Is there a way to connect my PC to dsl and cable internet at the same time, I have wireless and NIC card?

Question

I want to be able to use the bandwith of both of these, it is possible and will give me more bandwith. My pc has wireless and a nic card on it.

Answer 1

The short answer is no.

The longer answer is "not without some other hardware".

Your computer will have to pick one connection or the other to get out to the 'net. You can use both, but you'd have to set up some routing on the fly to tell it that one request went to one place and another went to the other.

Which still isn't what you asked for. You're interested in bonding the connections to aggregate the download speeds.

The trouble with that is in the nature of IP conversations. Your PC can only understand one "default gateway" per Interface, and when you send a web request, it will only use one, not the other, of the interfaces. It will pick either the wireless or the Ethernet.

There are hardware solutions (and a Linux one, I'm told, as well) that accomplish what you're asking for, but they're not cheap.

http://fatpipeinc.com/

This is the leading brand for it. I know there's a Linux project somewhere for it, but I can't find the links yet.

Even a Dual WAN router is not suitable for this, because they don't bond the connections. They use them for balancing and failover. A load-balancing Dual WAN router can hand off connections to one ISP, then the other, based on how full either one is, but it won't put them together. This is a very special technology.

Good luck!

Answer 2

You can connect the two but you will NOT achieve your goal.

Your pc needs to select one or the other. It is not designed to combine both internet sources.

Now there are ways to achieve it. You need a router that is able to interface with 2 ethernet feeds. The problem is that these are a bit costly.