Use both ethernet and phone tethering at the same time

[Just Another Guy]

Virgin upgraded our router for £10, and the internet speed around the house using powerline adapters went from 4MB/s to around 10MB/s. However, my brother is getting up to 30MB/s by being plugged directly into the router.

I just did a test and found (at the moment) my computer is receiving 11MB/s, and tethering my phone instead gets about 5. Is it possible since I'm connected to the same network to merge the two connections together to get a faster overall speed? I tried the bridge thing but it didn't do anything.

 

[nigelivey]

Without a router or firewall device that is capable of link aggregation the answer is no.

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

You can't merge the two together, and it wouldn't make any difference even if you could.

WiFi will always be slower than a direct wired connection (ethernet), especially if connecting through a WiFi range extender.
Also, you may not have dual-band WiFi which means the WiFi signal is 2.4GHz instead of the faster 5GHz.
Upgrading to dual-band should help on the speed issue.

 

[nigelivey]

You can't merge the two together, and it wouldn't make any difference even if you could.

WiFi will always be slower than a direct wired connection (ethernet), especially if connecting through a WiFi range extender.
Also, you may not have dual-band WiFi which means the WiFi signal is 2.4GHz instead of the faster 5GHz.
Upgrading to dual-band should help on the speed issue.

It is actually possible and it would make a difference but he cant with the equipment he has. It wouldn't increase a sessions available bandwidth (although that is possible with other services) but total bandwidth to the property would be aggregated.

 

[Just Another Guy]

Forgot I'd posted on here, but I found that Connectify Dispatch did what I wanted. It seemed to be the only software available, but using it I was getting the 10MB/s powerline + 5MB/s phone tether speeds at the same time. With another few phones it'd hit the routers max speed (assuming the wifi output didn't max out first), but it wasn't worth the effort

You can't merge the two together, and it wouldn't make any difference even if you could.

WiFi will always be slower than a direct wired connection (ethernet), especially if connecting through a WiFi range extender.

Just for the record, wrong x2, and wifi being slower than ethernet wasn't the question, the ethernet wasn't using all the bandwidth 😛