Is it possible to merge two seperate internet connections to increase speed?

Question

I have a 5Mb DSL connection which is connected to my PC thru LAN (wired).I also have access to a separate(different phone line) wireless DSL connection.My question is;

If I bridge these two networks,would that increase my speed to 10Mb?or perhaps it's not that easy?

Answer 1

No.  You get increased speed by paying for a higher bandwidth.  Good luck.

Your question is  :  (If I bridge these two networks,would that increase my speed to 10Mb?)

Regardless of the answers that say you can bridge the two connections (which isn't your question) you cannot increase the speed of the connection.  It's not possible.  Period.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

If they are separate connections, yes you can bridge the connections, but it will require a linux or BSD operating system to do it properly.  (DD-WRT (an open-source, linux-based replacement firmware) firmware running on a compatible router like a linksys WRT54G router will work... you can re-assign one of the internal ports as a 2nd external port and bridge)

It won't really give you a 10 MBit connection, thought... You will be doing load-balancing... If you are downloading a single file from a single server, all your traffic is going to be going over a single 5MB connection, however if you then go to browse the internet while downloading, the browsing would go through the 2nd line automatically... Or if you are downloading 2 files the load balancing would use one connection for 1 file and the 2nd connection for the other.  You should see a speed increase in most cases, but not all.

Answer 4

Hiya !

Sorry bud - but as Philip said - the only way to increase your Internet speed is to pay for a higher band-width.

Linking the two connections won't work as they'll still only operate at their pre-set speed.  Besides which - your PC would be connected to two different IP addresses - which would cause internal conflicts (with cookies etc)

Answer 5

The hardware answer is expensive.

You can install a proxy and set it up to handle both connections.

That way you can use one connection for p2p and the other for browsing.

Answer 6

It is my understanding that most DSL connections can be used on a dual connection but your provider must set that up as it uses 2 different phone lines.

Answer 7

It is very much possible. You will need to get a "load balancing router". It basically takes your 2 connections and merges them into one from your computers point of view. From the routers view, it spreads your requests over the 2 connections. So it won't increase your speed per se. A single connection from your computer to another can happen across only one connection at a time.

Example: Right now you are only using 1 connection. If you download a large file, the fastest it will download is the max of that one connection. If you try to stream music or play a game, it will slow down that download.

With the load balancing router: You download the same large file and the router uses the 1 connection. But now if you want to stream music, it will use the other connection for that stuff, so your download doesn't get slowed down.

So it will not increase your speed, but it will allow you to do more stuff at a time.

Dlink has one, but there are others available. They are kind of expensive though and a little more difficult to setup than the normal router.

http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=452

Answer 8

Its not that easy.   You'd have two different IP's and if its possible you probably have to have use Linux.