can i use 2 broadband connections on a single computer simultaneously to getter a better noninteruppted net?

Answer 1

NO you cannot because everytime you switch connections your computer has to restablish connection which can take quite a while

Answer 2

In theory, YES... In practice, NO!!!

The reason why I say that this won't work in practice is that you're going to cause a network confliction where both ethernet cards or USB ports (or a combination of both) are going to compete for the same resources on your computer. Unless you get some specialized software (or make it yourself) to support such a connection, it's not going to work.

In addition, your internet access expenses are will probably be doubled as well to make this work as you'll need 2 broadband modems as well since 2 connections to 1 broadband modem is just redundant.

The only exception to this is ISDN connections, which involves 2 modems. However, unlike a dial-up connection, each modem is doing only half the job (one modem is downloading, the other one is uploading). Again, it's very expensive as you're paying for 2 separate internet connections & the results are a lot less satisfying than current broadband connections that are available.

Answer 3

OK - I've seen 5 people answer "No" here so I'm going to disagree! :)

From your computer, you could connect your network card to a router. Your computer uses the router IP address as the "Default Gateway" which means that your computer doesn't care how connection to the Internet is made, it sends everything to the router and the router takes care of it from then on.

So now that your computer is configured to send all Internet traffic to the router, both broadband connections can be plugged into the other side of the router. Now, we have a computer with one connection to the router and the router with 2 connections to the Internet.

As an example, you can then configure the router to send all packets to the lower half of destination addresses across one connection and send all packets to the higher numbered addresses across the second connection.

The benefits achieved through this are not guaranteed to increase speed (depending on how many connections are made at once and which range of IP addresses the connections are made on etc.) but this would allow you to actively use both connections and would allow you to potentially use the maximum available bandwidth across both connections!

It's a bit complex to set up and I've never seen it used anywhere, but in my opinion, the answer to your question is:

"Yes you could do this but it is not easy to set up and the benefits you would get are dependant on how you use the web"

8o)

Answer 4

Hey dude, everytime u connect on a bb connection of a service provider u will be given an ip to ur system and there is no computer discovered that can work with two ips simultaneously. All u can try out is take a higher bandwidth with a good service provider.

Answer 5

I know you can do it with dialup and devices are made that do it. I would think that it would be possible with broadband too but I am not sure if anyone makes a router with this capability. Actually I do remember seeing this capability in ISDN but nobody uses that any more.
It would be possible to have software that could do this too. The whole idea is completely possible and really would not be that hard but I do not know if anyone actually makes such hardware or software as it may not be profitable as people would mostly just buy more bandwidth-it's more practical.

Answer 6

you are able to in basic terms attempt this once you've a 2d gadget appearing as an information superhighway proxy or router. in case you go this route you are able to besides have one pc for surfing and one for downloading. once you've an old pc you may want to in all likelihood configure it to act as a proxy / router utilising a linux distribution yet you'll likely want a 0.33 ethernet card. if you're doing diverse downloading of videos and mp3's be careful as you may want to get stuck ;)

Answer 7

Technically yes, with a lot of crazy gear, but in reality for the common man - nope.

Rawlyn.

Answer 8

Hi...

I fear you can't do so.
Because whenever the computer will detect more than one active connection to the internet it will ask you to select one to continue..

Hope you got the problem..

Happy Surfing..
Hare Krsna...

Answer 9

Yes, u can , You have to use a router/switch for the same, but u cant double the speed. if one fails or its idle you can switch to the other one

Answer 10

You cannot use them at the same time. I think that only one can be used at the same time. Why don't you just upgrade the speed?