Bridging Two Internet connections

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amasoun

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I have a slow wired internet connection like 2mbps. And my neighbor have same connection and I have access to it through WiFi.
So my question is, if I bridge my wired internet connection with a USB tethered internet, shouldn't I get like 4mbps?
I have done it already but my speed is same, 2mpbs:??:
I am using Windows7 32bit.
 
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It won't work, the 2 networks have different IP addresses so any server you communicate with will see it as 2 different connections. Right now whichever network is listed as your default gateway is the network you are using for the internet. There are routers that allow multiple internet connections but they are mostly for failover or they will use a round robin technique where it will use say connection 1 to connect to website a, then use connection 2 to connect to website be and so on, they can't stack your connections to make on faster connection.
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It won't work, the 2 networks have different IP addresses so any server you communicate with will see it as 2 different connections. Right now whichever network is listed as your default gateway is the network you are using for the internet. There are routers that allow multiple internet connections but they are mostly for failover or they will use a round robin technique where it will use say connection 1 to connect to website a, then use connection 2 to connect to website be and so on, they can't stack your connections to make on faster connection.
 
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Well you actually could bridge the networks together but I don't believe you're going to get the increased bandwidth your expecting. As stated already it will be viewed as two separate network connections so the only way to achieve what you are suggesting would be called link aggregation. This is when you use two network connections to in parallel to provide a connection speed greater than what a single connection could.
 
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Is there any way to stack these two connections? Without burning a hole in pocket.
 
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Thanx mate for ur suggestion.
 
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There is nothing you can do that will increase say the speed of a single download. This is because the data is coming from 2 different IP address.

You can if you are really ambitious download 2 different files one on each connection at the same time or maybe download files on one internet and run web browser on the other.

It is tends to be very tedious to accomplish. I will leave the research of the details to you is you want to consider this. You need to be sure the subnets are different on the 2 connections. You then use the ROUTE command to control which traffic goes to which router.
 
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