Dual access to the internet

[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

 

[Chuck]

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

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.

 

[V Green]

Mutilple connections need to be to the same provider
AND the provider needs to support this option on their end.