Can't really merge them. Even having two different ISP lines, and if the PC has Dual Nic's and one is plugged into it it doesn't "Double" your speed. It will only use one or the other. Only time dual nic's are good are for servers where you can do what they call Nic Teaming and what it does is balance the load going to the server. You could technically do the same with the lan but 1) Very few nic cards do that and the ones that do you only really find on server boards and 2) I don't know how that would really work since each one would be trying to give out an IP address to the server on different subnets. Just won't work. Your better off keeping one connection but double the speed.
Had a client where their previous IT guy said "Hey...