Using wired and wireless connection simulatenously to get combined bandwidth ??

[raksrules]

I have a MTNL triband 752kbps wired connection and also use my 5230 connected to laptop and in that i get 3G speeds(sometimes). Now when both these connections are simultaneously working on my machine, the bandwidth of the nokia 5230 connected wireless connection is only used and triband is not used at all. If ever this phone connection disconnects automatically it falls back to the triband starts filling the gap.
So how do i ensure that i can use the combined bandwidth of these two wireless and wired connection at one time.

 

[Sei]

I really doubt that is possible.

 

[Konquerror]

Yes, not possible.

 

[gamingstill]

not possible i think :|

 

[hayabusa_ryu]

I think that U can use VMWare to use both connection simultaneously. Use main desktop for wired connection and VMWare OS for USB modem connection. I had same problem when I had BSNL EVDO and AIRTEL MO connection in my PPC. I used MAIN OS for downloading via EVDO and surfing on VMWare OS with Mobile Airtel MO. What I did :-
1. Installed VWWare and an XP on it and minimize it.
2. connected EVDO net in MAIN OS.
3. Opened VMware OS and and opened XP(must be in to detect USB modem).
4. Now connected my Phone with USB cable. It asked for driver.
5. After installing phone modem driver, I created dial-up connection.
6. Connected the dial-up and surfing net on VMWare while downloading in Main OS.
Hope it helps u but let other comment on this.

 

[MohitPreet]

^ yes thats very much possible because they r 2 diff Os,
op is asking about using both in the same os , so as to combine the speeds of both the connections , which i think is possible but very difficult , only some experts might know how to do this ....

 

[vinaycm]

This may be the one you are looking out for.. or is it this one??

 

[raksrules]

But i remember that once i had a wired connection of 1Mbps and also was able to pick a wifi connection which was like .5Mbps and i was getting combined speeds of around 1.5Mbps

 

[hayabusa_ryu]

IIMR, Did u bridged both the connection- wifi and wired?

 

[Sei]

IIRC, bridging simply means joining the 2 different networks together.. in no way does it imply combining network bandwidth.

 

[amit25589]

u can actually do that by using two diff ethernet cards

try it out

 

[blr_p]

Multi-homing is distributing access as mentioned earlier not combining.

I think you would need a router to combine both.

Any open source router OS's out there ?

 

[madnav]

are you trying to use two connection simultaneously?

that is very much possible.

had posted in a thread related to the same query.

it involves modification of routing table on your OS after having established both connections.

i used to do this for 10 connections years ago when my ISP was stupid

will search for that post and link you to it...hold on.

EDiTED:

found it.

http://www.techenclave.com/networking/coupling-connections-139018.html

see if you can try it and report back

 

[raksrules]

@mandav

Thanks for the link. I will try this over the coming weekend and let you know.

 

[ranjan2001]

Have been looking for this solution in 2007 when airtel was not having 512 unlimited plans & I think I found one but didnt try bcoz I finally got the cable connection 512 unlimited. Try this if it works then let us know how smooth it is & what kind of problem you face. Its always good to have this option.

Wingate proxy can do this. http://www.wingate.com/products/wingate/index.php

multiple Internet connections

You can use multiple Internet connections at the same time with WinGate, thereby increasing your system throughput. On a per-proxy basis in WinGate, you can specify multiple methods of using these multiple connections as well.

for instance you could:

* Specify that the WWW Proxy uses all your available internet connections

* Specify that another proxy uses only one of the connections, but if that becomes unavailable, to fail over to the next one

WinGate monitors connections for availability, including remote gateways, so even if your Internet connections go through another router or a device such as a DSL/NAT device, you can still keep track of it.

WinGate's gateway selection features also allows you to specify on a per service basis which gateway will be used, so if you had a combination of multiple DSL/NAT devices, network gateways, modems, etc, you could still specify which connections go through which gateway, even if they are on the same physical ethernet segment.

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[Aman27deep]

good god does that work :ashamed: ?

 

[ranjan2001]

The software claims that it works so,

if you have 2 connection then download the software & try then report back.

 

[blr_p]

Yes but this is not doubling speed is it ?

Its designating certain apps to use one IP and likewise.

For instance can you start a torrent download and get different bits from all the other IP's ?

If the app allows it then this is the only kind of speed increase I can see with multiple IP connections.

 

[ranjan2001]

A forum member on another forum has confirmed me via PM that he tried this on his PC & it works to double the speed, i personally have not used so have no experience to share.

I was desperate then in 2007 to get unlimited 512kbps connection thats when i found this solution.