Is it possible to combine WIFI and Ethernet to make your download faster?

[uchennawork]

I was just wondering if it is possible to combine wifi and ethernet connection to double or increase my download speed; without the use of an application called 'Speedify'. I have tried this application but all it does is reduce the download speed by a quarter. That means wifi and ethernet are now downloading half the speed rather than double.

 

[ThatVietGuy]

No, that's not how it works.

 

[aquielisunari]

I was just wondering if it is possible to combine wifi and ethernet connection to double or increase my download speed; without the use of an application called 'Speedify'. I have tried this application but all it does is reduce the download speed by a quarter. That means wifi and ethernet are now downloading half the speed rather than double.

No.You have a certain amount of bandwidth coming from the ISP. Yep, period.

The same way that you receive a certain amount of data while downloading a game that amount is then shared if more downloads are started.

Is it possible to increase your download speed? That is a possibility. I didn't say it is a certainty. Let's say I am using archive.org to download a movie. Let's say I want to download Night of the Living dead.

@Moderators Night of the living dead is in the public domain. There isn't a copyright issue here. No knee jerks...

However the Internet Archive(another name for it) only offers me 42 KB/s. I can handle a LOT more bandwidth but their throttle is blocking that. So I download https://www.freedownloadmanager.org/. I then have access to many other connections and am now downloading the movie at 50 mb/s because at that point the ISP's cap is met and 3rd party programs are useless at that point.

Testmy.net and Speedtest.net are a couple places where you can test your up and download speeds as well as your ping value in most cases. Cable should have a 50ms or lower ping response time. Less is better. My ping was at 10ms. Satellite connections usually have ping over 200. Competitive online gamers need their ping as low as possible but their local infrastructure may not offer a fiber or even landline cable.

Make sure your speedtest results jive with your ISP's contract or agreement. Your ISP will usually have their own speedtest that you can use. Contracts go both ways. You may have a bad connection so verifying speeds might be of some benefit.

 

[das_stig]

Increase speed from ISP no, from your own internal network, depends if everything supports link aggregation.

As he said above, using a download manager to create multiple connetions to multiple sources can work.

 

[jsmithepa]

That's just lots of fancy footwork for nothing.

U have a FIXED size Internet pipe and that's it, can't go, EVER, higher than that.

As mentioned by others, only if however your server#1 doesn't use up the whole pipe, then u can start another process to use the remainder of what's available of the pipe. Doesn't make your pipe bigger, you will be just "more efficient."

Now if you have a business connection, those they may let you BUST beyond your guaranteed bandwidth, but I forget whether they charge u extra for those BUSTS.