Ethernet and Wi-Fi at the same time...
- Thread starter BlueFireZ
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Likely you ethernet cable is faster than your internet connection is. Pretty much the only way to go faster is to buy more bandwidth from the ISP.
Even if you wanted to there are technical restrictions that make it impossible to connect multiple nics wireless or wired to the same router.
Even if you wanted to there are technical restrictions that make it impossible to connect multiple nics wireless or wired to the same router.
Can you - yes, in theory.
In practise - not so much.
If your wired connection is only 100mbit - you would need to have better than 100mbit down internet service before this would slow you down. With gigabit wired internet - you would need 1000mbit service before your home network becomes the slowest point.
Even wireless 802.11n at 150mbit (lowest antenna configuration/max speed) is more than up to the task of 10/25mbit internet from your ISP (unless very poor signal).
In practise - not so much.
If your wired connection is only 100mbit - you would need to have better than 100mbit down internet service before this would slow you down. With gigabit wired internet - you would need 1000mbit service before your home network becomes the slowest point.
Even wireless 802.11n at 150mbit (lowest antenna configuration/max speed) is more than up to the task of 10/25mbit internet from your ISP (unless very poor signal).
ThatVietGuy
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Think about it - if you're just taking internet from the same line how would you increase your bandwidth by using wireless and ethernet?
You're still limited by the speed of your one line.
You're still limited by the speed of your one line.
You can absolutely connect to a wifi and wired network at the same time. But if you open task mamager and go to the network tab (when downloading something) you will see that it is only using a single connection.
If you are on a system that has both connected, you might get better transfer rates if you disable the wireless as the system may be using it and due to a poor signal to the router may not have all the bandwidth to mak full use of your internet speed. IMHO wired is always better than wifi.
I have a laptop and I always turn the wireless off when connected by wire, this way I always get the gigabit transfer rates and no signal ssues (allows >100MB/s transfers on my local netork while wifi rarely gets over 20).
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Ok thanks guys for your help. I dont really want to start another thread, heres my question: My Wifi speed is 72.0 mbps and has spikes over 100 (max is 144.0 mbps), and my ethernet has just 100.0 mbps no spikes. So which should i use?
How fast is the internet connection from the ISP that is all the faster you will go.
72m and 144m are connection rates they are not even close to what you will actually get. It is total bandwidth both up and down combined. Even then it doesn't come close to even half the speed up and down combined in the real world. Ethernet is 100m up and 100m down for a total of 200m if you want to compare. On ethernet there is little to no interference on wireless you will never get no interference.
So you always want to use the ethernet. But it likely will not matter. If the router has only ethernet lan ports it is highly unlikely it has a WAN port that is faster and that would also assume that you had more than 100m internet connection.
72m and 144m are connection rates they are not even close to what you will actually get. It is total bandwidth both up and down combined. Even then it doesn't come close to even half the speed up and down combined in the real world. Ethernet is 100m up and 100m down for a total of 200m if you want to compare. On ethernet there is little to no interference on wireless you will never get no interference.
So you always want to use the ethernet. But it likely will not matter. If the router has only ethernet lan ports it is highly unlikely it has a WAN port that is faster and that would also assume that you had more than 100m internet connection.
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