i have a wireless lan and normal wired ethernet at office. i want them both to work at the same time for better downloading. but whichever is connected first, forks and other stays idle. is there anyway i can merge them both ?
2006-12-25 20:03:26 · 10 answers · asked by Kay. 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
You cannot have your computer connected and functioning on both wired and wireless at the same time.
Whichever one you want to use is the one that you should connect to, first.
2006-12-25 20:16:56 · answer #1 · answered by gr8 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
To connect wirelessly, your PC or laptop needs a wireless adapter. I use a 3Com Wireless AirConnect PC card that I got last year at PC Forum 2000. It is a normal PCMCIA Type-II card that goes into the slot in my laptop just like a LAN card. It has an antenna that sticks out. You install the PC card like any other PC card. It needs a driver. In this case after I got the LAN set up I downloaded the latest drivers and firmware for the card from 3Com's web site and upgraded my system. (My card was almost a year old and didn't support WEP until I upgraded. You shouldn't need to upgrade with a new card.) When you configure the driver you type in the ESSID (Wireless LAN Service Area name) and the encryption key information. That's it. Everything else seems to just work. My PC card comes with some utilities, such as one that displays the signal strength in real time. Here is a picture of that utility at one point when the signal wasn't so good and it automatically slowed down to 5.5Mb/second. Next to it is a picture I took outside when I carried my laptop over 150 feet away from my house (the wireless access point is next to an outside wall, inside the house). You can see CNet on the screen (this wireless stuff really does work!):
2016-03-29 06:52:01 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that if you connect the wireless router into a hub port from the ethernet (wired) LAN, then that should work. Or, you could do the opposite and connect the wired LAN to an ethernet port on the wireless router. Most of them (wireless routers) have at least one ethernet port. In essence you would reduce two networks into one.
Please post the results of what you do in the end as an added comment in order to help other people.
2006-12-25 20:15:33 · answer #3 · answered by Sincere Questioner 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You cannot merge them. Equipment upstream from you would have to know know that both addresses belong to you and have special software to distribute packets to both interfaces.
Even if you did merge them, it wouldn't help (downloading from the Intenet) unliess the wired and wireless have separate Internet connections.
Some of the other posts are wrong. You can have both wired and wireless at the same time. If they are on the same subnet, then your computer will automatically choose to route through one or the other. If you specify specific routes to separate locations for the 2 adapters, then you will certainly be using both simultaneously.
2006-12-25 20:37:07 · answer #4 · answered by smorgasborg69 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Due to the way the internet works (specifically TCP) this isnt possible.
Basically the problem is because each internet connection requires its own IP address, so if you had two trunks from your ISP going into your system youd have two IP addresses, and when you download something it only hooks up a single IP address to your download, not two, so it wouldnt understand how to send you a file through two different network addresses.
There are ways to get it to work by having you upload through one line and download through the other, but this is generally only done on half-duplex (one way) connections and I would never recomend doing it through two completely seperate types of connections (wifi & wired).
Edit- Just wanted to add that it is possible to have two internet connections on one PC at the same time, but that if you visit a webpage or download something it will default to one or the other and stick with it.
2006-12-25 20:29:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the View network connections tab under my networked places you can select the two connectioins and murge them together
2006-12-25 20:38:56 · answer #6 · answered by Dan 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
u can get a router both pc will have same speed'
2006-12-25 20:09:09 · answer #7 · answered by brian m 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ofcourse you cant. You can only use either one
2006-12-25 20:05:44 · answer #8 · answered by aka03271 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
glue em together.
2006-12-25 20:04:37 · answer #9 · answered by SNL (sat night live) 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
hey...
you get a wireless router...
and do the networking..
it ll do wat you want
2006-12-25 21:46:33 · answer #10 · answered by sweetraskels 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋