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Might be a stupid question but I read that you can disable to setting to switch between wired and wireless and have them both active at the same time. Does this boost the DL/UL speeds?
 
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Right. Your connection to the ISP is a 1/2" garden hose. Even if you have multiple fire hoses (Wifi & Cat5 to the router) feeding that....they will never see any any...
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you can have both active, yes.

the speeds won't accumulate thought, the max will be the wired connection. basically windows will always pick the fastest connection it knows and use that (wired) and only when that fails it will use the wifi. you can even have a 3g modem also and that kicks in auto too when you are outside wifi coverage.
 
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No. Your DL/UL speed depends on the outside connection, not the connection speed between you and the router. If you have for instance a 25Mbps connection, that is all you will get when talking to the outside world. Even if your WiFi is rated at 300Mbps, and your wired is 1,000Mbps.
 
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Yeah ok. Thank for quick reply.
 
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Right so basically the maximum speed I can get is simply the maximum my isp will give me?
 
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Right. Your connection to the ISP is a 1/2" garden hose. Even if you have multiple fire hoses (Wifi & Cat5 to the router) feeding that....they will never see any any greater flow than what comes through the garden hose.
 
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That explains in spot on thanks.
 
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and to make it even funky-er, the garden hose is just dripping sometimes, it's not running full pressure always. what the isp sell is the max capacity of the hose.
 
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