Wireless But Jacking In When Necessary

CamHot

I have a Linksys Wireless B router that has pretty weak performance. I understand that G is capable of much more, but when I jack my computer in to the cable modem directly, my performance is at least 5x better. I was wondering if there was a way to jack in to the router to get the Local Area Connection AND the Wireless connection at the same time. This will enable me to complete downloads much quicker. Last time I messed around with the Command Prompt I shot myself in the foot and neither worked until I did a system restore. Again, I want to HAVE BOTH AVAILABLE SIMULTANEOUSLY. Thank you very much.

RWB

Hrm, that is curious. I may have to try to set something up at home.

Basically, all I can say right now is that what you're trying to do is called something like "Shared Load Balance" or some crap like that.

You would of course need the Wireless Router, a normal NIC in your PC and a Wireless NIC.. but then, why not just have 2 NIC's in the PC and get Double since an RJ-45 connection is faster than any wireless connection.

Either way, it would probably be alot of trouble. I am sure someone here knows what you need. If it can be done. It may not even be worth it.

I have heard of people doing this for DSL and Cable connections, by having 2 accounts and doubling them up on one machine to theoretically give you double bandwitdh. I would say that this could cuase alot of errors though...

Cyclonite

Having two connections to the same router isn't going to do anything for your internet connection. Your router transfers data at a much higher rate anyway. Your 802.11b connection still outperforms your standard cable or DSL connection in transfer speed. Unless you had two seperate cable/DSL modems, then you will see no performance increase from a dual connection.

RWB

ahh I misread his post, completely forgot he was originally speaking of the Cable Modem :P