Does bridging 2 separate internet connections increase speed?

[The_assasin141]

All my family lives in a big mansion my room is in the 3rd floor while I have my computer connected to my router via LAN cable, at my uncle's floor (2nd) he has a different router (different isp) so my question is if I bridge my connection and his will I get an increase in download speed and better ping?

Thanks guys if you have any recommendations plz tell !!

 

[basroil]

You CANNOT team two WAN together unless the ISP explicitly allows it. Not a single consumer ISP does to my knowledge

 

[helpstar]

of course bridging is possible:
http://www.wikihow.com/Combine-Two-Internet-Connections
ping won´t get better

 

[basroil]

of course bridging is possible:
http://www.wikihow.com/Combine-Two-Internet-Connections
ping won´t be better I think

He is NOT looking for bidging, rather TEAMING, which is an entirely different concept. He just didn't know the proper term for what he wanted to do

 

[helpstar]

well, he is looking for increasing download speed. This can be done like I suggested.

 

[basroil]

well, he is looking for increasing download speed. This can be done like I suggested.

Bridging DOES NOT INCREASE PER CONNECTION DOWNLOAD SPEED! All bridging lets you do is (assuming your OS is smart enough to not swap inputs for connections that need the same IP to work) use two different outputs for two different streams. If you are gaming with a connection to server A over router A, you cannot then double your speed by also using router B to server A because that server won't know what the hell is going on, since your connection was through A and it's IP address.

This limitation is why no website or direct connection will ever improve in speed. The ONLY case where speed will increase is when there are multiple, independent connections, such as a peer to peer game WITHOUT a main server

 

[The_assasin141]

well i guess basroil is right since i did a speed test and didn't see a difference so I guess helpstar's link didn't do a thing

 

[The_assasin141]

anyways thanks guys

 

[jasonkaler]

What you're trying to do is not bridging, it's load balancing.
Unless you mean you want to disconnect from your router and use his only.

You generally need a hardware device to load balance, like this:
http://www.tp-link.com/en/products/details/cat-1279_TL-R470T%2B.html
There are cheaper ones available with only two ports. I have seen one from DLink

Load balancing basically alternates your outgoing connections between the two lines. So if they are balanced 50/50, 50% of your connections will be made on your line, 50% on the other line.
This effectively adds the bandwidth of the two together on average, but does not help with individual connections (e.g. watching a video or playing a game).

It is not possible to use both connections together (as 1) if they are on different ISPs or providers.

 

[basroil]

well i guess basroil is right since i did a speed test and didn't see a difference so I guess helpstar's link didn't do a thing

Like I said, what you are looking for is called teaming, which you won't get unless you go to industrial connections.

 

[helpstar]

of course you have to use a download manager or torrent or even steam should get it done, while downloading a game.

otherwise this would work for the whole bandwidth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDUfP8a5zNY

 

[bill001g]

of course you have to use a download manager or torrent or even steam should get it done, while downloading a game.

otherwise this would work for the whole bandwidth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDUfP8a5zNY

That box is nothing magical it has exactly the same problems as hooking multiple connections to your PC. It will not increase the bandwidth for a single file transfer. You would still need something like torrent to use multiple connections. Any standard file transfer will still only use a single connection.

It actually makes the problem somewhat worse if you run it in some form of load balance mode. The example commonly used that people on this forum tend to know is game serves. There is a server used to login and authenticate the user and there is a actual game server node. If your traffic would come from different IP addresses you will get cut off for hacking. How is this magic box suppose to know about all the different applications that have these restrictions. It ends up locking a end user machine to use only 1 connection to avoid this problem unless you configure it not to and then you live with the problems.

The other solution that does not work is the so called VPN where you combine different connection by running them to one central vpn server. All you do in this case is trade one problem for another. Now you do not have different IP addresses but you have packets out of order. Out of order packets will cause data retransmissions and connection resets. It causes massive problems for games. Sites like connectify even admit this is a problem and their solution is to send copies of the data down both connection....so now you have double the data which cuts you back to a single connection.

The only solution that really works is to put in devices that are smart enough to do the vpn trick but make sure the packets do not get out of order. Things like steelhead from riverbed works but they cost as much as you car and you need to place one on each end of the connection. It is not really used for internet access it is used for corporate networks between sites. It is much cheaper to buy a larger internet connection.

So bottom line there really is no way to combine 2 consumer internet connections to increase the bandwidth for common applications.

 

[helpstar]

bottom line: will I get an increase in download speed? yes, but....
better ping? No

 

[bill001g]

bottom line: will I get an increase in download speed? yes, but....
better ping? No

Only if you use torrent you will get no increase in download speed from any more standard download program.

 

[kanewolf]

@Shalmaneser , this is a 5 year old solved thread. Please don't revive a dead thread. Thread closed.