Dual access to the internet

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Bryan Dayton

I've decided to move to wireless broadband. The new modem is up and running
fine, but I still have my old broadband account until the contract expires.

IPCONFIG shows two NIC adapters: one on 124.x.x.x (wireless) and the other
on 169.x.x.x (wired).

I was expecting that I would have dual access to the internet for a while
and consequently faster downloads. Sadly, not so.

Viewing the network traffic, it appears that only the wireless connection is
ever used.

Is there some setting I have to make to XP Pro to convince it to use both
modems concurrently?

Bryan Dayton
Melbourne, Australia
 
I've decided to move to wireless broadband. The new modem is up and running
fine, but I still have my old broadband account until the contract expires.

IPCONFIG shows two NIC adapters: one on 124.x.x.x (wireless) and the other
on 169.x.x.x (wired).

I was expecting that I would have dual access to the internet for a while
and consequently faster downloads. Sadly, not so.

Viewing the network traffic, it appears that only the wireless connection is
ever used.

Is there some setting I have to make to XP Pro to convince it to use both
modems concurrently?

Bryan Dayton
Melbourne, Australia
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Bryan,

If you have a connection showing IP address 169.x.x.x, that's probably
169.254.x.x. That's an APIPA address, which gets you no connection with
anything outside your LAN.

With 2 connections, each from a different vendor, you'll not be doubling your
connection speed anyway. Each connection to a server on the Internet can only
come thru one specific network connection.
 
Mutilple connections need to be to the same provider
AND the provider needs to support this option on their end.
 
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