com/

I hope this helps.

Have a Merry Xmas period all

Rich
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